Based on data collected from a representative national sample, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper investigates the links between obesity among children and among adults with a number of socio-economic characteristics as well as household and location specific variables. Both child...

The central theme of this paper is that the Indian economy has been remarkably resilient and been able to adapt its quest for growth to changes in circumstances in both the domestic and the global economy and is now poised for sustained progress. At the time of independence after centuries of...