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Fiscal Challenges in Scaling Up Nutrition Interventions: Insights and Policy Implications

Economic and Political Weekly

  • 2019
  • Saumya Shrivastava, Nilachala Acharya, Chandrika Singh, Vani Sethi, Richa S Pandey, Rabi Parhi, Sourav Bhattacharjee, Abner Daniel and Preetu Mishra

Four states-Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh-together account for around 45% of stunted children in India. The existing literature makes a case for delivery of a host of specific interventions referred to as the direct nutrition interventions, along with sector-wise or systemic interventions, to bring about significant reductions in prevalence of stunting among children. An analysis of the delivery of DNIs in the said states shows that apart from the decline in fiscal priority for the DNIs during 2014-15 to 2017-18, there are also significant resource gaps for some of these interventions, which underscores the need for enhancing fiscal priority for these interventions.

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