On the fast track: Driving down stunting in Vietnam

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dc.creatorKeefe, Meagan
dc.date2016-06-15
dc.date2024-06-21T09:23:47Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:23:47Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:39:31Z
dc.descriptionVIETNAM HAS MADE dramatic progress in improving nutrition over the past three decades. Following the introduction of Vietnam’s Doi Moi (“renovation”) economic policies in 1986, the country’s economic performance began to improve rapidly. By the 1990s, Vietnam was among the fastest growing economies in the world. From one of the five poorest countries in the world in 1984, Vietnam rose to a rank of 167 out of 206 by 1999. As the country transitioned to a market-oriented economy, rapid economic growth was accompanied by a similarly dramatic decline in the poverty rate, which fell from nearly 75 percent of the population in 1984, to 58 percent in 1993, and down to 37 percent by 1998. Economic growth enabled the country to provide improved health services, which contributed directly to reductions in child malnutrition.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148077
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/110835
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295889
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceKeefe, Meagan. 2016. On the fast track: Driving down stunting in Vietnam. In Nourishing millions: Stories of change in nutrition. Gillespie, Stuart; Hodge, Judith; Yosef, Sivan; and Pandya-Lorch, Rajul (Eds.) Ch. 15 Pp. 133-137. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295889_15.
dc.subjectmaternal and child health
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectinfants
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjectnutrition policies
dc.subjectagricultural policies
dc.subjectagricultural research
dc.subjectsocial protection
dc.subjectwater
dc.subjectstunting
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectmicronutrient deficiencies
dc.subjectmalnutrition
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjecttrace elements
dc.subjectinfant feeding
dc.subjectdeveloping countries
dc.subjectchildren
dc.subjecthygiene
dc.subjectsocial safety nets
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subjectobesity
dc.subjectwasting disease
dc.titleOn the fast track: Driving down stunting in Vietnam
dc.typeBook Chapter

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