Although South Asia has long been synonymous with persistent and unusually high rates of child undernutrition – the so … called Asian Enigma – Bangladesh has managed to sustain a surprisingly rapid reduction in the rate of child undernutrition …

South Asia has long been synonymous with persistent and unusually high rates of child undernutrition — the so …-called Asian enigma. Yet contrary to this stereotype, Bangladesh has managed to sustain a rapid reduction in the rate of child … undernutrition for at least two decades. In this paper we aim to understand the sources of this unheralded success with the …