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Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: the Mozambican experience 2008/09

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Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: the Mozambican experience 2008/09
Abstract
A propitiously timed household survey carried out in Mozambique over the period 2008-09 permits us to evaluate the short-to-medium run relationship between sudden shocks to food prices and child nutrition status. We link local price inflation with child malnutrition status. We find that the prevalence of underweight amongst children rises in response to a higher inflation rate for basic food products. Stunting and wasting malnutrition measures are mostly insensitive to the inflation rate. The very high food inflation during 2008/09 was responsible for an extra 39,000 moderately underweight and 24,000 severely underweight children.
Report Number
2012/89
Report Type
Working Paper
Institution
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER)
Date
10/2012
Language
English
Accessed
2023-03-13
Citation
Arndt, C., Hussain, M. A., & Østerdal, L. P. (2012). Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: the Mozambican experience 2008/09 (Working Paper No. 2012/89). World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER). https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/wp2012-089.pdf
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