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Global Hunger? School Feeding Offers Double Dividend of Healthier Children...

Co-authored by Lesley Drake, Director of the Partnership for Child DevelopmentAs leaves crackled and autumn closed in on Washington DC at this time last year, the Brookings Institution played host for...

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New Reasons Why School-Based Deworming is Smart Development Policy

In the complex world of education policy, some experts comment that school-based deworming may be the closest we have come to finding a "magic bullet." In regions of the world with high worm burdens,...

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Neglected Diseases of Neglected People: The Case for Investing in Neglected...

Infecting more than 1 billion people globally, the 7 major Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) cause blindness, disfigurement, anemia and cognitive impairment, and yet can be controlled or even...

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School Meals Benefit Women and Girls around the World

 March 8 is the First International School Meals Day. New evidence suggests that today around 370 million children will eat a meal at school.The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has declared March...

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Next time it could be you: Why we should all care about International School...

Two days before the world observes International School Meals Day, I’m here sitting in the U.K. Houses of Parliament thinking about the unexpected evolution of school meals programs in recent years....

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Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Renewed Commitment to...

The World Bank is committed to ending extreme poverty and increasing shared prosperity by 2030.  Improving health and development through the control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)[1] is a key...

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Global Hunger? School Feeding Offers Double Dividend of Healthier Children...

Co-authored by Lesley Drake, Director of the Partnership for Child Development As leaves crackled and autumn closed in on Washington DC at this time last year, the Brookings Institution played host for...

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New Reasons Why School-Based Deworming is Smart Development Policy

In the complex world of education policy, some experts comment that school-based deworming may be the closest we have come to finding a "magic bullet." In regions of the world with high worm burdens,...

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Neglected Diseases of Neglected People: The Case for Investing in Neglected...

Infecting more than 1 billion people globally, the 7 major Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) cause blindness, disfigurement, anemia and cognitive impairment, and yet can be controlled or even...

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School Meals Benefit Women and Girls around the World

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has declared March 8 the First International School Meals Daya celebration of a worldwide phenomenon. The World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Bank have...

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Next time it could be you: Why we should all care about International School...

Two days before the world observes International School Meals Day, I’m here sitting in the U.K. Houses of Parliament thinking about the unexpected evolution of school meals programs in recent years. 

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Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Renewed Commitment to...

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