@article{Haddad:16416,
      recid = {16416},
      author = {Haddad, Lawrence James and Alderman, Harold and Appleton,  Simon and Song, Lina and Yohannes, Yisehac},
      title = {REDUCING CHILD UNDERNUTRITION: HOW FAR DOES INCOME GROWTH  TAKE US?},
      address = {2002},
      number = {583-2016-39724},
      series = {FCND Discussion Paper},
      pages = {45},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {How rapidly will child undernutrition respond to income  growth? This study
explores that question using household  survey data from 12 countries. In addition, data
on the  undernutrition rates since the 1970s available from a  cross-section of countries are
employed in this  investigation. Both forms of analysis yield similar  results. Income
increases at household and national levels  imply similar rates of reduction in
undernutrition. Using  these estimates and better-than-historical income growth  rates, we
find that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG)  of halving the levels of child
underweight by 2015 is  unlikely to be met through income growth alone. What is  needed
is a balanced strategy of income growth and  investment in more direct interventions to
accelerate  reductions in undernutrition.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/16416},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.16416},
}