Dr. Mohd Anisul Karim, Research Fellow at
International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh gave this talk at TEDxDhaka on 22 November 2014. He spoke for 15 minutes on 'The butterfly effect of small changes: lessons from Bangladesh and beyond' in which Transform Nutrition research and the importance of education in making good choices around healthcare and nutrition were highlighted.
2. The Butterfly Effect of Small Changes
Lessons from Bangladesh and beyond
Mohd Anisul Karim
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4. The Asian Enigma:
Half the world’s malnourished
population reside in these 3
countries.
5. The Other Asian Enigma:
Bangladesh recorded one of the
fastest prolonged reductions in child
underweight and stunting
prevalence in recorded history.
13. Bangladesh is a country
without hope, a basket case.
case.
- Henry Kissinger
14. “That said, the most important of the country’s
achievements can serve as a model for others.
Bangladesh shows what happens if you take
women seriously as agents development.”
15. “Bangladesh has made enormous health
advances and now has the longest life
expectancy, lowest fertility rate and lowest infant
lowest infant and under-5 mortality rates in
in South Asia despite spending less on health
care than several neighboring countries.”
A Mushtaque R Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya et al. The Bangladesh paradox: exceptional health achievement despite economic poverty. The Lancet, Volume 382, Issue 9906, Pages 1734 - 1745, 23 November 2013
16. “The unlocking of the power
of women’s active role in the
the society and the economy
has been an extremely
productive move for
Bangladesh despite having
half the per capita income of
India.
-The Guardian 2013 quoting Amartya