Undernutrition takes toll on economy: study (The Daily Star)

IFPRI’s Compact2025 initiative to end hunger and undernutrition by 2025 was the subject of an article in The Daily Star, the largest English-language newspaper in Bangladesh. According to the article, “Bangladesh loses 2 to 3 percent of its GDP due to productivity losses from undernutrition, despite making gains in reducing hunger and malnutrition over the past two and a half decades. A draft report of Compact2025, an initiative to end hunger and undernourishment by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) by 2025, revealed the data of gross domestic output losses. The report, shared at a roundtable yesterday, said undernutrition results is severe human and economic costs.” Read the full story on The Daily Star’s website.