Nutritional status, the capacity for work, and poverty traps
Nutritional status, the capacity for work, and poverty traps
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DOI：
10.1016/s0304-4076(96)01804-0
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发表时间：
1997-03-01
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Dasgupta, P
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作者：
Dasgupta, P
在这篇文章中，我认为，最近的经验批评的营养为基础的效率工资理论的贫穷国家已经偏离了目标，因为他们的依赖过于字面的解释永恒的模型。报告介绍了营养学家关于营养不良现象的调查结果，并强调了早期营养和发病对长期工作能力的影响。然后，有人认为，永恒的营养生产力结构提供了一个比喻，而不是非自愿失业的现象，但其他东西，即一个经济环境窝藏贫困陷阱，其中一些人被吸引，即使其他人，谁可能是类似的，没有。本文概述了贫困陷阱背后的机制，并得出了某些政策结论。
In this article I argue that recent empirical criticisms of the nutrition-based efficiency-wage theory for poor countries have been off the mark because of their dependence on too literal an interpretation of the timeless model. Findings by nutritionists on the phenomenon of undernourishment are presented and the impact of early nutrition and morbidity on long-term work capacity is stressed. It is then argued that the timeless nutrition-productivity construct provides a metaphor, not so much for the phenomenon of involuntary unemployment, but for something else, namely, an economic environment harboring poverty traps, into which some are drawn even when others, who may be similar, are not. The mechanism underlying poverty traps is sketched and certain policy conclusions are drawn.