Does India really suffer from worse child malnutrition than Sub-Saharan Africa?

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 98-111

  Panagariya, Arvind ^a  

^a Department of Economics ^*  (United States)

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