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Using a high-frequency mobile phone survey of food security conducted by the World Food Programme, this paper investigates how food assistance and access to food changed following the announcement of famine-like conditions in the Republic of Yemen. Among the mobile phone-using population, the...
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The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There … poor welfare outcomes contrasts with evidence from other conflict settings, and further contrasts with the rationale …
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Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records …
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Unexpected adverse events that affect areas or populations widely (covariate shocks) can have major consequences for the welfare of a society. Although the negative effects on households, especially among the poor, are well established in the economics literature, fewer studies have focused on...
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At the start of the new millennium, malnutrition in Senegal was of great concern. Among children under five years of … disproportionately. Malnutrition contributes to child and maternal mortality and morbidity, undermines children's prospects of reaching …
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higher overall rates of undernutrition tend to have a higher share of undernourished individuals in nonpoor households. The …
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(stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings …This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices for key cereals, teff, wheat, and maize at the zone level across all …
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Because malnutrition in early life significantly affects the physical and mental development of children, addressing … malnutrition is fundamental to the development of Vietnam's human capital. Economic development of the nation depends on the … much as 11 percent of GDP could be lost each year in Asia and Africa due to undernutrition.The ethnic minority groups …
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Malnutrition is a huge burden on the Arab Republic of Egypt's economy. Undernutrition-manifested by poor linear growth … overweight and obesity among children, leading to a malnutrition doubleA burden. Scaling Up Nutrition in the Arab Republic of … implications of scaling up a set of high-impact interventions to address undernutrition. The book, a collaborative effort between …
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Under nutrition levels in Lao PDR remain among the highest in the world, despite both rapid economic growth and a significant decline in poverty over the past years. Concerns about the slow progress in reducing under nutrition have triggered intense policy discussion and several analytical...
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