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  Impact Evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh, Phase II

  Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014

  The DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a number of nutrition-specific (or direct) interventions with the livelihood support provided to extremely poor people by three existing programmes in Bangladesh.
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  Promoting equity through integrated early child development and nutrition interventions

  Wiley Online Library, 2014

  Sustainable development, a foundation of the post-2015 global agenda, depends on healthy and productive citizens. The origins of adult health begin early in life, stemming from genetic–environmental interactions that include adequate nutrition and opportunities for responsive learning.
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  Agriculture and child under-nutrition in India: a state level analysis

  Madras School of Economics, India, 2014

  The basic rationale for exploring agriculture-nutrition linkage in developing countries is the existence of high level of undernutrition among rural population and a high level of their dependence on agriculture for livelihood.
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  Highlighting the evidence gap: how cost-effective are interventions to improve early childhood nutrition and development?

  Oxford Journals, 2014

  There is growing evidence of the effectiveness of early childhood interventions to improve the growth and development of children. Although, historically, nutrition and stimulation interventions may have been delivered separately, they are increasingly being tested as a package of early childhood interventions that improve outcomes over the life course.
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  Predictors of adolescent weight status and central obesity in rural South Africa

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2011

  In South Africa, high levels of overweight/obesity have been documented among adults. There is also some evidence of high levels of overweight/obesity in children and adolescents.
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  Child growth in urban deprived settings: does household poverty status matter? At which stage of child development?

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012

  This paper uses longitudinal data from two informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya to examine patterns of child growth and how these are affected by four different dimensions of poverty at the household level namely, expenditures poverty, assets poverty, food poverty, and subjective poverty.
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  Child growth = sustainable economic growth: Why we should invest in nutrition

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013

  This policy brief, commissioned by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and used as a key resource for the Nutrition for Growth Summit in London, June 8, 2013, outlines the relationship that child nutrition has with a country’s economic growth. It outlines several ways in which investments in malnutrition reduction have a positive impact on economic growth.
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  Early childhood stunting is associated with poor psychological functioning in late adolescence and effects are reduced by psychosocial stimulation

  Journal of Nutrition, 2007

  Stunting is associated with deficits in cognition and school achievement from early childhood to late adolescence; however, there has been little investigation of emotional and behavioral outcomes. This study aims to determine whether linear growth retardation (stunting) in early childhood is associated with poorer psychological functioning in late adolescence.
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  Effective international action against undernutrition: why has it proven so difficult and what can be done to accelerate progress?

  The Lancet, 2013

  Many transnational organisations work to support efforts to eliminate maternal and child undernutrition in high-burden countries. Financial, intellectual, and personal linkages bind these organisations loosely together as components of an international nutrition system. In this paper, the authors argue that such a system should deliver in four functional areas:
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  Childhood obesity in developing countries: epidemiology, determinants, and prevention

  2012

  Rapidly changing dietary practices and a sedentary lifestyle have led recently to increasing prevalence of childhood obesity (5–19 yrs) in developing countries.

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