households in two urban slums of Ramanagaram, indebted to micro-credit organizations. Indebtedness of many of these households to … microfinance sector in urban India …

we show that both matter for malnutrition. We find women are at much higher risk of being malnourished and this risk …Economic development and inequality is known to have an impact on health outcomes. We show this to be true in India …

One of the normative promises of Indian urbanization is the potential breaking down of the rigidities that characterize … traditional caste hierarchies in an agrarian regime. In particular, urbanization holds the promise of breaking down spatial … and religion data, we present a contemporary snapshot of the relationship between urbanization and patterns of residential …

The rising level of urbanisation in India draws attention to inadequate infrastructure levels in urban areas. While … paper examines the broad fiscal position of urban local bodies in India and the arrangement under different five year plans … and various Commissions – central and state. Considering India's growth prospects on the horizon, and the ensuing …

run by poor women. There is ample evidence cited in the form of case-stories of women who have reared successful informal … run by poor women, how do they initiate it and whom do they turn to for finance and other were withal. In a year … of Ramanagaram, Karnataka, we were able to track the daily cash inflows and outflows of a few women who did informal …

eleven months in 2008-09 in the town of Ramanagaram, Karnataka, India; we address the following question – do women use money …Using an innovative data-set that involved 90 poor women logging-in daily household financial diaries for a period of … differently from men? Comparing weekly cash-expenses of 19 women headed households with similar male-headed households; we arrived …

particular, India is one of the countries with an expanding stock market that has started attracting foreign funds. The Indian ….7% in 1985-86 to 57% in 1991-92. However, the stock markets in India are plagued by severe illiquidity with the trading …

expenditure and national income growth in India during the period 1951-1989. The "omitted" variable considered is the rate of …