Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...

In 2005-06 the Indian government introduced a new cadre of Community Health Workers known as Accredited Social Health Activists or ASHA workers to improve basic health outcomes through community engagement. The initial roll-out of the program, between 2005 and 2009, was heavily focused on 18...

In the year 1975, the Indian government initiated the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), the largest national program in the world targeting long-term nutrition and holistic development of children, to be implemented through the Anganwadi Centers (AWC). Combining differences across...

In India, 52 98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...

In India, 52–98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...

The demand for healthcare is increasing globally. In India, a dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases along with an ageing population is affecting the demand for healthcare. Concerns for providing efficient and effective healthcare to the vulnerable population has led to the...

In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...

The prevalence of discrimination against women along with the absence of data led to an assumption that a large gender gap existed in adult under-nutrition in India. The availability for the first time of comparable all-India nutritional data for men and women enables us to examine the empirical...