The study examines the effect of income and education of the household on its health expenditure, based on primary data collected from Jajpur district of Orissa. Multi-stage random sampling method is adopted to select households (HHs), i.e., sampling unit. The descriptive statistics shows that...

In India, Bihar is amongst poorest state, with poverty incidence of 42.6%. Bihar constitutes about 3% of national geographical area, but supports, 8 % of its population. The state is characterized as most backward state of India. In Bihar there has been a slow decline in the incidence of...

The study is based on data collected under the project entitled “Tracking change in rural poverty in household and village economies in Eastern India”. Data were collected from sample households through panel interview method in four villages namely; Arap, Baghakole, Inai and Susari. The...

The article presents the author's model of pricing at the housing market. Economic indicators according to which the analysis should be carried out are defined in this article. The analysis of prices at the housing market of CIS countries on the example of Moscow in the post-Soviet period is...

Pakistan is on its way to achieving the targets of the fifth Millennium Development Goal in terms of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015. However, the rate of decline needs to speed up over the next decade as Pakistan has a high Maternal Mortality Ratio...

Last decades economic development induced massive international and regional migration flows directed to the urban spaces. The magnitude and swiftness of these processes determined that several cities’ authorities would fail to respond to the increasing demands of many social services. The...

In India, poverty reduction is one of the major objectives of economic development programmes. Though, India was the first country in the world to define poverty as the total per capita expenditure of the lowest expenditure class, which is required to ascertain a minimum intake of 2400 kcal/day...

Jharkhand state is carved out from Bihar state in 2000. The state is rich in mineral resources and poor in agricultural production. More than 75% of work force is engaged in agriculture, but generates only 20% of state’s GDP. About 45% area is under non-agricultural use and 32% is culturable...

Previous research on migration has focused more on the effect of wage differences between the destination and the origin on migration and less on how non-pecuniary attachments workers have to their current location may affect their migration decisions. In this paper, we examine how the presence...

Over two-thirds of Vietnam’s population reside in the rural sector, and recent economic reform initiatives may not realize their full potential to benefit the rural sector if rural links to the rest of the economy are too weak. In this paper, we demonstrate how multiplier decomposition methods...