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Alexandra Cermeno

Alexandra L Cermeño

Researcher

Alexandra Cermeno

Economic progress in twentieth-century Portugal: revisiting the evidence

Author

  • Alexandra L. Cermeño
  • Nuno Palma
  • Renato Pistola

Summary, in English

Using three independent archival sources, we previously documented substantial declines in stunting and wasting in Portugal during the mid-twentieth century. This note revisits the original evidence, clarifies the descriptive scope of our analysis, and situates the observed anthropo-metric changes within the broader evolution of public health, nutrition, and social policy in Portugal. We show that the timing and magnitude of the declines are robust to the alternative data restrictions and aggregation choices examined here, and that the documented improve-ments are consistent with contemporaneous expansions in health infrastructure and access documented in the historical record.

Department/s

  • Department of Economic History
  • Economic development of the Global South
  • Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World

Publishing year

2026-03-09

Language

English

Publication/Series

Economics and Human Biology

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economic History

Status

Inpress

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1873-6130