Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia
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Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank John Hoddinott, Martin Ravallion and Norbert Schady as well as seminar participants at the Chronic Poverty Conference at Manchester University for useful comments which helped improve earlier versions of this paper. Nonetheless, the findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed are entirely those of the authors, and they do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent.
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