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"Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large … feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this puzzle, the authors assess the program's placement and its outcomes using … nearly half of India's population - have the lowest program coverage and the lowest budgetary allocations from the central …
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Since the launch of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the Millennium Summit in New York in September 2000, the MDGs have become the most widely-accepted yardstick of development efforts by governments, donors and NGOs. The MDGs are a set of numerical and time-bound targets related to...
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children are a key component of the relationship. Second, he conducts a decomposition analysis of health inequality and finds …
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young children. A combination of income growth and nutrition interventions are therefore suggested to adequately tackle this …
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decision-makers on the optimal design of policies to help reduce premature deaths and illness in children under five years of … age. To protect the health, development, and wellbeing of young children, decision-makers must identify and reduce … advance the understanding of what those risk factors are, when and how to reduce children's exposure to them, and how to …
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the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon …"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between … months have lower anthropometric scores compared with children born during the fall and winter months. The authors propose …
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