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 10 states of Southeast Asia have combined to form the developing world’s most successful and durable regional grouping, the Association of Southeast Asian Na-tions, ASEAN. Economic integration among them is high and increasing. The ambi-tious ASEAN Economic Community is scheduled to take...

This paper examines Cambodia's socioeconomic development since the early 1990s peace settlement. The country's economic growth has arguably been the fastest among post-conflict societies, driven by the credible restoration of peace and security, large public and private capital inflows, economic...

This paper models the evolution and determinants of the shares of agricultural, manufacturing and services sectors' value added for 53 African countries for 1970-2014 years. A number of alternative estimation techniques were used. These included pooled OLS with clustered standard errors,...