Overcoming Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries - Past Achievements and Future Choices. 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment. Discussion Paper 30 (IFPRI, 2000, 73 p.): Acknowledgments

Overcoming Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries - Past Achievements and Future Choices. 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment. Discussion Paper 30 (IFPRI, 2000, 73 p.)

		(introduction...)
		Foreword
		Acknowledgments
		1. Exploring the Causes of Malnutrition
		2. Determinants of the Nutritional Status of Children
		3. Data and Methods
		4. New Evidence from Cross-Country Data, 1970-95
		5. How Has Child Malnutrition Been Reduced in the Past?: A Retrospective
		6. Projections of Child Malnutrition in the Year 2020
		7. Priorities for the Future
		8. Conclusions
		Appendix: Cross-Country Studies: Methodological Issues and Past Findings
		References
		Recent Food, Agriculture and the Environment Discussion Papers

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the following for their useful comments and suggestions: Gaurav Datt, Timothy Frankenberger, John Hoddinott, Mylene Kherallah, John Maluccio, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Agnes Quisumbing, Emmanuel Skoufias, Alison Slack, and the participants of seminars given at IFPRI, the Department of International Health at Emory University, and the 1999 annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. We also appreciate the helpful and stimulating comments of the external and internal reviewers of this discussion paper and the reviewers of the companion IFPRI research report Explaining Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries: A Cross-Country Analysis. These persons are not responsible for any remaining errors.