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What do we really know? : metrics for food insecurity and undernutrition

Haen, Hartwig de; Klasen, Stephan; Qaim, Matin - 2011

undernutrition: (i) the FAO indicator of undernourishment, (ii) household food consumption surveys, and (iii) childhood … anthropometrics. There is a striking and worrying degree of inconsistency when one compares available estimates, which is due to … undernutrition is unknown. We discuss strengths and weaknesses of each approach and make concrete suggestions for improvement, which …

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Using the household hunger scale to improve analysis and classification of severe food insecurity in famine-risk conditions : evidence from three countries

Maxwell, Daniel; Adan, Guhad; Hailey, Peter; Day, Matthew; … - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 118 (2023), pp. 1-12

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Scarring and selection in the Great Irish Famine

Blum, Matthias; Colvin, Christopher L.; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2017

What impact do famines have on survivors? We use individual-level data on a population exposed to severe famine conditions during infancy to document two opposing effects. The first: exposure to insufficient food and a worsened disease environment is associated with poor health into adulthood -...

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Chapter 40 Food security and food assistance programs

Barrett, Christopher B. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part B, …, (pp. 2103-2190). 2002

Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist today despite considerable growth in per capita food availability. This has …

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Agriculture, nutrition, and the Green Revolution in Bangladesh

Headey, Derek D.; Hoddinott, John - 2015

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Poverty, undernutrition and vulnerability in rural India : role of rural public works and food for work programmes

Imai, Katsushi S. - In: International review of applied economics 25 (2011) 6, pp. 669-691

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Low malnutrition but high mortality : explaining the puzzle of the Lake Victoria region

Gräb, Johannes; Priebe, Jan - 2010

Comparing DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...

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Public-private partnerships and the reduction of undernutrition in developing countries

Hoddinott, John; Gillespie, Stuart; Yosef, Sivan - 2015

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Impact of caregiver incentives on child health : evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in Indi

Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016

This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments...

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The nutritional returns to parental education

Alderman, Harold; Headey, Derek D. - 2014

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