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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 …
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targeting of efforts to reduce undernutrition in Ethiopia is inefficient, in part because of the lack of data and updated …Reducing child undernutrition is a key social policy objective of the Ethiopian government. espite substantial … reduction over the past decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high. With 48 percent of children stunted, underweight …
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This policy note provides an assessment of some of the impacts and proposed policy responses to problems related to the drought, including the rise in food prices. To address immediate needs, the humanitarian response to the drought is being managed by the Government of Kenya and a number of...
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This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and …
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This study exploits a natural experiment to investigate the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of … households in rural Ethiopia. Public policies and customs created a situation where Ethiopian households could influence their … pronatal property rights on fertility outcomes. By matching aggregated census data before and after the reform with …
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This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth...
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The people of the Mashreq have seen more than their share of deaths, economic losses, and instability over the past decade. As the decade-long conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic created new challenges and worsened the existing ones, economic activity declined, labor markets deteriorated, and...
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The conflict inflicted by ISIS has forced over 5 million ordinary Iraqis to flee their homes, left schools destroyed and hospitals dysfunctional. Seven governorates have been fiercely affected while the entire country felt the shockwaves. During these times of despair, our neighbors and the...
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The Iraq Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies over the previous six months and presents findings from recent World Bank work on Iraq, placing them in a longer-term and global context and assessing the implications of these developments and other changes...
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Iraq's overall security situation has notably improved after the defeat of ISIS, but significant challenges lie ahead. Iraq has witnessed major political and security transitions in 2017 when Prime Minister Al-Abadi announced in December the victory over ISIS after a war that lasted three years....
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