Different approaches have been used to estimate the economic benefits of reducing undernutrition and to estimate the costs of investing in such programs on a global scale. While many of these studies are ultimately based on evidence from well-designed efficacy trials, all require a number of assumptions to project the impact of such trials to larger populations and to translate the value of the expected improvement in nutritional status into economic terms. This paper provides a short critique of some approaches to estimating the benefits of investments in child nutrition and then presents an alternative set of estimates based on different core data. These new estimates reinforce the basic conclusions of the existing literature: the economic value from reducing undernutrition in undernourished populations is likely to be substantial.

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有关幼儿的大量信息：估计解决营养不良的经济利益。

已经采用了不同的方法来估计减少营养不足的经济利益，并估计在全球范围内投资于此类计划的成本。尽管许多此类研究最终都基于精心设计的功效试验的证据，但所有这些研究都需要大量假设，才能将此类试验对更大的人群产生影响，并将营养状况的预期改善价值转化为经济价值。本文对评估儿童营养投资收益的一些方法进行了简短的评论，然后提出了基于不同核心数据的另一组评估方法。这些新的估计值加强了现有文献的基本结论：减少营养不良人口的营养不足所产生的经济价值可能是巨大的。