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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872054
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969546
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969925
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973629
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966153
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The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Social Spending in Croatia
Inchauste, Gabriela - 2017
This paper describes the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty, and examines recent policy changes and whether there is room for an increased role for fiscal policy in improving the well-being of the poor. Taxes and social spending reduced inequality in Croatia; however, once the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947265
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The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Social Spending in Romania
Inchauste, Gabriela - 2018
The combined effect of taxes and social spending in Romania helps to reduce inequality, although less so than in other European Union countries. However, the combination of direct and indirect taxes and transfers leads to an increase in poverty, as direct cash transfers to poor households are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912270
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Covariate Shocks and Child Undernutrition : A Review of Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Debebe, Zelalem Yilma - 2020
Unexpected adverse events that affect areas or populations widely (covariate shocks) can have major consequences for the welfare of a society. Although the negative effects on households, especially among the poor, are well established in the economics literature, fewer studies have focused on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831773
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Finance and Hunger : Empirical Evidence of the Agricultural Productivity Channel
Claessens, Stijn - 2016
Using cross-country and panel regressions, the authors show that financial sector development significantly reduces undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into beneficial income and general effects. They show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747897