This paper quantifies the benefits that accrue to children from having mothers who are literate. It does so by measuring the influence of literacy, after controiling for other factors,on the following indicators of child welfare: male and female infant deaths; male and female child deaths; male...

This paper reports the results of a pilot study aimed at evaluating the performance of the ICDS programme. The study is based on a field survey conducted in 1996 in ten selected blocks in five states comprising 1362 anganwadi centres, 2700 beneficiary households, 10 CDPOs and 40 circle...