Discussions on mortality in the context of developed countries often centre on the causes and places of death. However, inadequate health care systems coupled with economic and socio-cultural factors add another dimension to the issues of mortality and morbidity in developing countries: that of...

In the context of growing interest and demand for traditional and alternative systems of medicines, this paper tries to understand the nature of the demand for these systems in the context of Kerala, South India where the traditional and alternative systems of medicines are preserved are...

While primary education has received significant attention from researchers and policymakers, education of adolescents has been a somewhat overlooked area, especially in India. This paper uses new evidence from a primary survey done in Delhi and the 52 nd round of data collected by the National...

Financial performance of the state-owned Indian Airlines has been far from satisfactory since 1989-90. The main reason for poor performance has been the high growth in its unit cost. But so far no attempt has been made to study whether this was the result of decline in productivity or increase...