Developing Nations bear the greatest burden of infectious disease and have
limitations on the food front as well. These two situations work synergistically
to put a lot of stress on the physical growth of children living in the
developings world thus impinging on their health, survival and habitual physical
activity. Professor Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize winner in Economics in 1998
dedicated his efforts to work on the welfare economics by correlating the health
situation with economic indicators. In a real and functional sense, the size of
the children, adolescents and adults is indicative of the fact how a nation
performs on its economic and developmental front.