Trends and Drivers of Poverty Reduction in Nepal: A Historical Perspective

Uematsu, Hiroki; Shidiq, Akhmad Rizal; Tiwari, Sailesh

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“…Various factors contributed to growing economic disparities in child malnutrition within Nepal, including insufficient healthcare access and quality, inadequate safe water and sanitation, limited availability of nutritious food, higher birth order, and maternal short stature. Additionally, determinants like poverty, agricultural backwardness, social protection, lower maternal education, limited women empowerment, and regional concentration of undernutrition played significant roles [9,29,60,61,[75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87].…”

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Revisiting swimming against tide; inequalities in child malnutrition in Nepal

Siddiqui,

Illiyan,

Akram

et al. 2024

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Background Child stunting, child underweight, and child wasting in Nepal decreased from 48%, 47%, and 11% to 25%, 19%, and 9%, respectively, between 1996 and 2022. Despite an overall reduction in prevalence rates, economically poor and geographically backward regions in Nepal have not seen equivalent improvement in child undernutrition similar to their richer and developed regions, leading to increased differences in undernutrition prevalence across the wealth quintiles. This study aimed to assess time trends in the average and inequality of child nutritional status by household wealth across Nepal's geographical spaces from 1996 to 2022. Methods This study utilized data from four rounds (1996, 2006, 2016, and 2022) of the Nepal Demographics and Health Survey (NDHS). The nutritional status of children below three years of age, measured by stunting, wasting, and underweight, served as the main dependent variable. Household wealth status, determined by binary responses regarding possession of household assets, acted as a proxy for economic status. The study employed point prevalence for average, Concentration Index (CI), Poorest-Richest-Ratio (P-R-R), and Poorer-Richer-Ratio (Pr-Rr-R) to analyze trends in child nutritional status by wealth quintiles. Results From 1996 to 2022, Nepal exhibited an increasing Concentration Index and an upward trend in P-R-R measures of inequality in child stunting. The P-R-R increased from 1.77 in 1996 to 2.51 in 2022, However, results show a concurrent decrease in Pr-Rr-R from 1.19 to 1.18, assessing the prevalence of stunting among children. In the prevalence of child underweight, the P-R-R and Pr-Rr-R were 1.88 and 1.19 in 1996, decreasing to 1.47 and 1.10, respectively, in 2022. Conclusion The results indicated that inequalities in child nutrition across wealth status show an increase in stunting but marginal decline in underweight and wasting. Therefore, the study underscores the need for inclusive policy and program interventions to achieve equitable improvement in child stunting in Nepal, ensuring that progress extends to children in the poorest wealth quintile households. However, the progress is equitable in child underweight and wasting.

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Revisiting swimming against tide; inequalities in child malnutrition in Nepal

Siddiqui,

Illiyan,

Akram

et al. 2024

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“…Despite such importance, the literature remains scant in the Nepali context. The available literature in Nepal has focused primarily on understanding the drivers and determinants of poverty in Nepal (Acharya & Leon-gonzalez, 2012;Dev Bhatta & Sharma, 2012;Lokshin et al, 2007;Uematsu et al, 2016;Wagle & Devkota, 2018). Recent literature has paid attention to poverty dynamics-a measure that assesses the movement of the household in and out of poverty over time (Adhikari, 2011;Khanal, 2015;Wagle, 2017).…”

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Estimating Households’ Vulnerability to Poverty from an Idiosyncratic Shock: Evidence from Nepal

Adhikari

Shahi

GC³

2020

Economic Journal of Nepal

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This paper estimates the vulnerability to the poverty level of the households in Nepal for an idiosyncratic shock using the third round of Nepal Living Standard Survey data. A feasible generalized least square technique is employed to calculate the vulnerability score, further disaggregated between rural-urban areas, provinces, and major caste/ethnic groups. The findings reveal that thirty-two percent of households are highly vulnerable, indicating that they have higher chances of falling below the poverty line due to death, illness, unemployment, and other household-specific shocks. The paper also finds that Karnali and Sudur Paschim Provinces have higher vulnerability than other provinces. Likewise, Dalits and Muslims have higher vulnerability scores compared to other castes / ethnic groups. The estimation suggests that the poverty incidence and vulnerability scores largely overlap, yet the vulnerability scores are consistently higher among all groups indicating a high risk of households falling into poverty. Therefore, it is desirable that major groups’ vulnerability profile, in addition to poverty profile, should be constructed and aligns the pro-poor policies to the vulnerable groups to mitigate the risks of pushing such vulnerable households below the poverty line.

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Determinants of Severe Acute Malnutrition Among 6-59 Months Children in Nutritional Care Centers of Lumbini Province, Nepal: A Facility-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Dirghayu,

Shrestha,

Thapa

et al. 2024

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BACKGROUND Malnutrition results in the most visible form of undernutrition, ultimately leading to Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). Globally, undernutrition is observed as a significant contributor to the global burden of disease and a leading cause of child mortality. AIM To assess the epidemiological determinants of SAM among children visiting Out-Patient Therapeutic Centers (OTCs) and Nutrition Rehabilitation Homes/centers (NRH) in Lumbini Province, Nepal. METHODS A facility-based cross-sectional study design was conducted in randomly selected OTCs and NRHs. Face-to-face interviews were conducted among mothers of children visiting the facilities using structured questionnaire, and anthropometric measurements of children were done using standardized equipment. Descriptive statistics were used to assess the socio-demographic information of the participants whereas, inferential statistics were applied to test the significance of the association between independent and dependent variables. RESULTS Socio-demographic characteristics showed that 53.2% participants were male, 55.8% resided in rural municipalities with two-thirds being from _Madhesi/terai _ethnic background. Children of age group 6-11 months, and 12-23 months were found to have lower odds of SAM with aORs 0.21[95% CI: (0.09-0.52)] and aORs 0.20[95% CI: (0.10-0.45)] respectively whereas mother’s age at childbirth had higher odds of SAM with aOR 2.77[95% CI: (1.33-5.77)]. CONCLUSION The facility-based SAM prevalence of Lumbini Province was 34.9% whereby the child’s age and mother’s age at childbirth were observed as significant predictors of SAM. Implementing school and community-based training programs on behavior change communication regarding the need for proper nutrition pre and post-maternity and its outcome, could possibly be vital in reducing malnutrition as a whole.

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Trends and Drivers of Poverty Reduction in Nepal: A Historical Perspective

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Revisiting swimming against tide; inequalities in child malnutrition in Nepal

Revisiting swimming against tide; inequalities in child malnutrition in Nepal

Estimating Households’ Vulnerability to Poverty from an Idiosyncratic Shock: Evidence from Nepal

Determinants of Severe Acute Malnutrition Among 6-59 Months Children in Nutritional Care Centers of Lumbini Province, Nepal: A Facility-Based Cross-Sectional Study

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