Child nutrition in India in the nineties

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 441-486

  Tarozzi, Alessandro ^a   Mahajan, Aprajit ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; GROWTH RATE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34047267866     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/511195     Document Type: Article

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