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More than food needed to counter inequality

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“Interventions to improve nutrition, especially for children and pregnant women, can be critical for health, physical growth and cognitive development, enabling better lives and futures. Reams of policy papers will attest to the fact that if a government or a donor spends substantially on nutrition, the rxeturn on their investment, in lives improved or saved, will be high.

Less well known is that the full rewards of nutrition support for the neediest children don't always materialise.

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