Using recent Demographic Health Survey data for Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and …, the results for Jharkhand state in India and Barisal province in Bangladesh indicate that controlling for those commonly … cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …

nutrition outcomes and fertility in Bangladesh since 1990? Are the poor sharing in the progress which is being made? (2) What … here relates to Bangladesh, a country which has made spectacular progress but needs to maintain momentum in order to … have been the main determinants of maternal and child health outcomes in Bangladesh over this period? (3) Given these …

poorer nutrition. Using data from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Nepal, we find that on the whole, in poor … households, reductions in women’s reproductive work time are detrimental to nutrition, especially for children. In contrast …, women’s and children’s nutrition in nonpoor households is less sensitive to reductions in time on reproductive work. Working …