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| Reviews |
| - 'In this book, Bhargava tackles a rich and difficult field of population health that leads to questions about the objectives of a society and the difficult choices about how best to target resources. It should be remembered that countless intellectual giants from the past, such as Newton, Galileo, and Shakespeare, lived and succeeded whilst living in conditions that would now be considered as
deplorable. Economics and scientific discovery can take us some way towards making rational decisions but one needs philosophy and sound politics to reach the best outcomes. This is an excellent book which requires careful thought and introspection to get to all its important topics.' - Clive Granger, 2003 Nobel Prize for Economics Laureate
- 'Integrating food behavior, health activities, educational investments, and demographic choices into a coherent measure of family and individual welfare is a daunting task. This volume by Alok Bhargava succeeds in doing so at three different levels. First, the empirical models and techniques are state-of-the-art, so applied econometricians will be happy. Second, the models incorporate accepted
bio-physical relationships from the public health and medical communities, so biological scientists interested in health-nutrition linkages no longer feel left out from economists' analyses. And third, the food policy community now has a rigorous, empirically-based set of relationships that are amenable to public interventions. It is very good to have food policy analysis back on the research
agenda in such an integrated and toughly empirical fashion.' - C. Peter Timmer, Visiting Professor, Program on Food Security and Environment, Stanford University
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| Description | | - Multi-disciplinary in its approach including discussion of economic, public health, food policy, psychology, and nutrition literature
- Uses longitudinal "panel" data in both developed and developing countries to analysis food policies
- Includes a discussion of the obesity epidemic
| | Drawing on the author's extensive and varied research, this book provides readers with a firm grounding in the concepts and issues across several disciplines including economics, nutrition, psychology and public health in the hope of improving the design of food policies in the developed and developing world. Using longitudinal (panel) data from India, Bangladesh, Kenya, the Philippines,
Vietnam, and Pakistan and extending the analytical framework used in economics and biomedical sciences to include multi-disciplinary analyses, Alok Bhargava shows how rigorous and thoughtful econometric and statistical analysis can improve our understanding of the relationships between a number of socioeconomic, nutritional, and behavioural variables on a number of issues like cognitive
development in children and labour productivity in the developing world. These unique insights combined with a multi-disciplinary approach forge the way for a more refined and effective approach to food policy formation going forward. A chapter on the growing obesity epidemic is also included, highlighting the new set of problems facing not only developed but developing countries. The book also
includes a glossary of technical terms to assist readers coming from a variety of disciplines. |
Readership: Researchers and students working in the fields of health economics, food policy, nutritional science, and psychology. NGOs and government officials charged with creating effective food policies.
| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Alok Bhargava, University of Houston
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