Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs are widely used to reduce household food insecurity and maternal and child undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries.
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Multisectoral program improves child growth in Guatemala
Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition programs that incorporate food rations, a behavior change communication (BCC) strategy, and activities to improve the implementation and use of government-funded health services can improve chi
This book addresses the thorny and fascinating question of how food and voucher programs, despite theory and evidence generally favoring cash, remain relevant, have evolved, and, in most circumstances, have improved over time.
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Costing alternative transfer modalities
Discussions regarding the merits of cash and food transfers by academics and implementers alike focus on their relative impacts. Much less is known about their relative costs.
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Cash, food, or vouchers?
The debate over whether to provide food assistance and the form that this assistance should take has a long history in economics.
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The Guatemala Community Daycare Programme
The programme has a substantial positive impact on the diet of children. It also complements the basic livelihood strategies of poor urban women working outside the home.; Urban Challenges to Food and Nutrition Security
IFPRI evaluated the Government of Guatemala’s Community Day Care Centers Program to determine its effects on children’s nutrition and on their mothers’ wages and employment opportunities.
IFPRI evaluated the Government of Guatemala’s Community Day Care Centers Program to determine its effects on children’s nutrition and on their mothers’ wages and employment opportunities.
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Peru
IFPRI analyzed Peru’s comedores populares (community kitchens) and associated programs to identify lessons for future urban projects.
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Perú
IFPRI analyzed Peru’s comedores populares (community kitchens) and associated programs to .identify lessons for future urban projects.
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El impacto de PROGRESA sobre la inscripción escolar
El propósito de este estudio es evaluar la forma en que el Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación (Progresa) ha impactado sobre la escolaridad de los jóvenes mexicanos.
""Rapid expansion of employment in low-income countries is one of the biggest challenges of development. The growth in labor supply in developing countries will remain large for a long time to come.
The Mexican government has been involved in regulating the prices of staples since the 1930s.1 Formally, the dual objectives of this long-standing intervention have been to protect the rural campesinos (peasants) against speculators and drastic de
Brazilian wheat policy as considered in this chapter consists of two relatively separate components: production policies and consumption policies.
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