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Hunger
Amartya
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Peter Svedberg Sources: ACC/SCN (1992), Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation, Geneva. ACC/SCN (2000), Fourth Report on the World Nutrition Situation, Geneva. Dréze, J. and Sen, A. (1995), India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Clarendon Press, Oxford. Eveleth, P. B. and Tanner, J. M. (1990), Worldwide Variations in Human Growth, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. FAO (1996), The 6th World Food Survey, FAO, Rome. FAO (1997), Poster with data on per cent of undernourishment, by country, FAO, Rome. FAO (2001), The State of Food Security in the World, 2001, FAO, Rome. Gopalan, C. (1992), "Undernutrition: Measurement and Implications", in Nutrition and Poverty, ed. Osmani, S.R., Clarendon Press, Oxford. Hayter, J. E. and Henry, C. J. K. (1994), "A Re-examination of Basal Metabolic Rate Predictive Equations: The Importance of Geographical Origin of Subjects in Sample Selection", European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 48. Heston, A. (1994), "A Brief Review of some Problems in Using National Account Data in Level of Output and Growth Studies", Journal of Development Economics, 44. Macroint. (1996-2000), Demographic and Health Surveys, Washington D.C., Macro International (www.macroint.com/dhs). Marks, G. C., Habicht, J. P. and Mueller, W. H. (1989), "Reliability, Dependability, and Precision of Anthropometric Measurements", American Journal of Epidemiology, 130. Nubé, M. (2001), "Confronting Dietary Energy Supply with Anthropometry in the Assessment of Undernutrition Prevalence at the Level of Countries", World Development. Osmani, S. R. (1997), "Poverty and Nutrition in South Asia", in Nutrition and Poverty, ACC/SCN Policy Paper 16, ACC/SCN, Geneva. Pelletier, D. L. (1994), "The Relationship between Child Anthropometry and
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4 Charts and graphs used in this article are available in the print edition.
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Peter
Svedberg is Professor of Development Economics at the Institute for International
Economic Studies, Stockholm University. He is the author of Poverty
and Undernutrition: Theory, Measurement and Policy (Clarendon
Press, Oxford, 2000, to be published by OUP India soon), a definitive
study of undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. He lives
in Stockholm
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