declines continuously with rising living standards; 3) the tendency of poorer children to have higher rates of stunting, and …

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 …

reduction over the past decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high. With 48 percent of children stunted, underweight … challenges depend on the chosen undernutrition statistic, as the share, number, and concentration of undernourished children …Reducing child undernutrition is a key social policy objective of the Ethiopian government. Despite substantial …

growth during the past decade, the stunting rate for children under 5, one of the primary indicators for child undernutrition …Maternal and child undernutrition is a pervasive and detrimental condition in Papua New Guinea. Despite rapid economic … association between the demographic, socioeconomic, environmental, and health-related factors on nutritional status for children …

exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months …. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 …

Pakistan has an extraordinarily high and persistent level of child undernutrition. To effectively tackle the problem … review of the available empirical and qualitative literature on child undernutrition in Pakistan. It summarizes evidence for … the country on, among other things, food consumption, spatial variation and trends in undernutrition rates, levels and …

, overweight, and severe wasting?are headcount ratios. They do not capture how far behind malnourished children are relative to the …

diseases for children in their first years of life. Better maternal education and family economic status significantly increase …

feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this puzzle, the authors assess the program's placement and its outcomes using …