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A blog to promote dialog on development in South Asia

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This blog is maintained by the South Asia Region of the World Bank Group. Its goal is to exchange ideas on how to end poverty in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

Sundararajan Gopalan

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Senior PHN Specialist

Sundararajan Gopalan (Sundar, for short) is a Senior HNP Specialist and has been working on nutrition and health issues throughout his career.  Though he is a medical doctor by original training, specialized in public health, his work experience with the Bank has broadened his horizons and he believes strongly in working across sector boundaries.  Nutrition is an outstanding example of such a multi-sectoral outcome and he has a passion for addressing malnutrition among women and underfive children of low-income countries.  He has submitted this blog in the context of the South Asia Development Marketplace on Nutrition, currently under way in Dhaka, Bangladesh.