No nation can afford to waste its greatest national resource: the intellectual power of its people. But that is precisely what is happening where low birth weight is common where children fail to achieve their full potential growth where micronutrient deficiencies permanently damage the brain and where anemia and short-term hunger limit children’s performance at school. Increasingly in this world it is intellectual resources not natural or physical resources that determine national power. How can a nation compete internationally when 20–50 percent of its population is intellectually compromised? Since the child survival revolution has saved so many children’s lives it is now time to focus on the quality of life and health of the survivors. (excerpt)