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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jim Yong Kim could spoil India's Davos party in 2017 over stunting -Roshan Kishore

Jim Yong Kim could spoil India's Davos party in 2017 over stunting -Roshan Kishore

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published Published on Oct 5, 2016   modified Modified on Oct 5, 2016
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India continues to have high stunting levels, despite impressive growth

New Delhi:
India has earned a lot of praise from leaders of international economic institutions and forums for being the fastest growing economy in the world in recent years. This might not be the case when world capitalist leaders meet in Davos for the 2017 World Economic Forum in January next year. Jim Yong Kim, the World Bank’s president, has threatened to name and shame countries which have failed to prevent stunting among children. Kim, who has been a physician himself, wants to end stunting by 2030.

According to the 2016 Global Nutrition Report released by Washington based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); India was ranked 114 among 132 countries with 38.7% prevalence of stunting.

Children aged 0-59 months, whose heights are less than minus two standard deviations from World Health Organisation prescribed levels, are referred to as stunted. A lot of research shows that stunting during childhood can have adverse effects on health and cognitive abilities in adulthood, thus making it a more serious handicap than just poor in India physical growth.

As is to be expected, the incidence of stunting varies a great deal by place of residence and socio-economic background. Data from Rapid Survey of Children (RSOC) conducted in 2013-14 which was released by government of India’s Women and Child Development ministry last year shows that children from poorest families have the highest incidence of stunting in India. A previous Plainfacts piece has discussed the findings of this survey in detail.

To be sure, the current stunting levels could be slightly lower, than the IFPRI estimates which seem to be based on RSOC figures. An average of state-wise stunting figures for the 13 states for which data has been made available in the latest round of National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) shows stunting rates have declined by 11 percentage points to 32 percent. An Economic and Political Weekly editorial published in January this year, found this numbers to be broadly in line with the RSOC findings for 2013-14.

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