How rapidly will child malnutrition respond to GNP growth? This study explores that question using household data from twelve countries. In addition, data on the malnutrition rates since the 1970s available from a cross section of countries are employed in this investigation. Both forms of...

This paper starts from the proposition that the performance of an economy is directly and indirectly the result of the quality of its information and the decision-making systems. The paper first analyses the nature of the decision-making system and information flows in the former planned...