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Incentivizing nutrition: how to apply incentive mechanisms to accelerate improved nutrition outcomes: a practitioner’s compendium

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  • Laviolette, Luc
  • Gopalan, Sudararajan
  • Elder, Leslie
  • Wouters, Olivier J.

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Malnutrition is a driver of poverty. Reducing malnutrition is essential to achieving the World Bank’s goals of eliminating extreme poverty and enhancing shared prosperity. This compendium offers practical information on how to plan, implement, and monitor incentivized operations for improving nutrition results for World Bank client countries. For more detailed background information, see the World Bank report Incentivizing Nutrition: Incentive Mechanisms to Accelerate Improved Nutrition Outcomes.

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  • Laviolette, Luc & Gopalan, Sudararajan & Elder, Leslie & Wouters, Olivier J., 2016. "Incentivizing nutrition: how to apply incentive mechanisms to accelerate improved nutrition outcomes: a practitioner’s compendium," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 68711, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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