Sachar, Rajindar; Hamid, Saiyid; Oommen, T.K.; Basith, M.A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
reducing poverty and improving crucial human development indicators such as levels of literacy, education and health. There are …, constituting 13.4 per cent of the population, are seriously lagging behind in terms of most of the human development indicators …