Small investments in nutrition could make the world brainier Flashcards
(24 cards)
PISA
Programme for International Student Assessment
OECD?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
What are the proposed reasons education is declining?
migration, phones, covid, unions, culture
How does japan embarass the rest?
larger classes, better results
What period are a million synapses formed per second?
third trimester to second birthday
How bad do malnourished brains lose power?
half a standard deviation worse
UNICEF
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
of UN member states?
193
“paucity”?
Scarcity
Famous and old medical journal?
Lancet
How much does bad developement cost us, globally?
6% GPD
How much does it cost the countries it effects?
12% GDP
How many countries have very high stunting rates?
29
The proportion of people on 2.15 a day was what in 1990 and what in 2022?
38% and 9%
Why do poor countries sell more bad snacks?
They don’t need fridges and keep long
What is the capital of Bangladesh
Dhaka
What was humanities percentage of access to “basic” toilets from 2000 to 2022, change?
55% to 81%
What is the WFP and who runs it?
World Food Program, the UN
What is the name of the cash to education scheme in Uganda, and how much for how long?
Nutricash, 20/month, 2 years
What did one ugandan mother feed her kid before she knew better
sugar in boiled water
Estimate for fighting deficient nutrition at scale?
12 billion
Financial return on a dollar for wasting?
3
“wasting” or “wasted”
underweight for age
Financial return on a dollar for stunting?
29
