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Impact evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program

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2005
| by John Maluccio and Rafael Flores
In 2000, the Nicaraguan government implemented a conditional cash transfer program designed to improve the nutritional, health, and educational status of poor households, and thereby to reduce short- and long-term poverty.
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The importance of women’s status for child nutrition in developing countries

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2003
| by Lisa C. Smith, Usha Ramakrishnan, Aida Ndiaye, Lawrence James Haddad and Reynaldo Martorell

Malnutrition affects one out of every three preschool-age children living in developing countries.This disturbing, yet preventable, state of affairs causes untold suffering and, given its wide scale, presents a major obstacle to the development pr

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The Egyptian food subsidy system

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2001
| by Akhter U. Ahmed, Tamar Gutner, Hans Lofgren and Howarth E. Bouis

Egypt’s food subsidy system has been a mainstay of the government’s long-term policy of promoting social equity and political stability.