The combined effect of institutional quality and capital flows on food and nutrition security and undernourishment in Sub-Saharan Africa.

ABSTRACT: Issues related to malnutrition, broadly defined, have received a growing attention in recent years, not only in connection with the Sustainable Development Goals but also recently with the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, there exists a complex interaction between institutions, capital flows, and food and nutrition security that has received less attention in the relevant literature. In this paper we estimate a series of dynamic panel data models to examine the impact of institutional quality and capital flows on food security, nutrition security and undernourishment by using panel data for 25 SSA countries over the period 1996 to 2018. One of the key contributions of the paper is the use of both aggregate and disaggregated capital flows to examine the impact on both food

SUBMITTER: Cassimon D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9550045 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature