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Nutritional Deprivation Among Indian Pre-School Children: Does Rural-Urban Disparity Matter ?
Mishra, Rudra Narayan - eSocialSciences - 2009
The rural-urban disparities are a reality in developing countries like India. Post reform, there are lot of empirical studies which has focused on this aspect of development experience in India. The vast majority of Indians continues to live in rural areas, despite the phenomenal rise of urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512455
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The Changing Pattern of Undernutrition in India A Comparative Analysis across Regions
V, Meenakshi J; Viswanathan, Brinda - eSocialSciences - 2008
This study analyses the changes in prevalence of undernutrition between the 1980s and 1990s at the national and sub … household surveys to derive a household-specific norm as the calorie cutoff point to measure undernutrition, instead of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699115
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Is Economic Growth Associated with Reduction in Child Undernutrition in India?
Subramanyam, Malavika A; Kawachi, Ichiro; Berkman, Lisa F; … - eSocialSciences - 2011
Economic growth is widely perceived as a major policy instrument in reducing childhood undernutrition in India. The … association between changes in state per capita income and the risk of undernutrition among children in India were assessed. Data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002224
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India: Public Works versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra; Imai, Katsushi S; Gaiha, Raghav - eSocialSciences - 2009
public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992430
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Aggregate Fertility and Household Savings: A General Equilibrium Analysis using Micro Data
Banerjee, Abhijit; Meng, Xin; Porzio, Tommaso; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2014
the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. [BREAD WP No. 415]. …
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The Effects of Mortality on Fertility: Population Dynamics after a Natural Disaster
Nobles, Jenna; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Thomas, Duncan - eSocialSciences - 2014
Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. The fertility … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure is identified, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945407
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Do Population Trends Matter to Agricultural Productivity? A Case Study of Bangladesh
Chaudhury, Rafiqul Huda - eSocialSciences - 2014
The paper examines two questions: (i) do population trends impede agricultural productivity? or (ii) it promote agricultural productivity or both? [BIDS}.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945566
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Demographic Transition, Family Size and Child Schooling
Bhat, P. N. Mari - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper first presents evidence to show that in recent years there has been a substantial fall in fertility among … connecting these two pieces of evidence, the paper argues that fertility is falling and child schooling is rising among … declines in fertility. [WP no. 86] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341699
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - eSocialSciences - 2009
Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017996
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The Wide Angle: The End of Population Growth
Sanyal, Sanjeev - eSocialSciences - 2011
The the population dynamics of the 21st century is shown here.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319308