Nutrition

The critical role of escalating food prices in Yemen’s food security crisis

Rapidly rising food prices lead to a significant decline in resources available to purchase key non-food goods and services once a household has purchased a minimally sufficient amount of food,…

Eliana Favari, Michael Geiger, Sharad Tandon, Siddharth Krishnaswamy|
Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Nutrition, Trade

Critical Choices: A look at the 2021 World Bank Group/IMF Annual Meetings

Opening blog looking at the 2021 World Bank/IMF Annual meetings, which will feature guest speaker and participants across a number of sessions and engagement focused on COVID-19, vaccines, public…

John Mackedon|
Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Competitiveness, Debt, Digital Development, Disaster Risk Management, Education, Energy, Environment, Extractive Industries, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Forests, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Gender, Governance, Health, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Jobs & Development, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Nutrition, Poverty, Regional Integration, Social Protection, Social Sustainability and Inclusion, Trade, Transport, Urban Development, Water

Does it matter for the kids if we give a cash transfer to the woman or the man in the household?

what are the outcomes for children if cash transfers go to mothers versus fathers? the evidence on this isn't clear and a new paper from Kenya shows that it might not matter, if the outcome…

Markus Goldstein|
Nutrition, Poverty, Social Protection

A revolution in health service delivery measurement

During crises as well as in ordinary times, strong primary health care (PHC) systems promote and preserve health. The cost-effective provision of essential services also delivers economic benefits…

Kathryn Andrews, Jigyasa Sharma|
Health, Nutrition

Fighting intergenerational malnutrition is possible: Lessons from adolescent girls in Malawi

In Malawi, where stunting is as high as 37%, and 10% of the gross domestic product is lost annually due to malnutrition, girls are becoming part of the solution.

Blessings Botha|
Agriculture and Food, Gender, Nutrition
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