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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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Many adolescent girls in low-income countries face the challenge of early pregnancy and lifelong dependence upon family and partners. In this paper, we review the literature on field interventions aimed at reducing early pregnancies in low-income countries and report from a randomized control...
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School-feeding is an important intervention to attract children to school and augment their learning. The benefits of …
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This paper mainly analyses the drivers of economic growth in Kenya and the linkages to the labour market dynamics, with … that Kenya, as the ninth largest economy in Africa and the fourth largest in sub-Saharan Africa and with a locational …
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Kenya. The study uses primary data to investigate qualitative implications. The findings reveal that South African firms …
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