This paper analyzes the inter-state imbalances in three major sectors of the economy, namely, education, health and … health, the ratio of maximum (Punjab) and minimum (Bihar) widened from 2.11 to 3.59 and in the case of water and sanitation …

. Since 2003, the local health agency (Bapel) has been quite successful in managing this program. The program that is funded … differences in the type and extent of health services offered by the two of them. The outcome of the findings shows that puskesmas … are the communitys very poor socio-economic conditions, endemic malaria, minimal numbers of health workers in rural areas …

Purbalingga is the first kabupaten in Indonesia to start implementing its health insurance scheme for the poor, as a … replacement for the JPS-BK scheme (Social Safety Net Program Health Sector). Poor families (Gakin) receive a range of health … in the scope of its health services, because it not only includes poor families in its scheme, but also non-poor families …

-recipient sectors are the focus of the study : education, health, and roads infrastructure. The study sample areas are four districts …

The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on health in Pakistan at provincial … emphasising health services as well as the trend in access to and public sector spending on health care facilities in Pakistan …. The study explores the inequalities in resource distribution and service provision against the government health …

sector in India. The paper, apart from an extensive review of Indias health scenario also identifies the potential areas …The cutback in public investment in social sector including health is an inevitable consequence of the financial crises … faced by both developed and developing countries since late seventies. In India, the dismal performance and several …

Tobacco products such as bidi and cigarette, both of which are smoked, cater to different kinds of households in India … patterns, socio-economic distribution and the household choice of a variety of tobacco products across rural and urban India … products to consume. Household level data from National Sample Survey in India for the year 1999-2000, which has information on …

representative household sample survey from India for the year 1999-2000, we analyze the pattern of spending on various groups of …

The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fifteen per cent of the tobacco users who … elasticities showed that the own price elasticity estimates of various addictive goods in India ranged between -0.5 to -1.0 with … substitutes at least in urban India. We also observed that, over a five year period, the addictive goods such as bidis and leaf …