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A Development Practitioner’s Perspective on Reducing Malnutrition

The findings of a new study released this month showing that 42 percent of children under five in India are malnourished call into question some of the most fundamental assumptions about the connection between economic growth and development. It seemed to be common sense that when a country experiences striking economic growth, indicators of poverty like malnutrition, should significantly decline. Yet India has experienced robust economic growth (last year’s GDP growth rate was 8 to 9 [...]