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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the determinants of malnutrition of primary school-age (five to ten years) children in urban and slum areas.The ultimate objective is to frame policy proposals for children’s nutritional welfare. Design/methodology/approach – In this...
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similar improvements in the nutritional situation of the people and especially of children. We find that undernutrition … status. Our conclusion that non-monetary factors matter to reduce undernutrition, and, therefore, monetary poverty reduction … is not a sufficient condition, is further underlined by a prediction of future undernutrition rates based on regressions …
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Background: This paper analyzes the role of child, maternal and household variables on weight-for-age nutritional status of children in the largest urban slum of Bangladesh. Methods: We use anthropometric weight-for-age nutrition status of children for an ordered logistic analysis. Our dataset...
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Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist today despite considerable growth in per capita food availability. This has prompted an evolving conceptualization of food security and of mechanisms to attain and maintain food security. This chapter discusses both food security and food assistance...
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. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living …
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attention to how the prevalence of under-nutrition differs between urban and rural areas and how the drivers of poor nutrition …. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living …
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This article analyzes data on self-reported food insecurity of more than 50,000 individuals in 18 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2005 to 2008, when global food prices increased dramatically. The average level of self-reported food insecurity was high but remarkably stable, at...
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