Poverty nutrition traps in rural India

Raghbendra Jha; Raghav Gaiha; Anurag Sharma

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Poverty nutrition traps in rural India

Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha, Anurag Sharma

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Emphasis has shifted from low nutrition as an outcome of poverty to the former causing poverty to persist. At low levels of nutrition, workers are incapable of doing hard manual labour. Hence their productivity is low, implying low wages, low purchasing power and, therefore, low nutrition, completing a vicious cycle of deprivation. This chapter identifies poverty nutrition traps (PNT) and assesses how pervasive they are in rural India. Under certain conditions, nutritional adequacy is a prior condition for raising incomes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Diets, Malnutrition, and Disease: The Indian Experience
Editors	Raghav Gaiha, Raghbendra Jha & Vani S Kulkarni
Place of Publication	New Delhi, India
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	123-141
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9780198099215
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198099215.003.0006
Publication status	Published - 2014

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