Improving Child Nutrition Outcomes in India : Can the Integrated Child Development Services Program Be More Effective?

Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large public spending on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program, of which the major component is supplementary feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this puzzle,...

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Main Authors: Das Gupta, Monica, Lokshin, Michael, Gragnolati, Michele, Ivaschenko, Oleksiy
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/06/5866224/improving-child-nutrition-outcomes-india-can-integrated-child-development-services-more-effective
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8301