reduction in nutrition intake as a result of gift-giving can have a lasting detrimental health impact on their children. Using a … health status has barely improved in the past decades despite more than double digit of annual per capita income growth. We …

disparities, which as evidence suggests often begin at home. Using the Pakistan Demographic and Health Surveys, this study …

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 …

caused by (i) differences in the composition of consumption over the income distribution coupled with differential inflation …

provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much … highlight that the scope for reducing poverty in lagging rural regions is often substantial in agriculture, also in countries … where non-agriculture drives overall growth. -- agriculture ; migration ; rural nonfarm employment ; lagging region …

relationship between inequality and growth, the role of agriculture in the development process, the relationships between ethnicity …