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Objectives Analyse the effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), a wage-for-employment policy of the Indian Government, on infant malnutrition and delineate the pathways through which MGNREGA affects infant malnutrition. Hypothesis: MGNREGA could reduce infant malnutrition through positive effects on household food security and infant feeding. Method Mixed methods using cross-sectional study and focus group discussions conducted in Dungarpur district, Raj...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher's Version
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 9
- Pages:
- ARTN e75089
- Publication date:
- 2013-09-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2013-08-11
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- URN:
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uuid:298a92c9-51ab-4784-bda0-6ef079b40b4b
- Source identifiers:
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431239
- Local pid:
- pubs:431239
- Language:
- English
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- Copyright holder:
- Nair et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- Copyright: © 2013 Nair et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) on malnutrition of infants in Rajasthan, India: a mixed methods study
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