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Scaling Up Nutrition for a More Resilient Mali: Nutrition Diagnostics and Costed Plan for Scaling Up
Shekar, Meera; Mattern, Max; Eozenou, Patric; Eberwein, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
This paper builds on the global experience and Mali?s context to identify an effective nutrition approach as well as … costs and benefits of key nutrition programs, as part of a resilience agenda after the crisis. It is intended to help guide … relevant nutrition-specific interventions, largely delivered through the health sector, and at multisectoral nutrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265836
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Long-term health effects on the next generation of Ramadan fasting during pregnancy
van Ewijk, Reyn - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1246-1260
Each year, many pregnant Muslim women fast during Ramadan. Using Indonesian cross-sectional data and building upon work of Almond and Mazumder (2011), I show that people who were prenatally exposed to Ramadan fasting have a poorer general health than others. As predicted by medical theory, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573762
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Urbanization in Southeast Asia during the World War II Japanese Occupation and Its Aftermath
Huff, Gregg; Huff, Gillian - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
This working paper analyzes demographic change in Southeast Asia's main cities during and soon after the World War II Japanese occupation.  We argue that two main patterns of population movements are evident.  In food-deficient areas, a search for food security typically led to large net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004402
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Urbanization in Southeast Asia during the World War II Japanese Occupation and Its Aftermath
Huff, Gregg; Huff, Gillian - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 2014
This working paper analyzes demographic change in Southeast Asia’s main cities during and soon after the World War II Japanese occupation. We argue that two main patterns of population movements are evident. In food-deficit areas, a search for food security typically led to large net inflows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823442
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily …Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957661
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2011 Global food policy report:
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); …
shocks, and famine to unrest and conflicts. On the policy front, major devel­opments at the global and national levels both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277434
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim - 2012
provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily …Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651851
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2011 Global food policy report:
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2012
shocks, and famine to unrest and conflicts. On the policy front, major devel­opments at the global and national levels both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611945
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2011 Politiques alimentaires mondiales rapport:
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2012
Depuis 2007, deux séries successives d’envolée des prix des denrées alimentaires ont causé la faim ou la malnutrition pour des millions de personnes dans le monde. Les mêmes facteurs qui avaient contribué à la hausse des prix en 2007-2008 ont refait surface en 2011 et...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611946
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Exploiting locally available resources for food and nutritional security enhancement: wild fruits diversity, potential and state of exploitation in the Amhara region of Ethiopia
Fentahun, Mengistu; Hager, Herbert - In: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production … 1 (2009) 2, pp. 207-219
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008515625