poverty gap, which is as high as 50 percentage points or more in some specific cases in Nepal, Pakistan, or India. The gap in … (e.g., India, Nepal, and Pakistan), in regional development (e.g., the Philippines) and the large urban-rural gap (e …

India is clearly far along in the nutrition transition. This paper shows that there have been rapid increases in the … proportion of adult women in India who are overweight and obese: these increases are seen not just in urban but in rural areas as … public health systems, especially in rural India. At the same time, the intra-household dual burden of malnutrition is also …

- India's elderly poor. The results show that during a time period of social pension reforms, exclusion and inclusion errors …

infrastructure projects in the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) region, connecting Nepal, eastern India … describes a new CGE model for South Asia, covering India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan, which incorporates … accruing to India in absolute terms, but the largest relative gains to Nepal, followed by Bangladesh and Sri Lanka when the …

stages of development (in the People's Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines) and one mature one (in India). Being …