Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reported, standardized mortality ratios … comparing mortality experience with that in the United States, and estimated associations with socioeconomic factors using Coxâ …€™s proportional hazards regression. Cause-specific mortality fractions were estimated using the InterVA algorithm. Crude mortality …

The problems of failed states, including the repeated return to power of former warlords are examined. It is argued … that this causes institutions to become weaker and people to get poorer. It is argued that economic power through property … holdings or human capital gives people the means to hold their leaders accountable. In the absence of such distributed power …

of capital and draws upon Veblenian economics to integrate the definitions of power and capital by describing the … ownership of capital as differential power claims over social processes. In order to maximize capital accumulation, businessmen …

change can be analyzed, especially from the point of view of laying down future policies in the power sector. It is with … perspective that this document has been published by the Power and Energy Division of the Planning Commission. [Planning …