[Capítulo II: Bienestar y distribución del Ingreso] Malnutrition makes the poor less productive. To beat poverty, hunger must first be defeated
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Economist.com "Malnutrition makes the poor less productive. To beat poverty, hunger must first be defeated
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PEOPLE in very poor countries are, on average, less intelligent than those in rich ones. Some readers may be shocked by this statement, so let's rephrase it. Some 800m people do not have enough to eat. Without proper nutrition, the human body cannot develop properly. That includes the brain. Those who are ill-fed tend to end up both physically shorter and less mentally agile than they otherwise would have been. Hunger also spurs millions of children to drop out of school in order to scavenge for food, and those who manage to attend school despite empty bellies find it excruciatingly hard to concentrate. Malnourishment is thus both a cause and a consequence of poverty (see article). The weak make unproductive manual labourers, and the global labour market is not exactly clamouring for dim or feeble workers. "...
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Posted by Alberdi & Urquiza to Capítulo II: Bienestar y distribución del Ingreso at 8/01/2004 04:42:00 PM
Economist.com "Malnutrition makes the poor less productive. To beat poverty, hunger must first be defeated
WFP
PEOPLE in very poor countries are, on average, less intelligent than those in rich ones. Some readers may be shocked by this statement, so let's rephrase it. Some 800m people do not have enough to eat. Without proper nutrition, the human body cannot develop properly. That includes the brain. Those who are ill-fed tend to end up both physically shorter and less mentally agile than they otherwise would have been. Hunger also spurs millions of children to drop out of school in order to scavenge for food, and those who manage to attend school despite empty bellies find it excruciatingly hard to concentrate. Malnourishment is thus both a cause and a consequence of poverty (see article). The weak make unproductive manual labourers, and the global labour market is not exactly clamouring for dim or feeble workers. "...
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Posted by Alberdi & Urquiza to Capítulo II: Bienestar y distribución del Ingreso at 8/01/2004 04:42:00 PM
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