IFPRI is participating in the launch of the World Bank’s new report, “Obesity: Health and Economic Consequences of an Impending Global Challenge.” 

The report discusses how obesity-related diseases are among the top three killers across the globe. Long believed to be a problem exclusive to high-income countries, over 70 percent of the world’s 2 billion overweight/obese individuals live in low- or middle-income countries. Faced with increasing disability, mortality, health care costs and lower productivity, obesity is a growing concern for all countries regardless of income level.

IFPRI Participant:

• Marie Ruel, Director of Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, IFPRI