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Undernutrition 1,381 Unterernährung 1,369 Food security 412 Ernährungssicherung 408 Poverty 257 malnutrition 256 Developing countries 254 Entwicklungsländer 229 Armut 204 Children 193 Welt 177 World 177 Nutrition 175 India 150 Kinder 140 food security 131 Malnutrition 130 Indien 117 Ernährungspolitik 111 Ernährung 106 Nutrition policy 99 Africa 96 Hunger 91 Hungersnot 89 Afrika 86 Health 83 Gesundheit 79 Äthiopien 79 Ethiopia 77 Poverty reduction 77 Nahrungsmittelhilfe 76 Armutsbekämpfung 72 USA 71 United States 69 China 68 Agriculture 67 Mortality 67 Economic development 63 Food aid 62 Theorie 60
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Book / Working Paper 1,129 Article 667 Journal 15
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Graue Literatur 496 Non-commercial literature 496 Article in journal 445 Aufsatz in Zeitschriften 445 Working Paper 324 Arbeitspapier 301 Article in book 140 Aufsatz im Buch 140 Collection of articles of several authors 84 Sammelwerk 84 Amtsdruckschrift 66 Government document 66 Thesis 43 Dissertation 42 Hochschulschrift 37 Congress report 31 Kongressschrift 31 Collection of articles written by one author 17 Sammlung 17 Statistik 17 Bibliographie enthalten 15 Bibliography included 15 Statistics 15 Aufsatzsammlung 12 Kongress 11 Bibliographie 9 Case study 8 Fallstudie 8 Mehrbändiges Werk 7 Multi-volume publication 7 Dissertation u.a. Prüfungsschriften 5 Konferenzschrift 3 No longer published / No longer aquired 3 Survey 3 Übersichtsarbeit 3 Book review 2 Glossar enthalten 2 Glossary included 2 Interview 2 Rezension 2
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English 1,312 Undetermined 299 German 122 French 40 Spanish 22 Russian 8 Italian 5 Swedish 2 Croatian 1 Dutch 1 Polish 1 Portuguese 1 Ukrainian 1
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Yohannes, Yisehac 39 Ó Gráda, Cormac 38 Wiesmann, Doris 35 von Grebmer, Klaus 34 Pandya-Lorch, Rajul 33 Fritschel, Heidi 30 Olofinbiyi, Tolulope 29 Fan, Shenggen 28 Gaiha, Raghav 27 von Oppeln, Constanze 26 Alderman, Harold 25 Haddad, Lawrence James 24 Pies, Ingo 24 Yosef, Sivan 23 Thompson, Jennifer 22 Torero, Maximo 21 Klasen, Stephan 19 Imai, Katsushi S. 17 Rosegrant, Mark W. 17 Annim, Samuel Kobina 16 Badiane, Ousmane 16 Berg, Gerard J. van den 16 Braun, Joachim von 16 Qaim, Matin 15 Rahall, Joseph 15 Ringler, Claudia 15 Devereux, Stephen 14 Headey, Derek D. 13 Noland, Marcus 13 Yin, Sandra 13 Kulakarṇi, Vīṇā 12 Nelson, Gerald C. 12 Sen, Amartya 12 Thomas, Timothy S. 12 Fleisher, Belton M. 11 Hachigonta, Sepo 11 Kim, Seonghoon 11 Rischke, Ramona 11 Sibanda, Lindiwe Majele 11 Ecker, Olivier 10
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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 123 International Food Policy Research Institute 23 eSocialSciences 23 Weltbank 16 FAO 9 USA / Congress / House of Representatives / Select Committee on Hunger 9 World Institute for Development Economics Research 9 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA 7 Centre for Economic Research <Dublin> 7 Bread for the World Institute <Washington, DC> 6 Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University 6 Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 6 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations 5 EconWPA 4 Economics Research, World Bank Group 4 Inter-American Development Bank 4 International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations 4 International Monetary Fund (IMF) 4 University College Dublin / Centre for Economic Research 4 Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University 3 Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 3 Institute of Social Studies (ISS) 3 International Monetary Fund 3 Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University 3 USA / Congress / Senate / Committee on Foreign Relations 3 USA / Economic Research Service 3 World Food Programme 3 Britisch-Indien / Famine Commission 2 C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers 2 Club of Rome 2 Conference on the Least Developed Countries <2, 1990, Paris> 2 Deutsche Welthungerhilfe 2 Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration 2 Foodfirst Information and Action Network 2 Großbritannien / Parliament / House of Commons / Foreign Affairs Committee 2 Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues 2 Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 2 Institute of Development Studies <Brighton> 2 Institutet för Internationell Ekonomi <Stockholm> 2 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis 2
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IFPRI books 36 Food policy : economics planning and politics of food and agriculture 24 Discussion paper series 23 Working Papers / eSocialSciences 23 Policy research working paper : WPS 22 World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 22 Resilience for food and nutrition security 21 Working paper 21 2020 vision briefs 20 Economic development and cultural change 19 IFPRI discussion papers 16 The new famines : why famines persist in an era of globalization 15 Working paper series / UCD Centre for Economic Research 15 Diskussionspapier 13 Issue briefs / International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 11 Diskussionspapier / Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsethik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 10 Southern African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis 10 The journal of development studies : JDS 10 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report 9 A world without famine? : New approaches to aid and development 