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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
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 … interregional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests that …
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Nutritional Deprivation Among Indian Pre-School Children: Does Rural-Urban Disparity Matter ?
Mishra, Rudra Narayan - eSocialSciences - 2009
The rural-urban disparities are a reality in developing countries like India. Post reform, there are lot of empirical studies which has focused on this aspect of development experience in India. The vast majority of Indians continues to live in rural areas, despite the phenomenal rise of urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512455
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Togo; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (2009-11)
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
This paper focuses on Togo’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. The Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper adopted by the government in March 2008 has allowed Togo once again to benefit from international financial cooperation. With a view to improving political and economic governance, the...
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Ãndice Global del Hambre 2011: el Desafío del Hambre: Domar los picos y la Volatilidad Excesiva de los Precios de los Alimentos
von Grebmer, Klaus; Torero, Maximo; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
IEl Ãndice Global del Hambre (GHI) de este año muestra que el hambre global ha disminuido desde 1990 –pero no en forma dramática–y permanece en un nivel que se puede considerar como “serioâ€. Los puntajes del GHI varían ampliamente entre los diferentes países y regiones. Los...
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Indice de la faim dans le monde 2014: Le défi de la faim invisible
von Grebmer, Klaus; Saltzman, Amy; Birol, Ekin; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Alors qu’il ne reste plus qu’une année avant la date d’échéance de la réalisation des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement, l’Indice de la faim dans le monde 2014 (GHI) offre une analyse multidimensionnelle de la faim et présente de nouvelles données permettant...
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Indice Globale della Fame 2011: La Sfida della fame: Controllare le impennate e l’eccessiva volatilità dei prezzi alimentari
von Grebmer, Klaus; Torero, Maximo; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Il Global Hunger Index (GHI) di quest’anno mostra che la fame nel mondo è diminuita dal 1990, ma non in modo notevole, e rimane a un livello classifi cato come “graveâ€. I livelli di GHI variano molto da regione a regione e da paese a paese. I punteggi più alti di GHI si registrano...
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Costed Plan for Scaling Up Nutrition: Nigeria
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2014
This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...
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Agriculture, nutrition, and the Green Revolution in Bangladesh:
Headey, Derek D.; Hoddinott, John F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
undernutrition. To do so the authors create a synthetic panel that aggregates nutritional data from five rounds of the Demographic …
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The consequences of early childhood growth failure over the life course:
Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John; Behrman, Jere R.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
This paper examines the impact over the life course of early childhood growth failure as measured by achieved height at 36 months. It uses data collected on individuals who participated in a nutritional supplementation trial between 1969 and 1977 in rural Guatemala and who were subsequently...
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Is Economic Growth Associated with Reduction in Child Undernutrition in India?
Subramanyam, Malavika A; Kawachi, Ichiro; Berkman, Lisa F; … - eSocialSciences - 2011
Economic growth is widely perceived as a major policy instrument in reducing childhood undernutrition in India. The … association between changes in state per capita income and the risk of undernutrition among children in India were assessed. Data …
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