Makepeace, Gerald H. (contributor); … - 2006
, but higher in most other major states. Our sample is
drawn from the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. In the post …-independence period, West
Bengal started its economic development in a relatively good position among the Indian
states as reflected in …. For example,
though the infant mortality rate (IMR) in rural West Bengal declined between 1981 and 1990,
the state’s own …