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Cash transfers and child nutrition : what we know and what we need to know
De Groot, Richard; Palermo, Tia; Handa, Sudhanshu; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372681
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Nutrition effects of the supermarket revolution on urban consumers and smallholder farmers in Kenya
Qaim, Matin; Andersson, Camilla I. M.; Chege, Christine … - 2014
contributes to overnutrition among adults, while reducing undernutrition among children. For farm households, supplying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430779
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Parental education, gender preferences and child nutritional status : evidence from four developing countries
Novella, Rafael - 2013 - This version: March 2013
This paper examines whether the distribution of bargaining power between parents affects permanent and transitory nutritional indicators in the early stages of boys' and girls' life. I use the Young Lives sample, which is a survey of young children living in poor households in Ethiopia, India...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741254
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Covariate shocks and child undernutrition : a review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries
Debebe, Zelalem Yilma; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2020
Unexpected adverse events that affect areas or populations widely (covariate shocks) can have major consequences for the welfare of a society. Although the negative effects on households, especially among the poor, are well established in the economics literature, fewer studies have focused on...
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Animal sourced foods and child stunting
Headey, Derek; Hirvonen, Kalle; Hoddinott, John - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110264
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Agriculture for nutrition : getting policies right
Pingali, Prabhu L.; Ricketts, Katie; Sahn, David E. - In: The fight against hunger and malnutrition : the role of …, (pp. 165-191). 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927469
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Is there catch-up growth? : evidence from three continents
Handa, Sudhanshu; Peterman, Amber - 2015
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UNDERNUTRITION OVERESTIMATED
Svedberg, Peter - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 2001
There is only one set of estimates of the prevalence of chronic undernutrition world-wide. These estimates emanate from … estimation model (and data) that induce bias in the estimated overall prevalence of undernutrition. The bias is found to be large … and to compromise the comparability of undernutrition across countries. Since the international community’s efforts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005648786
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Impact of food safety standards on processed food exports from developing countries
Jongwanich, Juthathip - 2009
This paper examines the impact of food safety standards on processed food exports in developing countries. An intercountry cross-sectional econometric analysis of processed food exports in developing countries was undertaken. The Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standard (SPS) is incorporated into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832217
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Determinants of structural changes of food exports from developing countries
Juthathip Jongwanich; Magtibay-Ramos, Nedelyn - 2009
Over the past three decades, there has been a rapid expansion of processed food exports in developing countries, replacing traditional agriculture exports such as coffee and tea. However, this development and its policy implications have received little attention in the literature. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863367