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Mapping Hunder: A Report on Mapping Malnutrition Prevalence in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Panama

Rogers, Beatrice Lorge; Wirth, James; Macías, Kathy; … - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition … - 2007

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Are the Determinants of Malnutrition the Same as for 'Food Insecurity'? Recent Findings from 6 Developing Countries on the Interaction Between Food and Nutrition Security

Webb, Patrick; Lapping, Karin - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition … - 2002

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Delayed Primary School Enrollment and Childhood Malnutrition in Ghana, an Economic Analysis.

Glewwe, P.; Jacoby, H. - World Bank Group - 1993

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Nutritional Aspects of Poverty among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)

Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005

implication is that improvement in the income of the poor will have little impact on the extent of malnutrition. Then the … developmental policies intended to improve nutrition will have to use policy instruments which attack malnutrition directly rather … capita per month) or so we may overcome the mal-nutrition problem among the poor. …

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Poverty, Dietary Imbalance and Sickness among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)

Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005

The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. A large section of the unskilled labourers work as casual workers. Casual labourers are those workers who work for a very...

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Child health, its dynamic interaction with nutrition and health memory – Evidence from Senegal

Rieger, Matthias; Wagner, Natascha - In: Economics & Human Biology 16 (2015) C, pp. 135-145

Child malnutrition is pervasive in developing countries and anthropometric measures such as weight-for-height and … height-for-age have proven reliable indicators of short term malnutrition and stunting. Rather than studying these indicators …. In line with previous evidence, we find that children can partially catch-up from malnutrition spells. Yet, child health …

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Horn of Africa Countries and the Malnutrition Problem

Kuna, Zbyněk - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2012 (2012) 3, pp. 19-35

The author thinks about the economies and the food problem of the Horn of Africa countries. The drought and famine conditions in the Horn of Africa, coupled with the conflict in Somalia, have affected over 12 million people. There is a very low nutrition level in the long term in all the...

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The overlapping food and economic crises

Radu, Carmen; Radu, Liviu - In: Computational Methods in Social Sciences (CMSS) 2 (2014) 2, pp. 22-29

In this paper we are looking at the cause-effect relationship between the economic, financial, demographic and food crises. Crises are interrelated and need to be viewed together, as the effects of one crisis are or may represent causes for another crisis. The current food crisis translates...

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Republic of Madagascar; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

Developing and boosting the private sector, in the area of industry, trade, and private sector, actions for securing investment, promoting investment, developing partnerships in Madagascar produced positive results. The investment rate is 12.37 percent out of an objective of 14 percent. The...

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Burundi; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This paper discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Burundi. The PRSP comes two and a half years after the approval in January 2004 by the Executive Boards of the IMF and the World Bank of the Interim PRSP (I-PRSP). The PRSP is also the outgrowth of a long period of negotiations...

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