This paper estimates the impact of the 2008 food price spike and the 2009 contraction in global growth on undernourishment rates. The analysis is based on a methodology that uses a calorie-income relationship and income distribution data. The authors find that the 2008 global food price spike may have increased global undernourishment by about 6.8 percent, or 63 million people. Moreover, they show that the sharp slowdown in global growth in 2009 could have contributed to 41 million more undernourished people compared with what would have happened if the economic crisis had not occurred.
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2010/02/01
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS5215
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1
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1
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Doc Name
The impact of economic shocks on global undernourishment
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Keywords
Undernourishment;food price;per capita income;per capita calorie consumption;income elasticity of demand;Food Security and Nutrition;Nutrition and Food Security;income distribution datum;Food Price Index;economic crisis;global economic crisis;global economic slowdown;cumulative distribution function;country fixed effect;health and nutrition;daily calorie intake;domestic consumer price;health production function;fixed effect model;household survey data;quality of diet;Population and Development;global food prices;purchasing power parity;high energy price;coefficient of variation;food balance sheets;center for population;prevalence of malnutrition;implications for policy;food price volatility;change in prices;demand for food;credit market constraint;food insecure people;agricultural economics;price elasticity;price shock;economic shock;caloric intake;price change;global growth;Political Economy;density function;financial crisis;
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Tiwari,Sailesh Zaman,Hassan
The impact of economic shocks on global undernourishment (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5215 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/509661468163742397/The-impact-of-economic-shocks-on-global-undernourishment