One in three pre-school children in the developing world is undernourished. As a consequence, their human rights are violated. In addition, they are more likely to have impaired immune systems, poorer cognitive development, lower productivity as adults, and greater susceptibility to diet-related chronic diseases such as hypertension and coronary heart disease later in life. Undernourished female preschoolers are likely to grow into undernourished young women who are more likely to give birth to babies who are undernourished even before they are born, thus perpetuating the inter-generational transmission of deprivation. Reducing these unacceptably high numbers remains a tremendous challenge to public policy. As a guide to the direction of fu...
About 167 million children under five years of age —almost one-third of the developing world’s child...
Adequate nutrition is a basic human right, but globally it remains unmet for many pre-school childre...
How rapidly will child undernutrition respond to income growth? This study explores that question us...
One in three pre-school children in the developing world is undernourished. As a consequence, their ...
"One in three pre-school children in the developing world is undernourished. As a consequence, their...
One out of every three children under five in developing countries is malnourished. This unacceptabl...
Childhood malnutrition is associated with high morbidity and mortality globally. Undernourished chil...
Despite progresses made over the last several decades, the prevalence of child malnutrition re-mains...
This paper draws on the experience of the 1970-95 period to (1) elucidate some of the main causes of...
Childhood undernutrition manifests itself in various ways including stunting, wasting, underweight, ...
Between 1990 and 2013, the number of children afflicted by stunting declined by 37%, and the number ...
About 167 million children under five years of age —almost one-third of the developing world’s child...
Adequate nutrition is a basic human right, but globally it remains unmet for many pre-school childre...
How rapidly will child undernutrition respond to income growth? This study explores that question us...
One in three pre-school children in the developing world is undernourished. As a consequence, their ...
"One in three pre-school children in the developing world is undernourished. As a consequence, their...
One out of every three children under five in developing countries is malnourished. This unacceptabl...
Childhood malnutrition is associated with high morbidity and mortality globally. Undernourished chil...
Despite progresses made over the last several decades, the prevalence of child malnutrition re-mains...
This paper draws on the experience of the 1970-95 period to (1) elucidate some of the main causes of...
Childhood undernutrition manifests itself in various ways including stunting, wasting, underweight, ...
Between 1990 and 2013, the number of children afflicted by stunting declined by 37%, and the number ...
About 167 million children under five years of age —almost one-third of the developing world’s child...
Adequate nutrition is a basic human right, but globally it remains unmet for many pre-school childre...
How rapidly will child undernutrition respond to income growth? This study explores that question us...