-keeping practices in a few Chinese villages. For various reasons, mostly of political economy, public funds for health services in India … shifted to other priorities such as family planning. This paper reviews the fundamental obstacles to effective disease control … in India and indicates new policy thrusts that can help overcome these obstacles. "--World Bank web site …

"Most high and middle-income countries showed symptoms of skill-biased technological change in the 1980s. India-a low … income country-did not, perhaps because India's traditionally controlled economy may have limited the transfer of … skill-biased technological change did in fact arrive in India in the 1990s using panel data disaggregated by industry and …

"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the …/provinces in China and India. The United States, where regional inequality is the least, shows further convergence. Brazil, with …

understanding collective action. He illustrates the point by contrasting how conceptions of nationalism in Indonesia and India …-help) that was both internalized and coercively enforced. India emphasized democratic decentralization through the panchayat …-efficiency tradeoff. Indonesia has delivered public services much more efficiently than India did, but at the cost of democratic freedoms …

"The authors' analysis of manufacturing plants sampled from India's major industrial centers shows large productivity …

"The authors examine the performance of the crop insurance scheme in Karnataka, a southern state of India and the …

"Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large … National Family Health Survey data from 1992 and 1998. They find that program placement is clearly regressive across states … nearly half of India's population - have the lowest program coverage and the lowest budgetary allocations from the central …