Acute respiratory infections and diarrhoea globally identified as poising major threats to survival of children under the age of five. This is also true for India, where these two diseases have been the major causes behind infant mortality both in 1997 as well as 1998. Prevention as well as...

Labour market insecurity, recognised as pervasive in rural India, is multi-faceted. This study attempts to fill a gap in the research on key dimensions of labour market insecurity by using the National Sample Survey data for the year 2004-2005 for rural India to construct a composite index...