9 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 9 Discussion paper series / Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University 9 WIDER working paper : WP 9 Centre for Economic Research working paper series 8 Economics and human biology 8 FCND discussion papers 8 IZA Discussion Papers 8 Journal of development economics 8 Research report / International Food Policy Research Institute 8 China economic review : an international journal 7 Development and change 7 Integration of nutrition into agricultural and rural development projects : proceedings of inter-country seminar held from 2nd to 7th September 1985 at Sirikwa Hotel, Eldoret, Kenya 7 Perspectives in world food and agriculture 7 The economic journal : the journal of the Royal Economic Society 7 The journal of economic history 7 Journal of health economics 6 MPRA Paper 6 Ministerial session / United Nations World Food Council 6 Research reports / International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 6 The World Bank economic review 6
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Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South African : (re-)examining the links using national panel survey data
Otterbach, Steffen; Rogan, Michael - 2017
One explanation for the increasing prevalence of stunting in South Africa over the past 15 years while other development indicators have improved is that Big Food retail chains have been contributing to a low quality diet across the country, particularly in poor urban households. We thus use...
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Impact of caregiver incentives on child health : evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in Indi
Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016
This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments...
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Learning and behavioral spillovers of nutritional information
Prakarsh Singh - 2016
This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three groups, a treatment group, a neighboring spillover group, and a non-adjacent pure control group. Mothers of children (aged 3-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers are...
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The long-term health effects of fetal malnutrition : evidence from the 1959 - 1961 China great leap forward famine
Kim, Seonghoon; Fleisher, Belton M.; Sun, Jessica Ya - 2015
We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their 50s who were born during the China Famine that occurred in the years 1959-1961. We take advantage of recently available data provided by the China Health and Retirement...
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The measurement of food insecurity among children : review of literature and concept note
Fram, Maryah S.; Bernal, Jennifer; Frongillo, Edward A. - 2015
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Fetal malnutrition and academic success : evidence from Muslim immigrants in Denmark
Greve, Jane; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that...
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Costly Posturing: Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2017
Participating in and presenting gifts at funerals, weddings, and other ceremonies held by friends and neighbors have been regarded as social norms in many parts of the world for thousands of years. However, due to the reciprocal nature of gift giving, it is more burdensome for the poor to take...
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Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South African: (re-)examining the links using national panel survey data
Otterbach, Steffen; Rogan, Michael - 2017
One explanation for the increasing prevalence of stunting in South Africa over the past 15 years while other development indicators have improved is that Big Food retail chains have been contributing to a low quality diet across the country, particularly in poor urban households. We thus use...
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Spatial Differences in Stunting and Household Agricultural Production in South Africa: (Re-)Examining the Links Using National Panel Survey Data
Otterbach, Steffen; Rogan, Michael - 2017
South Africa is one of only a handful of countries in which the prevalence of child stunting has increased over the period during which progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been monitored. One explanation for this reversal is that Big Food retail chains have been...
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Urbanization and the two tails of malnutrition in Tanzania
Ameye, Hannah - 2017
It is increasingly recognized that urbanization is accompanied by profound changes in African diets. Some studies hold the hope that urbanization will help eradicate hunger and undernourishment, both still prominent issues in the region. Others have warned that urbanization may actually shift...
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Are poor individuals mainly found in poor households? : evidence using nutrition data for Africa
Brown, Caitlin; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2017
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Costly posturing : ceremonies and early child development in China
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2017
Participating in and presenting gifts at funerals, weddings, and other ceremonies held by friends and neighbors have been regarded as social norms in many parts of the world for thousands of years. However, due to the reciprocal nature of gift giving, it is more burdensome for the poor to take...
