This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient … inter-regional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests …

derivatives as well as heteroscedasticity in the data. It is applied to study the determinants of chronic undernutrition of Kenyan … children, with particular focus on the highly non-linear age pattern in undernutrition. Model estimation using the mixed model …

undernutrition: (i) the FAO indicator of undernourishment, (ii) household food consumption surveys, and (iii) childhood … undernutrition is unknown. We discuss strengths and weaknesses of each approach and make concrete suggestions for improvement, which …

similar improvements in the nutritional situation of the people and especially of children. We find that undernutrition … status. Our conclusion that non-monetary factors matter to reduce undernutrition, and, therefore, monetary poverty reduction … is not a sufficient condition, is further underlined by a prediction of future undernutrition rates based on regressions …

to other geopolitical regions. However, despite the close relationship between undernutrition and mortality rates, the …, this discrepancy between the undernutrition rates between South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa should be expected to decrease …. In addition, one can also ask whether undernutrition rates would differ without selective mortality. Using data for …