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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: New Research Finds a Link Between Fires, Children's Health, and a Country's GDP
Description: My guest, Prachi Singh, is an associate fellow at the Brookings Institution, India Center and is a PhD candidate at Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. Her research analyzed height and weight ratios of children who were exposed, in utero, to air pollution events like crop burning and forest fires. She finds a significant correlation between low weight and low height ratios and exposure to this pollution. But her research goes further than that. She demonstrates how low height and weight ratios stemming from this exposure impacts India's entire economy, including taking a significant toll on India's Gross Domestic Pr...