Rationale for a follow-up study focusing on economic productivity

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volumn 26, Issue 2 SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Martorell, Reynaldo ^a   Behrman, Jere R ^b   Flores, Rafael ^a   Stein, Aryeh D ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child nutrition and economics; Guatemala; Human Capital Study; Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP); Nutrition and productivity

Indexed keywords

NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 21344434302     PISSN: 03795721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/15648265050262s102     Document Type: Article

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