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Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development: A Strategy for Large Scale Action

By World Bank

Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development: A Strategy for Large Scale Action Medicine

Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development: A Strategy for Large Scale Action

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Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first MDG - to halve poverty and hunger - but also to meet other goals in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, education, and gender equity. The choice is now between continuing to fail, or to finally make nutrition central to development. Underweight prevalence among children is the key indicator for measuring progress on non-income poverty and malnutrition remains the world's most serious health problem and the single biggest contributor to child mortality. Nearly a third of children in the developing world are either underweight or stunted, and more than 30 percent of the developing world's population suffers from micronutrient deficiencies. There are also new dimensions to malnutrition. The epidemic of obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is spreading to the developing world and malnutrition is also linked to the growing HIV/AIDS pandemic. This report makes the case for development partners and developing countries to focus on nutrition, and to fund nutrition investments much more heavily than has been the case in the past. This case is based on evidence that such programs are excellent economic investments and essential for faster progress in reducing poverty; and on program experience showing that they can improve nutrition much faster than relying on economic growth alone. The report sets out a global strategy for stepped-up action in nutrition, for discussion in the international development community.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
246
Release Date:
2005-11-17
Publication Date:
2005-11-30
Publisher:
World Bank Publications
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0821363999
ISBN13:
9780821363997
Weight:
449 g
Height:
180 cm
Width:
217 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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