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difficult to absorb nutrients, even during periods when the child shows no signs of diarrhea. The report urges urgent action on …
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child poverty. We estimate that in 2017, 17.5 percent of children in the world (or 356 million) younger than 18 years lived …
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This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. Of children under age 18 years, 19.5 percent are...
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This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings … crop prices are positively associated with improved child stunting rates for children between ages 6 months and 5 years …
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This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic … on child stunting in these five countries-comparable, in size, to the effects of mother's illiteracy and a fall to a …
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This paper evaluates the impact of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) in Turkey, the largest cash transfer program for international refugees in the world. The paper provides prima facie evidence that the program quickly caused substantial changes in household size and composition, with a...
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