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Economic Growth and Childhood Malnutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

JAMA Network Open · 6 authors, 4 centres

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It also showed that key contributing factors, like maternal education, are not consistently improved by economic growth.

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The central result was a weak association between economic growth and child undernutrition. Additionally, while strong links were found between several contributing factors (e.g., maternal education) and malnutrition, economic growth was ambiguously associated with most of these factors.

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pediatrics

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PMC10636637

Economic Growth and Childhood Malnutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

JAMA Network Open

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Key Points Question To what extent is economic growth associated with reduced prevalence of childhood malnutrition, what are the most important contributing factors of malnutrition, and how are these contributing factors associated with economic growth? Findings This cross-sectional study of 1 138 568 children aged 0 to 35 months from 58 low- and middle-income countries found an ambiguous association between economic growth and the prevalence of childhood malnutrition. Moreover, while strong associations between several contributing factors and childhood malnutrition were identified, the associations between economic growth and these contributing factors themselves were often ambiguous. Meaning These findings suggest that to reduce childhood malnutrition, economic growth should be accompanied by targeted investments that improve contributing factors of malnutrition not necessarily affected by economic growth, such as maternal human capital.

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Nicolas Büttner, Markus Heemann, Jan-Walter De Neve et al.. Economic Growth and Childhood Malnutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. JAMA Network Open. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.42654

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Nicolas Büttner, Markus Heemann, Jan-Walter De Neve, Stéphane Verguet, Sebastian Vollmer, Kenneth Harttgen

1Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2Department of Economics and Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
3Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Medical Faculty and University Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
4Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts