TY - JOUR
T1 - Adequacy of dietary intakes and poverty in India: Trends in the 1990s
AU - Mahal, Ajay
AU - Karan, Anup
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Linear programming methods, indicators of nutritional adequacy from the Indian Council of Medical Research and household expenditure survey data from the National Sample Survey Organization were used to construct poverty lines for India. Poverty ratios were calculated for 1993a??1994 and 1999a??2000 on the basis of nutritional adequacy poverty lines and compared to official estimates of poverty based on energy requirements.
AB - Linear programming methods, indicators of nutritional adequacy from the Indian Council of Medical Research and household expenditure survey data from the National Sample Survey Organization were used to construct poverty lines for India. Poverty ratios were calculated for 1993a??1994 and 1999a??2000 on the basis of nutritional adequacy poverty lines and compared to official estimates of poverty based on energy requirements.
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X07000664
U2 - 10.1016/j.ehb.2007.10.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ehb.2007.10.001
M3 - Article
SN - 1570-677X
VL - 6
SP - 57
EP - 74
JO - Economics and Human Biology
JF - Economics and Human Biology
ER -