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measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net …
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responds to earnings shocks. If productivity depends on nutrition, this explains some but not all of the response, as earnings …
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Using primary data collected during 2007-08 we examine the nutritional status with respect to the two macronutrients (calories and protein) as well as various micronutrients of rural households in three Indian states: Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. We find that, by and large, there...
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effects to high frequency nutrition surveillance data, and present suggestive evidence of links between maternal … undernutrition and the subsequent nutrition of offspring. …
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This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the … rate. Mobile broadband coverage also reduces the proportion of households below the poverty line, driven by higher food and …
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Considering the worsening levels of food insecurity globally, studies exploring the link between financial inclusion and food insecurity have become imperative. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the effect of financial inclusion on food insecurity using a multidimensional...
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This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the … rate. Mobile broadband coverage also reduces the proportion of households below the poverty line, driven by higher food and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269897
household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The results indicate that vulnerability is very sensitive to the time …
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Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were due to the neglect of some important methodological issues … misleading and led to the so-called ?Burkinab? Growth-Poverty-Paradox?, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but … almost constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national …
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Following on from the existing poverty assessments of trade liberalisation in Vietnam under "doi moi", the aim of this …: it sheds light on the timely debate on vulnerability to poverty from trade openness focusing on micro linkages between … proposes a new vulnerability measure capable of assessing, besides the non-stochastic poverty determinants and the observed …
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