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impact of conditional cash transfers on consumption, education, and nutrition outcomes among poor rural families in … Organization benchmark by 40 percent. The pilot was also able to improve nutrition knowledge: there was a significant increase in …
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This paper examines the role of social safety-net programs in Bangladesh run by the government and nongovernmental organizations to mitigate seasonal deprivation in the country's highly vulnerable northwest region. Specifically, the paper explores whether social safety nets are limited to...
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Yemen can be improved: market demand, access to markets, access to finance, and the provision of business services. Because …
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This paper estimates a model of a farm that treats the choice of crops, livestock, and irrigation as endogenous. The model is composed of a multinomial choice of farm type, a binomial choice of irrigation, and a set of conditional land value functions. The model is estimated across over 2,000...
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Many African countries rely on sporadic land transfers from customary to statutory domains to attract investment and improve agricultural performance. Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawi allow exploring the long-term effects of such a strategy. The results suggest that (i)...
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia … transfer programs are aimed at addressing this, most are too small to have a marked effect in protecting or promoting nutrition …. Several supply-side food and agricultural interventions suggest promise in improving nutrition, although their effects have …
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Based on a randomized evaluation, the paper shows that a household-targeted Philippine cash transfer program significantly raised the local price of key foods relevant for child nutritional status. This shift in prices increased stunting among young nonbeneficiary children by 34 percent (11...
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This study investigates the degree to which the association of height and earnings in Pakistan is independent of other cognitive and socioemotional skills. While taller workers are regularly observed to earn more, they commonly have higher cognitive ability. Thus, there is debate concerning the...
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In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...
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This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food security; adequate … environment -- on their own and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes, such as height-for-age z-scores. Based on … each component of the three underlying drivers of nutrition. In spite of the limitations inherent in the available data …
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