This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings … to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual "herd immunity" scenario: without any policy intervention … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …