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. |