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This review paper assesses the effectiveness of CCT in improving access to care and health outcomes, in particular for poorer populations in low and middle income countries. The evidence strongly suggests that CCTs could be an effective approach to improving access to preventive services. Their effectiveness in various settings and the ability to replicate them… Read more
This literature review is based on an extensive analysis of the existing evidence on the impact of social protection programmes in the developing world. It assesses how the benefits of social protection could be maximized with specific regard to the different dimensions of children’s well-being. It was found that social protection can play a vital… Read more
This study looks at how cash interventions affect the immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition. It is based on a review of 54 evaluations and documents from humanitarian programmes since 2004. It states that theoretically there are a variety of ways that cash transfers could help protect and improve nutritional status, address immediate and underlying… Read more
This evidence paper analyses the existing literature focused on the impact of cash transfers on various development outcomes, including nutrition. While various methodologies are employed in the literature reviewed, the evidence suggests that recipients of cash transfers spend more on food, resulting in significant gains in children’s weight and height.
This synthesis paper aims to provide a comprehensive list of current guidance, institutional strategies, and other publications released by international development institutions and inter-agency UN bodies on maximizing nutrition impact through agriculture. It concludes that there is agreement on main principles regarding the link between agriculture and nutrition. It is noted that some stakeholders have… Read more
This systematic review focuses on the impact of agricultural interventions that aim to improve children’s nutritional status by improving the incomes and the diet of the rural poor. Covering the period 1990-2010, mixed results were found, with limited demonstrable impact of agricultural interventions on nutritional status. This was attributed to methodological weaknesses of the studies… Read more
This conference brief sketches a framework that elucidates the channels through which agriculture affects health and nutrition and vice versa. Three components make up this framework: settings, resources, and production processes. The presence of feedback loops within the framework illustrates the possibility that anything that affects agriculture can affect health and nutrition, and anything that… Read more
The Copenhagen Consensus is a project that establishes priorities for global welfare. It was set up in 2004 by gathering some of the world’s greatest economists to improve prioritisation of the numerous problems the world faces and the process has been repeated every four years. The expert panel’s task is to create a prioritised list of solutions to… Read more
This paper addresses the potential long-term implications of undernutrition through a review of the associations between maternal and child undernutrition with human capital and risk of adult diseases in low and middle-income countries. Data from Brazil, Guatemala, India, the Philippines, and South Africa was analysed and it was found that indices of maternal and child… Read more
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank jointly compiled this report from global and national data on child nutrition. The joint analysis dataset includes 639 nationally representative surveys from 142 countries/territories. The report covers levels and trends of malnutrition globally, including stunting, wasting, under and overweight. The report… Read more
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) has launched a Post-Primary Education Initiative intended to promote policy and relevant research on secondary and post-secondary education in developing countries, which together will be referred to as post-primary education. A new paper titled, ‘Expanding Access and Increasing Student Learning in Post–Primary Education in Developing Countries: A… Read more