Economic development and inequality is known to have an impact on health outcomes. We show this to be true in India where we study the effect of economic status on under and over nutrition. Inequality is measured using income or assets and we show that both matter for malnutrition. We find women...

While wealth inequality has attracted attention in the recent inequality literature, such inequalities within the most elementary social unit -- the household -- remain neglected. We develop an empirical framework for measuring intra-household wealth inequality. Using unique individual-level...

In the recent years, two significant changes have taken place in an effort to address the rural poor: Businesses have started recognizing the potential of rural markets and governments have started using telecentres for providing government-to-citizen G2C services to rural citizens. In India,...

There are many Indian managers already employed by the U.S. and European multinationals, and other global companies. Quite a umber of them work outside India, including at corporate eadquarters. Indiar global manager is not a new phenomenon.However, the liberalisation policies initiated in July...

India has experienced steady economic growth over the last two decades alongside a persistent decline in female labor force participation. This paper explores the relationship between economic development and female labor supply using state-level data spanning 1983-1984 to 2011-2012. While...

Human Development is both an end as well as means of growth and prosperity. It is a process which facilitates enhancing human choices as well as capabilities. Investment in human capital essentially involves improvements in the standards of nutrition, education, health, and habitat. Also UNDP's...

Since the economic reforms were launched in 1991, the annual budget of the Union Government has assumed a special aura - as a key signal about the direction of economic policy - or more precisely, as a barometer for liberalization. Earlier budgets presented by Manmohan Singh and P. Chidambaram...

The growth of Indian software industry till date has been mainly due to the availability of highly competent and cost competitive software professionals in India, Software organisations, national educational institutes, corporate private training institutes and the central and state governments...

Economic and political commentators in India have repeatedly noted their concern about the recent slow-down in the Indian economy. Several recent papers have provided evidence that increase in the economic policy uncertainty (EPU) has played a significant role in the slow-down and the increase...

The idea of economic self-sufficiency was an important element of M.K. Gandhi‘s economic thought, and part of his vision of freedom. Because the experience of colonial rule was associated with economic backwardness and dependence on imports of manufactures, most nationalist thinkers and...