Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia (English)

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...

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Brenton,Paul;

Nyawo,Mike;
Document Date
2019/04/18
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8823
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Ethiopia,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2019/04/18
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia
Keywords
food price

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Brenton,Paul; Nyawo,Mike.

Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8823 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/176941555597489807

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