This study investigates the relationship between nutrition intake and economic growth as an attempt to provide useful insights for FAO’s Anti-hunger Programme. It addresses the question of how much economic growth is lost by a country that has undernourished people. Real per capita gross...

This paper considers the impact of the nutritional status on the growth rate of real GDP per capita. In particular, a panel of 114 countries’ Dietary Energy Supply (DES) per capita from 1961 to 1999 is combined with the latest release of real GDP per capita data from the World Bank (World...