2006 Global hunger index: a basis for cross-country comparisons

Indices can be powerful tools for international monitoring and advocacy, and if used in international rankings, can help foster a sense of healthy competition among countries. With this in mind, IFPRI’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) was designed to help mobilize political will and promote good policies...

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Autor principal: Wiesmann, Doris
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160427
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description Indices can be powerful tools for international monitoring and advocacy, and if used in international rankings, can help foster a sense of healthy competition among countries. With this in mind, IFPRI’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) was designed to help mobilize political will and promote good policies by ranking countries and illustrating trends. It captures three dimensions of hunger: insufficient availability of food, shortfalls in the nutritional status of children, and child mortality, which is to a large extent attributable to undernutrition. Accordingly, the index includes the following three equally weighted indicators: the proportion of people who are food energy deficient as estimated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the prevalence of underweight in children under the age of five as compiled by the World Health Organization, and the under-five mortality rate as reported by UNICEF
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spelling CGSpace1604272025-11-06T04:26:00Z 2006 Global hunger index: a basis for cross-country comparisons Wiesmann, Doris hunger food availability nutrition children undernutrition indicators WHO food and agricultural organization of the united nations unicef Indices can be powerful tools for international monitoring and advocacy, and if used in international rankings, can help foster a sense of healthy competition among countries. With this in mind, IFPRI’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) was designed to help mobilize political will and promote good policies by ranking countries and illustrating trends. It captures three dimensions of hunger: insufficient availability of food, shortfalls in the nutritional status of children, and child mortality, which is to a large extent attributable to undernutrition. Accordingly, the index includes the following three equally weighted indicators: the proportion of people who are food energy deficient as estimated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the prevalence of underweight in children under the age of five as compiled by the World Health Organization, and the under-five mortality rate as reported by UNICEF 2006 2024-11-21T09:50:46Z 2024-11-21T09:50:46Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160427 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Wiesmann, Doris. 2006 Global hunger index: a basis for cross-country comparisons. Issue Brief. 47. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160427
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food availability
nutrition
children
undernutrition
indicators
WHO
food and agricultural organization of the united nations
unicef
Wiesmann, Doris
2006 Global hunger index: a basis for cross-country comparisons
title 2006 Global hunger index: a basis for cross-country comparisons
title_full 2006 Global hunger index: a basis for cross-country comparisons
title_fullStr 2006 Global hunger index: a basis for cross-country comparisons
title_full_unstemmed 2006 Global hunger index: a basis for cross-country comparisons
title_short 2006 Global hunger index: a basis for cross-country comparisons
title_sort 2006 global hunger index a basis for cross country comparisons
topic hunger
food availability
nutrition
children
undernutrition
indicators
WHO
food and agricultural organization of the united nations
unicef
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