Measurement of Poverty, Undernutrition and Child MortalityAlthough the world has seen a strong increase in global incomes in the last two decades and consequently a decline in global poverty rates, the number of persons living in absolute poverty remains on unacceptably high levels. Besides rising incomes can not distract from the fact that resources to fight global problems remain scarce. These resources have to be devoted to the fight against different global problems like the fight against communicable and non-communicable diseases (especially HIV/AIDS and Malaria) or the fight against global warming. The main precondition to achieve the best results with these limited resources is a good knowledge about the determinants and the best policies to fight each problem. But before being able to analyze the determinants of the different global problems and especially of poverty, it is of fundamental importance to find the right indicators for each phenomenon. This book contributes to the discussion of appropriate poverty indicators for the different dimensions of poverty like income poverty, undernutrition and child mortality and proposes a multidimensional poverty indicator that takes the income distribution into consideration. |
Contents
The SemiElasticity of Poverty Reduction | 9 |
1 | 26 |
Undernutrition and the Nutrition Transition | 27 |
2 | 65 |
The South Asia SubSaharan Africa Enigma | 68 |
A Human Development Index by Income Groups | 83 |
6 | 105 |
Appendix | 111 |
Appendix C | 117 |
Appendix D | 125 |
Common terms and phrases
access to health analysis anthropometric Anthropometric Failure Asia and Sub-Saharan asset index Bangladesh BMI of mother Bolivia breastfeeding Burkina Faso calculate changes in poverty child mortality child undernutrition cluster component Composition of undernutrition data set Demographic and Health developing countries DGini DHS datasets differentials distributional change dummy effect elasticity estimates Gini coefficient growth and distributional headcount poverty Health facility index Health Surveys DHS human development Human Development Index Immediate breastfeeding income quintile inequality initial Gini instrumental variable Klasen lognormal assumption Mali mean income measures mortality and undernutrition multilevel model NCHS/WHO reference standard NCHS/WHO Z-Score nutritional status outcomes percentage poorest quintile poverty gap poverty line poverty reduction Preceding birth interval principal component analysis quintile specific regions Regression Results Results of Stunting semi-elasticity significant South Asia Stunted and Underweight stunting z-scores Sub-Saharan Africa Enigma Table Uganda Underweight of 2.0 Wasted and Underweight weight Zimbabwe