Why has the underlyinghealth or morbidity of newborns, as proxied by the rate of low birth weight births, remained so immovable? Even more baffling, why has there been so little change in newborn healththe rate of low birth weight despite increases in the inputs that we believe produce good...

Malnutrition and under nutrition are critical issues in Maharashtra. In spite of being a high growth state in the country, it has occasionally remained in the news due to deaths caused by under nutrition in the recent past. Basically, there is an attempt made to evaluate ICDS which is a...