data collected from rural households in major states in the country. Policy implications are also discussed. [CPRC]. … studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term migration with the help a large set of …

This paper looks at rural infrastructure facilities in India, the lack of which is demonstrated to be an impediment to … urban, given the smaller size, density and per capita incomes of rural agglomerations. [NCAER WP 94]. … sustained economic development. It is argued that problems of rural infrastructure provision are different from those of the …

The attention of the media and planners has been focussed almost exclusively on rural and tribal malnutrition. However …, malnutrition among urban children, particularly the economically vulnerable slum population has been almost entirely neglected …, with the exception of a very few studies. A sample of 1000 households in eight kaccha settlements in Mumbai has been chosen …

beverage products. Food expenditures and incomes have grown much more slowly for rural and low-income urban households. … higher incomes purchase more expensive foods. The top-earning Chinese households appear to have reached a point where the … for quality by high-income households has fueled recent growth in modern food retail and sales of premium-priced food and …

. The urban households are much richer than their rural counterparts and consume three times more. …China’s consumers are better understood when looked at as two distinct classes: urban consumers and rural consumers …

This paper studies household car ownership in urban and rural areas in Sweden using register data for all adult Swedes … urban and rural households with respect to sensitivity of car ownership. The central result from comparing urban and rural … comparable urban households. This supports the notion that rural households are more dependent on their cars than urban …

, education, and rural/urban residence of the head of the household? The odds of female children being discriminated against with … Haryana in India for health outcomes. Specifically it addresses the incidence, and use of preventive and curative health care …

This paper reports the results of a survey from 148 households in the Mekong Delta regarding the household's decision … in this paper to examine the determinants of decision of migration to both migration and non-migration households …. According to the descriptive measure, it is found that the decision of migration for a typical household is significantly …

Indian households. Many factors have contributed in bringing these changes. These include availability of energy, security of … consumption in the household sector and analyses the causalities underlying the present usage patterns. It identifies specific … impact on the fuel choice mechanism. The study shows that the role of actors in household fuel choice is significant and …