Why isn’t India’s economic growth improving its shocking levels of child malnutrition?

27 October 2009 A new report by IDS, launched at the Houses of Parliament on 20 October and in New Delhi on 16 September, suggests a failure in governance is responsible for India's extraordinary levels of malnutrition and warns that new funding alone cannot prevent another lost generation. The London launch was co-hosted by the Department for International Development (DFID) and IDS with the All Party Parliamentary Group on Debt, Aid and Trade as part of the series 'Dangerous Ideas in Development' and was chaired by Baroness Northover. At this event Mark Lowcock, Director General of Country programmes at DFID, presented a new DFID Evidence Paper on undernutrition entitled ‘The neglected crisis of undernutrition: Evidence for action’, which will inform the development of a separate DFID Strategy paper for tackling undernutrition in the developing world.

Professor Lawrence Haddad, Director of IDS, presented the main findings of the IDS Bulletin, ‘Lifting the Curse: Overcoming ... more.

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