Malnutrition in the OIC Member
Countries: A Trap for Poverty
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This lack of relationship between wasting and poverty is specific to OIC. In non-OIC countries,
there exists a modest positive association between the two variables, as shown i n
non-OIC countries, an increase of 10 percentage point of the poverty headcount is associated
with a 0.8 percentage point increase in wasting rate. The relationship is statistically significant
at the 1% level. When figure n re compared, it seems that the lack of a
similar relationship in OIC is driven by the presence of countries with high wasting despite
relatively low poverty rates (such as Malaysia, Djibouti or Indonesia).
Figure 13: Wasting and Poverty Headcount, non-OIC countries
Source: Authors' calculations based on theJoint Malnutrition Estimatesfrom UNICEF, WHOand the World Bank
(2016) and the World Bank Indicators (World Bank 2016). For each country, the most recentyearfor which
malnutrition and poverty data exist is used.
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