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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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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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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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The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia

Dizon, Felipe Jr Fadullon - 2019

Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising...

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International Benchmarking of Infrastructure Performance in the Southern African Customs Union Countries

Bogetic, Zeljko - 2016

The paper provides a first, systematic benchmarking of infrastructure performance in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) in four major sectors-electricity, water and sanitation, information and communication technology,...

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Mines, Migration and Hiv/Aids in Southern Africa

Corno, Lucia - 2017

Swaziland and Lesotho have the highest HIV prevalence in the world. They also share another distinct feature: during the last century, they sent a large numbers of migrant workers to South African mines. This paper examines whether participation in mining in a bordering country affects HIV...

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Microeconomic Consequences and Macroeconomic Causes of Foreign Direct Investment in Southern African Economies

Lederman, Daniel - 2017

The causes and consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries remains a subject of debate among researchers and policymakers alike. The authors use international data and a new micro-data set of firms in thirteen Southern African Developing Countries (SADCs) to...

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