School Feeding Programs and Development : Are We Framing the Question Correctly?
By H. Alderman, D. Bundy. 2012
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School feeding programs are politically popular interventions. They are, nevertheless, difficult to assess in terms of effectiveness since their impact is partially on education and partially on school health. They are, additionally, a means to augment consumption by vulnerable populations. The authors look at recent evidence from in-depth studies and argue that while school feeding programs can influence the education of school children and, to a lesser degree, augment nutrition for families of beneficiaries, they are best viewed as transfer programs that can provide a social safety net and help promote human capital investments. Copyright 2012, Oxford University Press.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research
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- How Can Safety Nets Contribute to Economic Growth? (2013, background): “See Alderman and Bundy (2012) for a review of school feeding programs from the perspective of safety nets.”
- Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults (2024, unknown): “31,32 In some countries, equitable economic and agricultural policies and food programmes have improved the quality of nutrition, especially for the poor, 33–36 resulting in gains in height, whereas elsewhere weight gain occurred without substantial height gain, leading to increasing obesity.”