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Child malnutrition affects other Millennium Development Goals
Malnutrition increases the risk of contracting diseases such as diarrhea or measles, and of dying from them. It is one of the most important determinants of child mortality.
Malnutrition reduces school achievement and results in inferior cognitive abilities that can persist throughout life. In rural Zimbabwe, childhood nutritional deficits due to civil war in the late 1970s and drought in 1982-84 led to late school entry and an estimated 14 percent reduction in lifetime earning.
A study of supplementary child feeding programs in northwestern Tanzania shows that such programs would let the income poverty goal be reached at a lower annual growth rate than otherwise.
Malnutrition increases the risk of contracting diseases such as diarrhea or measles, and of dying from them. It is one of the most important determinants of child mortality.
Malnutrition reduces school achievement and results in inferior cognitive abilities that can persist throughout life. In rural Zimbabwe, childhood nutritional deficits due to civil war in the late 1970s and drought in 1982-84 led to late school entry and an estimated 14 percent reduction in lifetime earning.
A study of supplementary child feeding programs in northwestern Tanzania shows that such programs would let the income poverty goal be reached at a lower annual growth rate than otherwise.
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