Jan 26, 2018 20:16:02 (IST)
Raghuram Rajan on India's malnutrition problem
"I was just talking to the President of the World Bank and one of the things they are worried about, which we've been worried about in India for a long time, is a tremendous amount of malnutritioned kids who are going to come out in the labor force without the kind of mental capability. Whatever education improvements we do are going to do are sort of wasted in some sense if these kids grow up with a stunting in growth, in mental capabilities, that don't allow them to participate. We are sort of condemning them. This, if there was one sort of priority for the country from a social perspective, it should be this."
"I was just talking to the President of the World Bank and one of the things they are worried about, which we've been worried about in India for a long time, is a tremendous amount of malnutritioned kids who are going to come out in the labor force without the kind of mental capability. Whatever education improvements we do are going to do are sort of wasted in some sense if these kids grow up with a stunting in growth, in mental capabilities, that don't allow them to participate. We are sort of condemning them. This, if there was one sort of priority for the country from a social perspective, it should be this."