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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 … inflation rate. The very high food inflation during 2008/09 was responsible for an extra 39,000 moderately underweight and 24 …
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Global food price hike is a burden to the poor
Mohajan, Haradhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper discusses the global food price hike and the effects of it among the poor of developing countries. Increase of food price became severe during 2007 and 2008, which was high in the last fifty years and more than half of the populations of the world affected due to this price hike....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112102
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Niger’s 2005 Food Crisis and Child Malnutrition: the Role of Exogenous and Policy Factors
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Deotti, Laura - Italian Development Economists Association - IDEAS - 2015
Between March and August 2005 Niger was hit by a doubling of millet prices and a sharp rise in the number of severely malnourished children admitted to feeding centres. The extent and causes of such crisis remain controversial. The paper reviews the evidence in this regard in the light of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249498
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Food Price Volatility over the Last Decade in Niger and Malawi: Extent, Sources and Impact on Child Malnutrition
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Deotti, Laura; Sassi, Maria - UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa, United Nations … - 2012
Recently, considerable attention has rightly been paid to the nutritional impact of the sharp hikes in international food prices which took place in 2007-8 and, again, in 2010-11. While sacrosanct, this growing focus has somewhat obscured the effect of other factors which do affect malnutrition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861779
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Prix du mil, politique publique et malnutrition des enfants : le cas du Niger en 2005
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Deotti, Laura - In: Revue d’économie du développement 22 (2014) 1, pp. 5-36
Between March and August 2005 Niger was hit by a doubling of millet prices and a sharp rise in the number of severely malnourished children admitted to feeding centres. The extent and causes of such crisis remain controversial. The paper reviews the evidence in this regard in the light of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011187696
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Food Price Volatility over the Last Decade in Niger and Malawi: Extent, Sources and Impact on Child Malnutrition
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Deotti, Laura; Sassi, Maria - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2012
Recently, considerable attention has rightly been paid to the nutritional impact of the sharp hikes in international food prices which took place in 2007-8 and, again, in 2010-11. While sacrosanct, this growing focus has somewhat obscured the effect of other factors which do affect malnutrition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652236
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Prix du mil, politique publique et malnutrition des enfants : le cas du Niger en 2005 : the case of Niger in 2005
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Deotti, Laura - In: Revue d'économie du développement : revue trimestrielle 22 (2014) 1, pp. 5-36
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387423
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Sources of food price volatility and child malnutrition in Niger and Malawi
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Deotti, Laura; Sassi, Maria - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 60 (2016), pp. 20-30
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632559
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Characteristics and determinants of child malnutrition in Mozambique, 2003-11
Cardoso, José; Allwright, Lindsey; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016
Child malnutrition continues to be a serious impediment to development both at the individual and national levels in many developing countries. In Mozambique, despite a high and sustained GDP growth, child malnutrition has been decreasing at a rather slow pace over the past 15 years. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653959
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Determinants and trends of socioeconomic inequality in child malnutrition : the case of Mozambique, 1996-2011
Salvucci, Vincenzo - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 28 (2016) 6, pp. 857-875
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