contraceptive use is low. Nutritional deficiencies among pregnant women and children are prominent as half of them were moderately … 2012 and contraceptive use is low. Nutritional deficiencies among pregnant women and children are prominent as half of them …

the Maldives to 1.2 billion in India. The economies range from fragile and low-income to middle-income countries. SAR …

Maldives, a middle income country, is on track to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while gender …

Sri Lanka is an island nation with a population of 20 million. In 2012, per capita income was US $2,923. From 2003 to …

Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …

This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare …. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, component representing measurement … error or transitory income shocks and an Autoregressive (AR(1)) component representing persistent changes in income. The …