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Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in the developing world

by Adam Wagstaff

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Despite the development community's shift in emphasis toward the poor, malnutrition, like other dimensions of poor health, is concentrated among the worst off. Yet targets are still defined in terms of population averages. Consider, then, this information about malnutrition rates among different economic groups in 20 developing countries.

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