Economic progress in twentieth-century Portugal: Revisiting the evidence
利用三种独立档案资料，证实了二十世纪中期葡萄牙儿童发育迟缓与消瘦率的大幅下降，并说明这些改善与当时健康基础设施和可及性的扩展一致，且持续进步始于民主化之前。
Using three independent archival sources, we previously documented substantial declines in stunting and wasting in Portugal during the mid-twentieth century. This note revisits the original evidence, clarifies the descriptive scope of our analysis, and situates the observed anthropometric changes within the broader evolution of public health, nutrition, and social policy in Portugal. We show that the timing and magnitude of the declines are robust to alternative data restrictions and aggregation choices, and that the documented improvements are consistent with contemporaneous expansions in health infrastructure and access documented in the historical record. Hence our paper documents that sustained progress began prior to democracy.