Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development: A Strategy for Large Scale Action (Directions in Development) Pdf

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Release: 2005-11-17
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0821363999
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development pdf
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Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first MDG—to halve poverty and hunger—but 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 Download Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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