Affiliation:
1. Dr Devi Sridhar is a Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford University. Address: Department of Politics and International Relations, All Souls College, Oxford OX1 4AL, UK. [e-mail: ]
Abstract
The World Bank has become the largest financial contributor to health-related and nutrition projects, committing more than $1 billion annually towards the health, nutrition and population sector. This article examines how the World Bank addressed malnutrition in Tamil Nadu and discusses the consequences of this approach for the Bank's projects and target communities. Using the case study of the Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Project (TINP), it is argued that the World Bank nutrition package, now implemented in several countries, might not be effective in extremely poor and destitute communities because it does not address the underlying social causes of malnutrition. The final section of the article goes ‘inside’ the Bank to examine two institutional drivers that could explain the promotion of the TINP approach to undernutrition.
Subject
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance,General Social Sciences,General Arts and Humanities
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