Sri Lanka despite achieving excellent health indicators remains plagued by malnutrition. This paradox led to its choice as a blog topic on the Poverty Portal of the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA). This blog and the comments it drew can be accessed using the following link: http://povertyportal.lk/blogs/blog-1-22.html

In the case of Sri Lanka, the blog highlights the inter-generational vicious cycle of malnutrition: low birth weight infants, child growth failure, malnourished stunted adolescents and small statured malnourished reproductive age women perpetuate malnutrition. The issue then is identifying strategies to break the cycle. Malnutrition is clearly linked to poverty and inequality but many other factors too impinge on the problem.

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