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Women in development : issues for economic and sector analysis

Economics Research, World Bank Group; Women in … - 1989

This paper highlights issues and action plans concerning women in economic and sector analysis and in project design. The paper focuses on the majority of women who are poor. It emphasizes measures to include women in development that contribute to economic performance, poverty reduction, slower...

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Survey of disability projects : the experience of SHIA, Swedish International Aid for Solidarity and Humanity

Nordquist, Kaj - World Bank Group - 2000

This paper reviews the work of Sweden's International Aid for Solidarity and Humanity (SHIA), and umbrella association of Swedish organizations of people with disabilities, and derives lessons, and good practices on disability-related activities. SHIA emphasizes supporting human rights, while...

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Why are educated women less likely to be employed in India? Testing competing hypotheses

Das, Maitreyi Bordia; Desai, Sonalde - World Bank Group - 2003

In this paper we use the Indian National Sample Survey data for 1993-94 to examine the relationship between women's education and labor force participation. While it has been recognized in the literature that education is associated with lower labor force participation for women in South Asia,...

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Improving women's access to higher education : a review of World Bank project experience

Dundar, Halil; Haworth, Jennifer - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1993

World Bank project experience on what works to improve women's access to tertiary education is so limited that it may be premature to draw firm conclusions. Many of the projects with interesting multiple interventions are ongoing. But two conclusions emerge. First, the most essential factor for...

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Diet quality, child health, and food policies in developing countries

Bhargava, Alok - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

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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Improving nutritional status through behavioral change : lessons from Madagascar

Galasso, Emanuela; Umapathi, Nithin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

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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Unit costs, cost - effectiveness, and financing of nutrition interventions

Horton, Susan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1992

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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Can conditional cash transfer programs play a greater role in reducing child undernutrition?

Bassett, Lucy - World Bank Group - 2008

, 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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Reducing child malnutrition in Tanzania - combined effects of income growth and program interventions

Alderman, Harold; Hoogeveen, Hans; Rossi, Mariacristina - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

young children. A combination of income growth and nutrition interventions are therefore suggested to adequately tackle this … joint contribution of income growth and nutrition interventions toward the reduction of malnutrition. Using a four … household income and the presence of nutrition interventions in the community. The results show that better nutrition is …

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Learning through monitoring : lessons from a large-scale nutrition program in Madagascar

Galasso, Emanuela; Yau, Jeffrey - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

detailed administered data from a large-scale, community-based nutrition program in Madagascar to argue that this data can be …

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