The dietary transition in the developing world is accelerating toward an increased burden of chronic disease. It is increasing human mortality and disease burdens, and it is lowering economic productivity.

Poverty measures and profiles are used increasingly to guide antipoverty policies in low-income countries. An essential element in these analyses is the specification of a poverty line.

South African households live in an environment characterized by risks, and many face a significant probability of experiencing economic losses that threaten their daily subsistence.

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.

This brief examines the economy-wide impact of implementing and financing a universal or basic income grant (BIG) in South Africa.

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.

How rapidly will child undernutrition respond to income growth? This study explores that question using household survey data from 12 countries.

Despite achieving a significant cost reduction over the past two decades, the absolute cost of food subsidies in Egypt is still high relative to the benefits received by the poor.

High urbanization rates in Latin America are accompanied by an increase in women’s participation in the labor force and the number of households headed by single mothers.

As the goals of international agricultural research move beyond increasing food production to the broader aims of reducing poverty, both agricultural research and studies of its impact become more complex.

Despite rapid economic growth in recent years, Mozambique remains a very poor country. Expenditure-based poverty measures are reflected in widespread food insecurity and poor health status.

The authors evaluate the size of the welfare losses from using alternative “imperfect” welfare indicators as substitutes for the conventionally preferred consumption indicator.

This paper is concerned with the issue of the most cost-effective way of improving access to education for poor households in developing countries.

The calorie-income demand elasticity is an important parameter in the development literature and in the policy arena.

Child labor is widespread in developing countries, but its causes are debatable.

The authors use individual observations from a panel of families during the period of the peso crisis in Mexico to investigate whether and how labor market shocks, as proxied by changes in the gender- and age-specific unemployment rates in the met

This paper explores the relationship between group membership and trust.

This paper examines the impact of wheat transfers and cash incomes on wheat consumption and wheat markets.

Household food security is an important measure of well-being.

Feeding practices are an important determinant of the nutritional status of infants and children. It is therefore useful to measure and describe infant and child feeding practices in a number of contexts.