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Almost 1 billion people suffer from undernutrition in developing countries. In this book, Professor Svedberg provides a detailed analytical study of undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa, the worst affected area, and provides crucial advice for all those concerned in development worldwide. The book concentrates on the five challenges that undernutrition creates: what undernutrition is, who the undernourished are, where the undernourished are, when people are undernourished, and why people are undernourished.
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UNU WORLD INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS RESEARCH (UNU/WIDER)
was established by the United Nations University as its first research and training centre and started work in Helsinki, Finland in 1985. The purpose of the Institute is to undertake applied research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the developing and transitional economies, to provide a forum for the advocacy of policies leading to robust, equitable, and environmentally sustainable growth, and to promote capacity strengthening and training in the field of economic and social policy-making. Its work is carried out by staff researchers and visiting scholars in Helsinki and through networks of collaborating scholars and institutions around the world.
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Poverty and Undernutrition
Theory, Measurement, and Policy
Peter Svedberg
A study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER)
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Svedberg, Peter. Poverty and undernutrition: theory, measurement, and policy/ Peter Svedberg. p. cm.(Studies in development economics) Includes bibliographical references (p. ). 1. MalnutritionAfrica, Sub-Saharan. 2. PoorAfrica, Sub-SaharanNutrition. I. Title. II. Series. RA645.N87S837 2000 363.8'0967dc21 98-45930
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FOREWORD
While famines kill millions of people with dramatic suddenness, chronic undernutrition is responsible for terminating many more lives. Endemic hunger works quietly, on a perennial basis, through increasing mortality rates from standard ailments, and it afflicts a much larger population than is affected by famines. Persistent undernourishment also blights the existence of people who may not die as a result of it but whose ability to lead secure, productive and happy lives is severely afflicted by debilitation and morbidity. All this happens without the climactic swiftness of famines, and tends not to arouse the kind of visual empathy and sympathetic outbursts that famines can generate, with the help of the public media. Indeed, even the exact magnitudes and intensities of undernutrition in different countries in the world remain obscured from public view. A lack of hard data as well as the absence of clear analyses makes this possible. While there is evidence enough to indicate that more people die from undernutrition than from famines (and also that many more people lead severely constrained lives as a result of it), nevertheless it is very difficult to derive definitive estimates of the exact magnitudes of people affected by this endemic deprivation.
Undernutrition is, in this sense, both a bigger and a harder problem to deal with than the more sensational phenomenon of famines. It is not easy to think of any social problem in the contemporary world that deserves greater attention than the foggy adversity of chronic and widespread undernutrition. In this book, Peter Svedberg has taken on the challenge of investigating this difficult problem, which is clearly one of the principal tribulations in the contemporary world.
I should, incidentally, mention here that Peter Svedberg's research was initially done for the World Institute of Development Economics Research (WIDER), located in Helsinki, Finland. The institute is affiliated with the United Nations University. Svedberg's work was done for the project on 'hunger and poverty' at WIDER, which I had the privilege to direct for many years. Clearly, I should declare an interest here, but I believe I am not influenced by this connection at all in commending Svedberg's book as a major achievement in this field.
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