Synopsis (short abstract)This study investigates the relationship between nutrition intake and economic growth as an attempt to provide useful insights for FAO’s Anti-hunger Programme. It addresses the question of how much economic growth is lost by a country that has undernourished people. Real per capita gross domestic product (GDP), physical capital, protein intake, the openness index and the student–teacher ratio are investigated. The study uses vector autoregressions (VARs) to assess the long-run equilibrium relati onship between nutrition intake and economic growth, and impulse response functions to reveal the short-run dynamics.