So too would any significant improvement in the government's efforts to fight child malnutrition with one exception.
Now the state, when it hears of poverty and child malnutrition and fathers committing suicide, takes action.
It has rising rates of child malnutrition and alarming declines in reserves of its two main resources, oil and water.
But the government's main effort to tackle child malnutrition, the Integrated Childhood Development Service (ICDS), has failed for rather different reasons.
Unlike Mexico, however, it has no slums or seriously deprived regions, no child malnutrition, practically no single-parent households and virtually no crime.
Of course, as India's dismal record on child malnutrition demonstrates (see article), growth by itself does not solve all the problems of the poor.
Mr Giugale notes that traditionally recessions in the region see an increase in child malnutrition and in teenagers dropping out of school to seek money in the informal economy.
East Timor, which has also applied to join the Association of South East Asian Nations, is faced with a host of domestic issues from child malnutrition to gang violence, growing unemployment and corruption.
"While conditions in Somalia have improved in recent months, the country still has one of the highest rates of child malnutrition and infant mortality in the world, " Ben Foot, from the charity Save the Children, said in a statement.
But most experts agree that the country will make a serious dent in child malnutrition only when it focuses on pregnant women and the very young, perhaps by providing an additional worker in each anganwadi centre to make home visits.
In 2012 our impact report showed clear reductions in child mortality and malnutrition and improvements in education across sponsorship programmes.
This is one of the world's poorest countries with among the highest rates of malnutrition and child mortality.
Founded by actress and fashion model Patricia Velasquez in 2002, the foundation supports the indigenous peoples living between Venezuela and Colombia through a variety of programs aimed at combating extreme poverty, malnutrition, child mortality and deficiencies in child development.
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But at least, points out Miss Brett, if 18 becomes the legal minimum, then even allowing for the difficulty of telling a child's age in places where malnutrition may make him look younger than he is or hard labour make him older 13- and 14-year-olds are less likely to end up clutching Kalashnikovs.
Almost every country has endorsed these goals, which range from cutting child deaths by two-thirds to halving poverty malnutrition and achieving universal primary education.
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