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Poverty, undernutrition, and child mortality: some inter-regional puzzles and their implications for research and policy

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient calories (undernourishment) is highest in the Caribbean. The paper finds that standard explanations cannot account for these inter-regional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests that measurement issues related to the way undernourishment and childhood undernutrition is measured might play a significant role in affecting these inter-regional puzzles and points to implications for research and policy.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2509

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Unterernährung
Kindersterblichkeit
Messung
Sozialer Indikator
Entwicklungsländer

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Klasen, Stephan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2006

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008050612
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Klasen, Stephan
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2006

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