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Under nutrition levels in Lao PDR remain among the highest in the world, despite both rapid economic growth and a … significant decline in poverty over the past years. Concerns about the slow progress in reducing under nutrition have triggered … intense policy discussion and several analytical reports have been produced over the last few years on the Lao PDR nutrition …
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-Saharan Africa has been solid and has supported improvements in nutrition outcomes and poverty rates.Despite some relative gains …
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of Health and Family Welfare (DoHFW) requested technical support for better understanding nutrition determinants and … objectives are to better understand the barriers to improved nutrition and health in Nagaland and to help the state government to … about the determinants of malnutrition in North East India; (ii) to identify gaps in maternal and child health and nutrition …
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Eliminating tuberculosis (TB) as a public health concern is not only about saving lives, but also equally an important economic investment. In line with this, the Government of India (GOI) has a target of elimination of TB by 2025, through innovative measures, including providing multiple direct...
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In contrast with the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil's poverty rate is estimated to have decreased between 2019 and 2020 to 13.1 percent. Auxilio Emergencial (AE), a large emergency cash transfer program launched in April 2020, is believed to be the main driver of that decrease,...
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'Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development' (INPARD) is a multisectoral approach to delivering nutrition … development programme could be employed to deliver improved human nutrition outcomes - an objective not typically included in …
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-nourished population. Deficiencies in nutrition and health, lower levels of education, lack of language skills in the national language … gap in nutrition and economic well-being …
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With Malawi's economic growth recovering and single digit inflation, the Government has a keyopportunity to rein in fiscal deficits and reduce domestic debt. If it can better control domestic debt levels, the Government could increasingly move towards creating the conditions for the...
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This study aims to assess the public financing for nutrition in Sri Lanka. The primary purpose is to understand the … size and share of public investments in nutrition relative to the overall level of public expenditure in the country …. Second, it discusses whether the nutrition interventions in which the government budget is spent are in line with the global …
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National Multi-Sector Nutrition Policy, which promote a range of evidence-based interventions to improve maternal and child …
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