Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records … from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses on the socioeconomic determinants … diseases for children in their first years of life. Better maternal education and family economic status significantly increase …

Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental … factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into … a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes gradually affect child health, so it is helpful to use alternative tools …

This paper analyzes the effects of a multilateral debt relief program on child health. The International Monetary Fund … country-specific Demographic and Health Surveys to investigate the effects of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative … on child health. The retrospective fertility structure of the data allows for analysis using the within-mother variation …

caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic … health has been quite limited; and (ii) provides evidence of significant synergies among adequate food, child care, and … environment and health …

that initiatives to end undernutrition in the region should focus on improving the diets of young children. This review of …. Children who are most at risk of experiencing poor feeding include those who are born small, have younger mothers, and live in … poorer households or in communities with less access to, or lower uptake of, primary health services. Initiatives to improve …

been at work, including reductions among the poor (but not among the better-off) in coverage of health services and in …. The authors examine various policy scenarios, including expanding coverage of health services, water and sanitation, and … find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …

Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India are used to assess the impact of selective … mortality on children?s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … scenario that all children who died in the first three years of life were alive at the time of measurement. The simulations …

This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …

This paper explores the links between city competitiveness and air pollution and the business environment. Because … increasing pollution levels and the effects of agglomeration economies. The analysis finds two interesting results. First, the … negative association between air pollution and firm performance can be seen at lower than expected levels of pollution. Second …