WHILE official attention has vacillated between the lofty promise of broadly shared prosperity-cum-better lives and the more down-to-earth topics of missing onions and sticky rice prices, a national crisis lurks under the radar of polity, surprisingly missed by a government that is predisposed to prove its all-around mettle in problem-solving 24/7. A government that does not miss the opportunity to tell Filipinos that "we got this."
That national crisis is child malnutrition, whose lethal impact on children can be easily drawn from the data of the World Bank and other multilateral institutions, according to a position paper released by the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) on June 19, the birthday of Dr. Jose Rizal, who famously wrote on the universal truth that the young are the hope of the Fatherland.
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