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2014英语四级听力练习慢速4.11(3)

　　From Learning English, this is the Economics Report.

　　A recent study questions whether placing attention on economic growth is the best way to improve child nutrition in low- and middle-income countries.

　　Subu Subramanian is a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health in Massachusetts. He says there is a common belief on the best way to improve child health in developing countries. He puts it this way: Lets just go after economic growth and then everything else will just follow.

　　But he says that is not always true. Take India for example, a common measure of a countrys economic heath is gross domestic product . Indias GDP has been growing by more than five percent a year, that is a higher growth rate than most Western countries.

　　Yet more than two-fifths of Indias children are underweight. And Subu Subramanian says, the percentage of underweight children has changed little since the the early 1990s. He and other researchers asked a question, was economic growth failing to reach children in countries other than India?

　　They looked at health surveys carried out since 1990 in 36 low- and middle-income countries, mostly South of Africas Sahara Desert. The researchers compared the effect of GDP growth and signs of child malnutrition - like stunted growth and being underweight. But the researchers found only a small relationship or correlation.