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| Undernourishment and Economic Growth: The Efficiency Cost of Hunger |
| This paper considers the impact of two measures of nutritional status on the growth rate of GDP per caput: the prevalence of food inadequacy (PFI) and the dietary energy supply (DES) per caput as reported by the FAO in the Sixth World Food Survey. A surprisingly strong relationship appears to link economic growth to nutritional factors and is robust to econometric procedures that correct for unobserved country-specific heterogeneity as well as measurement error or endogeneity concerns raised by the recent critique of FAO data by Svedberg (1999). The impact of nutrition on economic growth would appear to operate directly through nutrition's effect on labour productivity as well as indirectly through improvements in life expectancy. |
Auteur: Arcand J.L. Professor CERDI-CNRS Université d'Auvergne
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Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Année: 2001
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| Mot clef: Diagnostic , Analyse de l'impact . |
| Catégorie de document: Études | Langue: Anglais |