-level returns of the Irish Poor Inquiry and use these to explain the co-variates of increasing poverty in the early nineteenth … increasing poverty, with the poor becoming poorer. However, it is levels, not changes, of poverty which are found to be a key … waterway. The paper also fails to find evidence of increasing poverty or famine severity being a result of overpopulation. …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and …

This paper tests for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of the nutrient most likely to have …

Famine on the likelihood of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that a one unit increase in the intensity of the … probability of being in energy poverty in adulthood, depending on the exact specification and measure of energy poverty. We find … to be in energy poverty later in life. These findings are robust to alternative ways of measuring childhood adversity and …

In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty … reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below ….25 poverty line. Also, Thailand, after the economic crisis, with 19% of children underweight, is still above the World Health …

Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra … individual-level poverty rates that account for intra-household inequality. We show that women, children, and the elderly face … significant probabilities of living in poverty even in households with per-capita expenditure above the poverty threshold …

We test for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of calories and four important micronutrients …