Mitigating Seasonal Hunger: Evidence from Northwest Bangladesh

Shahidur Khandker () and Wahiduddin Mahmud ()

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Abstract: The seasonality of poverty and food deprivation is a common feature of rural livelihoods in Bangladesh, but it is more marked in the northwest region of Rangpur where the interlocking of seasonality and endemic poverty results in severe seasonal hunger. The recently launched policy interventions in the region provide a test case of what works and what does not in combating seasonal hunger. The quasi-experimental designs of some of these interventions are particularly suitable for assessing their impacts. [Policy Brief]

Keywords: hunger; Bangladesh; endemic poverty; seasonal hunger (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-12
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