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Fighting malnutrition in Mexico: the fiscal cost of alternative
policy options  Nora Lustig El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City
The incidence of malnutrition in Mexico has been estimated to be
quite high. For example, the recent results obtained from the
last rural nutrition survey by the Instituto Nacional de la
Nutrición in 1979 indicate that, except for the north-western
and part of the north central states, the per capita daily
caloric intake is not adequate. For protein the situation is
even worse because only a small fraction of the north-west coast
population achieves an adequate intake (parts of Sinaloa,
Nayarit, and Jalisco). On the other hand, the Institute has
estimated that the national average d