Policy determinants affecting the hunger millennium development goal
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Policy determinants affecting the hunger millennium development goal.
The possible effect of Government Consumption (a component of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)) on attainment of the hunger Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) was analyzed by evaluating the effect of macroeconomic, social, demographic and policy variables on average undernourished population. Eighty-four developing countries with data available on undernourished population were included in an ecolo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.02.044