Arbeitspapier
Economic Growth and Child Undernutrition in Africa
Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less and rather inconsistently across the continent. We examine to what extent there is an empirical linkage between income growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We do this by pooling all DHS surveys for African countries, control for other correlates of undernutrition, and add country-level GDP per capita. We find that increases in GDP per capita are associated with lower individual probabilities of being underweight of about 2.5 percent per one hundred dollars. This association becomes insignificant when time fixed effects are added to the regression. Other explanatory variables such as mother’s education, socioeconomic status, and poor mother’s nutritional status are quantitatively more important than economic growth suggesting that other intervention to affect these correlates of undernutrition are likely to be more promising than relying on improved economic conditions.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: GlobalFood Discussion Papers ; No. 14
Health and Economic Development
Economic Development: General
child undernutrition
Africa
economic development
wasting
stunting
underweight
Klasen, Stephan
Vollmer, Sebastian
- DOI
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doi:10.22004/ag.econ.130164
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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12.07.2024, 13:21 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Harttgen, Kenneth
- Klasen, Stephan
- Vollmer, Sebastian
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Research Training Group (RTG) 1666 - GlobalFood
Entstanden
- 2012
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