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Diet quality, child health, and food policies in developing countries

Bhargava, Alok - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes...

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On hunger and public action

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991

This article is a commentary on a new book"Hunger and Public Action,"by authors Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. The article compares the book's conceptual approach and policy recommendations to those of other recent writings on poverty and hunger. Researchers trying to understand the causes of a...

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Improving nutritional status through behavioral change : lessons from Madagascar

Galasso, Emanuela; Umapathi, Nithin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

This paper provides evidence of the effects of a large-scale intervention that focuses on the quality of nutritional and child care inputs during the early stages of life. The empirical strategy uses a combination of double-difference and weighting estimators in a longitudinal survey to address...

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The impact of the global food crisis on self-assessed food security

Headey, Derek D. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

The paper provides the first large-scale survey-based evidence on the impact of the global food crisis of 2007-08 using an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this subjective indicator of food security remained the same or...

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Feeding five billion Asians : a socioeconomic perspective

Cuesta, Jose - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

This paper reviews the prospects for long-term food security in Asia, where a significant number of malnourished individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of eradicating hunger, nor will only increased food...

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Malnutrition and poverty in Guatemala

Marini, Alessandra; Gragnolati, Michele - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

increasing prevalence of excess weights, and obesity among children and adults. Over-nutrition tends to be higher among …

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Improving women's and children's nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa : an issues paper

Abosede, Olayinka; McGuire, Judith S. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991

nutrition problems in Africa: the Iringa Nutrition Program in Tanzania, the Zimbabwe Children's Supplementary Feeding Program … programs, including the need: (a) to involve the community actively in program development; (b) for training in nutrition at … all levels, from doctor to village health worker; (c) for strong growth monitoring and nutrition education components; (d …

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Unit costs, cost - effectiveness, and financing of nutrition interventions

Horton, Susan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1992

nutrition interventions: maternal and child health (MCH) feeding, school feeding, nutrition education, the promotion of … items that she reports: (1) mass media nutrition education campaigns and the promotion of breastfeeding cost about $1 - $5 … per beneficiary; face-to-face nutrition programs cost more ($23 per beneficiary in the Dominican Republic). (2) Food …

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Month of Birth and Children's Health in India

Lokshin, Lokshin , Michael; Radyakin, Sergiy - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

children, in a manner similar to nutrition and micronutrient supplementation programs. …

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Famines and economics

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996

The author observes that famine, defined as widespread hunger or starvation, has occurred in most parts of the world in the twentieth century. Famines are more avoidable now than ever before. Famines defy simple explanations and geographic boundaries. They have occurred under both socialist and...

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