Drawing on the author's extensive and varied research, this book provides readers with a firm grounding in the concepts and issues across several disciplines including economics, nutrition, psychology and public health in the hope of improving the design of food policies in the developed and...

This book is a compendium of Alok Bhargava's most important contributions in longitudinal econometric methods and its application to problems of food, nutrition and health. It demonstrates the usefulness of rigorous econometric and statistical methods in addressing issues of under-nutrition and...

Key Features:Some of the analytical results have been used by agencies such as the World Bank, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Asian Development Bank, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the National Cancer Institute, and the US Department of...