Child malnutrition

Mohamad Khaled, Paul Makdissi () and Myra Yazbeck

Chapter 26 in Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, 2023, pp 273-282 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Measuring and comparing socioeconomic child malnutrition inequalities is crucial in the monitoring of development policies. This chapter shows the empirical applicability of a dominance approach to analyze three indicators of child malnutrition: stunting, wasting, and obesity. Our results indicate that the shortfall in child nutrition in Iraq has decreased between 2011 and 2018 for three indicators of child malnutrition. This result remains valid for any health (i.e., nutrition) shortfall index. We also investigate whether this decrease in shortfall is accompanied by increasing inequalities. Our results suggest an increase of relative socioeconomic inequality over that period for stunting; however, this increase in relative inequality is not mirrored when we look at absolute inequality. Indeed, there a decrease in absolute stunting socioeconomic inequality. As for wasting and obesity, neither relative nor absolute socioeconomic inequality has changed over the period we are studying.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography; Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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