India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16. Outcomes are measured as multidimensional … women's constraints on child outcomes using nationally representative household Demographic and Health Survey data from … deprivations, utilizing UNICEF's Multidimensional Overlapping Deprivation Analysis index, incorporating deficiencies in children …

Out of Pocket expenditure on medicines constitutes more than 50% of healthcare expenditure in India. The poor are most …

health. We propose poverty lines based on the cost of a healthy diet and explore their key metrics such as headcount ratios …

covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that … several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight …This paper examines the growth effect of one of the largest nutrition assistance programs in early life. The program …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …

. Second, the quantile regression approach helps us identify the exact group for which the poverty-nutrition trap holds. The … of productivity/wages to nutrition. The present paper addresses this lacuna. Third, we are able to establish a critical …

exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months …. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 …

India is clearly far along in the nutrition transition. This paper shows that there have been rapid increases in the … public health systems, especially in rural India. At the same time, the intra-household dual burden of malnutrition is also … proportion of adult women in India who are overweight and obese: these increases are seen not just in urban but in rural areas as …