WASH and Nutrition Synergies: The Case of Tunisia

Jose Cuesta and Laura Maratou-Kolias

Journal of Development Studies, 2019, vol. 55, issue 9, 2024-2045

Abstract: This paper develops a simple econometric strategy to operationalise the United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF’s) conceptual framework for nutrition. It estimates the extent to which child stunting correlates with investments in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) across population groups (poor and nonpoor) and residence (urban and rural). Moving away from estimating single intervention marginal returns, the empirical framework of intervention packages is tested in Tunisia, a country with notable but uneven progress in reducing stunting. A successful nutritional strategy will thereby require mapping the distinctive intervention packages by residence and socio-economic status, away from universal policies, that more strongly correlate with reduction in stunting.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1516870

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