dc.contributor.author | Mishra, Rudra Narayan | |
dc.coverage.spatial | India | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-14T14:55:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-10-14T14:55:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Mishra, Rudra Narayan (2005) Dynamics of caste-based deprivation in child under-nutrition in India. CDS working papers, no.380. Trivandrum: CDS. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/3090 | |
dc.description.abstract | Nutritional deprivation among Indian children is one of the
parameters of underdevelopment mentioned in development discourse
in recent times. And such deprivation is more often associated with well
known socio-economic indicators of deprivation; prominent among them
is caste, which ranks the society into a hierarchy in terms of benefit and
welfare. Though caste dimension has been frequently considered as a
category of understanding deprivation, it is rare to find explicit
disadvantage of caste in what is said as transforming capabilities into
functioning. While caste disadvantage in any outcome shows a systematic
pattern, it is never made clear as to what is the dynamics of this
disadvantage in terms of characteristics bearing an association with a
given outcome. This paper makes an attempt in illustrating the dynamics
of caste-based deprivation considering the case of child under-nutrition.
It essentially demonstrates the patterns of differentials in nutrition
according to other potential correlates of under-nutrition within SC/ST
and others and comments on the limits of translating a given set of
capabilities in to functioning/outcome (child nutrition here). It finds that
while deprivation gap according to potential correlates is higher in general
compared with SC/STs, there is clear demonstration of differential
translation of capabilities like education, residential status, work status
into outcome like nutrition among the SC/STs vis-à-vis the others. The
results are also confirmed with application of a logit model. The study
uses the data from National Family Health Survey report (NFHS-2, 1998-
99) for the purpose of this illustration.
Key Words: Health, Under-nutrition, Child Under-nutrition, Caste,
Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Inequality, Deprivation,
India
JEL Classification:- I 12, I 32 | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Centre for Development Studies | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | CDS working papers;380 | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | en_GB |
dc.subject | Children and Youth | en_GB |
dc.subject | Health | en_GB |
dc.subject | Social Protection | en_GB |
dc.title | Dynamics of caste-based deprivation in child under-nutrition in India | en_GB |
dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | Centre for Development Studies | en_GB |
dc.identifier.externaluri | http://www.cds.edu/outreach/publications/working-papers | en_GB |