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Title Malnourished and surviving in South Asia, better nourished and dying young in Africa: What can explain this puzzle? | ||
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http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1604/1/paper_214.pdf | ||
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Date 2000 | ||
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Author(s) Klasen, S. | ||
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Abstract This paper examines the factors explaining the very different relationship between anthropometric shortfall and child mortality in South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. While in the former, very high rates of anthropometric shortfall coexist with comparatively lower child mortality rates, rates of anthropometric shortfall in Sub Saharan Africa are much lower, yet under five mortality is much higher than in South Asia. This puzzle is examined using a panel data set of undernutrition, mortality, and their correlates. The analysis suggests that the unusually high rates of anthropometric shortfall in South Asia are partially due to the use of a US¡based reference standard which appears to generate misleading international comparisons of undernutrition. The very high rates of under five mortality in Africa seem to be mostly due to very high fertility, high and rising HIV prevalence, and a possible multiplicative interaction of risk factors. | ||
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Subject(s) Mathematik, Informatik und Statistik; Statistik; Sonderforschungsbereich 386 | ||
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Relation http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1604/ | ||
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Type of publication Paper; NonPeerReviewed | ||
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Format application/pdf | ||
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Identifier Klasen, S. (2000): Malnourished and surviving in South Asia, better nourished and dying young in Africa: What can explain this puzzle? Sonderforschungsbereich 386, Discussion Paper 214 | ||
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