The Cost of Hunger in Malawi: Social and Economic Impacts of Child Undernutrition in Malawi. Implications on National Development and Vision 2020

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme (WFP), 2015.

English

76 p.

WFP046

The COHA model is used to estimate the additional cases of morbidity, mortality, school repetitions, and dropouts and reduced physical capacity that can be associated to a person’s under nutrition status before the age of five. In order to estimate these social impacts for a single year, the model focuses on the current1 population, identifies the percentage of that population who were undernourished before the age of five, and then estimates the associated negative impacts experienced by the population in the current year. Using this information and the data provided by the Malawi NIT, the model estimates the associated losses incurred by the economy in health, education and potential productivity in a single year.

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