Enhancing Nutrition: A New Tool for Ex-Ante Comparison of Commodity-based Vouchers and Food Transfers

This article presents a new analytical tool for ex-ante comparison of the cost-effectiveness of two transfer modalities in pursuing specific nutritional objectives. It does so by introducing a metric to score the nutrient value of a food basket—the Nutrient Value Score (NVS)—and explains how this me...

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Published inWorld development Vol. 49; pp. 58 - 67
Main Authors Ryckembusch, David, Frega, Romeo, Silva, Marcio Guilherme, Gentilini, Ugo, Sanogo, Issa, Grede, Nils, Brown, Lynn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2013
Pergamon Press Inc
Subjects
Comparative analysis
cost effectiveness
Cost estimates
Food
Food programs
Measurement techniques
nutrient access
Nutrition
Nutrition research
response analysis
Studies
transfers
Vouchers
nutrient access
response analysis
vouchers
transfers
food
cost effectiveness
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Summary:This article presents a new analytical tool for ex-ante comparison of the cost-effectiveness of two transfer modalities in pursuing specific nutritional objectives. It does so by introducing a metric to score the nutrient value of a food basket—the Nutrient Value Score (NVS)—and explains how this metric can be combined with full supply chain analysis and costing to generate a new tool, the Omega Value. The use of the Omega Value allows policy-makers who design a program with nutrition objectives to compare direct food transfers and commodity-based food vouchers in terms of both cost efficiency and cost effectiveness.
ISSN:0305-750X
1873-5991
DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.01.021