How fixing female malnutrition can boost India’s economy by $15-46 billion (Business Standard)

India’s Business Standard reported on the potential for investing in women’s nutrition to boost the country’s economy by up to $46 billion. The article described the state of women’s, and consequently children’s, malnourishment in India and referenced an IFPRI study by Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon and Research Fellows Rasmi Avula and Samuel Scott that found POSHAN Abhiyaan—a multi-ministerial government nutrition mission—continues to have difficulty ensuring multiple programs reach mothers and their children within the first 1,000 days (from the start of pregnancy to the child’s second birthday). The author also described India’s malnourishment cycle and described current efforts to disrupt it.