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Effects of the COVID-19 crisis on household food consumption and child nutrition in Mozambique
Squarcina, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria - 2022
children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households … child nutrition before and after the pandemic. The results show that there has been a significant reduction in household …
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Characteristics and determinants of child malnutrition in Mozambique, 2003-11
Cardoso, José; Allwright, Lindsey; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016
Child malnutrition continues to be a serious impediment to development both at the individual and national levels in many developing countries. In Mozambique, despite a high and sustained GDP growth, child malnutrition has been decreasing at a rather slow pace over the past 15 years. In this...
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The political economy of food price policy in Egypt
Ghoneim, Ahmed Farouk - 2012
The study focuses on the period 2004-09 during which Egypt experienced food crisis. The political economy context on how the government responded to the crisis is analysed while pinpointing to what extent there was a pass-through effect from international to domestic prices. The complexity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667927
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Transfers and development : easy come, easy go?
Christiaensen, Luc J.; Lei Pan - 2010
Contrary to the popular notion that money that is easily earned, is also easily spent, economic theory holds that income is fungible. Drawing on the concept of mental accounting, this study theoretically explores when such a link between spending behaviour and the effort dispensed in obtaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780386
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Do people in income poverty use their income efficiently? : a subjective well-being approach
Rojas, Mariano - 2012
A subjective well-being approach is followed to assess the magnitude of inefficiency in the use of income. The information comes from a Mexican survey and an X-inefficiency technique is used. The paper shows that there exists substantial inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691046
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Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources : evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Ntuli, Miracle - 2017
This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i.e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and...
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Savings by and for the poor : a research review and agenda
Karlan, Dean; Ratan, Aishwarya Lakshmi; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014
The poor can and do save, but often use formal or informal instruments that have high risk, high cost, and limited functionality. This could lead to undersaving compared to a world without market or behavioural frictions. Undersaving can have important welfare consequences: variable consumption,...
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Financial inclusion and nutrition among rural households in Rwanda
Swain, Ranjula Bali; Nsabimana, Aimable - 2023
We investigate if financial inclusion leads to improved nutrition in rural Rwanda, using Rwandan Integrated Household … improving food expenditure or nutrition. Furthermore, the study reveals heterogeneous marginal effects of financial inclusion in … reducing the gender gap between the food demand and nutrition of femaleand male-headed households. The study provides …
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Will economic growth be sufficient to end global poverty? : new projections of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Anna, Zuzy; Komarulzaman, Ahmad; … - 2023
In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on...
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Political economy synthesis : the food policy crisis
Watson, Derrill D. - 2013
The food price crisis revealed contradictions in creating food policy. Much of the common policy response can be explained by a benevolent, unitary government. To understand the variance between countries, however, requires understanding fractured government decision-making, path dependency, and...
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