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Excluding the Rural Population : The Impact of Public Expenditure on Child Malnutrition in Peru

Gajate-Garrido, Gissele - 2014

Why is the urban-rural gap in child malnutrition increasing in Peru despite government efforts to improve the provision of public services? To answer this question, the impact of regional public expenditure in Peru on young children's nutritional outcomes is examined. To account for policy...

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Reducing Child Malnutrition in Tanzania : Combined Effects of Income Growth and Program Interventions

Alderman, Harold; Hoogeveen, Johannes; Rossi, Mariacristina - 2012

young children. A combination of income growth and nutrition interventions are therefore suggested to adequately tackle this … joint contribution of income growth and nutrition interventions toward the reduction of malnutrition. Using a four … household income and the presence of nutrition interventions in the community. The results show that better nutrition is …

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Child Nutrition, Economic Growth, and the Provision of Health Care Services in Vietnam in the 1990s

Glewwe, Paul; Koch, Stefanie; Nguyen, Bui Linh - 2013

regions, urban and rural areas, ethnicities, and income quintiles. This dramatic improvement in child nutrition during a time …

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Can We Measure Resilience? A Proposed Method and Evidence from Countries in the Sahel

Alfani, Federica; Dabalen, Andrew; Fisker, Peter Simonsen; … - 2015

Although resilience has become a popular concept in studies of poverty and vulnerability, it has been difficult to obtain a credible measure of resilience. This difficulty is because the data required to measure resilience, which involves observing household outcomes over time after every...

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Isolation and Subjective Welfare : Evidence from South Asia

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2012

Using detailed geographical and household survey data from Nepal, this article investigates the relationship between isolation and subjective welfare. This is achieved by examining how distance to markets and proximity to large urban centers are associated with responses to questions about...

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Household Income Dynamics in Rural China

Jalan, Jyotsna; Ravallion, Martin - 2001

Theoretical work has shown that nonlinear dynamics in household incomes can yield poverty traps and distribution-dependent growth. If this is true, the potential implications for policy are dramatic: effective social protection from transient poverty would be an investment with lasting benefits,...

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The Transmission of Banking Crises to Households : Lessons from the 2008-2011 Crises in the ECA Region

Brown, Martin - 2013

This paper examines the impact of the recent banking crises in Europe and Central Asia with an emphasis on household income and consumption patterns. The analysis is based on the 2010 wave of the Life in Transition Survey, which covers 12,704 households in eleven countries that experienced a...

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Estimating the Endogenously Determined Intrahousehold Balance of Power and Its Impact on Expenditure Pattern : Evidence from Nepal

Koolwal, Gayatri; Ray, Ranjan - 2013

The collective approach to household behavior relaxes the restrictive features of the unitary model by specifying household welfare as a weighted combination of the individuals' utilities. But the weights are assumed fixed or exogenous to the analysis. The authors extend the collective approach...

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Social Protection in a Crisis : Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas

Galasso, Emanuela; Ravallion, Martin - 2003

The authors assess the impact of Argentina's main social policy response to the severe economic crisis of 2002. The program aimed to provide direct income support for families with dependents, for whom the head had become unemployed due to the crisis. Counterfactual comparisons are based on a...

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Do Economic Crises Lead to Health and Nutrition Behavior Responses? Analysis Using Longitudinal Data from Russia

Nikoloski, Zlatko; Ajwad, Mohamed I. - 2013

Russia. The primary estimation strategy adopted is the semi-parametric difference-in-difference with propensity score … changed their health and nutrition behavior response when affected by the crisis. The results are invariant to the propensity …

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