Food insecurity and social protection in Europe: quasi-natural experiment of Europe’s Great Recessions 2004-2012.

Food insecurity rose sharply in Europe after 2009, but marked variation exists across countries and over time. We test whether social protection programmes protected people from food insecurity arising from economic hardship across Europe. Data on household food insecurity covering 21 EU countries f...

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Main Authors: Loopstra, R, Reeves, A, McKee, M, Stuckler, D
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2016