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158: Food aid and child nutrition in rural Ethiopia

Agnes Quisumbing

157: HIV/AIDS, food security and rural livelihoods: Understanding and responding

Michael E. Loevinsohn and Stuart Gillespie

156: Public policy, food markets, and household coping strategies in Bangladesh: lessons from the 1998 floods

Carlo del Ninno, Paul Dorosh and Lisa C. Smith

155: Consumption insurance and vulnerability to poverty: a synthesis of the evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico, and Russia

Emmanuel Skoufias and Agnes Quisumbing

154: Cultivating nutrition: a survey of viewpoints on integrating agriculture and nutrition

Carol E. Levin, Jennifer Long, Kenneth Simler and Charlotte Johnson-Welch

153: Maquiladoras and market mamas: women's work and childcare in Guatemala City and Accra

Agnes Quisumbing, Kelly Hallman and Marie Ruel

152: Income diversification in Zimbabwe: welfare implications from urban and rural areas

Lire Ersado

151: Childcare and work: joint decisions among women in poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City

Kelly Hallman, Agnes Quisumbing, Marie Ruel and Benedicte de la Briere

150: The impact of Progresa on food consumption

John Hoddinott and Emmanuel Skoufias

149: Do crowded classrooms crowd out learning?: evidence from the Food for Education Programme in Bangladesh

Akhter Ahmed and Mary Arends-Kuenning

148: Stunted child - overweight mother pairs: an emerging policy concern?

James Garrett and Marie Ruel

147: Are neighbors equal?: estimating local inequality in three developing countries

Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen, Özler, Berk and Kenneth Simler

146: Moving forward with complimentary feeding

Kenneth H. Brown, Laura E. Caulfield and Marie Ruel

145: Child labor and school decisions in urban and rural areas: cross country evidence

Lire Ersado

144: Targeting outcomes redux

David Coady, Margaret Grosh and John Hoddinott

143: Progress in developing an infant and child feeding index: an example using the Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey 2000

Mary Arimond and Marie Ruel

142: Social capital and coping with economic shocks: an analysis of stunting of South African children

Michael Carter and John Maluccio

141: The sensitivity of calorie-income demand elasticity to price changes: evidence from Indonesia

Emmanuel Skoufias

140: Is dietary diversity an indicator of food security or dietary quality?: a review of measurement issues and research needs

Marie Ruel

139: Can South Africa afford to become Africa's first welfare state?

James Thurlow

138: The Food For Education program in Bangladesh: an evaluation of its impact on educational attainment and food security

Akhter Ahmed and Carlo del Ninno

137: Reducing child undernutrition: how far does income growth take us?

Lawrence Haddad, Harold Alderman, Simon Appleton, Lina Song and Yisehac Yohannes

136: Dietary diversity as a food security indicator

John Hoddinott and Yisehac Yohannes

135: Trust, membership in groups, and household welfare: evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Lawrence Haddad and John Maluccio

134: In-kind transfers and household food consumption: implications for targeted food programs in Bangladesh

Carlo del Ninno and Paul Dorosh

133: Avoiding chronic and transitory poverty: evidence from Egypt, 1997-1999

Lawrence Haddad and Akhter Ahmed

132: Weighing what's practical: proxy means tests for targeting food subsidies in Egypt

Akhter Ahmed and Howarth Bouis

131: Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas? evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City

Marie Ruel, Benedicte de la Briere, Kelly Hallman, Agnes Quisumbing and Nora Coj de Salazar

130: Creating a child feeding index using the demographic and health surveys: an example from Latin America

Marie Ruel and Purnima Menon

129: Labor market shocks and their impacts on work and schooling: evidence from urban Mexico

Emmanuel Skoufias and Susan Parker

128: Assessing the impact of agricultural research on poverty using the sustainable livelihoods framework

Michelle Adato and Ruth Meinzen-Dick

127: A cost-effectiveness analysis of demand- and supply-side education interventions: the case of PROGRESA in Mexico

David Coady and Susan Parker

126: The robustness of poverty profiles reconsidered

Finn Tarp, Kenneth Simler, Cristina Matusse, Rasmus Heltberg and Gabriel Dava

125: Are the welfare losses from imperfect targeting important?

Emmanuel Skoufias and David Coady

124: The robustness of poverty profiles reconsidered

Finn Tarp, Kenneth Simler, Cristina Matusse, Rasmus Heltberg and Gabriel Dava

123: Conditional cash transfers and their impact on child work and schooling: evidence from the PROGRESA program in Mexico

Emmanuel Skoufias and Susan Parker

122: Strengthening public safety nets: Can the informal sector show the way?

Jonathan Morduch and Manohar Sharma

121: Targeting poverty through community-based public works programs: A cross-disciplinary assessment of recent experience in South Africa

Michelle Adato and Lawrence Haddad

120: Control and ownership of assets within rural Ethiopian households

Marcel Fafchamps and Agnes Quisumbing

119: Assessing care: progress towards the measurement of selected childcare and feeding practices, and implications for programs

Mary Arimond and Marie Ruel

118: Is PROGRESA working? summary of the results of an evaluation by IFPRI

Emmanuel Skoufias and Bonnie McClafferty

117: An evaluation of the distributional power of PROGRESA's cash transfers in Mexico

David Coady

116: A multiple-method approach to studying childcare in an urban environment: the case of Accra, Ghana

Marie Ruel, Margaret Armar-Klemesu and Mary Arimond

115: Are women overrepresented among the poor? An analysis of poverty in ten developing countries

Agnes Quisumbing, Lawrence Haddad and Peña, Christine

114: Distribution, growth, and performance of microfinance institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Cecile Lapenu and Manfred Zeller

113: Measuring power

Elizabeth Frankenberg and Duncan Thomas

112: Effective food and nutrition policy responses to HIV/AIDS: what we know and what we need to know

Lawrence Haddad and Stuart Gillespie

111: An operational tool for evaluating poverty outreach of development policies and projects

Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma, Carla Henry and Cecile Lapenu

110: Evaluating transfer programs within a general equilibrium framework

David Coady and Rebecca Lee Harris

109: Does cash crop adoption detract from childcare provision? evidence from rural Nepal

Michael J. Paolisso, Kelly Hallman, Lawrence Haddad and Shibesh Regmi