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- Malnourishment Among Children in India: A Regional Analysis
Authors:
K. R. G. Nair
Publisher: Right to Food Campaign, New Delhi, 2007
"The fact that over time, the
less economically developed regions of India are becoming concentrated pockets
of malnourished children is bound to stand in the way of sustainable
development of the nation. To overcome this vital issue, efforts to promote
inclusive economic growth that would result also in the reduction of poverty,
are now on. It is assumed that with such measures, malnourishment among
children would simply wither away.
The results of the study question
this very assumption that suggests that poverty reduction would ensure the
lessening of the prevalence of malnourishment among children. It does not seem,
from the analysis here, that inclusive economic growth per se would
automatically lend to a reduction in the extent of malnourishment among
children.
The study has shown that factors
other than poverty like the age of marriage/age of women at the first child
birth, prevalence of early breast feeding of children, and awareness among
women about factors affecting health, which are being increasingly recognized
as having a strong impact on child malnourishment, are important in this regard
at the regional level....."
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