Undernourishment and Economic Growth : The Efficiency Cost of Hunger

This paper investigates the relationship between nutrition and economic growth at the aggregate level by examining the magnitude of the effects of undernourishment on economic growth and identifying the channels of transmission of such effects (direct effects on productivity and via impacts on health). This paper makes a significant contribution to the literature on the factors that account for the differences in growth performance across countries and regions.Arcand, Jean-Louis is the author of 'Undernourishment and Economic Growth : The Efficiency Cost of Hunger', published 2001 under ISBN 9789251045428 and ISBN 9251045429.