How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
Its GDP per person is barely half India’s, but it has a lower child-mortality rate
IN THE 27 years since he became headmaster of a school in Trishal, in northern Bangladesh, Mohamed Iqbal Baher has noticed some changes in his pupils. Although boys and girls are often absent because they are helping their parents in the fields, they miss fewer lessons because of illness. Mr Baher does not recall an outbreak of cholera in the past ten years. And, although he cannot be sure, he thinks that pupils are taller than they used to be.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Beating the bugs”
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