The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but … employment has not kept pace with the share of the sector in gross domestic product and has not produced the number or quality of … investment. While India is among the top 10 World Trade Organization members in service exports and imports, the growth and …

The health care for elderly population remains an important concern in the two populated economies of India and China …. This paper provides an attempt to determine the extent of population aging in India and China and subsequently determine … differences in the levels of population aging in both India and China. The results of our cross-sectional regressions indicate …

We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries … expenditure in India, especially at the top of the distribution. Both types of inequality are similar in China, although … and levels between the two wellbeing distributions. As a result, expenditure inequality is higher in China than in India …

India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial 'thick' surveys of … literature available on the subject in India. …

and promote economic growth in India. The first part provides a brief review of gender issues in the country. The second …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 …, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and …