Famine and the Aid Response : Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen
Using a high-frequency mobile phone survey of food security conducted by the World Food Programme, this paper investigates how food assistance and access to food changed following the announcement of famine-like conditions in the Republic of Yemen....
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okr-10986-315412022-02-10T00:22:11Z Famine and the Aid Response : Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen Tandon, Sharad Vishwanath, Tara FAMINE FOOD SECURITY CONFLICT FRAGILE STATES FOOD AID AID DELIVERY MOBILE PHONES EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE Using a high-frequency mobile phone survey of food security conducted by the World Food Programme, this paper investigates how food assistance and access to food changed following the announcement of famine-like conditions in the Republic of Yemen. Among the mobile phone–using population, the share of households receiving food assistance more than doubled following the announcement. The increases were largely targeted at regions identified in the announcement as being closer to famine in the original announcement, and there was improvement in access to food in regions that received the most food assistance relative to the rest of the country. Although the survey misses struggling households that do not have access to a mobile phone and are potentially more at risk of famine, the results raise questions about the need for better quality data in food emergencies that are updated more regularly for better targeting of food assistance. 2019-04-11T21:14:43Z 2019-04-11T21:14:43Z 2019-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/284601554919999694/Famine-and-the-Aid-Response-Evidence-from-the-Announcement-of-Famine-Like-Conditions-in-the-Republic-of-Yemen http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31541 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8812 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Middle East and North Africa Yemen, Republic of |
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FAMINE FOOD SECURITY CONFLICT FRAGILE STATES FOOD AID AID DELIVERY MOBILE PHONES EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE Tandon, Sharad Vishwanath, Tara Famine and the Aid Response : Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen |
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Using a high-frequency mobile phone
survey of food security conducted by the World Food
Programme, this paper investigates how food assistance and
access to food changed following the announcement of
famine-like conditions in the Republic of Yemen. Among the
mobile phone–using population, the share of households
receiving food assistance more than doubled following the
announcement. The increases were largely targeted at regions
identified in the announcement as being closer to famine in
the original announcement, and there was improvement in
access to food in regions that received the most food
assistance relative to the rest of the country. Although the
survey misses struggling households that do not have access
to a mobile phone and are potentially more at risk of
famine, the results raise questions about the need for
better quality data in food emergencies that are updated
more regularly for better targeting of food assistance. |
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Tandon, Sharad Vishwanath, Tara |
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Tandon, Sharad Vishwanath, Tara |
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Tandon, Sharad |
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Famine and the Aid Response : Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen |
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Famine and the Aid Response : Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen |
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Famine and the Aid Response : Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen |
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Famine and the Aid Response : Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen |
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Famine and the Aid Response : Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen |
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famine and the aid response : evidence from the announcement of famine-like conditions in the republic of yemen |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/284601554919999694/Famine-and-the-Aid-Response-Evidence-from-the-Announcement-of-Famine-Like-Conditions-in-the-Republic-of-Yemen http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31541 |
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