Poverty Reduction and Pattern of Chronic Childhood Under-Nutrition in India: How Far Does the Link Exist?
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50614#.VEcnjlfHRK0 Author(s) Moumita Mukherjee Affiliation(s) Independent Research Consultant, Atlanta, USA . ABSTRACT In spite of an established link between poverty and under-nutrition in India, fall in under-nutrition is sluggish with fall in poverty. This research paper aims to seek answer on the effect of poverty decline on child under-nutrition in India over a period of one and a half decades. After examining the extent of association between poverty reduction and reciprocal changes in child under-nutrition, the paper found that although there was a definite influence of poverty levels on child under-nutrition at the state...