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The discussion so far has focussed on household welfare based on money metric variables such as prices and expenditure. In this chapter and the next, the volume widens the discussion to include a household’s inability to enjoy some of the basic necessities of life such as drinking water, Fuel, electricity, toilet and medical care. Notwithstanding significant improvement in levels of living, many parts of the world still experience lack of access to several of these dimensions. Poverty measures and, more broadly, an exclusive reliance on variables that can be quantified in money terms, often fail to capture the true extent of human misery both globally and in pockets inside countries. The motivation of this chapter and the next is to provide evidence from studies that compare between and within countries taking a multidimensional view of deprivation.
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See the NFHS website, www.nfhsindia.org for further details.
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A child (0–3 years) is considered ‘stunted’ or ‘wasted’ if that child’s z score of height for age and of weight for height is less than 2, respectively. This is consistent with the definition of child malnourishment adopted in the literature [see, for example, Svedberg (1990)],
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For the purpose of these graphs, we have pooled the rural and urban data and treated the rural and urban areas of the State as separate points, giving us a scatter of 30 points for each data set.
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Since the decline is much less rapid for the NSS, this suggests that the improvement in the deprivation occurs mainly because of the health-based deprivation dimensions.
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Ray, R. (2018). Multidimensional Deprivation: Comparison Within and Between Countries. In: Household Behaviour, Prices, and Welfare. Themes in Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1930-3_10
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