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UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Published in : 2002

Available in : English

No nation can afford to waste its greatest national resource: the intellectual power of its people. But that is precisely what is happening where low birth weight is common,where children fail to achieve their full potential growth,where micronutrient deficiencies permanently damage the brain,and where anemia and short-term hunger limit children’s performance at school. Increasingly in this world, it is intellectual resources, not natural or physical resources, that determine national power