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at a rather slow pace over the past 15 years. In this study, using the Mozambican Demographic and Health Surveys 2003 and …
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children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households …, reducing diet diversification and increasing the exposure to malnutrition, mainly for children. Empirical evidence on such … household survey data from 2019-20, which includes a detailed consumption module and anthropometric measures for children under …
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We examine the implications of the rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa for food consumption patterns and …
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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 … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …
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.g., irrigation schemes, hydropower plants, roads, etc.) has been questioned considerably in recent years. For this reason, efforts to … Africa ; investment risk ; system model ; water resource …
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health outcomes of children in Tanzania. Using household panel data matched with spatially disaggregated data on weather … results reveal a positive association between exposure to dry weather shocks and stunting among children. The effects are … discernible impact on child health. …
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children aged two to five years (toddlers) and boys exclusively. On the other hand, female on-farm work significantly matters … for children aged zero to two years (infants) and girls exclusively. …
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Land registration and titling in Africa has been seen as a means of legal empowerment of the poor that can protect … smallholders' and pastoralists' rights of access to land and other land-based resources. Land registration is also on the … ethnojustice agenda in parts of Africa and beyond. Yet legal empowerment via registration and titling is also advocated by those …
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further show that weak readiness is not offset by high levels of social trust, which can be vital for effective public health …
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of these measures on income-based poverty and inequality. We find notable reductions in disposable incomes, concentrated … among higher-income households, and moderate increases in headcount poverty rates and poverty gaps. The study highlights the … strain to households with school-age children. …
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