African Economies Hard-Hit by Child Malnutrition
Malnutrition among children costs countries up to 16.5 per cent of their gross domestic product, according to reports looking at the social and economic consequences of child undernourishment in 12 countries.
Photo: Florian Lems/MSF-AUSTRIA
Women watch as their children are being weighed at MSF's Ambulant Therapeutic Feeding Center in Chad.
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