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Policy barriers to a healthier diet: The case of trade and agriculture

Alta, Aditya; Auliya, Rachma; Fauzi, Azizah Nazzala - 2023

recent sharp increase. Realizing the importance of nutrition fulfillment for human capital, the government has set a target … Stunting Reduction in Indonesia 2021- 2024 (RAN-PASTI), and National Action Plan for Food and Nutrition 2020-2024 (RAN …-PG). Targets and activities in these documents reflect the multidimensional nature of food and nutrition issues, but overlook the …

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Food Security in South Asia: Issues and Opportunities

Mittal, Surabhi; Sethi, Deepti - 2009

Food security is defined as economic access to food along with food production and food availability. Agriculture in the SAR (South Asian Region) is caught in a low equilibrium trap with low productivity of staples, supply shortfalls, high prices, low returns to farmers and area diversification...

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Preferential trade agreements: The case of EU-Mexico

Busse, Matthias; Huth, Matthias; Koopmann, Georg - 2000

The paper evaluates the political and economic incentives to conclude the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It … the EU is likely to gain much more than Mexico. … EU und Mexiko bewertet. Dafür werden die europäische und mexikanische Handelspolitik analysiert und der multilaterale …

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Household responses to information on child nutrition: Experimental evidence from Malawi

Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi; Mesnard, Alice; … - 2012

Malawi which provides mothers with information on infant nutrition and health. It finds that the intervention results in …

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Blood Money: Incentives for Violence in NHL Hockey

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2008

The level of violence in the National Hockey League (NHL) reached its highest point in 1987 and has reduced somewhat since then, although to levels much larger than before the first team expansions in 1967. Using publicly available information from several databases 1996-2007, the incentives for...

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Work, health and Covid-19: A literature review

Purkayastha, Damini; Vanroelen, Christophe; Bircan, Tuba; … - 2021

With work a key vector of Covid-19 transmission, this report examines why it is critical that occupational health and safety measures take centre stage in mitigation policies. Workers in sectors declared essential by state authorities have been mandated to continue working in physical settings...

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Heatwaves as an occupational hazard: The impact of heat and heatwaves on workers' health, safety and wellbeing and on social inequalities

Narocki, Claudia - 2021

Weather-related heat exposure has become a sanitary concern given the wide repercussions it has for health. Both physiological and epidemiological research show that the impact of heat on human health goes far beyond acute heat conditions such as potentially fatal heat strokes. Heat exacerbates...

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Do they know what's at risk? Health risk perception among the Obese

Winter, Joachim; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2012

The perception of disease risks and risky health behaviors are closely associated. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of disease risk perceptions among obese individuals. We compare subjective risk perceptions for various diseases elicited in the American Life Panel (ALP) to individual's...

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Low malnutrition but high mortality: Explaining the paradox of the Lake Victoria region

Gräb, Johannes; Priebe, Jan - 2009

Exploiting 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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Subsistence: A Bio-economic Foundation of the Malthusian Equilibrium

Strulik, Holger; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - 2007

This paper develops a bio-economic Malthusian growth model. By integrating recent research on allometric scaling, energy consumption, and ontogenetic growth we provide a model where subsistence consumption is endogenously linked to body mass and fertility. The theory admits a two-dimensional...

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