Economic growth is not tantamount to development. In South Asia they have focused on fast digit growths of the economy without thinking about the people of the country. When the children are weak and less likely to live wont the economy they are building crumble? what the governments of those regions should do is to channel the resources gained in the improvement of the lives of the people. This was my post on the you think blog! you too can blog there, visit the place through this link http://youthinkblog.worldbank.org/tackling-child-malnutrition-south-asia#comments