Nations Must Invest More In Women’s, Girls’ Health To Compete In Digital Future, World Bank President Says

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Invest in girls’ health to compete in the digital future: World Bank head
“Countries which fail to invest in young women’s health will be left behind because the underdeveloped brains of their children will not be equipped to compete in an increasingly complex, digital world, the head of the World Bank said on Wednesday. Jim Yong Kim said childhood stunting, which impairs cognitive ability, was a ‘great unrecognized disaster happening in the world right now’…” (Batha, 5/18).

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