Financing Childhood Growth
According to estimates by World Bank economists, implementing tested nutrition interventions to prevent childhood stunting would boost economic productivity and tax revenues in low-income countries. With benefits outweighing costs by a ratio of at least five to one, impact investors could be induced to finance targeted outcomes.
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NEW YORK – In 2020, chronic undernutrition stunted the growth of nearly a quarter of the world’s children under five years old. Being too short for one’s age, as a result of chronic undernutrition, can cause irreversible physical and cognitive damage and increases the risk of dying from common infections.