The importance of women's status for child nutrition in developing countries

Research Report of the International Food Policy Research Institute

Volumn , Issue 131, 2003, Pages 1-164

  Smith, Lisa C ^a   Ramakrishnan, Usha ^b   Ndiaye, Aida ^a   Haddad, Lawrence ^a   Martorell, Reynaldo ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; DEVELOPING WORLD; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 1842709104     PISSN: 08867372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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