Scaling Up Nutrition in Guinea-Bissau : What Will it Cost?

This paper builds on global experience and Guinea-Bissau's specific context to identify an effective nutrition approach along with costs and benefits of key nutrition interventions. It is intended to help guide the selection of the most cost-e...

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Main Authors:	Kakietek, Jakub, Castro Henriques, Antonio, Schultz, Linda, Mehta, Michelle, Dayton Eberwein, Julia, Akuoku, Jonathan Kweku, Menezes Moreira, Ivone, Balde, Fanceni Henriques, Araujo, Edson C., Shekar, Meera
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	NUTRITION NUTRITION FINANCING COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/451791490633591601/Scaling-up-nutrition-in-Guinea-Bissau-what-will-it-cost http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26417

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spelling	okr-10986-264172021-05-25T09:53:16Z Scaling Up Nutrition in Guinea-Bissau : What Will it Cost? Kakietek, Jakub Castro Henriques, Antonio Schultz, Linda Mehta, Michelle Dayton Eberwein, Julia Akuoku, Jonathan Kweku Menezes Moreira, Ivone Balde, Fanceni Henriques Araujo, Edson C. Shekar, Meera NUTRITION NUTRITION FINANCING COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS This paper builds on global experience and Guinea-Bissau's specific context to identify an effective nutrition approach along with costs and benefits of key nutrition interventions. It is intended to help guide the selection of the most cost-effective interventions as well as strategies for scaling these up. We estimate that the costs and benefits of implementing 10 nutrition-specific interventions in all regions of Guinea-Bissau would require a public investment of USD 17 million over five years (with about USD 3 million needed to maintain the current coverage of the interventions and USD 14 million needed to expand the coverage to reach 90 percent of the population). The two key conclusions of this paper are, first, that investing in nutrition in Guinea-Bissau is cost-effective based on international standards and, second, that investments in nutrition can generate very substantial health and economic benefits, with one dollar spent on nutrition interventions resulting in about 10 dollars of returns over the productive lives of children covered by high-impact nutrition interventions. Economic productivity could potentially increase by USD 120 million (discounted at 3 percent) over the productive lives of the beneficiaries, with an impressive internal rate of return of 9 percent annually. Theses findings point to a powerful set of nutrition-specific interventions that represent a high cost-effective approach to reducing child malnutrition and stunting in Guinea-Bissau. 2017-04-21T14:17:21Z 2017-04-21T14:17:21Z 2017-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/451791490633591601/Scaling-up-nutrition-in-Guinea-Bissau-what-will-it-cost http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26417 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Africa Guinea-Bissau
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spellingShingle	NUTRITION NUTRITION FINANCING COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS Kakietek, Jakub Castro Henriques, Antonio Schultz, Linda Mehta, Michelle Dayton Eberwein, Julia Akuoku, Jonathan Kweku Menezes Moreira, Ivone Balde, Fanceni Henriques Araujo, Edson C. Shekar, Meera Scaling Up Nutrition in Guinea-Bissau : What Will it Cost?
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description	This paper builds on global experience and Guinea-Bissau's specific context to identify an effective nutrition approach along with costs and benefits of key nutrition interventions. It is intended to help guide the selection of the most cost-effective interventions as well as strategies for scaling these up. We estimate that the costs and benefits of implementing 10 nutrition-specific interventions in all regions of Guinea-Bissau would require a public investment of USD 17 million over five years (with about USD 3 million needed to maintain the current coverage of the interventions and USD 14 million needed to expand the coverage to reach 90 percent of the population). The two key conclusions of this paper are, first, that investing in nutrition in Guinea-Bissau is cost-effective based on international standards and, second, that investments in nutrition can generate very substantial health and economic benefits, with one dollar spent on nutrition interventions resulting in about 10 dollars of returns over the productive lives of children covered by high-impact nutrition interventions. Economic productivity could potentially increase by USD 120 million (discounted at 3 percent) over the productive lives of the beneficiaries, with an impressive internal rate of return of 9 percent annually. Theses findings point to a powerful set of nutrition-specific interventions that represent a high cost-effective approach to reducing child malnutrition and stunting in Guinea-Bissau.
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author	Kakietek, Jakub Castro Henriques, Antonio Schultz, Linda Mehta, Michelle Dayton Eberwein, Julia Akuoku, Jonathan Kweku Menezes Moreira, Ivone Balde, Fanceni Henriques Araujo, Edson C. Shekar, Meera
author_facet	Kakietek, Jakub Castro Henriques, Antonio Schultz, Linda Mehta, Michelle Dayton Eberwein, Julia Akuoku, Jonathan Kweku Menezes Moreira, Ivone Balde, Fanceni Henriques Araujo, Edson C. Shekar, Meera
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title	Scaling Up Nutrition in Guinea-Bissau : What Will it Cost?
title_short	Scaling Up Nutrition in Guinea-Bissau : What Will it Cost?
title_full	Scaling Up Nutrition in Guinea-Bissau : What Will it Cost?
title_fullStr	Scaling Up Nutrition in Guinea-Bissau : What Will it Cost?
title_full_unstemmed	Scaling Up Nutrition in Guinea-Bissau : What Will it Cost?
title_sort	scaling up nutrition in guinea-bissau : what will it cost?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/451791490633591601/Scaling-up-nutrition-in-Guinea-Bissau-what-will-it-cost http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26417
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