Poverty, child undernutrition and morbidity: new evidence from India.

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Published in Bull World Health Organ on March 16, 2005

Authors

Shailen Nandy1, Michelle Irving, David Gordon, S V Subramanian, George Davey Smith

Author Affiliations

1: School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, England. s.nandy@bristol.ac.uk

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