Food budget allocation efficiency: A missing component to help identify robust nutrition policies, with application to Rwanda

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dc.creatorMarivoet, Wim
dc.date2022-10-14
dc.date2024-04-12T13:36:48Z
dc.date2024-04-12T13:36:48Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:35:35Z
dc.descriptionThis paper presents two interrelated innovations to help identify diet-related nutrition policies. The first involves the development of a food budget allocation efficiency measure to quantify suboptimal food preferences, which is one key explanation of poor diets in addition to unaffordability. The second relates to the application of stochastic dominance to a portfolio of dietrelated nutrition policies, defined by various levels of allocation efficiency and affordability. As no full specification is needed, the latter technique is particularly useful when lacking normative guidelines regarding the relative importance of nutrient deficiencies within one-dimensional diet quality measures as well as the exact content of culture-sensitive diets. The analytical innovations are illustrated using a 2013/14 household consumption survey of Rwanda, a country characterized by both high calorie and micronutrient deficiencies. The origins of these poor nutritional outcomes can be traced back to various combinations and levels of affordability and allocation efficiency constraints. By only excluding the most inequality averse diet quality pecification, which may help to account for measurement error, a robust set of policy recommendations can be formulated for two thirds of all observations, most of which should focus on awareness raising activities.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/140873
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/108818
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133783
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134881
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceMarivoet, Wim. 2022. Food budget allocation efficiency: A missing component to help identify robust nutrition policies, with application to Rwanda. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2141. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136408.
dc.subjectallocation
dc.subjectefficiency
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectagricultural policies
dc.subjecthealthy diets
dc.subjectfood access
dc.subjectaffordable healthy diets
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectdiet quality
dc.subjectdiet
dc.subjectstochastic processes
dc.subjectstatistical methods
dc.titleFood budget allocation efficiency: A missing component to help identify robust nutrition policies, with application to Rwanda
dc.typeWorking Paper

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