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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 …

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

Feng, Juan - 2018

prioritizing resources for those who are furthest behind. Existing malnutrition indicators?underweight, stunting, wasting … World Health Organization growth standards. To understand the severity of malnutrition, this study develops a new … malnutrition measurement, using the method originally developed for estimating poverty. This study estimates the prevalence, gap …

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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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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 Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices...

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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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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...

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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

geographic location are crucial factors that contribute to children?s malnutrition. More importantly, food quality, measured by … protein intake, has significant predicting power on child malnutrition. Broadly increasing socioeconomic status and improving …

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Vulnerability to Malnutrition in the West African Sahel

Alfani, Federica - 2017

This study estimates marginal increase in malnutrition for children ages 1-3 years from exposure to an extreme shock in … malnutrition …

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Can We Measure Resilience? A Proposed Method and Evidence from Countries in the Sahel

Alfani, Federica - 2017

Although resilience has become a popular concept in studies of poverty and vulnerability, it has been difficult to obtain a credible measure of resilience. This difficulty is because the data required to measure resilience, which involves observing household outcomes over time after every...

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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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