This article is concerned with the prevalence of unhealthy housing (UH) in the rural areas of the state of Rajasthan, India. UH is defined to be the houses that are made with non-permanent materials and those that lack a supply of clean water and proper sanitation. Habitation in such houses...

The technological gap theory of international trade is examined in a simple model where R&D requires the input of skilled labor, which may also be employed in production, and where enterprises' endogenous technology builds upon a Heckscher-Ohlin free exogenous technology. Intercountry...