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This paper uses longitudinal data from two informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya to examine patterns of child growth and how these are affected by four different dimensions of poverty at the household level namely, expenditures poverty, assets poverty, food poverty, and subjective poverty. The descriptive results show a grim picture, with the prevalence of overall stunting reaching nearly 60% in...
This paper compares individual and household predictors of underweight among young children in sub-Saharan Africa and India, while also assessing the impact of clustering of weight for age z-scores at the household, community and regional levels. Multilevel statistical models are employed to compare the strength of the correlates of underweight (using weight-for-age z-scores) in six sub-Saharan African...
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