Reducing Child Malnutrition : How Far Does Income Growth Take Us?
How rapidly will child malnutrition respond to income growth? This article explores that question using household survey data from 12 countries as well as data on malnutrition rates in a cross-section of countries since the 1970s. Both forms of ana...
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okr-10986-171722021-04-23T14:03:29Z Reducing Child Malnutrition : How Far Does Income Growth Take Us? Haddad, Lawrence Alderman, Harold Appleton, Simon Song, Lina Yohannes, Yisehac ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE BASIC HEALTH CHILD GROWTH CHILD MALNUTRITION CHILD MORTALITY CHILD NUTRITION CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS CLEAN WATER CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA COST-EFFECTIVENESS DIRECT NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC GROWTH FAMILIES FARMER FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD POLICY FOOD SECURITY FOOD STAMPS HEALTH CARE HEALTH INTERVENTIONS HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH STATUS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUNGER HYGIENE IMMUNIZATION INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GENERATION INCOME GROWTH INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME POVERTY IRON LAND VALUE LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS MALNUTRITION MALNUTRITION RATES MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION NUTRIENT NUTRITION EDUCATION NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS NUTRITION POLICY NUTRITION PROGRAMS NUTRITIONAL OUTCOMES NUTRITIONAL STATUS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POOR COUNTRIES POORER HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY REDUCTION PREGNANT WOMEN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN PREVALENCE OF MALNUTRITION QUALITY CONTROL RURAL SAFETY NET SANITATION SAVINGS SCHOOLING UNDERNUTRITION VIOLENCE VITAMIN VITAMIN A WAGE EARNERS WELFARE MONITORING How rapidly will child malnutrition respond to income growth? This article explores that question using household survey data from 12 countries as well as data on malnutrition rates in a cross-section of countries since the 1970s. Both forms of analysis yield similar results. Increases in income at the household and national levels imply similar rates of reduction in malnutrition. Using these estimates and better than historical income growth rates, the article finds that the millennium development goal of halving the prevalence of underweight children by 2015 is unlikely to be met through income growth alone. What is needed to accelerate reductions in malnutrition is a balanced strategy of income growth and investment in more direct interventions. 2014-02-26T15:38:11Z 2014-02-26T15:38:11Z 2003-01 Journal Article http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/17741959/reducing-child-malnutrition-far-income-growth-take World Bank Economic Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17172 English en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research |
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ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE BASIC HEALTH CHILD GROWTH CHILD MALNUTRITION CHILD MORTALITY CHILD NUTRITION CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS CLEAN WATER CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA COST-EFFECTIVENESS DIRECT NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC GROWTH FAMILIES FARMER FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD POLICY FOOD SECURITY FOOD STAMPS HEALTH CARE HEALTH INTERVENTIONS HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH STATUS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUNGER HYGIENE IMMUNIZATION INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GENERATION INCOME GROWTH INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME POVERTY IRON LAND VALUE LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS MALNUTRITION MALNUTRITION RATES MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION NUTRIENT NUTRITION EDUCATION NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS NUTRITION POLICY NUTRITION PROGRAMS NUTRITIONAL OUTCOMES NUTRITIONAL STATUS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POOR COUNTRIES POORER HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY REDUCTION PREGNANT WOMEN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN PREVALENCE OF MALNUTRITION QUALITY CONTROL RURAL SAFETY NET SANITATION SAVINGS SCHOOLING UNDERNUTRITION VIOLENCE VITAMIN VITAMIN A WAGE EARNERS WELFARE MONITORING |
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ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE BASIC HEALTH CHILD GROWTH CHILD MALNUTRITION CHILD MORTALITY CHILD NUTRITION CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS CLEAN WATER CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA COST-EFFECTIVENESS DIRECT NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC GROWTH FAMILIES FARMER FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD POLICY FOOD SECURITY FOOD STAMPS HEALTH CARE HEALTH INTERVENTIONS HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH STATUS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUNGER HYGIENE IMMUNIZATION INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GENERATION INCOME GROWTH INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME POVERTY IRON LAND VALUE LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS MALNUTRITION MALNUTRITION RATES MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION NUTRIENT NUTRITION EDUCATION NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS NUTRITION POLICY NUTRITION PROGRAMS NUTRITIONAL OUTCOMES NUTRITIONAL STATUS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POOR COUNTRIES POORER HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY REDUCTION PREGNANT WOMEN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN PREVALENCE OF MALNUTRITION QUALITY CONTROL RURAL SAFETY NET SANITATION SAVINGS SCHOOLING UNDERNUTRITION VIOLENCE VITAMIN VITAMIN A WAGE EARNERS WELFARE MONITORING Haddad, Lawrence Alderman, Harold Appleton, Simon Song, Lina Yohannes, Yisehac Reducing Child Malnutrition : How Far Does Income Growth Take Us? |
| description |
How rapidly will child malnutrition
respond to income growth? This article explores that
question using household survey data from 12 countries as
well as data on malnutrition rates in a cross-section of
countries since the 1970s. Both forms of analysis yield
similar results. Increases in income at the household and
national levels imply similar rates of reduction in
malnutrition. Using these estimates and better than
historical income growth rates, the article finds that the
millennium development goal of halving the prevalence of
underweight children by 2015 is unlikely to be met through
income growth alone. What is needed to accelerate reductions
in malnutrition is a balanced strategy of income growth and
investment in more direct interventions. |
| format |
Journal Article |
| author |
Haddad, Lawrence Alderman, Harold Appleton, Simon Song, Lina Yohannes, Yisehac |
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Haddad, Lawrence Alderman, Harold Appleton, Simon Song, Lina Yohannes, Yisehac |
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Haddad, Lawrence |
| title |
Reducing Child Malnutrition : How Far Does Income Growth Take Us? |
| title_short |
Reducing Child Malnutrition : How Far Does Income Growth Take Us? |
| title_full |
Reducing Child Malnutrition : How Far Does Income Growth Take Us? |
| title_fullStr |
Reducing Child Malnutrition : How Far Does Income Growth Take Us? |
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Reducing Child Malnutrition : How Far Does Income Growth Take Us? |
| title_sort |
reducing child malnutrition : how far does income growth take us? |
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Washington, DC: World Bank |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/17741959/reducing-child-malnutrition-far-income-growth-take http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17172 |
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