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Comparing peri-urban versus rural poverty and child malnutrition reduction: Insights from Southeast Asia
Pahlisch, Thi Hoa; Parvathi, Priyanka; Waibel, Hermann - 2017
Success in reducing monetary poverty in Southeast Asia does not fully translate into reduction in malnutrition. Using a … poverty and nutritional outcomes of children under five. Furthermore, we analyze differences between nutrition outcomes of … models and find that nutrition remains a problem despite achievements in poverty alleviation. Results also show significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011889595
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Comparing peri-urban versus rural poverty and child malnutrition reduction : insights from Southeast Asia
Pahlisch, Thi Hoa; Parvathi, Priyanka; Waibel, Hermann - 2017
Success in reducing monetary poverty in Southeast Asia does not fully translate into reduction in malnutrition. Using a … poverty and nutritional outcomes of children under five. Furthermore, we analyze differences between nutrition outcomes of … models and find that nutrition remains a problem despite achievements in poverty alleviation. Results also show significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905954
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Food, Agriculture and Economic Situation of Bangladesh
Mohajan, Haradhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
production, economic development and poverty reduction of the country became remarkably. Bangladesh is a densely populated … developing country in the Southern Asia. The government of Bangladesh is trying efficiently to reduce poverty of the country. In … Bangladesh a large mass of the populations still live below the poverty line, heavily undernourished with inadequate access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107886
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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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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/10011573217
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Socioeconomic inequalities of child malnutrition in Bangladesh
Pulok, Mohammad Habibullah; Sabah, Md Nasim-Us Sabah; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Objectives: This study investigates how socioeconomic status and demographic factors determine child malnutrition as well as how these determinants account for socioeconomic inequality in child malnutrition during the period of 2007-2011 in Bangladesh. Methods: The dataset of this study...
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Calorie Thresholds and Undernutrition in India, 1993–2004
Kaicker, Nidhi; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
In a recent study, Jensen and Miller (2011) propose a new measure of undernutrition, based on a calorie share of staples threshold. Among the merits of this measure are that (i) it dispenses with calorie norms, and (ii) relies on a behavioural approach to estimate this threshold. What our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274826
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Calorie thresholds and undernutrition in India
Kaicker, Nidhi; Gaiha, Raghav - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 35 (2013) 2, pp. 271-288
Using fixed calorie norms to measure undernutrition is suspect due to familiar reasons. Recent studies have proposed an approach that relies on a calorie share of staples threshold. Our analysis with Indian household data shows that such a measure is of limited interest and potentially...
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Needs vs expediency : poverty reduction and social development in post-conflict countries
Addison, Tony; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, … - 2015
Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316660
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The economics of malaria in Africa
Berthélemy, Jean-Claude; Thuilliez, Josselin - 2014
between malaria and poverty is presumably bi-directional, malaria plays a role in the economic difficulties of the region … policy is doomed to fail in presence of a very high poverty incidence, as observed in the African region. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246047