Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia
This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings Standards...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/176941555597489807/Food-Prices-Access-to-Markets-and-Child-Undernutrition-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31578 |
| Summary: | This paper looks at how changing food
prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives
height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as
indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent
years of the Livings Standards Measurement Survey and
utilizes market prices for key cereals, teff, wheat, and
maize at the zone level across all regions of the country.
Using a panel data fixed effects model, the analysis finds
that, contrary to previous studies, rising crop prices are
positively associated with improved child stunting rates for
children between ages 6 months and 5 years, while the
results for wasting are not conclusive. These results
suggest that across the board policy interventions that seek
to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects
on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining
potentially positive impacts on child nutrition. |
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