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that characterize developing countries. All in all, these findings are suggestive of the fact that food price shocks should …
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Food systems in developing countries are transforming, involving a rapid expansion of supermarkets. This supermarket … implications for food consumers and producers separately. We discuss a more integrated framework that helps to gain a broader … understanding. Reviewing recent evidence from Kenya, we show that buying food in supermarkets instead of traditional outlets …
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In many developing countries, supermarkets are spreading rapidly at the expense of traditional food markets and shops …. Changing retail environments and food choices may affect consumer diets and nutritional outcomes. Previous research suggested … variable regressions show that supermarket food purchases significantly increase child height-for-age and weight-for age Z …
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Using a novel laboratory experiment I find that hunger increases monetary impatience. This effect is larger when monetary rewards are immediate, which shows that present bias is a visceral response and can help explain why the poor tend to make more shortsighted economic decisions. Given...
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices … play a critical part in food consumption, with rising prices affecting poor households the most. Although public food …
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Based on The Economist's 2021 Global Food Security Index (GFSI), the Philippines ranked 64th out of 113 countries in … terms of its four dimensions of food security. After the World War II ended, the world still had to contend with population … increasing food production and fighting the widespread malnutrition, especially among Filipino children. Since the term food …
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The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a multidimensional measure of hunger that considers three dimensions: (1) inadequate dietary energy supply, (2) child undernutrition, and (3) child mortality. The initial version of the index included the following three, equally weighted, non-standardized (i.e....
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