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    Implications for Human Development - Impacts of Food Price Volatility on Nutrition and Schooling

    Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
    The paper highlights the impacts of the 2007/08 food price inflation on nutrition and on school attendance. It draws on the results of studies commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Even at times of average food prices, extremely poor and food insecure families suffer malnutrition and difficulties in school.
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    Working together for better safety nets

    2012
    Safety net programmes have proved to be a useful instrument to tackle hunger and malnutrition in Bangladesh. However, insufficient co-ordination between the manifold initiatives causes inefficiencies and limits coverage of poor households suffering from hunger.
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    An evaluation of progress toward the Millennium Development Goal one hunger target: a country-level, food and nutrition security perspective

    United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2010
    One of the targets of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015. This paper warns that many countries remain far from reaching this target, and much of the progress made has been eroded by the recent global food price and economic crises.
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    Global population ageing: peril or promise?

    World Economic Forum, 2012
    If policy-makers and leaders fail to plan adequately for the changes ahead, they will be inundated by the effects of global ageing, such as a dearth of workers, strained pension systems, and overburdened health care systems. This book is the product of a collaboration among the business, political, academic, and other leaders of society that make up the Network of Global Agenda Councils.
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    The challenge of hunger and malnutrition

    Copenhagen Consensus, 2009
    Undernutrition leads to increased mortality and morbidity which lead to loss of economic output and increased spending on health. Therefore, reducing undernutrition is one of the Millennium Goals, and is also a key factor underpinning several others.
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    Sparing lives: better reproductive health for poor women

    World Bank, 2009
    The report highlights that the region faces enormous challenges in addressing inequalities in reproductive health of poor women, and focuses on the risks they face. This phenomenon perpetuates an inter-generational cycle of poverty.
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    Maternal care practices among the ultra poor households in rural Bangladesh: a qualitative exploratory study

    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2011
    Although many studies have been carried out to learn about maternal care practices in rural areas and urban-slums of Bangladesh, none have focused on ultra poor women. Understanding the context in which women would be willing to accept new practices is essential for developing realistic and relevant behaviour change messages.
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    Can Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Maternal Health and Birth Outcomes? Evidence from El Salvador’s Comunidades Solidarias Rurales

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
    Although conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are traditionally evaluated in relation to child schooling and nutrition outcomes, there is growing interest in examining maternal and reproductive health impacts.
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    Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI)

    CARDI is a not for profit organisation developed by leaders from the ageing field across Ireland (North and South) including age focused researchers, academics, statutory, voluntary and community sect
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    Breaking the poverty/malnutrition cycle in Africa and the Middle East

    Organización Panamericana de Salud, 2009
    Poverty, hunger and malnutrition are coexisting in Africa and parts of the Middle East, creating inequalities that need to be addressed politically. This paper reviews the experiences with facing malnutrition in Sub-Saharan and North Africa and the Middle East. The authors indicate the following findings:

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