Pakistan has an extraordinarily high and persistent level
of child undernutrition. To effectively tackle the problem,
the design of public policies and programs needs to be
based on evidence. Toward this end, this paper presents
a narrative review of the available empirical and qualitative
literature on child undernutrition in Pakistan. It
summarizes evidence for the country on, among other
things, food consumption, spatial variation and trends in
undernutrition rates, levels and effects of generally theorized
determinants of undernutrition, and effects of various
interventions on undernutrition. Based on patterns revealed
in and insights gained from the cumulative evidence, the
review lays out considerations and suggestions for further
data collection and research, and for policy and practice.