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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Ahmed Akhter

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Akhter Ahmed

Akhter Ahmed is a Senior Research Fellow in the IFPRI’s Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit and Country Representative for IFPRI Bangladesh. He has worked on strategies for agricultural and rural development, social protection, and women’s empowerment to reduce poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition in developing countries including Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Malawi, the Philippines, and Turkey.

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The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development is a joint institute of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Vrije University (VU). It serves three core functions: a platform for researchers to catalyze scientific excellence, interdisciplinary collaboration, and policy development within and across various faculties of the two Amsterdam universities; a hub for education – at bachelors, masters and PhD level – across various faculties of the two Amsterdam universities; and a support facility aimed at integrated management of research and education projects within low- and middle-income countries focused on global health and development.

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Financial and Health Diaries 2012-2013: A Year-long Weekly Panel of Farming Households in Nigeria and Kenya

2019Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber; van der List, Marijn; Paper, David
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Financial and Health Diaries 2012-2013: A Year-long Weekly Panel of Farming Households in Nigeria and Kenya

The Financial and Health Diaries capture high-detail high-frequency data on how low-income households in developing countries manage money and make spending choices around healthcare. The data provide detailed weekly information on individuals’ financial activities, health events and interactions with healthcare providers.

Year published

2019

Authors

Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber; van der List, Marijn; Paper, David

Citation

Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber; van der List, Marijn; Paper, David. 2019. Financial and Health Diaries 2012-2013: A year-long weekly panel of farming households in Nigeria and Kenya. Netherlands; Washington, DC: Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development; PharmAccess Foundation; International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10411/AHWR9O. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

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Nigeria; Kenya

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Western Africa; Eastern Africa; Dairy Cooperatives; Gender; Health Insurance; Economic Development; Health; Households; Smallholders; Marketing; Health Services; Agricultural Cooperatives; Finance; Dairy Industry; Women

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English

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Open AccessCC0-1.0

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Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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Health insurance, a friend in need? Impacts of formal insurance and crowding out of informal insurance

2018Geng, Xin; Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber; van der List, Marijn
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Health insurance, a friend in need? Impacts of formal insurance and crowding out of informal insurance

Health insurance can improve health-seeking behaviors and protect consumption from health shocks but may also crowd out informal insurance. This paper therefore examines whether impacts of health insurance depend on households’ access to informal insurance, as proxied for by mobile money usage. Based on high-frequency financial diaries data collected in rural Kenya, we find that households with weaker access to informal insurance cope with uninsured health shocks by lowering subsequent non-health expenditures by approximately 25 percent. These same households are able to smooth consumption when health shocks are insured, due to lower out-of-pocket health expenditures. In contrast, households with access to informal insurance are able to smooth consumption even in the absence of formal health insurance. For this latter group, health insurance increases healthcare utilization at formal clinics and does not crowd out gifts and remittances during weeks with health shocks. These findings provide guidance for insurance schemes aiming to target the most vulnerable populations.

Year published

2018

Authors

Geng, Xin; Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber; van der List, Marijn

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Geng, Xin; Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber; and van der List, Marijn. 2018. Health insurance, a friend in need? Impacts of formal insurance and crowding out of informal insurance. World Development 111(November 2018): 196-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.07.004

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Insurance; Informal Sector; Rural Population; Low Income Groups; Health Insurance; Shock; Household Expenditure; Capacity Development; Health Care

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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A4NH flagship 1: Food systems for healthier diets

2017International Food Policy Research Institute
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A4NH flagship 1: Food systems for healthier diets

Governments, businesses, and civil society groups increasingly realize the important need of supporting food systems to produce and supply diverse, nutritious, and safe foods for healthy lives. Flagship 1 responds to concerns about global diet trends and demands from countries on how to transform sustainable and systemic food system transformations for healthier diets to address unabated problems of undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overnutrition. This flagship takes a holistic perspective of food systems, including production, distribution, waste disposal, and food consumption. The systems approach aims to understand the interactions between differ-ent parts and act upon how together they are effecting change, rather than improving specific components in isolation. This is necessary because a food system is multidimensional. It includes sociocultural, economic, environmental, and political aspects, with many actors (food producers, food-chain actors, and consumers) managing multiple, linked agri-food value chains within dynamic food environments.

Year published

2017

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2017. A4NH flagship 1: Food systems for healthier diets. A4NH Note 1. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146223

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Bangladesh; Vietnam; Nigeria; Ethiopia

Keywords

Eastern Africa; Southern Asia; Africa; Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Asia; South-eastern Asia; Deficiency Diseases; Waste Disposal; Production; Environmental Factors; Health; Consumption; Economic Behaviour; Agriculture; Nutrition; Trace Elements; Systems; Food Consumption; Distributaries; Food Systems

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English

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Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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Brochure