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Diet Diversification and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis
Gaiha, Raghav; Kaicker, Nidhi; Imai, Katsushi S.; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012
Our study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2009. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed, based on five food commodities. Significant price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822760
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Child Health and its Determinants in Developing Countries: a Cross CountryComparison.
Ray, R. - School of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of … - 1998
This study analyses and compares child health in Pakistan, Peru, Jamaica, Russia and South Africa. These countries, which are culturally, economically and politically quite diverse, display considerable variation in the state of child and health, and in the nature and magnitude of the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005478494
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The Impact of Resource Inflows on Child Health: Evidence from South Africa.
Ray, R.; Maitra, P. - School of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of … - 2001
This paper investigates the changes to health care facilities and the nutritional status of Black children during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005663883
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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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Diets, Nutrition and Poverty: The Indian Experience
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition … is underestimated and the double burden of undernutrition and obesity. We examine the (potential) contribution of … National Rural Guarantee Scheme and Public Distribution System in mitigating the extent and severity of undernutrition. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861947
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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
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Calorie Thresholds and Undernutrition in India, 1993–2004
Kaicker, Nidhi; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
In a recent study, Jensen and Miller (2011) propose a new measure of undernutrition, based on a calorie share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274826
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Calorie thresholds and undernutrition in India
Kaicker, Nidhi; Gaiha, Raghav - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 35 (2013) 2, pp. 271-288
Using fixed calorie norms to measure undernutrition is suspect due to familiar reasons. Recent studies have proposed an … also food price stabilisation are likely to mitigate undernutrition. …
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