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  The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2002

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2003

  This fourth edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) provides the latest estimates of the number of chronically hungry people in the world and reports on global and national efforts to reach the goal set by the World Food Summit (WFS) in 1996 to reduce that number to half the level reported at the time of the Summit by the year 2015.The report is divided into four main sectio
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  Underweight and stunting: wake-up call for nutritionists in South Asia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Moderate malnutrition is highly prevalent in South Asia – 53 per cent of children under five years old in India were underweight in 1993. Why have decades of child nutrition programmes failed to reduce malnutrition? What are the links between the status of women, access to healthcare and child growth?
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  Feeding indecision: choosing to breastfeed in the era of HIV

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Women in low and middle income countries who know they have HIV face a difficult choice. Should they breastfeed and risk passing on the virus to their child? Or not breastfeed and accept the cost and stigma associated with using breast milk substitutes (BMS)? Researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and UTH, Lusaka investigated mothers’ choices in Lusaka, Zambia.
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  Weighting game: economic development and nutritional status in China

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Since the introduction of a market economy in China in the early 1980s, many areas have moved from a situation of food scarcity to wide choice in diet in less than a generation. But the changes have been unevenly distributed.
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  Genetic endowments, parental and child health in rural Ethiopia

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2003

  This paper examines the determinants of child health in rural Ethiopia for the period 1994-97 using height-for-age z-scores as measures of long-term health.The panel nature of the data helps to control for community, household and individual level heterogeneity. Unlike most previous studies, the influence of parental health on children is examined.
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  Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper explores the long-term consequences of shocks on children’s health and education using longitudinal data from rural Zimbabwe.
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  HIV, breastfeeding, and infant mortality: weighing the impact of the non-evidenced-based WHO/UNAIDS recommendations in the low-income, low-resource countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

  African Networks for Health Research and Development, 2001

  This paper challenges the WHO/UNAIDS recommendations regarding breastfeeding and HIV positive mothers in low-income, low-resource countries.The paper shows that although almost all paediatric HIV is due to maternal to child transmission (MTCT), in 1992, WHO/UNAIDS recommended that breastfeeding should be advised for pregnant women, including those who are HIV+, in countries with high infant mor
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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Andhra Pradesh, India

  Young Lives, 2003

  Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.
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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Peru

  Young Lives, 2003

  Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.
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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Ethiopia

  Young Lives, 2003

  Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.

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