covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that …This paper examines the growth effect of one of the largest nutrition assistance programs in early life. The program … several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight …

those measures that does not coincide with real improvements in the health of the affected children. This bias could lead to …

impact of the World Bank-supported programs on nutrition outcomes. Specifically, the review addresses the following four … questions: 1) what can be said about the impact of different interventions on children's anthropometric outcomes? 2) How do … of Bank-supported programs with anthropometric impacts? Although many different dimensions of child nutrition could be …