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Economics behind India’s rising child malnutrition -Udit Misra

-The Indian Express

The latest National Family Health Survey data shows that in several parts of India, children born between 2014 and 2019 are more malnourished than the previous generation

Dear Readers,

Consider some of the biggest challenges facing the world — armed conflict, chronic disease, education, infectious disease, population growth, biodiversity, climate change, hunger & malnutrition, natural disasters, water and sanitation.

What would be your response if you were given billions of dollars to invest in one intervention?

In 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus, which is a think tank devoted to finding the most efficient ways to solving the world’s biggest problems, tossed this very compelling question before an expert panel of scientists and economists, which included four Nobel winners.

“If you had $75 billion for worthwhile causes, where should you start?” the panel was asked.

The idea was to find out that one intervention which gives the most bang for the buck — the one that scored the highest in cost-benefit analyses as limited budgets are a global reality.

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