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 …

This paper studies the phenomenon of service-led growth in India over the past two decades from the perspective of …, transportation, entertainment, and personal services - for both rural India. We begin by showing that expenditures of non … larger numbers referring to urban India. Next, we show that expenditure on services, as a share of total expenditure, has …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The …

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 …

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about economic inequality in India during the post-reform period. We …