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children are a key component of the relationship. Second, he conducts a decomposition analysis of health inequality and finds … potential gains from geographic targeting. The author finds that the savings in the cost of a nutrition program from commune …
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feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this puzzle, the authors assess the program's placement and its outcomes using … evidence of program impact on child nutrition status in villages with ICDS centers. "--World Bank web site …
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young children. A combination of income growth and nutrition interventions are therefore suggested to adequately tackle this … joint contribution of income growth and nutrition interventions toward the reduction of malnutrition. Using a four … household income and the presence of nutrition interventions in the community. The results show that better nutrition is …
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Despite the development community's shift in emphasis toward the poor, malnutrition, like other dimensions of poor health, is concentrated among the worst off. Yet targets are still defined in terms of population averages. Consider, then, this information about malnutrition rates among different...
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-ante actions and ex-post responses using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The importance of ex-ante actions … mitigate the impact of shocks on child schooling. In contrast, households in Malawi rely more on private ex-ante actions than …
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The duration of large-scale violent civil conflict increases substantially if the society is composed of a few large ethnic groups, if there is extensive forest cover, and if the conflict has commenced since 1980. None of these factors affect the initiation of conflict. And neither the duration...
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