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Are determinants of rural and urban food security and nutritional status different?
Garrett, James L.; Ruel, Marie T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999
Undernutrition of children 0-60 months old in Mozambique is much higher in rural than in urban areas. Food security is about the same, although substantial regional differences exist. Given these outcomes, we hypothesized that the determinants of food security and nutritional status in rural and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997257
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Some urban facts of life
Ruel, Marie T.; Haddad, Lawrence James; Garrett, James L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999
This review of recent literature explores the challenges to urban food and nutrition security in the rapidly urbanizing developing world. The premise of the manuscript is that the causes of malnutrition and food insecurity in urban and rural areas are different due primarily to a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997269
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Urban challenges to food and nutrition security
Ruel, Marie T.; Garrett, James L.; Morris, Saul Sutkover; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998
This review of recent literature explores the urban face of food and nutrition security in a more comprehensive, integrated way than most previous efforts. The review is organized around a conceptual framework that identifies food insecurity, inadequate caring behaviors, and poor health as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997272
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Urban livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Greater Accra, Ghana:
Maxwell, Daniel G.; Levin, Carol E.; Armar-Klemesu, Margaret - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
Accra offers a compelling case study of the contemporary impact of urban life on the livelihoods, food security, and nutritional status of its people. The Accra Urban Food and Nutrition Study was a collaborative effort between IFPRI, the Noguchi Institute of Medical Research, and the World...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037830
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Does aid improve public service delivery?
Wolf, Susanna - 2007
and sanitation outcomes, taking also into account the institutions related to public service delivery, including freedom … negatively associated. Aid volatility is associated with better outcomes in sanitation, water and infant mortality, contrary to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284741
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Sanitation and credit constraints: The role of labelled microcredit in India's Swacch Bharat Mission subsidy scheme
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2022
combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies - Swacch Bharat or 'Clean India …, we provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193574
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Labeled loans and human capital investments
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2023
Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in practice. We draw on a cluster randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480589
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Water and sanitation for all? Rural versus urban provision
Wolf, Susanna - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 1 (2009) 4, pp. 358-370
In most developing countries, there is a huge gap in the delivery of services like water and sanitation between rural … well as financing that might influence access to water and sanitation in rural versus urban areas. Decentralisation seems … to have a positive effect on rural provision of water and sanitation, whereas the effects of sectoral aid and controlling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563935
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Does Aid Improve Public Service Delivery?
Wolf, Susanna - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007
and sanitation outcomes, taking also into account the institutions related to public service delivery, including freedom … negatively associated. Aid volatility is associated with better outcomes in sanitation, water and infant mortality, contrary to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031910
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Water and sanitation for all? Rural versus urban provision
Wolf, Susanna - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 1 (2009) 4, pp. 358-370
In most developing countries, there is a huge gap in the delivery of services like water and sanitation between rural … well as financing that might influence access to water and sanitation in rural versus urban areas. Decentralisation seems … to have a positive effect on rural provision of water and sanitation, whereas the effects of sectoral aid and controlling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078544