Around 30 percent of children under 5 years of age are stunted – considered high for its level of income and high compared to most of its neighbors” At ...

UNDERNUTRITION in the Philippines is estimated to cost the economy up to $8.5 billion a year, according to Nutrition ...

“In a year, we lost 328bn Philippine pesos (£4.7bn) due to stunting – that’s nearly 3 per cent of the GDP of the Philippines,” Dr Parawan says. “The children get sick, it affects their ...

The Philippines scored 355 in Math ... A child’s poor growth leads to stunting, which means shorter height, poor participation in school, little or no employability skills, poor income as ...

Indonesia launched an ambitious $4.3 billion free-meal program on Monday to combat stunted growth due to malnutrition, a key ...