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This paper provides evidence of the effects of a large-scale intervention that focuses on the quality of nutritional and child care inputs during the early stages of life. The empirical strategy uses a combination of double-difference and weighting estimators in a longitudinal survey to address...
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In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper exploits heterogeneity in duration of program...
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Uganda. The results are suggestive that promoting (small) livestock ownership has the potential to affect human nutrition in …
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connectivity on access to jobs, especially focusing on wages. Using data from Antananarivo, Madagascar, it is shown that the wages …
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land prices and locational characteristics using data from Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. It is found that the …
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implemented in Madagascar, this method has helped to reveal probable fraud cases in the present context of customs reform …
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Household air pollution is the second leading cause of disease in Madagascar, where more than 99 percent of households … monitor household air pollution in two towns in Madagascar, with a stratified sample of 154 and 184 households. Concentrations …
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detailed administered data from a large-scale, community-based nutrition program in Madagascar to argue that this data can be …
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This paper explores how the elimination of Madagascar's Marketing Board in 1995 affected prices paid to farmers …, incentives, and regional indicators of poverty and inequality. After steadily losing market share, Madagascar has been able to … at the regional level. After taking into account the reduction in Madagascar's monopoly power on the world vanilla market …
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Madagascar's textile and apparel industry has been among the fastest growing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fueled by low labor … costs, a fairly productive labor force, and preferential access to industrial countries, Madagascar's exports of textile and …
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