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Improving Child Nutrition Outcomes in India : Can the Integrated Child Development Services Be More Effective?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2017
evidence of program impact on child nutrition status in villages with ICDS centers …
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Excluding the Rural Population : The Impact of Public Expenditure on Child Malnutrition in Peru
Gajate-Garrido, Gissele - 2017
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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Can We Measure Resilience? A Proposed Method and Evidence from Countries in the Sahel
Alfani, Federica - 2017
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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The Impact of Economic Shocks on Global Undernourishment
Tiwari, Sailesh - 2017
This paper estimates the impact of the 2008 food price spike and the 2009 contraction in global growth on undernourishment rates. The analysis is based on a methodology that uses a calorie-income relationship and income distribution data. The authors find that the 2008 global food price spike...
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The Transmission of Banking Crises to Households : Lessons from the 2008-2011 Crises in the Eca Region
Brown, Martin - 2017
This paper examines the impact of the recent banking crises in Europe and Central Asia on households' incomes 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 banking crisis...
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Welfare Impacts of Rural Electrification : Evidence from Vietnam
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017
Access to electricity is crucial for economic development and there is a growing body of literature on the impact of rural electrification on development. However, most studies have so far relied on cross-sectional surveys comparing households with and without electricity, which have well known...
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Social Protection in a Crisis - Argentina's Plan Jefes Y Jefas
Galasso, Emanuela - 2017
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 - 2017
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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Household Coping and Response to Government Stimulus in an Economic Crisis : Evidence from Thailand
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017
The crash of global financial markets in 2008 caused a ripple effect on economic demand and growth worldwide. Export-oriented economies were hit particularly hard, and many governments stepped in quickly with broad-ranging stimulus programs to lessen the effects on households of rising...
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Financial Globalization and the Russian Crisis of 1998
Pinto, Brian - 2017
Russia had more-or-less completed the privatization of its manufacturing and natural resource sectors by the end of …, lowered real interest rates, and spurred investment. Instead, Russia suffered a massive public debt-exchange rate … interaction among Russia's deteriorating fiscal fundamentals, its weak micro-foundations of growth and financial globalization …
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