Investments in very young children, limiting exposure to disease, ensuring adequate nutrients, and stimulating the young child, yield returns across the lifecycle. Stunting, excessively low height-for-age, caused by extreme nutrient inadequacy and repeated bouts of disease, results in impaired brain development, lower cognitive and socioemotional skills, lower levels of educational attainment, and shortness and illness in adulthood. All are associated...
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تفاصيل
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2016/10/01
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ورقة عمل
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184034
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1
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2023/7/14
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Disclosed
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The Economic Costs of Stunting and How to Reduce Them