A higher level and continuous education throughout entire life (necessary for adapting to the changes in the labor market) and a better health offer greater chances of sustained economic and social development. Also, a higher education level contributes to decrease the disparities between...

This paper investigates the effects of India’s rural roads program (PMGSY) on morbidity, using data on 279 households drawn from 30 villages in a region of upland Orissa. The households were surveyed in 2010 and 2013, yielding an unbalanced panel of 1580 individuals, 1076 of whom were present...

Uncorrected vision is prevalent among rural children and those who migrate from rural areas to urban areas with their parents in China, of which more than 20 per cent are nearsighted. Since 2012 the Rural Education Action Program (REAP) has carried out the largest empirical vision care project...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Transformation of land tenure system -- Agricultural reforms during the 1980s -- Land tenure system in village communities -- Gender inequality in land tenure system -- Food security and the future of small farmers -- Development in Tibetan agriculture -- Impacts...

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- The peasant question and gender question -- Bei village : rural industries and private businesses -- Su village : collective legacy and the "new socialist countryside" -- Han village: urban dream, tied migration and male bonding -- Ning village:...

In this paper, we develop a simple model that shows that consumption of PDS food grains is significantly different between rich and poor households in states where the PDS functions relatively well; in places where the PDS is non-functional, the difference is not significant. Using...

The rural consumer opportunity -- Planting the seeds of prosperity in the rural world -- The influence of religion in the emerging rural world -- Growing consumers in emerging rural markets -- Plowing new routes to rural markets -- Seeding innovation and prosperity through technology --...

This study explores the consumption practices of the landed aristocracy of Georgian England. Focussing on three families and drawing on detailed analysis of account books, receipted bills, household inventories, diaries and correspondence, this book charts the spending patterns of this elite...

"The author provides unprecedented critical, interdisciplinary explorations of the complex dynamics and intersectionalities operating between disability and poverty in rural areas, an assumed relationship that is too often misunderstood. Reporting on long term ethnographic work in Guatemala and...