841 Million Undernourished? On the Tirany of Deriving a Number

P. Svedberg

Working Papers from Stockholm - International Economic Studies

Abstract: The FAO provides estimates of the prevalence of undernutrition which are claimed to be comparable over countries and time. In this paper, it is demonstrated that the FAO estimated are unreliable indicators of the scope of the undernutrition problem, that they erroneoulsy fins chronic undernutrition to be most prevalent in Africa, and that they tend to direct policy in the wrong direction.

Keywords: AFRICA; UNDERNUTRITION; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J13 O19 Q11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 1998
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