Published 22 September 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b3886
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3886

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India makes little progress on child malnutrition despite steady economic growth

Ganapati Mudur

1 New Delhi

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Poor oversight of nutrition programmes, faulty project design, and a lack of focus on the most needy population groups are frustrating India’s efforts to reduce child malnutrition, a publication from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex has said.

Despite India’s steady economic growth of an average of more than 6% in the past 15 years, the percentage of children under 3 years of age who are underweight fell by only six percentage points between 1993 and 2006, from 52% to 46%, says the latest issue of the IDS Bulletin, which comprises analytical papers from economists and nutrition policy experts.

At this rate of progress the United Nations’ millennium development goal target of reducing the number of people suffering from hunger by 50% will be reached in India only in 2043 rather than the target year of 2015, said Lawrence Haddad, director of the institute, who . . . [Full text of this article]


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