We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …

higher undernutrition tend to have higher shares of undernourished individuals in non-poor households. The results are … consistent with intra-household inequality but other factors also appear to be at work including common health risks …

measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …