Shailen Nandy
Biographic Data
| ID | 321696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shailen Nandy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shailen |
| FAMILY NAME | Nandy |
| SIGNATURE | NANDY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1066-9181 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Child Deprivation and the Power of Cash: Evidence from Northern Uganda’s Nusaf3 Programme
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund 3 (NUSAF3) using a Consensual Approach child deprivation index based on socially perceived necessities. Panel data on a sample of NUSAF3 beneficiaries shows that between 2016 and 2021, child deprivation declined significantly among beneficiaries, especially among those receiving cash transfers. These reductions outpaced those seen among recipients of enterp…
Multidimensional Adult and Child Poverty in India—Establishing Consensus About Socially Perceived Necessities for a New Measure of Poverty
This article describes the use of the Consensual Approach to poverty measurement in a pilot survey conducted in Telangana state in 2020/21. Respondents were asked about whether a series of items and activities, ranging from two pairs of all-weather shoes to attending important social functions were essential for adults and children and whether they had them or could take part. Households that answered negatively were then asked why. Following the…
Multidimensional child poverty in South Korea: Developing measures to assess progress towards the sustainable development goals
This article presents the development of a measure to assess the prevalence and patterning of multidimensional child poverty in South Korea. The first goal of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to reduce poverty in all its dimensions, and countries are increasingly developing their own measures of multidimensional poverty. This flourishing of different measures presents challenges for international comparisons. The article applies an in…
Trabalho e viração em empresas-aplicativo: Um panorama da uberização na cidade de São Paulo durante a pandemia
Este artigo tem por objetivos contribuir com a produção de dados sobre a uberização e enfatizar a gestão da desinformação como parte da uberização. A coleta de dados, realizada em 2021 durante momentos críticos da pandemia, é parte do Projeto Interinstitucional "Pobreza Multidimensional no Brasil". O recorte proposto foca nos participantes que, à época, trabalhavam ou se viravam em empresas-aplicativo. Em termos temáticos e teóricos, a noção de u…
Preferências Adaptativas, Pobreza Multidimensional e Políticas Públicas: Os Contornos da Dignidade Humana
As preferências adaptativas são sustentadas no pressuposto de que a experiência de privação enviesa as preferências dos sujeitos para a sua adaptação a condições adversas de vida, impactando o que se considera dignidade humana. Por isso, alguns autores indicam que esse viés deveria ser considerado para a formulação e a implementação de políticas públicas voltadas a populações vulneráveis e empobrecidas. Este estudo tem por objetivo apresentar evi…
Trabalho decente para uma vida digna: Um estudo piloto a partir da abordagem consensual na cidade de Campinas
Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar a relação entre trabalho decente e pobreza a partir da percepção de participantes de oito grupos focais, realizados em 2019, na cidade de Campinas, São Paulo. Utilizando a metodologia da Abordagem Consensual, os grupos focais possibilitaram que os participantes discutissem suas perspectivas sobre o que é pobreza. A partir dessas discussões, empreendemos uma análise de conteúdo, buscando a interpretação dos …
O que os brasileiros pensam ser necessário para que se tenha um padrão de vida digno em seu país: Estudo piloto na cidade de São Paulo
Este artigo apresenta os resultados do estudo piloto, realizado na cidade de São Paulo, que teve por objetivo a formulação e a aplicação de um questionário voltado à compreensão da natureza e da extensão da pobreza multidimensional no Brasil, a partir da Abordagem Consensual. O questionário foi elaborado a partir de trabalho de campo desenvolvido anteriormente, com grupos focais para a discussão das percepções dos brasileiros sobre as necessidade…
Including services in multidimensional poverty measurement for SDGs: Modifications to the consensual approach
Poor households disproportionately lack access to services, yet this is rarely considered in poverty measures. Service provision can vary significantly between and within countries, and so similar levels of household resources may translate to very different living standards. Where universal provision of basic services is lacking, current approaches to poverty measurement may result in underestimates, thereby raising comparability and identificat…
Measuring Multidimensional Poverty According to National Definitions: Operationalising Target 1.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals
The first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) tasks countries with eradicating poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions. This presents considerable challenges for poverty researchers and national statistical offices charged with collecting data to monitor progress on meeting of this ambitious target. Our paper focuses on how the different dimensions of poverty might be mapped out, and compared, within and across heterogeneou…
