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Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia

Brenton, Paul - 2019

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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Small Area Estimation of Child Malnutrition in Ethiopian Woredas

Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2017

Reducing child undernutrition is a key social policy objective of the Ethiopian government. Despite substantial … reduction over the past decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high. With 48 percent of children stunted, underweight …, or wasted, undernutrition remains an important child health challenge. The existing literature highlights that the …

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The Challenge of Measuring Hunger

De Weerdt, Joachim - 2017

There is widespread interest in the number of hungry people in the world and trends in hunger. Current global counts rely on combining each country's total food balance with information on distribution patterns from household consumption expenditure surveys. Recent research has advocated for...

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Feeding Five Billion Asians : A Socioeconomic Perspective

Cuesta, Jose - 2017

This paper reviews the prospects for long-term food security in Asia, where a significant number of malnourished individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of eradicating hunger, nor will only increased food...

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Improving Child Nutrition Outcomes in India : Can the Integrated Child Development Services Be More Effective?

Das Gupta, Monica - 2017

Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large …. The states with the greatest need for the program - the poor northern states with high levels of child malnutrition and …

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Long-Term Impacts of an Unanticipated Risk Event : The 2007/08 Food Price Crisis and Child Growth in Indonesia

Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2017

Unanticipated spikes in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor, with lasting consequences; however …

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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets

Espitia, Alvaro - 2020

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...

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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan : A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts

D'Souza, Anna - 2020

This paper investigates the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. It uses a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression estimator, based on influence functions, to...

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Iraq's Universal Public Distribution System : Utilization and Impacts During Displacement

Phadera, Lokendra - 2020

Subsidized or free distribution of food has been a central pillar of social protection programs in many countries. With the number of forcibly displaced persons at record levels, the question arises of whether in-kind food transfer programs are effective in mitigating the loss of welfare induced...

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Evolution of Poor Food Access Over the Course of the Conflict in the Republic of Yemen

Tandon, Sharad - 2019

The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There has been an increase in violence, a disruption in supply chains due to a tightening of the ports, and a decline in the general economic climate that has left a large share of...

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