Abstract
Abstract This research reviews a large variety of literatures on the effect of different variables that contribute to hunger problem. The research aimed to analyze the effect of population policies on Global Hunger Index (GHI). Other independent variables have been included in an econometric model such as: per capita (GDP) according to (PPP), the rate of growth of per capita GDP, the rate of population growth, fertility rate, Geini index, human poor index, the share of richest 10% to poorest 10% of income or expenditure. Cross sectional data for 71 countries was fruitfully introduced into empirical research lately. The study concluded that population policies have no significant effect on hunger index. But increasing poverty has significantly positive effect on hunger, per capita GDP has negative effect on hunger, redistribution of income either has no significant effect, or has positive effect on hunger due to the inflationary negative effects of government expenditure policies amid to redistribution of income. .
