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Poverty Nutrition Trap in Rural India
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Sharma, Anurag - 2014
The contribution of the present paper is threefold. First, we formally test whether the effect of calorie deprivation on wages is more significant/higher for the lower quantiles of workers. In the extant literature this is established through non-linear terms in the wage equation. A more...
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Child Undernutrition in India
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - 2014
We have constructed a composite indicator of anthropometric failure (CIAF) that refines the Waterlow-3 tier classification, using a recent nation-wide household survey. The CIAF and its disaggregation into subcategories of undernourished 5 years old children reveal a grimmer story of child...
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Diets, Nutrition and Poverty : The Indian Experience
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - 2014
This paper focuses on the Indian experience with dietary changes, their nutritional implications, and policy response to alleviate nutritional deprivation. We review the evidence on nutrient intake and dietary changes, particularly the downward shift in calorie, protein and other nutrient intake...
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Transmission of World Commodity Prices to Domestic Commodity Prices in India and China
Imai, Katsushi S. - 2008
prices in India and China. The focus is on short and medium-run adjustment processes using an error correction specification … in China than in India. Second, the adjustment is larger for wheat, maize and rice than for fruits and vegetables in both … India and China. In fact, the adjustment is the weakest for vegetables in both countries. Third, while most of the domestic …
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Diets, Nutrition and Poverty: The Indian Experience
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
This chapter focuses on the Indian experience with dietary changes, their nutritional implications, and policy response to alleviate nutritional deprivation. We review the evidence on nutrient intake and dietary changes, particularly the downward shift in calorie, protein and other nutrient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861947
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Demand for Nutrients in India: An Analysis Based on the 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of the NSS
Gaiha, Raghav; Kaicker, Nidhi; Imai, Katsushi S.; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012
requirements due to health improvements and lower activity levels in India, we develop an alternative explanation embedded in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551717
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Demand for Nutrients in India: An analysis based on the 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of the NSS
Gaiha, Raghav; Kaicker, Nidhi; Imai, Katsushi; Thapa, Ganesh - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
requirements due to health improvements and lower activity levels in India, we develop an alternative explanation embedded in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640541
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On Hunger and Child Mortality in India
Gaiha, Raghav; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Pandey, Manoj K.; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009
Despite accelerated growth there is pervasive hunger, child undernutrition and mortality. Our analysis focuses on their determinants. Raising living standards alone will not reduce hunger and undernutrition. Reduction of rural/urban disparities, income inequality, consumer price stabilisation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012108
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Prices, Expenditure and Nutrition in India
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
Engel curve shifted down-especially in rural India- over the period 1993–2004. The puzzle for the longer period analysed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457224
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Demand for Nutrients in India, 1993–2004
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
In response to the Deaton–Dreze (2009) explanation of a downward shift in the calorie Engel curve in terms of lower requirements due to health improvements and lower activity levels, we have developed an alternative explanation of changes in the consumption of calories, protein and fats over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466139