Economic Growth and Child Undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4122759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth Harttgen (0000-0002-8499-5281, ETH Zurich), Stephan Klasen (0000-0003-4078-755X, University of Göttingen), Sebastian Vollmer (0000-0002-7863-0462, University of Göttingen) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 397-412 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00609.x |
| OpenAlex | W2073140153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 12 |
Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in sub-Saharan 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 pool all DHS surveys for African countries, control for other correlates of undernutrition, and add country-level GDP per capita. We find that a 10 percent increase in GDP per capita is associated with 1.5 to 1.7 percent lower odds of being stunted, 2.8 to 3.0 percent lower odds of being underweight, and 3.5 to 4.0 percent lower odds of being wasted. Other drivers of undernutrition, including relative socioeconomic status and mother's education and her nutritional status, are quantitatively more important. This suggests that further increases in GDP will have only a modest impact on undernutrition and broader interventions are required to accelerate progress
Body mass index · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Logistic regression · Malnutrition · Odds · Overweight · Per capita · Population · Psychological intervention · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Underweight · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |