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Cash Transfers and Child Nutrition: Pathways and Impacts
Author(s) -
Groot Richard,
Palermo Tia,
Handa Sudhanshu,
Ragno Luigi Peter,
Peterman Amber
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/dpr.12255
Subject(s) - malnutrition , cash transfers , diversity (politics) , cash , early childhood , dietary diversity , public economics , environmental health , psychology , development economics , medicine , developmental psychology , business , economic growth , economics , political science , geography , food security , finance , agriculture , archaeology , law
Childhood malnutrition remains a significant global problem, with an estimated 162 million children under the age of five suffering from stunted growth. This article examines the extent to which cash transfer programmes can improve child nutrition. It adopts a framework that captures and explains the pathways and determinants of child nutrition. The framework is then used to organize and discuss relevant evidence from the impact evaluation literature, focusing on impact pathways and new and emerging findings from sub‐Saharan Africa to identify critical elements that determine child nutrition outcomes as well as knowledge gaps requiring further research, such as children's dietary diversity, caregiver behaviours and stress.