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Prix du mil, politique publique et malnutrition des enfants : le cas du Niger en 2005

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  • Giovanni Andrea Cornia
  • Laura Deotti

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Between March and August 2005 Niger was hit by a doubling of millet prices and a sharp rise in the number of severely malnourished children admitted to feeding centres. The extent and causes of such crisis remain controversial. The paper reviews the evidence in this regard in the light of the main famine theories. It concludes that the decline in food output recorded at the end of 2004 explains little of the food crisis which was due to the entitlements failure of several household groups, the malfunctioning of the regional and domestic millet markets, and policy mistakes in the fields of food security, food relief and health financing.

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  • Giovanni Andrea Cornia & Laura Deotti, 2014. "Prix du mil, politique publique et malnutrition des enfants : le cas du Niger en 2005," Revue d’économie du développement, De Boeck Université, vol. 22(1), pages 5-36.
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    1. Giovanni Andrea Cornia, "undated". "An econometric analysis of the bifurcation of within-country inequality trends in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990–2011," UNDP Africa Policy Notes 2016-04, United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Africa.

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