Volume 40. Issue 4: Lifting the Curse: Overcoming Persistent Undernutrition in India
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Lifting the Curse: Overcoming Persistent Undernutrition in India
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)With rapid economic growth and little progress in banishing undernutrition, India is an economic powerhouse and a nutritional weakling. This article surveys the others in this collection and concludes that such a situation ... -
Foreword
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Discrimination and Children's Nutritional Status in India
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)This article explores the differing health status of lower caste social groups in India, analyses the reasons for the differences and discusses some of the implications for policy. National Family Planning and Health Survey ... -
Notes on the Differing ‘States’ of Child Undernutrition in Rural India
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)There are now striking differences between major states of India in terms of their performance in reducing undernutrition among children. This article explores the underlying political and institutional factors that may ... -
Persistent Stunting in Middle Childhood: The Case of Andhra Pradesh Using Longitudinal Data
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)This article looks at what observable characteristics influence a child being persistently stunted, moving from being stunted or moving into being stunted in middle childhood, between 7 and 12, using longitudinal data for ... -
The Political Economy of India's Malnutrition Puzzle
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)Child malnutrition in India is shockingly high and is falling unusually slowly in a period of large gains in aggregate prosperity. Yet technical solutions to malnutrition are known. This article suggests the disjunction ... -
Biological, Programmatic and Sociopolitical Dimensions of Child Undernutrition in Three States in India
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)The recently developed India State Hunger Index 2008 highlights the continuing sorry state of hunger in India, and shows that children underweight makes the largest contribution to hunger index scores for most of India. ... -
ICDS in India: Policy, Design and Delivery Issues
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)India's excellent economic growth in the last two decades has made little impact on the nutrition levels of its children. Its main intervention, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme, has not yet ... -
Scaling?up ICDS: Can Universalisation Address Persistent Malnutrition?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)A countrywide initiative, the ICDS programme is India's primary response to addressing child malnutrition, but has had mixed success on the state of malnutrition in India. This article reviews the ICDS from the perspective ... -
Between Emergency Responses and Rights?based Approaches: Addressing Poverty and Undernutrition in Eastern India
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)This article analyses poverty and undernutrition in two of India's poorest states – Orissa and West Bengal. We describe poverty and undernutrition in these two states, focusing on within?state differences. We argue that ... -
Monitoring for Nutrition Results in ICDS: Translating Vision into Action
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)This article focuses on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), India's largest nutrition and early child development programme. It describes the political, organisational and technical challenges to building and ... -
Making Nutrition Services Work for Socially Excluded Groups: Lessons from the Integrated Nutrition and Health Project
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)A relatively large proportion of India's underweight children belong to groups facing multiple disadvantages. Addressing child malnutrition among these communities is critical if India is to eliminate undernutrition and ... -
Accelerating Malnutrition Reduction in Orissa
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)Orissa has performed better than the Indian average in terms of the rate of malnutrition reduction. This positive trend is supported by NFHS data, independent survey data and the State's own monitoring data. Despite this ... -
Bridging the Malnutrition Gap with Social Audits and Community Participation
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)There is an urgent need to increase coverage of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) particularly in Madhya Pradesh and to overcome governance failures, such as staff absenteeism, leakage of funds and supplies ... -
Tackling Child Undernutrition in India: Governance Challenges Need More Attention
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)This article puts a governance lens on India's current approach to tackling undernutrition through DFID's governance framework of state capability, accountability and responsiveness. State capability is analysed in terms ... -
Undernutrition in Infants and Young Children in India: A Leadership Agenda for Action
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)In India, child undernutrition happens very early in life; 30 per cent of Indian infants younger than six months old are underweight and 58 per cent of children in the age group 18–23 months old are stunted; moreover, 56 ... -
Undernutrition Under Attention: The Changing Approach of the UK Department for International Development to Nutrition
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2009)DFID is paying attention to undernutrition. This is due to the global lack of progress on the nutrition indicator in Millennium Development Goal 1, the urgency of the situation created by the food price spike of 2008–09 ... -
Notes on Contributors
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