Title:
Undernourishment and economic growth : the efficiency cost of hunger / by Jean-Louis Arcand.
FAO economic and social development paper,
Author:
Arcand, Jean-Louis.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
General Notes:
"This paper investigates the relationship between nutrition and economic growth at the aggregate level by examining the magnitude of the effects of undernourishment on economic growth and identifying the channels of transmission of such effects (direct effects on productivity and via impacts on health). In addition ... other important relationships are investigated: (1) regional differences regarding the impact of under-nourishment on growth; (b) the impact that possible errors in measuring nutritional variables may have on the robustness of the estimated nutrition-growth relationship; and (c) the existence of "nutritional traps," i.e., the vicious circle of low nutrition-low economic growth-low nutrition"--P. [4] of cover., "This paper investigates the relationship between nutrition and economic growth at the aggregate level by examining the magnitude of the effects of undernourishment on economic growth and identifying the channels of transmission of such effects (direct effects on productivity and via impacts on health). In addition ... other important relationships are investigated: (1) regional differences regarding the impact of under-nourishment on growth; (b) the impact that possible errors in measuring nutritional variables may have on the robustness of the estimated nutrition-growth relationship; and (c) the existence of "nutritional traps," i.e., the vicious circle of low nutrition-low economic growth-low nutrition"--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
Publication Place:
Rome :
ISBN:
9251045429 (pbk.)
Subject:
Economic development -- Econometric models.
Malnutrition -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Econometric models.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Econometric models..
Food supply -- Developing countries -- Econometric models.
Series:
FAO economic and social development paper, 147
Physical Description:
vi, 60 p. : ill. ;
Publication Date:
2001.
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