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| Udaya S Mishra and William Joe |
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| ''Socioeconomic Inequalities in Childhood Undernutrition in India
An Application of the Corrected Concentration Index
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| ( 2010, Vol. 30 No.1 ) |
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| Measuring inequalities in child undernourishment with the help of the most popular concentration index (CI) has its own limitation in valuation and comparison. This is an attempt at contrasting a set of improved inequality measures against the conventional CI to comment on their robustness. In the process, it raises a need for revisiting the attainment-inequality relationship in health outcomes |
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| Keywords: health Inequality, concentration index |
JEL: D6 - Welfare Economics: General
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| Manuscript Received : Nov 09 2009 | | Manuscript Accepted : Mar 25 2010 |
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