The development of human capabilities for many disadvantaged children around the world depends on growth recovery … apply the results to four developing countries, using longitudinal data on 7,641 children collected over the period 2002 …

preventing adolescent childbearing and reducing its impact on growth failure among children in India …Adolescent motherhood has been linked with poor health outcomes at birth for children, including high neonatal … mortality, low-birth weight, and small-for-gestational age rates. However, longer term growth outcomes in the children of …

slum dwellers in developing regions are also explored in this study. This also concludes that the status of slum residents … facilities. It also provides some ways to identify the slum dwellers and mapping of slums in urban peripheries of Pakistan …

Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less … growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We do this by pooling all DHS surveys for African countries, control … for other correlates of undernutrition, and add country-level GDP per capita. We find that increases in GDP per capita are …