This article uses longitudinal data from the Philippines to examine whether the timing of malnutrition in early … development more than malnutrition later in life, analysis of the Philippines data does not support this claim. To the contrary …

About a third of Filipino children are stunted or chronically malnourished. However, there is a paucity of evidence on … the socioeconomic inequalities of stunting in the Philippines. This study has two objectives. First, we discuss the wide …

Widespread chronic malnutrition in the Philippines is a human development disaster, which needs critical and urgent …

Nearly one in three children under age five in the Philippines is stunted, a key marker of undernutrition. This rate is … of stunting in the Philippines, using data from the 2015 National Nutrition Survey. Potential drivers are analyzed … 20 percent. Similarly, providing adequate food security and diversity to all Filipino children would reduce stunting by …