Tags: Child Malnutrition, Regional Variations, Women’s Status, Global and Collective Efforts, Millennium Development Goal

This paper sheds light on lives in a world that is often hidden or neglected — a world of vulnerability and exclusion. The focus here is on the children who are the poorest, the most vulnerable, exploited, and abused. An assessment of the capacities, vulnerabilities, and needs is the first step in formulating appropriate responses targeted at reaching the excluded and invisible children. Why have some countries and regions done better than others in combating child malnutrition? Why are child malnutrition rates in South Asia so much higher than other regions? What is the explanation for ‘Asian enigma’? What will it take to eradicate child malnutrition in South Asia? We must first understand the causes of malnutrition and delineate the most important ones before we can identify and act upon those areas of intervention that will be most successful in reducing malnutrition.

Child malnutrition.pdf