Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices for key cereals, teff, wheat, and maize at the zone level across all … crop prices are positively associated with improved child stunting rates for children between ages 6 months and 5 years … to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining …

and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design …

health of expectant mothers, ensuring access to contraception to reduce adolescent pregnancy, and ensuring that children …Nearly one in three children under age five in the Philippines is stunted, a key marker of undernutrition. This rate is … of stunting in the Philippines, using data from the 2015 National Nutrition Survey. Potential drivers are analyzed …

individual welfare and particularly child nutrition status. This paper reviews the evidence on the effect of covariate shocks on … child nutrition status in low- and middle-income countries, the pathways through which the effect operates, and the … relationship between the timing of a child's exposure to a covariate shock and the effect on child nutrition status. The paper also …

cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …; dietary preferences related to religion and ethnicity; nutrition education; and administration of public health and nutrition …Using recent Demographic Health Survey data for Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and …

outcomes in children. Emerging literature describes the negative effects of poor sanitation on child growth. However, limited … water contaminated with E. coli could affect the nutritional status of children through various possible biological pathways … uptake and absorption. This study explores the relationship between contaminated water and stunting prevalence among children …