Women`s Organisations, Maternal Knowledge, and Social Capital to Reduce Prevalence of Stunted Children - Evidence from Rural Nepal

Katsushi Imai, Per A. Eklund, Agro Resource Systems Group, Sweden, Fabrizio Felloni, International Fund for Agricultural Development and Italy

No 144, Economics Series Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Abstract: This study analyses behaviour of women community based organisations in two districts in Nepal in reducing prevalence of child malnutrition in member households. Our survey focused on three sets of women organisations: those that receive intensive external support are compared with those that receive only moderate assistance, and those that are entirely autonomous, so-called Mothers` Groups. Higher capabilities of the Mothers` Group are found associated with lower underweight. The study also demonstrates that enhanced knowledge diffusion, combined with growth promotion, represents an effective instrument for empowering rural women in acting to reduce prevalence of chronic malnutrition.

Keywords: South Asia; Nepal; poverty; child malnutrition; social capital; women`s organisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 I12 I32 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-02-01
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:da688474-ed07-4ba1-b10c-58444aee790b (text/html)

Related works:
Journal Article: Women's organisations, maternal knowledge, and social capital to reduce prevalence of stunted children: Evidence from rural Nepal (2007)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oxf:wpaper:144

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Economics Series Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Anne Pouliquen ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).