World loses billions in career earnings due to poor growth in children

NAIROBI, KENYA: Early life growth faltering in low- and middle-income countries results in a US $176.8 billion reduction in potential career earnings for children born each year, according to new Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health research funded by Grand Challenges Canada. 

Representing the first in-depth study of the economic impact of early life growth faltering (when a child's physical growth is below the normal range for healthy children) in low- and middle-income countries, the research was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.