Famine and the Aid Response : Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen
Using a high-frequency mobile phone survey of food security conducted by the World Food Programme, this paper investigates how food assistance and access to food changed following the announcement of famine-like conditions in the Republic of Yemen....
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/284601554919999694/Famine-and-the-Aid-Response-Evidence-from-the-Announcement-of-Famine-Like-Conditions-in-the-Republic-of-Yemen http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31541 |
| Summary: | Using a high-frequency mobile phone
survey of food security conducted by the World Food
Programme, this paper investigates how food assistance and
access to food changed following the announcement of
famine-like conditions in the Republic of Yemen. Among the
mobile phone–using population, the share of households
receiving food assistance more than doubled following the
announcement. The increases were largely targeted at regions
identified in the announcement as being closer to famine in
the original announcement, and there was improvement in
access to food in regions that received the most food
assistance relative to the rest of the country. Although the
survey misses struggling households that do not have access
to a mobile phone and are potentially more at risk of
famine, the results raise questions about the need for
better quality data in food emergencies that are updated
more regularly for better targeting of food assistance. |
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