The population of the developing world is becoming more urban. Are poverty and undernutrition beginning to relocate to urban areas as well?

This study examines how quality, price, and access to curative health care influence use of modern public, modern private, and traditional providers among 3,000 children age 0-2 years in Cebu, Philippines.

Drawing data from four different integrated household surveys in rural areas of Mali, Malawi, and two national surveys in Côte d’Ivoire, this paper tests the validity of proxy measures of household wealth and income that can be readily implemented

This review of recent literature explores the challenges to urban food and nutrition security in the rapidly urbanizing developing world.

The goal of this paper is to determine the nature of the causal relationship between social capital, as measured by household membership in formal and informal groups and household welfare in South Africa.

Although most developing country cities are characterized by pockets of substandard housing and inadequate service provision, it is not known to what degree low incomes and malnutrition are confined to specific neighborhoods.

Poverty profiles are a useful way of summarizing information on the levels of poverty and the characteristics of the poor in a society.

This paper explores the implications of preference heterogeneity between wives and husbands in nonresource-pooling rural West African households for the effect of crop price changes on agricultural production, i.e., their supply response.

This paper uses cross-sectional individual data from the 1994 Integrated Household Survey of Romania to analyze the determinants of male and female wages in public and private enterprises.

Egypt has a large food subsidy program that has created a relatively effective social safety net, but it has also drained budgetary resources and proved to be poorly targeted toward the poor.

Food as a human right was first laid down 50 years ago in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This study uses data from a representative survey of households with preschoolers in Accra, Ghana to (1) examine the importance of care practices for children’s height-for-age z-scores (HAZ); and (2) identify subgroups of children for whom good ma

The paper uses the concept of credit limit to analyze the determinants of household access to and participation in informal and formal credit markets in Malawi.

Data collected from a 1997 household survey carried out in Accra, Ghana, are used to look at the crucial role that women play as income earners and in securing access to food in urban areas.

Early childhood nutrition is thought to be an important input into subsequent academic achievement.

Using detailed data from rural Pakistan, this paper investigates whether human capital, learning by doing, gender, and one's status within the family affect the division of labor within households.

This study explores the impact of changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management in Western Ghana.

To what extent do India’s rural poor share in agricultural growth?

This paper introduces some relatively straightforward computational tools for estimating poverty measures from the sort of data that are typically available from published sources.

In its Sixth World Food Survey released at the 1996 World Food Summit, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported that 841 million people in developing countries are chronically undernourished.