Malnourishment and sex bias in multidimensional child poverty
This thesis is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Applied Economics, 2011.
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10361-15962019-09-29T05:39:26Z Malnourishment and sex bias in multidimensional child poverty A study in Korail settlement Fakir, Adnan M.S. Khan, Wasiqur Rahman Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BRAC University Economics--Social sciences This thesis is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Applied Economics, 2011. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (page 60-61). Evidence of severe malnourishment and anti-female sex bias has been found in the Korail urban slum settlement of Dhaka. The sex bias is reflected in terms of lower growth dynamics, varying degrees of malnourishment and deprivation in several development indicators. The study deployed a weighted Alkire-Foster methodology for identifying multidimensional poverty and has identified behavioral and public health attributes to play a significantly larger role in reducing malnourishment and sex bias compared to economic variables, such as income and assets. Mother‟s education for the region of study, although lowered malnourishment, was surprisingly found to not play a significant role in sex bias reduction. An ordered logistic regression model was run to determine the statistical significance of the variables which yielded amongst others that deprivations in type of latrine used and in awareness of local medical costing significantly increased malnourishment. Adnan M. S. Fakir M. Economics 2012-01-22T10:03:35Z 2012-01-22T10:03:35Z 2011 2011-08-13 Thesis ID 09205013 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/1596 BRAC University thesis reports are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 74 pages application/pdf BRAC University |
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This thesis is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Applied Economics, 2011. |
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