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Indian children are very short, on aver-obvious, and, in the rest of the literature, age, compared with children living in well-understood omission-is the impor other countries. Because height re-tance of the disease environment. There fleets early life health and net nutrition, are passing mentions of health and medi and because good early life health also cal care, but healthcare is much less im helps brains to grow and capabilities to portant for health status than the toll on develop, widespread growth faltering is a children's growth that comes from con human development disaster. Panagariya stant struggling with disease. In the past, acknowledges these facts, but argues that economists were taken to task for assum Indian children are particularly short be-ing that food, primarily driven by real in cause they are genetically programmed to come, is the key to human nutritional sta be so. In consequence, the higher preva …