"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between … the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … India. Policy interventions that affect these conditions could effectively impact the health and achievement of these …

"In this paper, the author attempts to identify the characteristics of the business climate in India that can help … identify the key features of a poor business environment in India. The analysis shows that infrastructure and institutions …

"Using a unique sample of net domestic product data for districts in India, I investigate the connection between … instrumentation strategy. The findings show that the growth of many districts in India is financially constrained due to lack of …

explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during … at the beginning of the survey period by 2004. This all-India trajectory masks widely varying trends across states …

"Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to discourage son …

earthquakes: Gujarat, India, in 2001; North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in 2005; and Izmit, Turkey, in 1999. There is evidence of a …