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Robust Comparisons of Malnutrition in Developing Countries

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 Sahn, David E
Stifel, David C

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We use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to make international and inter-temporal welfare comparisons. While most poverty analyses rely on expenditures or income, we use anthropometric measures of nutrition as indicators of living standards. The advantages are that we observe individual--not household--well-being, deflators and exchange rates are unnecessary, and measurement techniques are similar across surveys. We test the robustness of the headcount results, and find that applying higher order Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures adds little information; although stochastic dominance testing of nutrition distributions reveals that changes in malnutrition are sensitive to the choice of the "nutrition poverty line." Copyright 2002 by American Agricultural Economics Association

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Volume (Year): 84 (2002)
Issue (Month): 3 (August)
Pages: 716-35
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