This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …

direct and indirect jobs in India alone. This case study identifies both reasons for success and limits on the growth of … automotive in South Asia, and recommends policies to enhance its growth. The analysis focuses primarily on the experience of … India and Pakistan - two of the biggest markets in South Asia - to understand key trends for the region, and compares their …

South Asia to capitalize on this opportunity. The authors review the apparel sectors in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri …, and in the case of India and Pakistan, by integrating vertically to avoid barriers to sourcing high-quality inputs on the … facilities to promote women labor force participation, as female workers would be the main beneficiaries of growth in apparel …

themes of the more-detailed case studies on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Attention is paid most to India, which … accounts for around four fifths of South Asia's population, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and agricultural GDP. The principal … to those for non-agricultural traded sectors in these countries. Previous studies have established that in India …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …

.6 percent nationally. The implied poverty elasticity with respect to growth in per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is within …This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … the range of past experience, and states with higher gross domestic product growth saw greater predicted poverty …

The proportion of Ugandan households living in poverty reduced by more than half between 1993 and 2013. Using household … survey data, this paper analyzes nonmonetary dimensions of poverty in Uganda for levels and trends, to explore whether the … observed reduction in monetary-based poverty are reflected in the nonmonetary indicators of poverty. The results show that …

Disability and poverty are dynamic and intricately linked phenomena. In developed countries, a large body of empirical … employment and higher unemployment rates, worse living conditions, and higher poverty rates. This study aims to contribute to the … and methods across countries, this study presents a snapshot of economic and poverty situation of working-age persons with …

of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper … models, the paper shows how catch-up can be tested via a latent growth framework. Combined with a flexible estimator …