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findings suggest that, overall, living standards improved during colonial times and that a trend reversal occurred during the …
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that, overall, living standards improved during colonial times and that a trend reversal occurred during the economic …
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policies.  The overall impact, however, is uncertain.  This study presents fresh evidence on nutrition and health in colonial … crises were, the net outcome of colonial times was a significant progress in nutrition and health. …How well did Kenyans do under colonial rule?  It is common sense that Kenyans suffered under exploitative colonial …
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Nutrition and health are important dimensions of human well-being. Both aspects are complementary to income and deserve …
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The Millennium Development Goals have become the frame of reference for most of the development community: the standard by which performance will ultimately be judged. Given their importance, considerable attention has been paid as to whether these goals will be met or not. The overwhelming...
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with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller statures allow weight to be distributed over larger areas, and height is … majority of net nutrition is beyond an individual's control, and stature inequality is smaller than weight because it is … genetically determined. Current net nutrition was positively related to age, however, inversely related to regional inequality …
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Since the pioneering study of Le Roy Ladurie and his team, the idea that mean height can be considered as a reliable indicator of the standard of living has emerged from a long debate among historians and economists. Considering height in this respect, nineteenth-century France, unlike most...
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Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...
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Aiming at a better understanding of the extent to which Africa-focused research has helped develop context-bound, context-specific, and context-free knowledge, the authors present the findings from a literature review of journal articles with an African context. A systematic search resulted in...
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