Poor childhood nutrition cuts Malawi GDP by 10 percent yearly: study

Sixty percent of Malawian adults suffered from stunting as children, the study "The cost of Hunger in Africa: The Social and Economic Impact of Child Undernutrition in Malawi", said. In a country where two thirds of workers are engaged in manual labour, child undernutrition cost more than 10 percent of GDP in 2012, the most recent year with complete data, the study said. "As a country, we are so worried about this problem," Felix Pensulo Phiri, director of nutrition at Malawi's Health Ministry,