Table 5.
Benefit-cost ratios for investing in stunting reduction.
| By country estimates |
BCR |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual income, US$, median | Share of income lost (%) | Intervention cost | 5% discount | 3% discount | |
| Brazil | 7008·72 | 19·45 | 120·20 | 35·94 | 69·17 |
| Ethiopia | 718·08 | 10·09 | 121·43 | 11·63 | 25·52 |
| India | 1180·44 | 5·47 | 114·84 | 6·19 | 13·08 |
| Peru | 3683·40 | 7·57 | 120·20 | 15·49 | 31·59 |
| Philippines | 802·68 | 11·00 | 121·43 | 10·54 | 22·70 |
| Tanzania | 722·40 | 4·03 | 121·51 | 2·00 | 4·14 |
| Vietnam | 2407·08 | 11·55 | 121·60 | 37·45 | 81·32 |
| By sector estimates (pooled) | |||||
| Agricultural workers | 1087·68 | 9·97 | 120·17 | 8·17 | 17·04 |
| Craft/trades workers | 1140·60 | 16·94 | 120·17 | 14·42 | 30·06 |
| Elementary occupation | 3428·40 | 16·91 | 120·17 | 45·72 | 95·34 |
| Not classified | 2188·32 | 9·34 | 120·17 | 15·39 | 32·10 |
| Service/Sales workers | 4624·44 | 8·35 | 120·17 | 28·80 | 60·06 |
Note: as has been noted by Hoddinott (2016), BCRs are sensitive to the discount rate, the costing of interventions, assumptions regarding the magnitude of the impact, and the duration over which benefits are calculated. We present CBRs based on a low (3%) and high (5%) discount rate and use unconditional effects of stunting on human capital and conditional returns in improvement on human capital.