The impact of economic, political and social globalization on overweight and obesity in the 56 low and middle income countries

Anecdotal and descriptive evidence has led to the claim that globalization plays a major role in inducing overweight and obesity in developing countries, but robust quantitative evidence is scarce. We undertook extensive econometric analyses of several datasets, using a series of new proxies for dif...

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Main Authors: Goryakin, Yevgeniy, Lobstein, Tim, James, W. Philip T., Suhrcke, Marc
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Pergamon 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4416723/