Lina Abdelfattah – IFPRI
This is a summary of a regional program policy note published by IFPRI titled “Yemen: Economy-wide impact of conflict and alternative scenarios for recovery”. [...]
Emergency Assistance Requires Coordination: MAP YEMEN
Scaling Up Nutrition Yemen
Heidi Kandil, IFPRI Intern
The humanitarian crisis in Yemen remains the worst in the world. Nearly five years of conflict and severe economic decline are driving the country to the brink of famine and exacerbating needs in all sectors. The disruption of official markets, currency fluctuations, rising commodity prices and the diminished ability of the public to purchase basic food needs are some of the key issues that need to be addressed.
Cash transfers can help Yemen’s conflict-affected children
Sikandra Kurdi and Olivier Ecker - IFPRI
Children are often most affected by civil conflict. The ongoing civil war in Yemen, now entering its fifth year, is the most severe example of a man-made humanitarian crisis with devastating child suffering in recent history.
Policy Brief: Responding to conflict: Does “Cash Plus” work for preventing malnutrition? New evidence from an impact evaluation
Sikandra Kurdi, Clemens Breisinger, Hosam Ibrahim, Yashodham Ghorpade, Afrah Al-Ahmadi
An impact evaluation of Yemen’s Cash for Nutrition program provides new evidence of the benefits of “cash plus” transfer programs to meet nutritional needs in conflict situations.
Publication: Can unconditional cash transfers mitigate the impact of civil conflict on acute child malnutrition in Yemen?
Olivier Ecker, Jean-François Maystadt, Zhe Guo
Hunger and acute child malnutrition are increasingly concentrated in fragile countries and civil conflict zones. According to the United Nations, Yemen’s civil war has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent history. We use high-frequency panel data and district fixed-effects and household fixed-effects models to estimate the impact of civil conflict on child nutrition.
