among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … coverage in rural India by 2012. This paper reports on a cluster-randomized, controlled trial that was conducted in 80 rural … outcomes. The study analyzed a random sample of 3,039 households and 5,206 children under five years of age. Field staff …

"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 …