The adverse sex ratio, a feature of India, is an outcome of two forms of inequality; natal inequality through sex-selective abortion, and mortality inequality. The analysis of trends in mortality inequality at the infant stage, which is the subject of this paper, in the rural and urban areas of...

This paper is about the financial lives of poor households. It examines the different sources of income and expenditure of the poor households residing in a coastal settlement in Kerala. The method of financial diary for data collection is adopted for the study. The sample size is 13. The study...

This study analyzes the impact of democratic decentralization on the chances of socially excluded groups to participate in newly created local governance institutions - Panchayat Rai Institutions - in three Indian states. This institutional reform included a quota for disadvantaged groups like...