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details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … and health impacts have rarely been analyzed. In this article, we argue that future impact studies should include …
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Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...
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the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG … performers. The following findings are established. First, on average, the effect of health (education) is decreasingly … (increasingly) positive from Hopefuls to Best Performers. Second, on within categories: (1) health spending has positive threshold …
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the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … of the 33 countries in the Hopefuls category are in SSA. Second, the effect of health is decreasingly positive from … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …
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This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education …
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Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, surprisingly hardly any evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013283993
Current approaches to measuring food and nutrition security (FNS) mainly consider past access to food, while assessing vulnerability and resilience to food insecurity requires a dynamic setting and sound predictive models, conditional to the entire set of food-related multiple-scale shocks and...
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those measures that does not coincide with real improvements in the health of the affected children. This bias could lead to …
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Using the 2008 cross-sectional wave of the survey Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and multi-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the...
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The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...
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