improvements on some measures, undernutrition among India's young children remains widespread. The improvements we do identify are … among children under five in India. The analytic method combines three types of decomposition: Blinder-Oaxaca, non … conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and socio-economic factors contributing to undernutrition …

undernutrition and stunting among children in certain regions, despite food availability. This paper proposes to trace the relation … between under nutrition and insanitation in India and its effects on children under five. The study is based on secondary data … inequality. Though it appears that India has made great strides in ensuring economic growth expressed through its Gross Domestic …

points in the proportion of children chronically malnourished (stunted). We estimate the extent to which changes in the … of children stunted is explained by changes in the distributions of covariates and 35% is explained by change in the …

were less likely to have male children. Moreover, children who were in utero during the most severe period of the …

In India, monitoring and surveillance of health and well-being indicators have been focused primarily on the state and … constituencies in India. The results indicate that several constituencies experience a multiple burden of child malnutrition that …

years old children reveal a grimmer story of child undernutrition than conventional anthropometric indicators do. Besides … respiratory infection), however, offers some justification for the disaggregated classification of undernourished children used … here. Specifically, those with more than one failure were worse-off in this respect than children with no failure. There is …

malnutrition among Indian children. Comparative assessment among different socioeconomic sub-section in India suggests that the … malnutrition (compromised z-scores) for different socioeconomic complimentary sub-groups in India. The investigation starts with an … Survey (NFHS) 3rd round 2005-06 on Indian under-five children. Decomposition estimates suggest that family wealth level …

indicated that maternal employment increases the probability of having stunted children by between 4.3 and 21 percent, while no … significant effect was found on children suffering from wasting, underweight or overweight. We found that children with more …

improvements on some measures, undernutrition among India's young children remains widespread. The improvements we do identify are … among children under five in India. The analytic method combines three types of decomposition: Blinder-Oaxaca, non … conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and socio-economic factors contributing to undernutrition …