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Nutrition, economic development and civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa (1950-2000)
Moradi, Alexander - 2005
A life free of hunger is an essential part of human well-being. For measuring nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), we … state of nutrition in SSA in the 1960s? Which development of nutrition took place 1950-1980? Which factors can explain the … nutritional status? Did the importsubstitution policy negatively affected nutrition? Our results indicate, that in the 1960s …
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Three Essays on the Gender Differentials in Mortality and Undernutrition in Pakistan
Syed, Mohammad Asim - 2008
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Food supply in the European Union from 1961 to 2003
Neier, Anna-Magdalena - 2009
In dieser Studie über die Nahrungsmittelverfügbarkeit in der Europäischen Union mit den Mitgliederstaaten von 2009, werden Food Balance Sheets (FBS) der Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) von 1961 bis 2003 analysiert. Obwohl die Zuverlässigkeit und Präzision der FBS Daten stark von der...
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THE IMPACT OF HOUSEHOLD-LEVEL DETERMINANTS OF CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION: CROSS-COUNTRY EVIDENCE FROM WEST AFRICA
Penders, Christopher L.; Staatz, John - 2001
Poor child health and nutrition persist throughout West Africa. This research analyzes the impact of key economic … variables, including income, education and background characteristics, on child health and nutrition across nine different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443549
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Modelling physical quantities of food and nutrients consumed from aggregate data – with an application to Finland
Irz, Xavier T. - 2009
Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because physical quantities are: 1- not consistent aggregates in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444779
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Do Income Constraints Inhibit Spending on Fruits and Vegetables Among Low-Income Households?
Stewart, Hayden; Blisard, Noel; Jolliffe, Dean - 2003
This study assesses whether income constraints inhibit spending on fruits and vegetables among low-income households. If this is the case, then it is hypothesized that the distribution of expenditures on fruits and vegetables by low-income households should be stochastically dominated by the...
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The Influence of Health on Labor Productivity: An Analysis of European Conscription Data
Knapp, David - 2007
Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This … paper builds on that literature by considering the influence that net nutrition has on a population’s labor productivity … nutrition in people’s first 20 years has had a significant and positive effect on labor productivity over the twentieth century …
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Underlying Contextual Effects Leading to over Consumption: Extremeness Aversion and Bundling
Sharpe, Kathryn Michelle - 2008
Obesity is now a global problem. Within the U.S., the rise in obesity has been largely driven by the increase in caloric consumption. By specifically observing the practices in the fast food industry, this dissertation examines two factors, portion sizes and bundling, to answer the question,...
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Health and wealth: Dietary supplements, network marketing and the commodification of health
Dixon, Anna R - 2003
Dietary supplements overall constitute a multibillion-dollar industry in the U.S. today. This dissertation investigates a heretofore poorly-documented aspect of the burgeoning dietary supplements industry: network marketing. Network marketing, exemplified by companies like Amway as well as a...
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