in average height across developing countries are not well explained by differences in wealth. In particular, children in … India are shorter, on average, than children in Africa who are poorer, on average, a paradox which is often called the Asian … differences between India's first and second DHS surveys; and econometric decomposition of the India-Africa height difference in …

An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and … families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children … experiences parental incarceration today, compared to one in 125 children in 1985. Black children are particularly affected by …

, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate the …) mortality, interpreted as a measure of the disease and nutritional burden in childhood, and the mean height of those children as … childhood determinants of population adult height, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. Across a range of …

affects the meager resources of households and impacts dependent women and children. These Cases have been formulated on basis … respondents comprising mainly of urban poor, selected from three major slums and other poverty pockets of Varanasi city in India … and children of households and makes them further vulnerable to multiple crises. This paper urges that the addicts and …

recovery in the Philippines cohort. In Kagera, almost 75 per cent of the children experience catch-up growth. The mean height …Chronic malnutrition during early childhood hinders growth and causes children to fall into a lower growth trajectory …. In order to recover, children need to experience growth rates that are above the expected rate for their age. Several …