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Calorie Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Trap in Rural India

Jha, Raghbendra - 2014

This paper tests for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of the nutrient most likely to have productivity impacts, i.e., calories, for three categories of wages - sowing, harvesting, and other - and for male and female workers separately. We use household level national...

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Childhood adversity and energy poverty

Cheng, Zhiming; Guo, Liwen; Smyth, Russell; Tani, … - 2021

We use data from China Family Panel Studies to examine the effects of being a child or adolescent in China's Great Famine on the likelihood of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that a one unit increase in the intensity of the Famine, measured by the number of excess deaths per 100...

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Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition : the Mozambican experience 2008/09

Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Østerdal, Lars Peter - 2012

inflation with child malnutrition status. We find that the prevalence of underweight amongst children rises in response to a … higher inflation rate for basic food products. Stunting and wasting malnutrition measures are mostly insensitive to the …,000 severely underweight children. -- food prices ; inflation ; child malnutrition ; Mozambique ; short to medium-run relationship …

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Poverty and nutrition : a case study of rural households in Thailand and Viet Nam

Waibel, Hermann; Hohfeld, Lena - 2016

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 10% and are declining further. Despite this success,...

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Scarring and selection in the Great Irish Famine

Blum, Matthias; Colvin, Christopher L.; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2017

What impact do famines have on survivors? We use individual-level data on a population exposed to severe famine conditions during infancy to document two opposing effects. The first: exposure to insufficient food and a worsened disease environment is associated with poor health into adulthood -...

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The dynamics of food deprivation and overall health : evidence from the Canadian national population health survey

McLeod, Logan; Veall, Michael R. - 2002

The paper explores whether the responses to food deprivation questions on the longitudinal Canadian National Population Health Survey help explain the links between socio-economic status and health. Transitions in food deprivation status are correlated with changes in health status. While health...

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Selective mortality and undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries

Harttgen, Kenneth; Lang, Stefan; Seiler, Johannes - 2017

Anthropometric indicators, in particular the height for a particular age, are found to be lowest in South Asia compared to other geopolitical regions. However, despite the close relationship between undernutrition and mortality rates, the highest mortality rates are concentrated in sub-Saharan...

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A poor inquiry : poverty and living standards in pre-famine Ireland

Doran, Áine - 2021

This paper studies the relationship between pre-famine living conditions and famine severity. I digitise the parish-level returns of the Irish Poor Inquiry and use these to explain the co-variates of increasing poverty in the early nineteenth century and examine how they impacted the severity of...

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Economic Growth, Poverty and Malnutrition in India

Jose, Shyma - Ekonomik Yaklasim Association - 2013

The present study evaluated the inter-linkages between economic growth, poverty and malnutrition to explain if the … economic growth lead reduction in poverty has been able to combat malnutrition level over the period of study from 1993-94 to … poverty as well as poverty and malnutrition however states wise analysis showed otherwise for some of the states. The study …

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Sharing the Pie : Undernutrition, Intra-Household Allocation, and Poverty

Brown, Caitlin - 2018

Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra-household inequality may mean many poor individuals reside in non-poor households. Using Bangladeshi data, we first show that undernourished individuals are spread across the household...

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