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  Estimated Mean per Capita Energy Requirements for Planning Emergency Food Aid Rations

  National Academies Press, 1995
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  Guatemalan Survey of Family Health (EGSF)

  RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999

  The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health, known as EGSF from its name in Spanish, was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support and health beliefs in this process.
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  Gender sensitivity of well-being indicators

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1997

  In this paper, we assess the gender sensitivity of some conventional indicators of well-being in developing countries as also the relationship between poverty and the gender differential.
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  Does better nutrition improve academic achievement? Yes

  World Bank Policy and Research Bulletin, 1997

  And it must start in infancy. Better-nourished children perform better in school than less well-nourished children, partly because they enter school earlier and have more time to learn and partly because they learn more productively
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  IATP Food Safety & Health

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 1999

  Monthly news bulletin about food safety issues such as dioxin, pesticides and other endocrine disrupters; bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and genetically engineered foods.
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  Empowering the rural disabled in Asia and the Pacific

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1997

  Asia and Pacific countries have designated 1993-2002 the "Decade for the Disabled" - ten years to raise awareness of the problems of millions of disabled men, women and children. Report is based on papers presented at a recent FAO Round Table on the Integration of Disabled People in Agricultural and Agro-industry Systems, held in Bangkok.
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  Through a gender lens: Resources for Population, Health and Nutrition Projects

  Family Health International, 1998

  Reviews existing models and methodologies for incorporating a gender perspective into U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) development initiatives.
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  In sickness and in health... : risk-sharing within households in rural Ethiopia

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997

  To investigate risk-sharing within the household, we model nutritional status as a durable good and we look at the consequences of individual health shocks. For household allocation to be pareto-efficient, households should pool shocks to income. We also investigate whether households can smooth nutritional levels over time.
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  The consequences of past agricultural outputs on the interacting nutrition and health of autarkic peasants : evidence from Rwanda

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997

  In rural areas of LDC, because of the existence of market imperfections, health and nutrition status may depend on the levels of specific agricultural productions and not only on the income level. However, these specific impacts have never been studied.
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  'The rich are just like us only richer?: poverty functions or consumption functions?

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a tobit and data from Uganda.

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