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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 …, 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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573217
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Weather shocks and child nutrition : evidence from Tanzania
Nsabimana, Aimable; Mensah, Justice Tei - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012216437
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Female work status and child nutritional outcome in Nigeria
Ngenzebuke, Rama Lionel; Akachi, Yoko - 2017
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776344
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Simulating policy options for universal child allowances in Ghana
Evans, Martin - 2018
Ghanaian households contain children, and those households contain 82 per cent of the total population, spreading the impact of … children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938175
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Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition : the Mozambican experience 2008/09
Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Østerdal, Lars Peter - 2012
short-to-medium run relationship between sudden shocks to food prices and child nutrition status. We link local price … inflation with child malnutrition status. We find that the prevalence of underweight amongst children rises in response to a …,000 severely underweight children. -- food prices ; inflation ; child malnutrition ; Mozambique ; short to medium-run relationship …
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Cash transfers in Latin America : effects on poverty and redistribution
Amarante, Verónica; Brun, Martín - 2016
In this paper, we present comparative evidence for eight Latin American countries regarding design and effects of cash transfers (CTs). On the basis of household survey data, we analyse their coverage, importance in household income, and effects on poverty reduction and income redistribution. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568183
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Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households : evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme
Sebastian, Ashwini; De la O Campos, Ana Paula; Daidone, … - 2016
We examine the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho using an experimental impact evaluation design. We find that the cash transfer led to different outcomes for girls and boys, overall favouring secondary school-aged girls. Girls in this age group were less likely to miss school,...
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Policy diffusion, domestic politics and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012
Granvik, Maria - 2016
Lesotho is a small Southern African country that has introduced two national cash transfer programmes, the Old Age Pension and the Child Grant Programme. Although Lesotho has followed what has been called the 'Southern African model', the introduction of the Old Age Pension was not the result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573206
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Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980 - 2016
Chinyoka, Isaac - 2017
Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child …
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