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 …

higher undernutrition tend to have higher shares of undernourished individuals in non-poor households. The results are …

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

yield gains range from 65% for GE cotton to 12.4% for soybeans and appear to be higher in the developing world than in …

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 …

development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …