Nutrition and Poverty

• Undernutrition - measurement and implications, C. Gopalan; assessing undernutrition - the need for a reconceptualization, P. Payne; undernutrition - concepts, measurements and policy implications, T.R. Srinivasen; on some controversies in the measurement of undernutrition, S.R. Osmani; measuring undernutrition with variable calorie requirements, N.C. Kakwani; issues in the measurement of undernutrition, S. Anand and C.J. Harris; anthropometric measures of nutritional status in industrialized societies - Europe and North America since 1750, R. Floud; second thoughts on the European escape from hunger - famines, chronic malnutrition and mortality rates, R.W. Fogel; intra-household allocation of nutrients and gender effects - a survey of structural and reduced-form estimates, J.R. Behrman.

`It is a critical appraisal of the state-of-the-art and focuses on differing views and perceptions on the related questions of assessing poverty and nutritional status.'CAB International