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| Smith, Lisa C.; Haddad, Lawrence James. |
| This paper draws on the experience of the 1970-95 period to (1) elucidate some of the main causes of child malnutrition in developing countries; (2) undertake projections of how many children are likely to be malnourished in the year 2020 given current trends; and (3) identify priority actions for reducing malnutrition the most quickly in the coming decades. The analysis is based on country fixed-effects multivariate regression using data from 63 countries. The paper finds four "underlying" determinants to be key factors: health environments, women's education, women's relative status, and per capita food availability. Two "basic" determinants are also found to be important: per capita national incomes and democracy. Due to data scarcities, the role of... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94515 |
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| Smith, Lisa C.; Wiesmann, Doris M.. |
| This paper uses data from national household expenditure surveys to explore whether food insecurity is more severe in South Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa. It employs two indicators of the diet quantity dimension of food insecurity, or the inability to access sufficient food: the prevalence of food energy deficiency and the prevalence of severe food energy deficiency. It also employs two indicators of the diet quality dimension, indicating lack of access to nutritious food: the prevalence of low diet diversity and the percent of energy from staple foods. It finds the regions’ food energy deficiency prevalences to be quite close (51 percent in South Asia, 57 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa). However, the prevalence of severe food energy deficiency, which is more... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food energy deficiency; Diet quality; Sub-Saharan Africa; South Asia; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42401 |
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| Smith, Lisa C.; Ruel, Marie T.; Ndiaye, Aida. |
| While ample evidence documents that urban children generally have better nutritional status than their rural counterparts, recent research suggests that urban malnutrition is on the rise. The environment, choices, and opportunities of urbanites differ greatly from those of rural dwellers--from employment conditions to social and family networks to access to health care and other services. Given these differences, understanding the relative importance of the various determinants of child malnutrition in urban and rural areas--and especially whether they differ--is key to designing context-relevant, effective program and policy responses for stemming malnutrition. This study uses Demographic and Health Survey data from 36 developing countries to address the... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16441 |
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| del Ninno, Carlo; Dorosh, Paul A.; Smith, Lisa C.. |
| At their peak, the 1998 floods covered two-thirds of Bangladesh, causing severe damage to the major rice crop and threatening the food security of tens of millions of households. Ultimately, well-functioning private markets, suitable government policies, and public and NGO interventions combined with effective private coping strategies to prevent a major post-disaster crisis. In this paper, we highlight the contribution of government policy interventions, including an earlier trade liberalization, to stabilization of rice markets during and after the floods. Then, we examine the impacts of the floods on flood-exposed households using a panel data set covering 750 households in three rounds over a 13-month period, focusing on impacts of the flood on... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Safety net programs; Bangladesh food markets; Household coping; Consumer/Household Economics. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16425 |
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| Smith, Lisa C.; Alderman, Harold; Aduayom, Dede. |
| Reducing food insecurity in the developing world continues to be a major public policy challenge, and one that is complicated by lack of information on the location, severity, and causes of food insecurity. Such information is needed to properly target assistance, evaluate whether progress is achieved, and develop appropriate interventions to help those in need. This research report explores a new method of measuring food insecurity using food data collected as part of household expenditure surveys. Such surveys are routinely undertaken by numerous national governments throughout the developing world, but in the past the resulting food data remained largely unexploited for the purposes of measuring food insecurity. Using data from 12 Sub-Saharan African... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food supply; Africa; Sub-Saharan; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37885 |
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| Smith, Lisa C.; Chavas, Jean-Paul. |
| This paper explores the implications of preference heterogeneity between wives and husbands in nonresource-pooling rural West African households for the effect of crop price changes on agricultural production, i.e., their supply response. A "semicooperative" game-theoretic model of household decisionmaking, in which household members make unilateral time and income allocation decisions and negotiate over who controls these resources, is proposed. The model is used to show that Pareto efficiency in both production and consumption do not hold. It is then employed to simulate the supply response to cotton price increases accompanying agricultural sector liberalization in Burkina Faso in the early 1980s. The simulated semi-cooperative model predicts the cotton... |
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Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94519 |
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| Rashid, Dewan Arif; Smith, Lisa C.; Rahman, Tauhidur. |
| Whereas a large number of empirical studies have been devoted to analyzing consumer demand for dietary energy (or dietary quantity), much less attention has been paid to the demand for dietary quality, an equally important aspect of food security. To address this gap in the literature, this paper uses data from a nationally representative household expenditure survey conducted in Bangladesh in 2000 on the food acquisition behavior of 7,440 households over a two week period. Two indicators of dietary quality are employed: household protein availability and household diet diversity. Using two-stage least squares regression to correct for the endogeneity of income, we find significant roles of income, education, gender of household head, and prices of key... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21326 |
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| Smith, Lisa C.; Ramakrishnan, Usha; Ndiaye, Aida; Haddad, Lawrence James; Martorell, Reynaldo. |
| Until recently the role of women's social status in determining their children's nutritional health went largely unnoticed. That is, until researchers began to ponder the Asian Enigma-the question of why malnutrition is much more prevalent among children in South Asia than in Sub-Saharan Africa, even though South Asia surpasses Sub-Saharan Africa in most of the principal determinants of child nutrition. This report uses data from 36 countries in three developing regions to establish empirically that women's status, defined as women's power relative to men's, is an important determinant of children's nutritional status. It finds that the pathways through which status influences child nutrition and the strength of that influence differ considerably from one... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16526 |
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| Smith, Lisa C.; Haddad, Lawrence James. |
| One out of every three children under five in developing countries is malnourished. This unacceptable state of affairs leads to a great deal of human suffering, both physical and emotional. It is a major drain on developing countries' prospects for development because malnourished children require more intense care from their parents and are less physically and intellectually productive as adults. It is also a violation of a child's human rights. While there is no question that malnutrition must come to an end, debates continue to flourish over what the most important causes of malnutrition are and what types of policies will be most successful in reducing it. The number of malnourished children in the developing world has remained fairly constant.... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16532 |
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| Smith, Lisa C.. |
| Outline: I. Introduction II. Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa III. Conceptual Framework: Welfare Provisioning in Households A. Model of Time and Income Allocation B. Gender-Differentiated Allocational Priorities, Access and Power C. Allocative Inefficiency IV. Structural Adjustment Policy Impacts on Household Welfare A. Expenditure Switching Policies B. Reductions in Government Expenditures on Social Services V. Conclusions |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 1994 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12673 |
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| Smith, Lisa C.; Nai Ken, Logan. |
| In its Sixth World Food Survey released at the 1996 World Food Summit, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported that 841 million people in developing countries are chronically undernourished. This number and its country- and regional-level disaggregations have proved tremendously useful to countless aid agencies and researchers. In the context of a recent wave of new nationally-representative household food consumption and expenditure data, this paper examines the estimation methodology underlying this food insecurity indicator, which relies on national aggregate measures of food availability and distribution. The paper finds that the measure is methodologically biased toward national food availability and does not fully... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94868 |
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