Undernutrition and public policy in India : Investing in the future.
Desai Sonalde
Undernutrition and public policy in India : Investing in the future.
- New Delhi Routledge 2015
- 335p xx
Table of contents; Introduction; Amit Thorat, Deepta Chopra, Lawrence Haddad & Sonalde Desai; Part I The State of Undernutrition in India ; 1. The Assessment of Nutritional Status in India During the Dual Nutritional Burden Era Prema Ramachandran ; 2. The Elephant in the Dark: Finding Ways to End India's Hunger and Malnutrition Harsh Mander ; 3. Commentary - Recent Evidence Shows Slow Improvement in Undernutrition in India Amit Thorat & Sonalde Desai; Part II Identifying the Policy Gaps ; 4. Improving Sanitation is a Policy Priority for Children's Human Capital in Rural India: Lessons from Recent Literature and the IHDS Dean Spears ; 5. Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and the Nutritional Status of Children in India: Understanding the Linkages and Structuring the Response Frank Cronin et al; 6. Women's Agency and Child Underweight Rates in India in the Context of Agriculture: A District Level Analysis Swarna Sadasivam Vepa et al ; 7. Maternal Nutrition: Breaking the Intergeneration Cycle of Malnutrition-Significance, Challenges and Opportunities Sheila C. Vir; 8. Commentary: Undernutrition in India-A Case of Public Policy in Inertia Veena Rao Part III Getting Existing Programs to Work Better; 9. Governance Challenges to Reducing Hunger and Malnutrition in India Naresh C. Saxena; 10. What Factors Support or Limit Convergence in Service Delivery to Improve Nutritional Outcomes: A Study of Policies and Programs in India Rashmi Avula; 11. Tackling Child Malnutrition in India: Achieving the Doable or Chasing the Desirable? Satish Agnihotri; 12. Coordination Failure: Can Multi-Sectoral Interventions to Tackle Hunger and Malnutrition Succeed In India Santosh Mehrotra ; 13. Commentary: Untapped Potential of ICDS Arti Ahuja Part III NFSA: How Optimistic Should We Be? 14. Changes and State-wise Differences in the Nutritional Impact of the Indian Public Distribution System Tara Kaul ; 15. From the Files to the Fields: The Story of Paddy Procurement in Chhattisgarh Biraj Patnaik;