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1 online resource (788 p.) |
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Front Cover -- Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis -- Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis: Statistical Methods and Applications -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Praises from around the world for the third edition -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The nature and scope of food security, poverty, and nutrition policy analysis -- Why should a book that teaches statistical methods for analyzing socioeconomic data for generating policy and program optio ... -- Objectives of this book -- Organization of this book -- Rationale for statistical methods illustrated in the book -- Examples of statistical tests used in this book -- Learning objectives -- I -- Food security policy analysis -- 1 -- Introduction to food security: concepts and measurement -- Introduction -- Conceptual framework of food security -- Food security in the developed world -- Other policy issues in the United States -- Food security concerns in other countries -- Measurement of the determinants of food security -- Food availability -- Measuring food availability -- Food access -- Measuring food access -- Food utilization -- Measuring food utilization -- Stability of availability -- Alternative approaches in measuring food security -- Conclusions -- A natural question is why is measuring food insecurity important for better program design in developing countries? -- Exercises -- 2 -- Implications of technological change, postharvest technology, and technology adoption for improved food securit ... -- Introduction -- Review of selected studies -- Postharvest technology and implications for food security -- The postharvest loss footprint -- Coping strategies for postharvest loss -- Food security issues and technology in the United States -- Biofuels-the Chinese experience -- US Farm Policy and food security-background and current issues |
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6 -- Impact of market access on food security-application of factor analysis -- Introduction -- Assessing the linkages of market reforms on food security and productivity -- Review of selected studies -- Food deserts in the United States -- Access, information, and food security in Africa -- The role of the informal sector and food security -- Food security issues in Middle East and North Africa -- Food insecurity in South Asia: case studies of India and Afghanistan -- Food security, caloric intake, and wheat prices in Afghanistan -- Access and food security in India -- Mobile devices, market access andand nutrition -- COVID-19, frontline workers, farmers' organizations, informal markets and technology: ASEAN experience -- Empirical analysis -- Technical concepts -- Eigenvalues and eigenvectors -- Properties of eigenvalues -- Data description and methodology -- Food indicators -- Asset indicators -- Yield/technology indicators -- Market access indicators -- Household level characteristics -- Factor analysis by principal components -- Step 1: Computing the observed correlation matrix -- Step 2: Estimating the factors -- Principal components analysis -- Examining eigenvalues -- Scree plot -- Step 3: Making the factors easier to interpret: rotation procedure -- Varimax orthogonal rotation -- Step 4: Computing factor scores -- Parallel analysis and robustness check -- Principal components analysis in STATA -- Conclusion and policy implications -- Technical appendices -- Factor analysis decision process -- Principal components analysis in R -- Exercises -- STATA workout -- II -- Nutrition policy analysis -- 7 -- Impact of maternal education and care on preschoolers' nutrition-application of two-way ANOVA -- Introduction -- Conceptual framework: linkages between maternal education, child care, and nutritional status of children -- Possible linkages |
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Conceptual and measurement issues on child care -- Measurement issues -- Review of selected studies -- Maternal education and nutrition status in the United States -- Children's nutrition and maternal education in Africa -- Kenya -- Uganda and Nigeria -- Substantive findings from Asia and Latin America -- Empirical analysis -- Educational level effect -- Care effect -- Interaction effect -- Data description -- Cross-tabulation of weight for height with mothers' educational levels -- Two-way ANOVA results -- Definition of main effect -- Partitioning sum of squares -- Interpreting the interaction effect and post hoc tests -- Two-way ANOVA in STATA -- Example 1 -- Example 2 -- Example 3 -- Conclusion -- Technical appendices -- Scoring system used to create the care index (Ruel et al., 1999) care index by age group (see Table 7.10) -- Two-way ANOVA model -- Post hoc procedures -- ANOVA in R -- Exercises -- STATA workout -- 8 -- Indicators and causal factors of nutrition-application of correlation analysis -- Introduction -- Review of selected studies -- Food insecurity and nutrition in the United States -- Food insecurity in Brazil -- Global Monitoring Report on Nutrition and Millennium Development Goals -- Impact of food price spike and domestic violence in rural Bangladesh -- Malnutrition and chronic disease in India -- Malnutrition in Guatemala -- Empirical analysis and main findings -- Data description and methodology -- Concepts in correlation analysis -- Inference about population parameters in correlation -- Descriptive analysis -- Main results -- Correlation analysis of the outcome variables -- Estimating correlation using STATA -- Conclusion and policy implications -- Estimating correlation using R -- Exercises -- STATA workout |
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9 -- Effects of individual, household, and community indicators on child's nutritional status-application of simple |
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Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gajanan, Shailendra
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| ISBN |
9780128204832 |
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0128204834 |
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