Both food for work and free distributiona are reaching poor and vulnerable households ahd have a positive direct impact on weight-for-height.

Poverty maps are easily used, easily understood, and objectively verifiable.

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

Both food for work and free distributiona are reaching poor and vulnerable households ahd have a positive direct impact on weight-for-height.

Both food for work and free distributiona are reaching poor and vulnerable households ahd have a positive direct impact on weight-for-height.

The concern that learning performance may be adversely affected by increased class size appears to be unfounded. But unchecked, the negative peer effect could hinder student achievement.

Which social safety-net progammes reach poor households? How cost efficient are they? This research shows that public works programmes have great potential for targeting poor households. However there is a great variability in their performance.

Poverty maps are easily used, easily understood, and objectively verifiable.

Poverty maps are easily used, easily understood, and objectively verifiable.

The Government of Bangladesh launched the innovative Food for Education (FFE) program in 1993. The FFE program provides a free monthly ration of rice or wheat to poor families if their children attend primary school.

New tool for teachers, researchers, practitioners, and others working on global food security: 34 slides on IFPRI's action plan for ending hunger by 2020.

"As part of its 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Initiative, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has articulated a vision of what the world should look like in 2020: it should be a world free from po

Food aid has played a useful role in Government of Bangladesh efforts to increase food security in the last three decades, adding to foodgrain availability, supplying wheat for targeted distribution to poor households, and helping to finance devel

This paper uses a panel data of 347 households in Egypt to measure changes in household consumption between 1997 and 1999 and to identify causes behind the changes.