Why Worry About the Politics of Childhood Undernutrition?

World Development

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 420-433

  Nisbett, Nicholas ^a   Gillespie, Stuart ^b   Haddad, Lawrence ^b   Harris, Jody ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b International Food Policy Research Institute   (United States)

^c Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research in Agriculture and Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child undernutrition; Global health; Nutrition governance; Nutrition politics; Policy processes

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; CHILD; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MALNUTRITION; POLICY MAKING; POLITICS;

EID: 84904558393     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.06.018     Document Type: Article

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