Implications of the Politics of Caste and Class for Child Poverty in India
Understanding the politics of caste, corruption, and wealth is essential for combating poverty in India. However, relatively few studies have systematically analyzed how these factors explain patterns of poverty combining state-level indicators with household and child-level outcomes. Focusing on child poverty as an outcome measure, this paper tests the explanatory potency of John Harriss's typology of state government political regimes, Transpar…
Within-country migration and obesity dynamics: Analysis of 94,783 women from the Peruvian demographic and health surveys
Both exposure to urban environments and migration are associated with higher odds of obesity. Expanding the characterization of within-country migration dynamics provides a better insight into the relationship between duration of exposure to urban settings and obesity
Assessing Progress towards SDG2: Trends and Patterns of Multiple Malnutrition in Young Children under 5 in West and Central Africa
The co-occurrence of different forms of malnutrition in young children is known to carry differential risks of morbity and mortality. Despite this, there are few, if any, systematic analyses of the prevalence of multiple anthropometric failures (or deficits) in young children under 5. This paper presents the results of the first such an analysis done on data from one of the poorest geographic regions of the world – West and Central Africa. Using …
Savings ownership and the use of maternal health services in Indonesia
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), many women of reproductive age experience morbidity and mortality attributable to inadequate access to and use of health services. Access to personal savings has been identified as a potential instrument for empowering women and improving access to and use of health services. Few studies, however, have examined the relation between savings ownership and use of maternal health services. In this study, w…
Multidimensional Child Poverty in Korea: Developing Child-Specific Indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals
Inter-state differences in caste-specific risks for child deprivation in India
The issue of caste has long been an important structural cause of poverty in India, with certain groups and communities socially and physically excluded from the benefits of national economic and social development. While differences between groups are often explained at national and state levels, this paper focuses instead on the issue of inter-state caste-specific risks of child poverty and basic needs deprivation. We show that while children f…
The Extent, Nature and Distribution of Child Poverty in India
Despite a long history, research on poverty has only relatively recently examined the issue of child poverty as a distinct topic of concern. This article examines how child poverty and well-being are now conceptualized, defined and measured, and presents a portrait of child poverty in India by social and cultural groups, and by geographic area. In December 2006, the UN General Assembly adopted a definition of child poverty which noted that childr…
Improving the measurement of material deprivation at the European Union level
In June 2010, European Union (EU) Heads of State and Government adopted a social inclusion target as part of the new ‘Europe 2020 Strategy’: to lift at least 20 million people in the EU from the risk of poverty and exclusion by 2020. One of the three indicators used to monitor progress towards this target is the EU indicator of severe material deprivation (MD). A main limitation of this indicator is the weak reliability of some of the items it is…
Examining the changing profile of undernutrition in the context of food price rises and greater inequality
This paper examines how the profile of undernutrition among children in two African countries (Ethiopia and Nigeria) changed over the period of the 2007/08 food, fuel and financial crisis. Using the Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF), an indicator which allows for a comprehensive assessment of undernutrition in young children, we examine what changes occurred in the composition of undernutrition, and how these changes were distribut…
Applying the Consensual Method of Estimating Poverty in a Low Income African Setting
Bad Governance and Poor Children: A Comparative Analysis of Government Efficiency and Severe Child Deprivation in 68 Low- and Middle-income Countries
Kinship Care and Poverty: Using Census Data to Examine the Extent and Nature of Kinship Care in the UK
The paper presents findings from the first-ever study of kinship care in the UK using census micro data. We show that, in 2001, over 173,000 children in the UK were living with relatives, without their parents. The majority of these children were living in poor and deprived circumstances. There were significant differences in the likelihood of a child being in kinship care between socio-economic groups and geographic areas. The paper presents the…
Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action
This book brings together theoretical, methodological and policy-relevant contributions by leading researchers on international child poverty.
Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action
Kinship care in the UK: Using census data to estimate the extent of formal and informal care by relatives
Until recently, little was known about kinship care in the UK. Research has begun to illuminate the circumstances which lead to children being cared for by relatives, and the stresses and strains experienced by carers. However, most UK research has only considered ‘looked‐after’ children placed with formal approved kinship foster carers, although this group forms the smallest proportion of children in kinship arrangements. In this paper, we use m…
Sibling kinship carers in England: Evidence from the 2001 UK population census
Improving the measurement of material deprivation at the European Union level
In June 2010, European Union (EU) Heads of State and Government adopted a social inclusion target as part of the new ‘Europe 2020 Strategy’: to lift at least 20 million people in the EU from the risk of poverty and exclusion by 2020. One of the three indicators used to monitor progress towards this target is the EU indicator of severe material deprivation (MD). A main limitation of this indicator is the weak reliability of some of the items it is…
Bad Governance and Poor Children: A Comparative Analysis of Government Efficiency and Severe Child Deprivation in 68 Low- and Middle-income Countries
Applying the Consensual Method of Estimating Poverty in a Low Income African Setting
The Mortality Divide in India: The Differential Contributions of Gender, Caste, and Standard of Living Across the Life Course
Objectives. We investigated the contributions of gender, caste, and standard of living to inequalities in mortality across the life course in India. Methods. We conducted a multilevel cross-sectional analysis of individual mortality, using the 1998–1999 Indian National Family Health Survey data for 529321 individuals from 26 states. Results. Substantial mortality differentials were observed between the lowest and highest standard-of-living quinti…
Overlooking undernutrition? Using a composite index of anthropometric failure to assess how underweight misses and misleads the assessment of undernutrition in young children
In light of current international interest in the Millennium Development Goals, this short report examines the suitability of one of the primary indicators being used to assess progress. Using anthropometric data on 46,784 children aged 0-35 months in seven developing countries, we show how the weight for age (underweight) indicator is problematic but not for the reasons conventionally cited. We show that the information it provides about the deg…
Measuring Multidimensional Poverty According to National Definitions: Operationalising Target 1.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals
The first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) tasks countries with eradicating poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions. This presents considerable challenges for poverty researchers and national statistical offices charged with collecting data to monitor progress on meeting of this ambitious target. Our paper focuses on how the different dimensions of poverty might be mapped out, and compared, within and across heterogeneou…
Kinship care in the UK: Using census data to estimate the extent of formal and informal care by relatives
Until recently, little was known about kinship care in the UK. Research has begun to illuminate the circumstances which lead to children being cared for by relatives, and the stresses and strains experienced by carers. However, most UK research has only considered ‘looked‐after’ children placed with formal approved kinship foster carers, although this group forms the smallest proportion of children in kinship arrangements. In this paper, we use m…
Multidimensional Child Poverty in Korea: Developing Child-Specific Indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals
Examining the changing profile of undernutrition in the context of food price rises and greater inequality
This paper examines how the profile of undernutrition among children in two African countries (Ethiopia and Nigeria) changed over the period of the 2007/08 food, fuel and financial crisis. Using the Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF), an indicator which allows for a comprehensive assessment of undernutrition in young children, we examine what changes occurred in the composition of undernutrition, and how these changes were distribut…
Kinship Care and Poverty: Using Census Data to Examine the Extent and Nature of Kinship Care in the UK
The paper presents findings from the first-ever study of kinship care in the UK using census micro data. We show that, in 2001, over 173,000 children in the UK were living with relatives, without their parents. The majority of these children were living in poor and deprived circumstances. There were significant differences in the likelihood of a child being in kinship care between socio-economic groups and geographic areas. The paper presents the…
Including services in multidimensional poverty measurement for SDGs: Modifications to the consensual approach
Poor households disproportionately lack access to services, yet this is rarely considered in poverty measures. Service provision can vary significantly between and within countries, and so similar levels of household resources may translate to very different living standards. Where universal provision of basic services is lacking, current approaches to poverty measurement may result in underestimates, thereby raising comparability and identificat…
Sibling kinship carers in England: Evidence from the 2001 UK population census
Child Deprivation and the Power of Cash: Evidence from Northern Uganda’s Nusaf3 Programme
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund 3 (NUSAF3) using a Consensual Approach child deprivation index based on socially perceived necessities. Panel data on a sample of NUSAF3 beneficiaries shows that between 2016 and 2021, child deprivation declined significantly among beneficiaries, especially among those receiving cash transfers. These reductions outpaced those seen among recipients of enterp…
Multidimensional child poverty in South Korea: Developing measures to assess progress towards the sustainable development goals
