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What Can We Learn from Nutrition Impact Evaluations? : Lessons from a Review of Interventions to Reduce Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries.
High levels of child malnutrition in developing countries contribute to mortality and have long-term consequences for children?s cognitive development and earnings as adults. Recent impact evaluations show that many different interventions have had an impact on children?s anthropometric outcomes (he...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
World Bank Publications,
2010.
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| Colección: | Independent evaluation studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | High levels of child malnutrition in developing countries contribute to mortality and have long-term consequences for children?s cognitive development and earnings as adults. Recent impact evaluations show that many different interventions have had an impact on children?s anthropometric outcomes (height, weight, and birth weight), but there is no simple answer to the question?What works?? to address the problem. Similar interventions have widely different results in different settings, owing to differences in local context, the causes and severity of malnutrition, and the capacity for program. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (294 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-88). |
| ISBN: | 9780821384077 0821384074 |