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 …

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 …

importance in the Bangladeshi diet; and the impact of observed consumption patterns on mortality and resistance to infectious … seasonal availability of fish during the pre- and post-partum periods have large effects on child mortality and significant …

Maternal and child undernutrition is a pervasive and detrimental condition in Papua New Guinea. Despite rapid economic … growth during the past decade, the stunting rate for children under 5, one of the primary indicators for child undernutrition …