This article presents the development of a measure to assess the prevalence and patterning of multidimensional child poverty in South Korea. The first goal of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to reduce poverty in all its dimensions, and countries are increasingly developing their own measures of multidimensional poverty. This flourishing of different measures presents challenges for international comparisons. The article applies an in…
Preferências Adaptativas, Pobreza Multidimensional e Políticas Públicas: Os Contornos da Dignidade Humana
As preferências adaptativas são sustentadas no pressuposto de que a experiência de privação enviesa as preferências dos sujeitos para a sua adaptação a condições adversas de vida, impactando o que se considera dignidade humana. Por isso, alguns autores indicam que esse viés deveria ser considerado para a formulação e a implementação de políticas públicas voltadas a populações vulneráveis e empobrecidas. Este estudo tem por objetivo apresentar evi…
Assessing Progress towards SDG2: Trends and Patterns of Multiple Malnutrition in Young Children under 5 in West and Central Africa
The co-occurrence of different forms of malnutrition in young children is known to carry differential risks of morbity and mortality. Despite this, there are few, if any, systematic analyses of the prevalence of multiple anthropometric failures (or deficits) in young children under 5. This paper presents the results of the first such an analysis done on data from one of the poorest geographic regions of the world – West and Central Africa. Using …
The Mortality Divide in India: The Differential Contributions of Gender, Caste, and Standard of Living Across the Life Course
Objectives. We investigated the contributions of gender, caste, and standard of living to inequalities in mortality across the life course in India. Methods. We conducted a multilevel cross-sectional analysis of individual mortality, using the 1998–1999 Indian National Family Health Survey data for 529321 individuals from 26 states. Results. Substantial mortality differentials were observed between the lowest and highest standard-of-living quinti…
Misunderestimating' Chronic Poverty: Exploring Chronic Poverty in Developing Countries Using Cross-Sectional Demographic and Health Data
This article examines the issue of chronic (i.e. long-term) poverty in developing countries. It presents a method for estimating chronic poverty using cross-sectional data and suggests that researchers need not rely solely on longitudinal or panel data. As such data are unavailable for most developing countries, the method outlined here provides an opportunity to expand our understanding of the distribution and pattern of chronic poverty in many …
Overlooking undernutrition? Using a composite index of anthropometric failure to assess how underweight misses and misleads the assessment of undernutrition in young children
In light of current international interest in the Millennium Development Goals, this short report examines the suitability of one of the primary indicators being used to assess progress. Using anthropometric data on 46,784 children aged 0-35 months in seven developing countries, we show how the weight for age (underweight) indicator is problematic but not for the reasons conventionally cited. We show that the information it provides about the deg…
Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action
This book brings together theoretical, methodological and policy-relevant contributions by leading researchers on international child poverty.
Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action
Kinship care in the UK: Using census data to estimate the extent of formal and informal care by relatives
Until recently, little was known about kinship care in the UK. Research has begun to illuminate the circumstances which lead to children being cared for by relatives, and the stresses and strains experienced by carers. However, most UK research has only considered ‘looked‐after’ children placed with formal approved kinship foster carers, although this group forms the smallest proportion of children in kinship arrangements. In this paper, we use m…
Sibling kinship carers in England: Evidence from the 2001 UK population census
Bad Governance and Poor Children: A Comparative Analysis of Government Efficiency and Severe Child Deprivation in 68 Low- and Middle-income Countries
Kinship Care and Poverty: Using Census Data to Examine the Extent and Nature of Kinship Care in the UK
The paper presents findings from the first-ever study of kinship care in the UK using census micro data. We show that, in 2001, over 173,000 children in the UK were living with relatives, without their parents. The majority of these children were living in poor and deprived circumstances. There were significant differences in the likelihood of a child being in kinship care between socio-economic groups and geographic areas. The paper presents the…
Applying the Consensual Method of Estimating Poverty in a Low Income African Setting
The Extent, Nature and Distribution of Child Poverty in India
Despite a long history, research on poverty has only relatively recently examined the issue of child poverty as a distinct topic of concern. This article examines how child poverty and well-being are now conceptualized, defined and measured, and presents a portrait of child poverty in India by social and cultural groups, and by geographic area. In December 2006, the UN General Assembly adopted a definition of child poverty which noted that childr…
Improving the measurement of material deprivation at the European Union level
In June 2010, European Union (EU) Heads of State and Government adopted a social inclusion target as part of the new ‘Europe 2020 Strategy’: to lift at least 20 million people in the EU from the risk of poverty and exclusion by 2020. One of the three indicators used to monitor progress towards this target is the EU indicator of severe material deprivation (MD). A main limitation of this indicator is the weak reliability of some of the items it is…
Examining the changing profile of undernutrition in the context of food price rises and greater inequality
This paper examines how the profile of undernutrition among children in two African countries (Ethiopia and Nigeria) changed over the period of the 2007/08 food, fuel and financial crisis. Using the Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF), an indicator which allows for a comprehensive assessment of undernutrition in young children, we examine what changes occurred in the composition of undernutrition, and how these changes were distribut…
