India is clearly far along in the nutrition transition. This paper shows that there have been rapid increases in the …, even as childhood undernutrition remains a public health problem. These have important consequences for the design of … public health systems, especially in rural India. At the same time, the intra-household dual burden of malnutrition is also …

's health status, and in some cases, mother's literacy. The comparisons are robust to the choice of poverty line, poverty …