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Essays on food security and the nutrition transition in developing countries
Rischke, Ramona - 2014
The nature of food insecurity has been changing in the world. While research on food insecurity in developing countries used to focus on undernourishment (i.e. lack of calorie consumption) and related outcomes, today, many developing countries face at least a “double burden of malnutrition”...
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Nutrition effects of the supermarket revolution on urban consumers and smallholder farmers in Kenya
Qaim, Matin; Andersson, Camilla I. M.; Chege, Christine … - 2014
understanding. Reviewing recent evidence from Kenya, we show that buying food in supermarkets instead of traditional outlets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430779
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Education for all? : measuring pro-poor educational outcomes in developing countries
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2008 - Preliminary draft, May 21, 2008
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Pro-poor progress in education in developing countries?
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2009
Spurred by international commitments and expanded funding at the national and international level, attendance in education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this expansion in enrolments reduced existing inequalities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254237
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Essays in development economics : democracy and education
Idzalika, Rajius - 2016
Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu … variable democracy. Contrary to the results of Acemoglu et al. (2008), some support of causality is found particularly when … explaining heteroscedasticity. We also find democracy is a bimodal variable and approximate the distribution using two separate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011570579
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Supermarkets and food consumption patterns : the case of small towns in Kenya
Rischke, Ramona; Kimenju, Simon C.; Klasen, Stephan; … - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 52 (2015), pp. 9-21
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Large–scale land acquisitions in sub–Saharan Africa
Nolte, Kerstin - 2014
This dissertation contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the rising global phenomenon of investments in land through in–depth insights obtained from a cross–country study as well as from three case–studies based in sub–Saharan Africa. Chapter 2 contributes to the...
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Supermarkets and the nutrition transition in Kenya
Rischke, Ramona; Chege Kimenju, Simon; Qaim, Matin; … - 2014
using cross-sectional household survey data collected in Kenya in 2012. In order to establish causality, our sample was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239932
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The nutritional status of elites in India, Kenya and Zambia : an appropiate guide for developing reference standards for undernutrition
Klasen, Stephan; Moradi, Alexander - 2000
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Direct simultaneous inference in additive models and its application to model undernutrition
Wiesenfarth, Manuel; Krivobokova, Tatyana; Klasen, Stephan - 2011 - First Version December 2010, revised July 2011
This article proposes a simple and fast approach to build simultaneous confi dence bands and perform specification tests for smooth curves in additive models. The method allows for handling of spatially heterogeneous functions and its derivatives as well as heteroscedasticity in the data. It is...
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