tailieunhanh - Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis

This book has its conceptual origin from the lecture materials of the training courses taught by one of the authors in the early nineties. It was during this period that in several developing nations, particularly in Africa, even when the signs of widespread hunger and abject poverty were visible, policy makers did not act for want of ‘empirical evidence’. Some policy makers even dismissed the severity of the problem saying that the hunger reports prepared by government officials were not rigorous enough to take them seriously. Some decision makers entirely rejected the reports prepared by the officials, stating that the analysis of data was ‘not statistically sound’ to. | Food Security Poverty and Nutrition I Policy Analysis Statistical Methods and Applications I 11 r I Hill Suresli c. Biibu Prabuddha Saflyai To Per Pinstrup-Andersen Humanist Food Nutrition Economist and Teacher Food Nutrition Economist par Excellence Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier 30 Corporate Drive Suite 400 Burlington MA 01803 USA 525 B Street Suite 1900 San Diego Ca 92101-4495 USA 32 Jamestown Road London nW1 7BY UK 360 Park Avenue South New York NY 10010-1710 USA First edition 2009 Copyright 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier s Science Technology Rights Department in Oxford UK phone 44 0 1865 843830 fax 44 0 1865 853333 email permissions@. Alternatively visit the Science and Technology Books website at rights for further information Notice No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability negligence or otherwise or from any use or operation of any methods products instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences in particular independent verification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be made Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-12-374712-9 For information on all Academic Press publications visit our website at Typeset by TNQ Chennai India Printed and bound in the United States of America 09 10 11 12 13 10 9 8 76 5 4 3 2 1 Working together to grow .