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Nutrition Policies in Developing Countries: Challenges and Highlights

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  • Olivier Ecker
  • Marc Nene

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There are many nutrition policies in developing countries. What are the challenges faced by these malnutrition policies? There are many countries which have successfully included nutrition in their development agenda. Malnutrition should be given policy priority in the development programmes of countries.

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  • Olivier Ecker & Marc Nene, 2013. "Nutrition Policies in Developing Countries: Challenges and Highlights," Working Papers id:5241, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:5241
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