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Provedor de dados: | Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
País: | United States

Título:

Reconsiderando la metodología FAO sobre el cálculo del número de personas que pasan hambre en el mundo

Reconsidering the FAO methodology for the calculation of the number of hungry people in the world

Autores: | Morales-Opazo,   Cristian; Barreiro-Hurlé,   Jesús.
Data: | 2012-02-03
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Income; Prices; Consumption; Undernourishment; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; E21; O11; O19.
Resumo: | FAO measure of undernourishment is calculated based on three main parameters: dietary energy supply (DES), minimum dietary energy requirement (MDER), and the coefficient of variation of dietary energy consumption (CV). In the current implementation of this methodology, the DES and the MDER change over time, as would be expected. The CV, however, remains constant. However, we expect the CV to change over time and be a function of income and prices. This paper discusses why the CV should change in response to changes in these variables, and suggests a practical way to estimate changes in the CV over time in the absence of survey data.
Tipo: | Article
Idioma: | Espanhol
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/120198
Relação: | Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales&gt;Volume 11, Number 2, 2011
Formato: | 20