nutrition

Economic theory predicts that smaller families can lead to healthier children. Evidence from India shows contraception plays a vital role in reducing child malnutrition, potentially by enabling parents to invest more resources in each child.

Governments commonly use school infrastructure to implement programmes targeting child health, but additional programmes can overwhelm administrative capacity and crowd out the delivery of existing programmes.

Prolonged exposure to ‘midday meals’ can improve learning outcomes on top of its other objectives

While academics and policymakers prefer unconditional cash transfer to the poor, they value in-kind transfers that protect against price fluctuations

New studies measure how many people cannot afford a healthy diet, establishing a useful benchmark for understanding global food systems and poverty

Why is an increase in average wealth in India accompanied by a decrease in average calorie consumption?

Scaling up early childhood intervention programmes even when resources are constrained can mitigate child poverty

We produce enough food to feed every single person alive, yet global food insecurity is rising. Arif Husain discusses why and the way forward.

Policymakers face challenges when trying to identify the right targets for antipoverty programmes. This column assesses whether the data typically available to policymakers in sub-Saharan Africa are up to the task. Commonly used proxy means tests are...