Child growth in urban deprived settings: does household poverty status matter? At which stage of child development?

This paper uses longitudinal data from two informal settlements of Nairobi,Kenya to examine patterns of child growth and how these are affected by four different dimensions of poverty at the household level namely, expenditures poverty, assets poverty, food poverty, and subjective poverty. The descr...

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Main Authors: Fotso, Jean Christophe (Author), Madise, Nyovani (Author), Baschieri, Angela (Author), Cleland, John (Author), Zulu, Eliya (Author), Mutua, Martin Kavao (Author), Essendi, Hildah (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2012-03.
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