Turning economic growth into nutrition-sensitive growth
There is a growing consensus that reducing childhood malnutrition is a critically important goal, but there is far less agreement on what strategies can best achieve the goal. Are more nutrition-specific interventions required, such as food/nutrient supplements or training and education programs? Or...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2011
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| author | Headey, Derek D. |
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| description | There is a growing consensus that reducing childhood malnutrition is a critically important goal, but there is far less agreement on what strategies can best achieve the goal. Are more nutrition-specific interventions required, such as food/nutrient supplements or training and education programs? Or does the answer lie in broader social developments such as rising incomes, increased food security, and better access to education, health, infrastructure, and family planning services? These factors can all be seen as facets of integrated socioeconomic growth, but stakeholders rightly point to examples of economic growth leading to little or no reduction in childhood malnutrition. This does not rule out an important role for economic growth, however, provided that its benefits translate into increased food availability, reductions in poverty, and broader social development—that economic growth is “nutrition-sensitive. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1525732025-11-06T04:24:18Z Turning economic growth into nutrition-sensitive growth Headey, Derek D. economic growth nutrition There is a growing consensus that reducing childhood malnutrition is a critically important goal, but there is far less agreement on what strategies can best achieve the goal. Are more nutrition-specific interventions required, such as food/nutrient supplements or training and education programs? Or does the answer lie in broader social developments such as rising incomes, increased food security, and better access to education, health, infrastructure, and family planning services? These factors can all be seen as facets of integrated socioeconomic growth, but stakeholders rightly point to examples of economic growth leading to little or no reduction in childhood malnutrition. This does not rule out an important role for economic growth, however, provided that its benefits translate into increased food availability, reductions in poverty, and broader social development—that economic growth is “nutrition-sensitive. 2011 2024-10-01T13:54:59Z 2024-10-01T13:54:59Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152573 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Headey, Derek D. 2011. Turning economic growth into nutrition-sensitive growth. 2020 Conference Brief 6. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152573 |
| spellingShingle | economic growth nutrition Headey, Derek D. Turning economic growth into nutrition-sensitive growth |
| title | Turning economic growth into nutrition-sensitive growth |
| title_full | Turning economic growth into nutrition-sensitive growth |
| title_fullStr | Turning economic growth into nutrition-sensitive growth |
| title_full_unstemmed | Turning economic growth into nutrition-sensitive growth |
| title_short | Turning economic growth into nutrition-sensitive growth |
| title_sort | turning economic growth into nutrition sensitive growth |
| topic | economic growth nutrition |
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