Child Undernutrition in Pakistan : What Do We Know?

Pakistan has an extraordinarily high and persistent level of child undernutrition. To effectively tackle the problem, the design of public policies and programs needs to be based on evidence. Toward this end, this paper presents a narrative review...

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Main Authors:	Raju, Dhushyanth, D'Souza, Ritika
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	CHILDREN MALNUTRITION STUNTING WASTING UNDERWEIGHT UNDERNUTRITION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/810811493910657388/Child-undernutrition-in-Pakistan-what-do-we-know http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26501

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spelling	okr-10986-265012021-06-08T14:42:45Z Child Undernutrition in Pakistan : What Do We Know? Raju, Dhushyanth D'Souza, Ritika CHILDREN MALNUTRITION STUNTING WASTING UNDERWEIGHT UNDERNUTRITION Pakistan has an extraordinarily high and persistent level of child undernutrition. To effectively tackle the problem, the design of public policies and programs needs to be based on evidence. Toward this end, this paper presents a narrative review of the available empirical and qualitative literature on child undernutrition in Pakistan. It summarizes evidence for the country on, among other things, food consumption, spatial variation and trends in undernutrition rates, levels and effects of generally theorized determinants of undernutrition, and effects of various interventions on undernutrition. Based on patterns revealed in and insights gained from the cumulative evidence, the review lays out considerations and suggestions for further data collection and research, and for policy and practice. 2017-05-04T19:23:15Z 2017-05-04T19:23:15Z 2017-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/810811493910657388/Child-undernutrition-in-Pakistan-what-do-we-know http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26501 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8049 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia Pakistan
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description	Pakistan has an extraordinarily high and persistent level of child undernutrition. To effectively tackle the problem, the design of public policies and programs needs to be based on evidence. Toward this end, this paper presents a narrative review of the available empirical and qualitative literature on child undernutrition in Pakistan. It summarizes evidence for the country on, among other things, food consumption, spatial variation and trends in undernutrition rates, levels and effects of generally theorized determinants of undernutrition, and effects of various interventions on undernutrition. Based on patterns revealed in and insights gained from the cumulative evidence, the review lays out considerations and suggestions for further data collection and research, and for policy and practice.
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author	Raju, Dhushyanth D'Souza, Ritika
author_facet	Raju, Dhushyanth D'Souza, Ritika
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title	Child Undernutrition in Pakistan : What Do We Know?
title_short	Child Undernutrition in Pakistan : What Do We Know?
title_full	Child Undernutrition in Pakistan : What Do We Know?
title_fullStr	Child Undernutrition in Pakistan : What Do We Know?
title_full_unstemmed	Child Undernutrition in Pakistan : What Do We Know?
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publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/810811493910657388/Child-undernutrition-in-Pakistan-what-do-we-know http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26501
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Child Undernutrition in Pakistan : What Do We Know?

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