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Child Undernutrition in India
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
We have constructed a composite indicator of anthropometric failure (CIAF) that refines the Waterlow-3 tier classification, using a recent nation-wide household survey. The CIAF and its disaggregation into subcategories of undernourished 5 years old children reveal a grimmer story of child...
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Demand for Nutrients in India: An analysis based on the 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of the NSS
Gaiha, Raghav; Kaicker, Nidhi; Imai, Katsushi; Thapa, Ganesh - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
In response to the Deaton and Dreze (2009) explanation of a downward shift in the calorie Engel curve in terms of lower requirements due to health improvements and lower activity levels in India, we develop an alternative explanation embedded in a standard demand theory framework, with food...
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On Hunger and Child Mortality in India
Gaiha, Raghav; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Pandey, Manoj K.; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009
undernutrition and mortality rise with poverty. Our analysis confirms that media exposure triggers public action, and helps avert …
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Poverty Nutrition Trap in Rural India
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Sharma, Anurag - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2005
. Second, the quantile regression approach helps us identify the exact group for which the poverty-nutrition trap holds. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005057574
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Diets, Nutrition and Poverty: The Indian Experience
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861947
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Prices, Expenditure and Nutrition in India
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
Building on a recent important contribution by Deaton and Dreze (2009), our analysis sheds new light on why the calorie Engel curve shifted down-especially in rural India- over the period 1993–2004. The puzzle for the longer period analysed by Deaton and Dreze (2009) is that despite higher...
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Demand for Nutrients in India, 1993–2004
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
In response to the Deaton–Dreze (2009) explanation of a downward shift in the calorie Engel curve in terms of lower requirements due to health improvements and lower activity levels, we have developed an alternative explanation of changes in the consumption of calories, protein and fats over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466139
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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress *
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in wellbeing has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well‐being...
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Vulnerability as Expected Poverty in Rural India
Jha, Raghbendra; Kang, Woojin; Nagarajan, Hari K.; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex … ante vulnerability, assess the role of ex ante vulnerability on poverty shift during the sample periods (i.e. movement into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640534
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Vulnerability and Responses to Risk in Rural India
Jha, Raghbendra; Kang, Woojin; Nagarajan, Hari K.; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
by poverty and idiosyncratic components. So far as risk coping strategies go households rely heavily on informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640539