Poisoning the Mind : Arsenic Contamination and Cognitive Achievement of Children

Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Continuous drinking of such metal-contaminated water is highly cancerous; prolonged...

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Main Authors: Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz, Chaudhury, Nazmul
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/02/8994117/poisoning-mind-arsenic-contamination-cognitive-achievement-children
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6371