Child growth in urban deprived settings: Does household poverty status matter? At which stage of child development?

► We assess how infant and child undernutrition varies across four dimensions of poverty status. ► There is a strong association between food poverty and stunting among children aged 6-11 months. ► Assets poverty and subjective poverty have stronger effects on undernutrition at older age. ► The effect of expenditures poverty does not reach statistical significant in any age group. ► These findings suggest the need to design and scale up nutrition interventions among the urban poor.