Determinants of inequality in child malnutrition in India: The poverty-undernutrition linkage

Asian Population Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 307-333

  Mazumdar, Sumit ^a  

^a Future Health Systems RPC India   (India)

Author keywords

Concentration index; Decomposition; Inequality; Non income poverty; Poverty malnutrition linkage; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; MACROECONOMICS; MALNUTRITION; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

INDIA;

EID: 77956395294     PISSN: 17441730     EISSN: 17441749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441730.2010.512763     Document Type: Article

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