This paper outlines the economic rationale for investments that reduce stunting. We present
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A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal
period, infancy, and early childhood. Much of this literature focuses on rich countries, but …

Over the past 20 years, investment in human resources has taken center stage in the study
of developing economies. A voluminous set of wage function estimates provides the basis …

This report is FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies,
nutrition and agriculture. It presents the projections and the main messages. The projections …

This paper examines the impact of pre-school malnutrition on subsequent human capital
formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects—instrumental variables (MFE-IV) …

The connections between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD) form two
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NUMEROUS GENERATIONS of economists and other social scientists have studied the
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Publisher Summary This chapter reviews recent advances in the empirical literature on the
role that households and families play in investing in human resources. It describes the …

The well-known association between height and earnings is often thought to reflect factors
such as self-esteem, social dominance, and discrimination. We offer a simpler explanation …

Malnutrition—in the form of insufficient energy intakes—affects millions of people worldwide
and the negative impact of this kind of hunger is well acknowledged, not least by …