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with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller statures allow weight to be distributed over larger areas, and height is … majority of net nutrition is beyond an individual's control, and stature inequality is smaller than weight because it is … genetically determined. Current net nutrition was positively related to age, however, inversely related to regional inequality …
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In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty ….25 poverty line. Also, Thailand, after the economic crisis, with 19% of children underweight, is still above the World Health … Organization's threshold. We investigate the factors that influence nutrition outcomes, measured as Z-scores of the weight …
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The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test … the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …
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We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...
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We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482260
We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428804
We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409506
associated with morbidity and with a low BMI. Within-household nutrition inequality has a complex effect on health and physical …The dependence of health and physical fitness on the socio-economic factors of rural families in southern Ethiopia is … inequality on health in several ways: It compares the results of objective and subjective health measures, it distinguishes …
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Inequality is an important threat to the globalization of the world economy that we experience today. This contribution uses a new measure of inequality: heigth inequality. It covers not only wage recipients, but also the self-employed, the unemployed, housewifes, children, and other groups who...
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