Prix du mil, politique publique et malnutrition des enfants: le cas du Niger en 2005

Giovanni Cornia and Laura Deotti

Revue d’économie du développement, 2014, vol. 22, issue 1, 5-36

Abstract: Between March and August 2005 Niger was hit by a doubling of millet prices and a sharp rise in the number of severely malnourished children admitted to feeding centres. The extent and causes of such crisis remain controversial. The paper reviews the evidence in this regard in the light of the main famine theories. It concludes that the decline in food output recorded at the end of 2004 explains little of the food crisis which was due to the entitlements failure of several household groups, the malfunctioning of the regional and domestic millet markets, and policy mistakes in the fields of food security, food relief and health financing.

Keywords: child malnutrition; food prices; famine; food security; public policy failure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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