Equate and Conflate
Political Commitment to Hunger and Undernutrition Reduction in Five High-Burden Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11916686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dolf te Lintelo (0000-0002-9216-498X, Institute of Development Studies, corresponding author), Dolf J H te Lintelo, Rajith W D Lakshman, Rajith Lakshman (0000-0001-8178-9223, Institute of Development Studies) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Pages | 280-292 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-750X • E-ISSN: 1873-5991 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.07.013 |
| OpenAlex | W1146322294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 30 |
As political commitment is an essential ingredient for elevating food and nutrition security onto policy agendas, commitment metrics have proliferated. Many conflate government commitment to fight hunger with combating undernutrition. We test the hypothesis that commitment to hunger reduction is empirically different from commitment to reducing undernutrition through expert surveys in five high-burden countries: Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, Tanzania, and Zambia. Our findings confirm the hypothesis. We conclude that sensitive commitment metrics are needed to guide government and donor policies and programmatic action. Without, historically inadequate prioritization of non-food aspects of malnutrition may persist to imperil achieving global nutrition targets
Action (physics · Biology · Business · Conflation · Developing country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Food security · Government (linguistics · Malnutrition · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Socioeconomics · Tanzania · Test (biology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
What drives political commitment for nutrition? A review and framework synthesis to inform the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition
Analysis of the Human Resource Management Process
Hunger and the Experience of Being Well
Evaluating Parliamentary Advocacy for Nutrition in Tanzania
The making of public investments
How do the state’s organisational capacities at the micro- and macro-levels influence agriculture-nutrition linkages in fragile contexts
Galvanizing political commitment in the UN Decade of Action for Nutrition
Executive Agency and State Capacity in Development
What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival
Generation of political priority for global health initiatives
Individual Comparisons by Ranking Methods
The politics of reducing malnutrition
Likert scales
Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries
Likert scales, levels of measurement and the “laws” of statistics
Veto Players
Defining Political Will
Defining World Hunger
How Can We Build an Enabling Political Environment to Fight Undernutriton
The politics of success in the fight against malnutrition in Peru
The food-first bias and nutrition policy
Measuring the commitment to reduce hunger
Administrative Reform as Credible Commitment
After the decision
Structural adjustment as a policy process
Credible Commitment and Success with Public Enterprise Reform
Political commitment, institutional capacity and tax policy reform in Tanzania
Political Commitment to Reform
Reducing Child Undernutrition
Measuring political commitment and opportunities to advance food and nutrition security
Nutrition agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation
Generating Political Priority for Maternal Mortality Reduction in 5 Developing Countries
Framing Theory
Why Worry About the Politics of Childhood Undernutrition
| Citations per year | 0.89 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |