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25 Years of Scaling Up: Nutrition and health interventions in Odisha, India

author(s) Menon, Purnima - Kohli, Neha - Van den Bold, Mara - Becker, Elisabeth - Nisbett, Nicholas - Haddad, Lawrence - Avula, R
from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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  • Southern Asia
  • Asia
  • World
citation

Menon, Purnima et al., '25 Years of Scaling Up: Nutrition and health interventions in Odisha, India', In Nourishing millions: Stories of change in nutrition. Ch. 17 Pp. 149-159, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, 2016

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Abstract

ODISHA, A STATE of 42 million people in eastern India, is one of the poorest in the country. It has faced many development challenges over the years, including insurgent movements, large pockets of extreme deprivation among scheduled tribe communities, social disparities, and natural disasters, as well as a relatively late fiscal turnaround (in 2004–2005) in comparison with other states. Yet Odisha has made significant progress in reducing child undernutrition—less than India as a whole, but more than many other richer states. How has it achieved this progress?

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