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Food for thought: tackling child malnutrition to unlock potential and boost prosperity [1]

In the past two decades, progress in tackling malnutrition has been pitifully slow. This report demonstrate how investment in nutrition is not only the right thing to do, it is a down-payment on future prosperity. The evidence present shows that preventing malnutrition of children and women in the crucial 1,000-day window – from the start of a woman’s pregnancy until her child’s second birthday – could greatly increase children’s ability to learn and to earn, and could boost the prosperity of whole countries.

Publication Date: 
28/05/2013
Save the Children [2]
Tags:
Malnutrition [3], Children [4], Child Health [5], Health Effects [6], Economic Development [7], India [8], Global [9], Women [10], Nutrition [11], Education [12]
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