Helping Women Improve Nutrition in the Developing World: by Judith S. McGuire

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Four particular classes of interventions are likely to reduce women's constraints to improving their nutritional needs: (1) increasing women's income and control of income and productive resources; (2) reducing women's child-care burden; (3) increasing women's productivity in household production; and (4) improving women's own health and nutrition directly. The logic is as follows: Women's income generation leads to greater control over income which in turn leads to expenditure patterns favoring nutrition.

Popkin is a professor at the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina. Cover photograph by Curt Carnemark. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McGuire, Judith S.  Popkin. (World Bank technical paper, ISSN 0253-7494 : no. 114) Includes bibliographical references (p.  Women in nutrition.  Series. 8'082dc20 CIP Page iii Abstract The purpose of this paper is to link together in a new and creative way the existing knowledge about women's market work, reproductive roles, and household production in order to highlight opportunities for helping women improve nutrition.

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