Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive†Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per … cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.63 paise to children. …

Nineteen per cent of world’s children live in India. India is home to more than one billion people, of which 42 per … children, India continues to rank poorly on several key counts. The world’s tenth largest economy unfortunately ranks 127 on … the Human Development Index (HDI). If all child rights indicators were to become a critical measure for HDI, India would …

India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16. Outcomes are measured as multidimensional … deprivations, utilizing UNICEF's Multidimensional Overlapping Deprivation Analysis index, incorporating deficiencies in children …'s access to water, sanitation, housing, healthcare, nutrition, education and information. We identify causal impacts using a …

impediment to human capital development. Specifically, we examine the effects of sanitation coverage and usage on child height … for age in a semi-urban setting in Northern India. We use instrumental variables to control for endogeneity of sanitation …