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, coordinated, and leveraged to increase their impact on child undernutrition? How can best practices from nutrition interventions … to become an effective tool in nutrition policy and programming? The paper is organized as follows: section two defines … explores how best practices in nutrition could inform CCT design and section seven introduces redesigned and emerging CCTs …
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Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes...
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increasing prevalence of excess weights, and obesity among children and adults. Over-nutrition tends to be higher among …
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nutrition problems in Africa: the Iringa Nutrition Program in Tanzania, the Zimbabwe Children's Supplementary Feeding Program … programs, including the need: (a) to involve the community actively in program development; (b) for training in nutrition at … all levels, from doctor to village health worker; (c) for strong growth monitoring and nutrition education components; (d …
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nutrition interventions: maternal and child health (MCH) feeding, school feeding, nutrition education, the promotion of … items that she reports: (1) mass media nutrition education campaigns and the promotion of breastfeeding cost about $1 - $5 … per beneficiary; face-to-face nutrition programs cost more ($23 per beneficiary in the Dominican Republic). (2) Food …
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This paper provides evidence of the effects of a large-scale intervention that focuses on the quality of nutritional and child care inputs during the early stages of life. The empirical strategy uses a combination of double-difference and weighting estimators in a longitudinal survey to address...
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detailed administered data from a large-scale, community-based nutrition program in Madagascar to argue that this data can be …
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This article is a commentary on a new book"Hunger and Public Action,"by authors Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. The article compares the book's conceptual approach and policy recommendations to those of other recent writings on poverty and hunger. Researchers trying to understand the causes of a...
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Low and highly volatile growth define Africa's growth experience. But there is no evidence that growth volatility is associated to long term economic performance. This result may be misleading if it suggests that volatility is not important for economic and social progress. In this paper we use...
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characteristics and the potential nutrition-health-labor market linkage. The findings, which have important policy implications for … the growing problem of micronutrient malnutrition in the developing world, also imply that perhaps the nutrition …
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