Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties
46 Pages Posted: 17 Dec 2010
Date Written: December 14, 2010
Abstract
India experienced several years of fast economic growth during the 1990s, and according to many observers this period also saw a considerable decline in poverty, especially in urban areas (see, e.g., Deaton and Dreze 2002; Deaton 2003; Tarozzi, forthcoming). The first objective of this article is to document the extent to which the 1990s saw a reduction in malnutrition among very young children (those less than 3 years old); second, we study whether changes in child growth performance have been similar for boys and girls and in different geographical areas; third, we provide a first attempt at explaining the observed trends.
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