Limited access to reliable financial instruments makes it difficult for rural households to manage daily cash flows. Selling goods through cooperatives can improve savings, but cooperative income is not easily accessible when facing an emergency.
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Feeding India’s babies: Insights on trends and patterns from the National Family Health Surveys, 2015-16 to 2019-21
Early life nutrition sets the stage for the health, nutrition, and development of young children.
Adolescents’ health and wellbeing: Trends and insights from the National Family Health Surveys, 2006, 2016, and 2021
South Asia is home to more adolescents than any global region, and one in five adolescents globally live in India.
This paper reports on a randomized experiment conducted among Malawian agricultural households to study nonclassical measurement error (NCME) in self-reported plot area, and farmers' responses to new information — the objective plot area measure —
Random digit dial surveys with mobile phones risk under-representation of women. To address this, we compare the characteristics of women recruited directly with those of women recruited through referrals from male household members.
Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Due to social norms, each person’s sanitation investment decisions may depend on the decisions of neighbors.
Coverage of nutrition and health Interventions in INDIA: Insights from the National Family Health Surveys
Nutrition-specific interventions are aimed at improving the food, health, and care environment for women and children during the first 1000 days.
This Data Note provides an update on the prevalence of anemia and its determinants in India at state and districts levels, as well as coverage of a nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions.
A set of global nutrition targets for maternal and child nutrition together with diet related non communicable diseases ( to be achieved by 2025 was endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2013 These targets provide goals against which progress t
BACKGROUND| Healthy diets are necessary for optimal growth and to carry out daily mental and physical tasks.
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia
The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We use plant level census data to identify spillovers from FDI in Ethiopia's manufacturing sector.
Misperceiving and misreporting input quality: Implications for input use and productivity
Farmers in developing countries routinely misperceive or misreport input quality for various reasons, which introduces substantial measurement error in farm survey data.
As development and humanitarian agencies increasingly advance the objective of ‘building resilience’, three resilience measurement methods have come into especially widespread use: the Resilience Indicators for Measurement and Analysis approach de
State nutrition profile: Sikkim
This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions.
State nutrition profile: Telangana
This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions.
State nutrition profile: Puducherry
This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions.
State nutrition profile: Mizoram
This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions.
State nutrition profile: Nagaland
This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions.
State nutrition profile: West Bengal
This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions.