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Akhter Ahmed

Akhter Ahmed is a Senior Research Fellow in the IFPRI’s Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit and Country Representative for IFPRI Bangladesh. He has worked on strategies for agricultural and rural development, social protection, and women’s empowerment to reduce poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition in developing countries including Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Malawi, the Philippines, and Turkey.

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Malnutrition Burden in India Remains High, Nutrition Profiles of 640 Districts Reveal (Mint)

December 15, 2017

India’s leading business daily, Mint, published a report on state-wise nutritional profiles recently released by IFPRI. The report mentioned how there is tremendous inter-state and inter-district variability. The article quoted IFPRI-SAO’s Purnima Menon who explained child wasting is extremely widespread across India, with 487 districts where more than 15% of children suffer from it. Child wasting under five slightly increased over time at the national level, Menon added. 

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