<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="2" color="maroon" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Global Hunger Index</span></font></b></p>
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Food Policy Research Institute – October 11, 2010<br>
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PDF [56p.] at:<b><span style="font-weight:bold"> </span></b><a href="http://bit.ly/9vdYv2" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="color:navy">http://bit.ly/9vdYv2</span></font></a>
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among children under two years of age is one of the leading challenges to
reducing global hunger and can cause lifelong harm to health, productivity, and
earning potential, according to the 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI).</span></font></p>
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Index scores countries based on three equally weighted indicators: <br>
- the proportion of people who are undernourished, <br>
- the proportion of children under five who are underweight, and <br>
- the child mortality rate. The biggest contributor to the global score is
child undernutrition, which accounts for almost half of the score….”<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold">Summary </span></font></b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold">Chapter 01 </span></font></b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The Concept of the Global Hunger Index </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold">Chapter 02 </span></font></b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Global, Regional, and National Trends </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold">Chapter 03 </span></font></b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Fighting the Crisis of Early Childhood Undernutrition The Thousand-Day
Window of Opportunity </span></font></p>
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We See It Is a Problem and We Know How to Address It” </span></font></p>
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<h2 style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Press Release</span></font></h2>
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