Scaling nutrition for human capital and jobs in MENAAP Chiara Dell’AiraRebekah PintoSherin Varkey November 03, 2026 This page in: English Français العربية

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/arabvoices/scaling-nutrition-for-human-capital-and-jobs-in-menaap A child enters the classroom bearing the effects of chronic nutritional deprivation that will constrain how he learns, grows, and develops. Her mother starts the workday already exhausted, her anemia draining the energy and concentration she needs to stay productive and earn a living. Her father, still in the prime of his working life, is living with obesity and diet-related disease that increasingly pulls him away from work.