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Urbanization and the two tails of malnutrition in Tanzania
Ameye, Hannah - 2017 - Version: December 2016
It is increasingly recognized that urbanization is accompanied by profound changes in African diets. Some studies hold the hope that urbanization will help eradicate hunger and undernourishment, both still prominent issues in the region. Others have warned that urbanization may actually shift...
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Child undernutrition in Pakistan : what do we know?
Raju, Dhushyanth; D'Souza, Ritika - 2017
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Notes on the demography of the Famine in Ulster
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2017
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Can household food security predict individual undernutrition? : evidence from Cambodia and Lao PDR
Bühler, Dorothee; Hartje, Rebecca; Grote, Ulrike - 2017
This paper uses a novel data set of marginalized households from Cambodia and Lao PDR to better understand different food security concepts. The multitude of indicators available raises the question how these indicators relate to each other and whether they are suitable to detect undernutrition...
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The nutrition transition and the intra-household double burden of malnutrition in India
Dang, Archana; Meenakshi, J. V. - 2017
India is clearly far along in the nutrition transition. This paper shows that there have been rapid increases in the proportion of adult women in India who are overweight and obese: these increases are seen not just in urban but in rural areas as well, and there are regional specificities....
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Scarring and selection in the Great Irish Famine
Blum, Matthias; Colvin, Christopher L.; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2017
What impact do famines have on survivors? We use individual-level data on a population exposed to severe famine conditions during infancy to document two opposing effects. The first: exposure to insufficient food and a worsened disease environment is associated with poor health into adulthood -...
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Cities, slums, and early child growth : empirical evidence from Bangladesh
Raju, Dhushyanth; Kim, Kyoung Yang; Quynh Thu Nguyen; … - 2017
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Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South Africa : (re-)examining the links using national panel survey data
Otterbach, Steffen; Rogan, Michael - 2017
South Africa is one of only a handful of countries in which the prevalence of child stunting has increased over the period during which progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been monitored. One explanation for this reversal is that Big Food retail chains have been...
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The rise and fall of pellagra in the American South
Clay, Karen; Schmick, Ethan; Troesken, Werner - 2017
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The socioeconomics of fish consumption and child health in Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita; Mustafa, Mohammed Golam; Paul, Tapas; … - 2017
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Nutrition effects of the supermarket revolution on urban consumers and smallholder farmers in Kenya
Qaim, Matin (contributor);  … - 2014
Food systems in developing countries are transforming, involving a rapid expansion of supermarkets. This supermarket revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed implications for food consumers and producers...
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Supermarkets and the nutrition transition in Kenya
Rischke, Ramona (contributor);  … - 2014
Many low income countries are experiencing a “nutrition transition” towards the consumption of more energy-dense, highly processed foods and beverages that are often high in caloric sweeteners, fat and salt. Changing lifestyles and urbanisation have coincided with a ‘retail revolution’,...
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Can oral nutritional supplements improve medicare patient outcomes in the hospital?
Lakdawalla, Darius (contributor);  … - In: Forum for health economics & policy : an evolving … 17 (2014) 2, pp. 131-151
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The last, the most dreadful resource of nature': Economic-historical reflections on famine
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2016
The lecture paper focuses on some topics that remain current in famine studies. First, it reviews the link between food prices and the severity of famines as reflected in excess mortality. Second, it places the death tolls from several recent famines in sub-Saharan Africa in historical context....
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Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India
Singh, Prakarsh; Masters, William A. - 2016
This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments...
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Learning and Behavioral Spillovers of Nutritional Information
Singh, Prakarsh - 2016
This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three groups, a treatment group, a neighboring spillover group, and a non-adjacent pure control group. Mothers of children (aged 3-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers are...
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The impact of food price shocks on weight loss: Evidence from the adult population of Tanzania
García-Germán, Sol; Romeo, Alessandro; Magrini, Emiliano - 2016
Undernourishment is still widespread in Tanzania, while obesity is becoming an issue of magnitude similar to undernutrition in the country. In this paper we examined the impact of an increase in maize prices on the nutritional status of Tanzania's adult population. We found that undernutrition...
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Long-term impacts of an unanticipated risk event : the 2007/08 food price crisis and child growth in Indonesia
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Larson, Donald Frederick - 2016
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Religion and development in post-famine Ireland
Henderson, Stuart - 2016
This paper employs a variety of economic and financial indicators to examine the relationship between Roman Catholicism and Irish development in the Post-Famine period. County-level decennial data are used for all census years from 1871 to 1911, and Catholicism is instrumented using the distance...