Inter-state differences in caste-specific risks for child deprivation in India
The issue of caste has long been an important structural cause of poverty in India, with certain groups and communities socially and physically excluded from the benefits of national economic and social development. While differences between groups are often explained at national and state levels, this paper focuses instead on the issue of inter-state caste-specific risks of child poverty and basic needs deprivation. We show that while children f…
Multidimensional Child Poverty in Korea: Developing Child-Specific Indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals
Implications of the Politics of Caste and Class for Child Poverty in India
Understanding the politics of caste, corruption, and wealth is essential for combating poverty in India. However, relatively few studies have systematically analyzed how these factors explain patterns of poverty combining state-level indicators with household and child-level outcomes. Focusing on child poverty as an outcome measure, this paper tests the explanatory potency of John Harriss's typology of state government political regimes, Transpar…
Within-country migration and obesity dynamics: Analysis of 94,783 women from the Peruvian demographic and health surveys
Both exposure to urban environments and migration are associated with higher odds of obesity. Expanding the characterization of within-country migration dynamics provides a better insight into the relationship between duration of exposure to urban settings and obesity
Assessing Progress towards SDG2: Trends and Patterns of Multiple Malnutrition in Young Children under 5 in West and Central Africa
The co-occurrence of different forms of malnutrition in young children is known to carry differential risks of morbity and mortality. Despite this, there are few, if any, systematic analyses of the prevalence of multiple anthropometric failures (or deficits) in young children under 5. This paper presents the results of the first such an analysis done on data from one of the poorest geographic regions of the world – West and Central Africa. Using …
Savings ownership and the use of maternal health services in Indonesia
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), many women of reproductive age experience morbidity and mortality attributable to inadequate access to and use of health services. Access to personal savings has been identified as a potential instrument for empowering women and improving access to and use of health services. Few studies, however, have examined the relation between savings ownership and use of maternal health services. In this study, w…
Including services in multidimensional poverty measurement for SDGs: Modifications to the consensual approach
Poor households disproportionately lack access to services, yet this is rarely considered in poverty measures. Service provision can vary significantly between and within countries, and so similar levels of household resources may translate to very different living standards. Where universal provision of basic services is lacking, current approaches to poverty measurement may result in underestimates, thereby raising comparability and identificat…
Measuring Multidimensional Poverty According to National Definitions: Operationalising Target 1.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals
The first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) tasks countries with eradicating poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions. This presents considerable challenges for poverty researchers and national statistical offices charged with collecting data to monitor progress on meeting of this ambitious target. Our paper focuses on how the different dimensions of poverty might be mapped out, and compared, within and across heterogeneou…
O que os brasileiros pensam ser necessário para que se tenha um padrão de vida digno em seu país: Estudo piloto na cidade de São Paulo
Este artigo apresenta os resultados do estudo piloto, realizado na cidade de São Paulo, que teve por objetivo a formulação e a aplicação de um questionário voltado à compreensão da natureza e da extensão da pobreza multidimensional no Brasil, a partir da Abordagem Consensual. O questionário foi elaborado a partir de trabalho de campo desenvolvido anteriormente, com grupos focais para a discussão das percepções dos brasileiros sobre as necessidade…
Trabalho decente para uma vida digna: Um estudo piloto a partir da abordagem consensual na cidade de Campinas
Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar a relação entre trabalho decente e pobreza a partir da percepção de participantes de oito grupos focais, realizados em 2019, na cidade de Campinas, São Paulo. Utilizando a metodologia da Abordagem Consensual, os grupos focais possibilitaram que os participantes discutissem suas perspectivas sobre o que é pobreza. A partir dessas discussões, empreendemos uma análise de conteúdo, buscando a interpretação dos …
Trabalho e viração em empresas-aplicativo: Um panorama da uberização na cidade de São Paulo durante a pandemia
Este artigo tem por objetivos contribuir com a produção de dados sobre a uberização e enfatizar a gestão da desinformação como parte da uberização. A coleta de dados, realizada em 2021 durante momentos críticos da pandemia, é parte do Projeto Interinstitucional "Pobreza Multidimensional no Brasil". O recorte proposto foca nos participantes que, à época, trabalhavam ou se viravam em empresas-aplicativo. Em termos temáticos e teóricos, a noção de u…
Preferências Adaptativas, Pobreza Multidimensional e Políticas Públicas: Os Contornos da Dignidade Humana
As preferências adaptativas são sustentadas no pressuposto de que a experiência de privação enviesa as preferências dos sujeitos para a sua adaptação a condições adversas de vida, impactando o que se considera dignidade humana. Por isso, alguns autores indicam que esse viés deveria ser considerado para a formulação e a implementação de políticas públicas voltadas a populações vulneráveis e empobrecidas. Este estudo tem por objetivo apresentar evi…
Economics (20 works) · Economic growth (18 works) · Poverty (17 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (16 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Development economics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Medicine (9 works)