The prevalence of child undernutrition in India is among the highest in the world; nearly double that of Sub … quantitative evidence from large household surveys, this book explores the dimensions of child undernutrition in India and examines … intervention, in addressing it. Although levels of undernutrition in India declined modestly during the 1990s, the reductions …

In India, monitoring and surveillance of health and well-being indicators have been focused primarily on the state and … constituencies in India. The results indicate that several constituencies experience a multiple burden of child malnutrition that …

) India's food price spikes with the use of the Young Lives longitudinal cohort of 1918 children in Andhra Pradesh linked to … associated with an increased risk of malnutrition among children in India. Policies to help ensure the affordability of food in … malnutrition in children is not well understood.Objective: We investigated the associations between food price spikes and childhood …

undernutrition and stunting among children in certain regions, despite food availability. This paper proposes to trace the relation … between under nutrition and insanitation in India and its effects on children under five. The study is based on secondary data … inequality. Though it appears that India has made great strides in ensuring economic growth expressed through its Gross Domestic …

improvements on some measures, undernutrition among India's young children remains widespread. The improvements we do identify are … among children under five in India. The analytic method combines three types of decomposition: Blinder-Oaxaca, non … conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and socio-economic factors contributing to undernutrition …

Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large … feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this puzzle, the authors assess the program's placement and its outcomes using … nearly half of India's population - have the lowest program coverage and the lowest budgetary allocations from the central …