Malnutrition in the OIC Member
Countries: A Trap for Poverty
poverty and malnutrition, the inter-generational transmission of malnutrition, and the policies
aimed at fighting malnutrition. The findings related to this strand of the study are in section
Key messages and policy recommendations based on the analyses are presented in section
Throughout the report the focus is on malnutrition among children under five years of age, as
this corresponds to the period of life when malnutrition is most damaging and for which the
most detailed data exist. We also systematically consider chronic and acute malnutrition and
distinguish between under- and over-nutrition.
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