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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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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, livelihood strategies that include producing food for home consumption are expected to offer a measure of protection. Using anthropometric and consumption data from Indonesia...

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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 public spending on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program, of which the major component is supplementary feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this...

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The Socioeconomics of Fish Consumption and Child Health in Bangladesh

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2019

Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses on the socioeconomic determinants of household consumption of all animal-source foods;...

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Malnutrition Gap as a New Measure of Child Malnutrition : A Global Application

Feng, Juan - 2018

"Leaving no one behind" is an overarching principle of the Sustainable Development Goals. Many countries are prioritizing resources for those who are furthest behind. Existing malnutrition indicators?underweight, stunting, wasting, overweight, and severe wasting?are headcount ratios. They do not...

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Famine and the Aid Response : Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen

Tandon, Sharad - 2019

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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Stagnant Stunting Rate Despite Rapid Economic Growth in Papua New Guinea?Factors Correlated with Malnutrition Among Children Under Five

Hou, Xiaohui - 2017

Maternal and child undernutrition is a pervasive and detrimental condition in Papua New Guinea. Despite rapid economic … growth during the past decade, the stunting rate for children under 5, one of the primary indicators for child undernutrition …

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