Cities, slums, and child nutrition in Bangladesh
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Infant mortality and child nutrition in Bangladesh.
The excess female infant mortality observed in South Asia has typically been attributed to gender discrimination in the intra-household allocation of food and medical care. However, studies on child nutrition find no evidence of gender differences. A natural explanation could be that in environments of high infant mortality of females, the surviving children are healthier, so that child nutriti...
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During the 1990s and early 2000s, Bangladesh experienced strong urban economic growth, a reduction in poverty rates, and rapid growth in primary school enrolments. Amongst many factors, these changes are linked to Bangladesh’s growing involvement in the global economy, especially in the form of garment factories, and conscious efforts by its government to increase enrolments through its primary...
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The aim of this study was to assess the economic difference in nutrition of under-five children. Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey data 2011 were used for this study. In this study, quintiles were calculated on the basis of asset and wealth score by use of principal component analysis. To understand the nutrition status and health inequality concentration index was also calculated. The ratio...
متن کاملLivelihoods, nutrition and health in Dhaka slums.
OBJECTIVES To identify groups within Dhaka slums that report similar patterns of livelihood, and to explore nutritional and health status. DESIGN A random sample of households participated in a longitudinal study in 1995-1997. Socio-economic and morbidity data were collected monthly by questionnaire and nutritional status was assessed. Cluster analysis was used to aggregate households into li...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Review of Development Economics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1363-6669,1467-9361
DOI: 10.1111/rode.12564