'Unfinished Business': Ethnic Complementarities and the Political Contagion of Conflict and Peace in Gujarat

Jha, Saumitra

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2286906

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“…Beneficiaries must travelsometimes, long distancesto centers to receive their entitlements. Given the damage to normal economic interactions because of violence and fragility (Barbieri & Levy, 1999;Jha, 2013), it would be naive to believe that such threats do not interact with nutrition-specific provision. Supply lines are damaged during episodes of violence (Coward, 2009), and individuals are less likely to travel to distant health centers if they perceive the way to be dangerous.…”

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Assets for Alimentation? The Nutritional Impact of Assets-based Programming in Niger

Brück

Botía

Ferguson

et al. 2019

The Journal of Development Studies

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A recent strand of aid programming aims to develop household assets by removing the stresses associated with meeting basic nutritional needs. In this study, the authors posit that such nutrition-sensitive programmes can reduce malnourishment by encouraging further investment in diet. To test this hypothesis, they analyse the World Food Programme's (WFP) Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO), in Niger, a conflict-affected, low-income country with entrenched food insecurity. Under the PRRO, a household falls into one of three groups at end line: receiving no assistance, receiving nutrition-specific assistance, or receiving nutrition-specific assistance and nutrition-sensitive food for assets-based programming. If provided alone, food aid has no nutritional impact relative to receiving no assistance. However, the study observes pronounced positive effects if food aid is paired with assets-based programming. The authors conclude, first, that certain forms of food aid function well in complex, insecure environments; second, that assets-based programmes deliver positive nutritional spillovers; and, third, that there are theoretical grounds to believe that assets-based nutrition-sensitive programmes interact positively with nutrition-specific programming.

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confidence: 99%