“Empty Plates": Impacts of Food Prices, Inequality and Trade on Malnutrition

• Bahar Bayraktar Saglam ^[1]
  1. [1] Hacettepe University

     Hacettepe University

     Turquía

     
• Localización: Revista de economía mundial, ISSN 1576-0162, Nº 63, 2023, págs. 21-43
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.33776/rem.vi63.6949
• Títulos paralelos:
  • "Platos vacíos": impactos de los precios de los alimentos, la desigualdad y el comercio en la desnutrición
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  • español

    Este trabajo estudia el vínculo complejo entre el estado nutricional y los ingresos utilizando datos de panel de 150 países durante el período 1960-2018 y empleando un enfoque VAR de panel bajo estimaciones GMM del sistema. El vínculo causal entre la ingesta nutricional y los ingresos puede cambiar de un grupo de ingresos a otro debido a los diferentes efectos de factores similares.

    Mientras que los aumentos en los precios de los alimentos, la distribución injusta de los ingresos y el aumento de los flujos comerciales internacionales reducen la ingesta nutricional en los países de ingresos medianos bajos, los mismos factores conducen a un mayor peso corporal en los países de ingresos medianos altos y altos de la OECD. Por lo tanto, las hipótesis de la Curva de Engel y del Salario de Eficiencia fallan para un grupo de países.

  • English

    This paper studies the complex link between nutritional status and income by using panel data from 150 countries over the period 1960–2018 and employing a panel VAR approach under system GMM estimates. The causal link between nutrition intake and income may change from one income group to another due to different effects of similar factors. While hikes in food prices, unfair distributions of income and rising international trade flows lower nutrition intake in lower middle-income countries, the same factors lead to higher body weights in upper middle-income and high-income OECD countries. Therefore, Engel Curve and Efficiency Wage Hypotheses fail for a group of countries.

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