Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood undernutrition in India an application of the corrected concentration index

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 847-854

  Mishra, Udaya S ^a   Joe, William ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (India)

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