Investments in childhood nutrition have one of the highest social returns

Professor Susan Horton from University of Waterloo and professor John Hoddinott from Cornell have written a cost-benefit analysis of nutrition interventions aimed at reducing stunting; they conclude every dollar spent on nutrition in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life can give a saving of an average $45 (£28) and in some cases as much as $166. “The returns to investments in nutrition have high benefit cost ratios, and that this should be a top development priority.”

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Article by Bjorn Lomborg, The Guardian, 2014.

Research: Prof. Susan Horton, University of Waterloo, and Prof. John Hoddinott, from Cornell University. Copenhagen Consensus Center.