We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …

In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with …

higher undernutrition tend to have higher shares of undernourished individuals in non-poor households. The results are … consistent with intra-household inequality but other factors also appear to be at work including common health risks …

The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than … statistical procedures in poor countries understate the rate of global poverty reduction, and overstate growth in the world … used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in …

measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …

and wealth. We propose a revealed preference approach to measuring hunger and undernutrition that overcomes these …Caloric intake and minimum calorie thresholds are widely used in developing countries to assess hunger and nutrition …, and to construct poverty lines. However, it is generally recognized that the sufficiency of an individual's caloric intake …