Timor-Leste, March 22 -- Timor-Leste can achieve its hunger and malnutrition reduction goals and significantly reduce childhood stunting by increasing its spending by $55 million in nutrition investments over the eight-year period 2023-2030, the World Bank said in a report. At 47 percent, the stunting rate in Timor-Leste is currently one of the highest in the world.
Increasing investment by an average of around $7 million per year, from the current level of roughly $49 million, would represent just 0.3 percent of the nation's GDP, yet would promise significant returns in terms of health and productivity, according to Indicative Costing of Timor-Leste's Consolidated National Action Plan for Nutrition and Food Security (CNAP-NFS).
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