Persisting Undernutrition In India

Type Book Section - Improving Nutrition Status: Lessons from International Experience
Title Persisting Undernutrition In India
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
Page numbers 215-228
Publisher Springer India
URL http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-81-322-1832-6_12
Abstract
Any search for developing countries which have made the breakthrough from poor to excellent nutrition levels pinpoints four names: Thailand, China, Brazil and Mexico. While the strategy adopted in each country varied, the results achieved were uniformly admirable. This only serves to underline the fact that every country needs to find its own path to improvement. Copycat tactics may or may not succeed in the long term, and are likely to result in wasted investment and unsustainable outcomes. On the other hand, an analysis of success stories and even failures in other settings can do much to clarify our own objectives, strategies, time frames and course of action. This chapter seeks to learn from the big four as well as more recent successes in countries like Malawi, Mozambique, Peru and Bangladesh.

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