Reversing the Trend of Stunting in Sudan : Opportunities for Human Capital Development through Multisectoral Approaches
The report is structured as follows: section two provides an overview of the existing literature on undernutrition and its determinants. Section three describes the methodology used in this report, the UNICEF conceptual framework and the MICS data...
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| Format: | Policy Note |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/336651628486115435/Reversing-the-Trend-of-Stunting-in-Sudan-Opportunities-for-Human-Capital-Development-through-Multisectoral-Approaches http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36103 |
| Summary: | The report is structured as follows:
section two provides an overview of the existing literature
on undernutrition and its determinants. Section three
describes the methodology used in this report, the UNICEF
conceptual framework and the MICS data collected in 2010 and
2014. The analysis section (section four) begins by
describing the nature of stunting among 0-5-year-old
children in Sudan highlighting differences in stunting rates
across states, households, gender, and age groups. This
analysis is followed by an overview of the extent of
inequalities in access to adequate levels of nutrition
drivers among 0–23-month-old children. The second part of
section four examines the extent to which access to adequate
levels of nutrition drivers influences stunting in Sudan.
The authors estimate marginal effects of access levels
(including individual and joint access) on the probability
of being stunted to identify the main nutrition drivers that
significantly affect stunting and the heterogeneity of their
effects across space, wealth, and gender. Finally, section
five concludes by discussing the implications of the results
on multisectoral responses to stunting in Sudan. |
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