Reducing Child Malnutrition: How Far Does Income Growth Take Us?
利用12个国家家庭调查数据和跨国时间序列数据，分析收入增长对儿童营养不良率的影响，发现仅靠收入增长难以实现千年发展目标中到2015年将低体重儿童比例减半的目标，需要结合直接干预措施。
How rapidly will child malnutrition \n respond to income growth? This article explores that \n question using household survey data from 12 countries as \n well as data on malnutrition rates in a cross-section of \n countries since the 1970s. Both forms of analysis yield \n similar results. Increases in income at the household and \n national levels imply similar rates of reduction in \n malnutrition. Using these estimates and better than \n historical income growth rates, the article finds that the \n millennium development goal of halving the prevalence of \n underweight children by 2015 is unlikely to be met through \n income growth alone. What is needed to accelerate reductions \n in malnutrition is a balanced strategy of income growth and \n investment in more direct interventions.