John Hoddinott, Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, Lawrence Haddad et al.
This paper outlines the economic rationale for investments that reduce stunting. We present a framework that illustrates the functional consequences of stunting in the 1000 days after conception throughout the life cycle: from childhood through to old age. We summarize the key empirical literature a...
Chloe Puett, Kate Sadler, Harold Alderman, Jennifer Coates et al.
This study assessed the cost-effectiveness of adding the community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (CMAM) to a community-based health and nutrition programme delivered by community health workers (CHWs) in southern Bangladesh. The cost-effectiveness of this model of treatment for sever...
Chloe Puett, Jennifer Coates, Harold Alderman, Kate Sadler
This study assessed the quality of care provided by community health workers (CHWs) in managing cases of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) according to a treatment algorithm. A mixed methods approach was employed to provide perspectives on different aspects of quality of care, including technical comp...
Chloe Puett, Harold Alderman, Kate Sadler, Jennifer Coates
Community health workers (CHWs) have strong potential to extend health and nutrition services to underserved populations. However, CHWs face complex challenges when working within weak health systems and among communities with limited abilities to access and utilise CHW services. It is crucial to un...
Chloe Puett, Jennifer Coates, Harold Alderman, Salim Sadruddin et al.
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) perform a range of important tasks; however, limited evidence is available regarding the association between their workload and the quality of care they provide. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the quality of preventive and curative care provided by two groups of CH...
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
possible through a long term collaborative effort between the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the World Bank’s South Asia Region. The paper was prepared as an input to World Bank (1998). The support of the World Bank’s Research Committee (und...
Renee Sharma, Michelle F Gaffey, Harold Alderman, Diego G. Bassani et al.
BACKGROUND: Existing health and nutrition services present potential platforms for scaling up delivery of early childhood development (ECD) interventions within sensitive windows across the life course, especially in the first 1000 days from conception to age 2 years. However, there is insufficient ...
John Hoddinott, Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, Lawrence Haddad et al.
The Economic Rationale for Investing in Stunting Reduction This paper outlines the economic rationale for investments that reduce stunting. We present a framework that illustrates the functional consequences of stunting in the 1000 days after conception throughout the life cycle: from childhood thro...
Olivier Ecker, Harold Alderman, Andrew R. Comstock, Derek Headey et al.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic resulted in severe income losses, but little is known about its impacts on diets and nutritional adequacy, or the effectiveness of social protection interventions in mitigating dietary and nutritional impacts. We first assess the likely impacts of COVID‐19 shocks in Ba...
Olivier Ecker, Harold Alderman, Andrew R. Comstock, Derek Headey et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in severe income losses, but little is known about its impacts on diets and nutritional adequacy, or the effectiveness of social protection interventions in mitigating dietary and nutritional impacts. We first assess the likely impacts of COVID-19 shocks in Bangladesh ...
Samuel Scott, Sumanta Neupane, Hana Tasic, Nadia Akseer et al.
ABSTRACT Social protection programs (SPPs) are common in South Asia, a global malnutrition hotspot. Provision of SPP benefits as well as essential health/nutrition interventions to mothers and children are goals for optimal health and development outcomes, but the degree of co-coverage of SPPs and h...
Olivier Ecker, Harold Alderman, Andrew R. Comstock, Derek Headey et al.
This study addresses the policy-relevant question of how, in the face of major economic shocks, social protection interventions can more effectively mitigate undernutrition. In particular, it considers the scope of scaled-up fortification of staples to avert the “hidden hunger” of micronutrient defi...
Books reviewed: Robert Chambers, Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last Geoffrey D. Wood and Iffath A. Sharif (eds), Who Needs Credit? Poverty and Finance in Bangladesh Tony Killick with R. Gunatilaka and A. Marr, Aid and the Political Economy of Policy Change Alex de Waal, Famine Crimes: Poli...