women in South Asian societies. This paper examines this tenet in the context of India, with particular emphasis on possible … policies relating to women's empowerment against a backdrop of rapid urbanization. …South Asia has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world, despite rapid economic growth compared to other …

underlying imaginary of the city has critically shifted over the past half century. Focusing in particular on the way that slums …

It is increasingly recognized that urbanization is accompanied by profound changes in African diets. Some studies hold … the hope that urbanization will help eradicate hunger and undernourishment, both still prominent issues in the region …. Others have warned that urbanization may actually shift the problem from the left to the right tail of the food consumption …

In India, 52 98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by … the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning … deprivation, non-notified slums were much less likely to receive financial aid from government slum improvement schemes. Our …

strong geographical clustering among the districts of India. Throughout most of Southern India, children are provided with … rural parts of India. Looking at average weight, as well as the proportion of children that suffer from underweight and … geographical clustering of malnutrition, as well as below-average child height and weight coincides with high poverty, low female …

This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three …-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers are given recipe books in the treatment group to reduce malnutrition in their …

Act, 2013, has made sweeping changes in the land acquisition laws of India (LARR Act, 2013). By increasing the …

household survey conducted in the rural-urban interface of Bangalore, India. In our analysis we follow a polycentric perspective … of urbanization and introduce a two-dimensional variable to measure its effects. Furthermore, we accommodate high input … road infrastructure are the main channels by which urbanization drives agricultural transition. Access to satellite towns …

technology in the rural-urban interface of Bangalore, India. Understanding these effects can help design policies that ensure …