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...
Jere R. Behrman, Anil B. Deolalikar, Lee-Ying Soon
"Among developing member countries (DMCs), Indonesia and the Philippines rank fairly high in the distribution of real GDP per capita in PPP dollars while Bangladesh ranks much lower. In terms of aggregate schooling, the Philippines has secondary and tertiary enrollment rates that are substantially h...
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...
Karoun H. Bagamian, Chloe Puett, John Anderson, Farzana Muhib et al.
impact and economic assessment models should include a wider range of linear growth outcomes. Also, these models should produce a spectrum of results-ones addressing immediate benefits for usual health care decision-makers and others that include broader health impacts, providing a more comprehensiv...
Yeshim Iqbal, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Duja Michael, Sneha Bolisetty et al.
BACKGROUND: This study evaluates a 6-month early childhood father engagement intervention delivered in-person to fathers in the Rohingya camps and surrounding host communities in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. The intervention is an added component to an existing intervention that works with mothers of 0-...
Jere R. Behrman, Anil B. Deolalikar, Lee-Ying Soon
Jorge Cuartas, Dana McCoy, Juliana Sánchez, Jere Behrman et al.
This paper used longitudinal data from five studies conducted in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Rwanda to examine the links between family stimulation and early childhood development outcomes (N = 4904; Mage = 51.5; 49% girls). Results from random-effects and more conservative child-fix...
Garham Bird
Book reviewed in this article: Gerald K. Helleiner – International Economic Disorder: Essays in North‐South Relations. Frances Stewart and Arjun Sengupta – International Financial Cooperation: A Framework for Change. David Newbery and J. Stiglitz – The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization. A Stud...
Hugh Roberts, Randall Baker, Fred Halliday, Michael Lipton et al.
North West Africa: A Political and Economic Survey: By Wilfred Knapp. Third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. 453 pp., 4 maps, bibliography, £12.50. Water and Tribal Settlement in South‐east Arabia: A Study of the Aflaj of Oman. By J.C. Wilkinson. Oxford: Oxford Research Studies in Geo...