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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence using Nutrition Data for Africa / Caitlin S. Brown, Martin Ravallion, Dominique van de Walle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Caitlin S.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24047.
- NBER working paper series no. w24047
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- Antipoverty policies assume that targeting poor households suffices in reaching poor individuals. We question this assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely across the household wealth and consumption distributions. Roughly three-quarters of underweight women and undernourished children are not found in the poorest 20% of households, and around half are not found in the poorest 40%. Countries with higher undernutrition tend to have higher shares of undernourished individuals in non-poor households. The results are consistent with intra-household inequality but other factors also appear to be at work including common health risks.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2017.
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