. This paper argues that growth in India has not substantially improved gender equality because it has not sufficiently … activated either of these mechanisms. I analyze structural changes from 1982/83 to 2011/12 to show that India's high … poverty-might actually have led to greater gender equality in India-by reducing poverty-linked gender discrimination. The …

This paper explores univariate health inequality in India using a representative sample of pre-school age children. I … evolution of the nutrition poverty index over time in India. However, I also observe that the level of stunted growth would be …

India has a high level of out-of-pocket (OOP) health care spending, and lacks well developed health insurance markets …, not as part of consumption. Adopting this perspective, we construct poverty and inequality measures for India that account …, are in a state of “hidden poverty” due to medical expenses. Furthermore, while poverty in India fell substantially from …

activities have been effective in reducing poverty in India. For sensitivity and robustness of the results, three different … for fourteen Indian states from the 13th. to the 53rd rounds of the National Sample Survey of India are used for …

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 …