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'The last, the most dreadful resource of nature' : economic-historical reflections on famine
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2016
The lecture paper focuses on some topics that remain current in famine studies. First, it reviews the link between food prices and the severity of famines as reflected in excess mortality. Second, it places the death tolls from several recent famines in sub-Saharan Africa in historical context....
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Can iron-fortified salt control anemia? : evidence from two experiments in rural Bihar
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Barnhardt, Sharon; Duflo, Esther - 2016
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Can iron-fortified salt control anemia? : evidence from two experiments in rural Bihar
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Barnhardt, Sharon; Duflo, Esther - 2016
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The impact of food price shocks on weight loss : evidence from the adult population of Tanzania
García-Germán, Sol; Romeo, Alessandro; Magrini, Emiliano - 2016
Undernourishment is still widespread in Tanzania, while obesity is becoming an issue of magnitude similar to undernutrition in the country. In this paper we examined the impact of an increase in maize prices on the nutritional status of Tanzania's adult population. We found that undernutrition...
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Poverty and nutrition : a case study of rural households in Thailand and Viet Nam
Waibel, Hermann; Hohfeld, Lena - 2016
In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below 10% and are declining further. Despite this success,...
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Impact of electrification on children's nutritional status in rural Bangladesh
Fujii, Tomoki; Shonchoy, Abu S.; Xu, Sijia - 2016
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Small area estimation of child malnutrition in Ethiopian woredas
Sohnesen, Thomas Pave; Ambel, Alemayehu; Fisker, Peter … - 2016
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Performance pay and malnutrition
Prakarsh Singh; Mitra, Sandip - 2016
We carry out a randomized controlled experiment in West Bengal, India to test three separate performance pay treatments in the public health sector. Performance is judged on improvements in child malnutrition. We exogenously change wages of government employed child care workers through either...
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Logistische Optionen für eine nachhaltige Versorgung von Subsahara-Afrika : ein Beitrag zur Humanitären Logistik
Blome, Hendrik - 2016
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The implications of agricultural trade and market developments for food security
Tallard, Grégoire; Liapis, Peter S.; Pilgrim, Graham - 2016
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Behavior change for early childhood nutrition : effectiveness of health worker training depends on maternal information in a randomized control trial
Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016
We carry out a randomized control trial to test for interaction effects between training state-employed caregivers and providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are supposed to provide a mid-day meal and also advise...
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Hunger durch Agrarspekulation? : zur Geschichte eines Fehl-Alarms
Pies, Ingo - 2016
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Divergence of food and nutritional security : a study on Western Odisha
Chand, Digambar; Gartia, Rajendra - In: International journal of food and agricultural … 4 (2016) 1, pp. 87-108
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Hunger durch Agrarspekulation? : zur Geschichte eines Fehl-Alarms
Pies, Ingo - 2016
Dieser Text wurde für die Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (bpb) verfasst. Er stellt in stark geraffter Thesenform dar, dass und warum die gegen Indexfonds gerichteten Vor-würfe haltlos sind: Indexfonds sind keine Hungermacher. Die im letzten Jahrzehnt zu beobachtenden starken...
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Microcredit programme participation and household food security in rural Bangladesh
Islam, Asad; Maitra, Chandana; Pakrashi, Debayan; … - In: Journal of agricultural economics 67 (2016) 2, pp. 448-470
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Problematizing the effect of rural-urban linkages on food security and malnutrition in Guatemala's Western Highlands
Fenton, Ioulia - 2013
Strong rural-urban linkages are increasingly seen as key to achieving sustainable livelihoods and food security in developing countries. However, not all linkages are positive and, although this is recognised in literature, few explore their potential unfavourable characteristics. Based on...
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Hat der Terminmarkt Hungerkrisen ausgelöst?
Pies, Ingo - 2013
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The effects of intrauterine malnutrition on birth and fertility outcomes : evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh famine
Hernández-Julián, Rey; Mansour, Hani; Peters, Christina - 2013
This paper uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy outcomes. Using the 1996 Matlab Health and...
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Hunger and poverty in South Africa : the hidden faces of food insecurity
Hanoman, Jacqueline - 2018
Introduction -- The hidden faces of poverty and hunger -- South Africa and the free state province : history, society, race and food -- The city and the townships -- Poverty and hope in the city -- Food insecurity and food initiatives beyond the city -- It is never only about food : power,...
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