This paper tests for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of the nutrient most likely to have … workers separately. We use household level national data for rural India for the period January to June 1994. We use robust …

In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty … (underweight vs. non-underweight). We find that poverty and income influence nutrition outcomes, but other factors such as mother …'s height, education, migration and sanitation also affect nutrition. Coefficients of respective variables differ by poverty …

. Second, the quantile regression approach helps us identify the exact group for which the poverty-nutrition trap holds. The … of productivity/wages to nutrition. The present paper addresses this lacuna. Third, we are able to establish a critical …

out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … program as a pathway to poverty reduction has been studied much less. Using two waves of longitudinal data on over 2000 … participants and raised the potential for income growth that contributed to poverty reduction. …

against undernutrition will be tracked by using this new standard. The use of the new reference standard will result in clear … changes in the prevalence and composition of undernutrition. This paper argues that this opportunity should be used to use … wrong conclusions concerning the fulllment of the undernutrition aspect of MDG I. …