Nutritional failure in Ecuador
Subtitle: causes, consequences, and solutions
Contributors: World Bank
Series: A World Bank country study
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780821370193
Subjects: Malnutrition -- Ecuador; Nutrition policy -- Ecuador
Description: "Malnutrition--especially, the stunting of children under five---is arguably Ecuador's biggest development challenge. Like other Andean countries (such as Peru and Bolivia), Ecuador has a persistently high stunting rate, well above what would be expected given its middle income status. Even more worrying, over the last decade, the trend reduction has virtually stopped. The study supports the development of a more coherent and effective nutrition strategy in Ecuador through an analysis of the main nutrition issues, based on in-depth statistical analysis of a large new household survey dataset (ENDEMAIN 2004) and other data sources, together with a review of qualitative evidence regarding behavioral and program-access obstacles to improved nutritional outcomes. It also reviews the existing programs and policies which aim to improve nutritional outcomes, considered the available evidence on the efficiency, effectiveness, targeting and inter-programmatic coherence of the programs and projects reviewed and suggests an agenda for policy discussions to improve these outcomes."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-127)
Table of contents: title: A profile of malnutrition in Ecuador; title: Causes of chronic malnutrition in Ecuador; title: Issues facing Ecuador's nutrition programs; title: Recommendations for the development of a goal-based national nutrition strategy