Measuring the commitment to reduce hunger: A hunger reduction commitment index

Dolf J.H. te Lintelo, Lawrence J. Haddad, Jennifer Leavy () and Rajith Lakshman ()

Food Policy, 2014, vol. 44, issue C, 115-128

Abstract: Can an index be constructed to assess governments’ commitment to reduce hunger? This paper argues for the need for such an index and outlines one way of constructing it. We use secondary data to construct the Hunger Reduction Commitment Index (HRCI) for 21 developing countries.

Keywords: Hunger; Political commitment; Index; Food security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2013.11.005

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