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The 2007/2008 food price crisis and the following global economic recession has (temporarily) increased the number of people to suffer from hunger. While the impacts can be measured with precision only ex post, for policy makers it is critical to get a sense of likely impacts ex ante in order to...
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In many developing countries, supermarkets are spreading rapidly at the expense of traditional food markets and shops. Changing retail environments and food choices may affect consumer diets and nutritional outcomes. Previous research suggested that supermarkets may contribute to rising rates of...
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status and her time spent with children. Exogenous status is captured by a composite index constructed with parental …
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Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less … growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We do this by pooling all DHS surveys for African countries, control … for other correlates of undernutrition, and add country-level GDP per capita. We find that increases in GDP per capita are …
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We investigate the geographical and socioeconomic determinants of childhood undernutrition in Malawi, Tanzania, and … undernutrition jointly for the three countries to explore regional patterns of undernutrition that transcend boundaries, while … running from Southern Tanzania to Northeastern Zambia which exhibits much worse undernutrition, even after controlling for …
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contributes to overnutrition among adults, while reducing undernutrition among children. For farm households, supplying …
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This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient … inter-regional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests …
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This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient … inter-regional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests …
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