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Civil conflict, cash transfers, and child nutrition in Yemen
The most dramatic outcomes of protracted civil conflict include increased malnutrition among children and the resulting consequences for lifelong health and prosperity. Little is known about how to mitigate the nutritional impact of conflict.
Accounting for dietary deprivations in rural Africa: Poor households, poor farms or poor food environments?
Agricultural and food policies are increasingly asked to do more to improve the dietary quality of populations in lower and middle income countries (LMICs), especially severely malnourished rural populations.
From food subsidies to cash transfers: Assessing economy-wide benefits and trade-offs in Egypt
Food is a vital part of poor households' budgets and so subsidizing staple foods would appear to be an obvious pro-poor policy.
Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine War price shocks on the Bangladesh economy: A general equilibrium analysis
The spike in global commodity prices caused by the Russia-Ukraine war has had major adverse impacts on many developing countries, including Bangladesh, that still depend heavily on energy and food imports.
COVID-19 and the economic recovery in South Asia: Economywide modeling scenarios for Bangladesh and Nepal
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in severe income losses, but little is known about its impacts on diets and nutritional adequacy, or the effectiveness of social protection interventions in mitigating dietary and nutritional impacts.
Migration is a recurrent, complex, and multidimensional phenomenon driven by a broad set of factors.
This study addresses the policy-relevant question of how, in the face of major economic shocks, social protection interventions can more effectively mitigate undernutrition.
Mitigating poverty and undernutrition through social protection: A simulation analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh and Myanmar
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in severe income losses, but little is known about its impacts on diets and nutritional adequacy, or the effectiveness of social protection interventions in mitigating dietary and nutritional impacts.