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"India no longer faces the famine and epidemics which kept life expectancy barely over 30 years at Independence. Despite progress in food production, disease control, and economic and social development, India accounts for 40 percent of the world's malnourished children, with less than 20 percent of the global child population." India has taken the problem of malnutrition seriously since its Independence in 1947, more so than many other countries, and has developed appropriate policies and mounted major programs to address it. This report forms part of the Government of India-World Bank collaboration in nutrition, which began in 1980. Its aim is to review the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of public spending on nutrition in India, and to suggest how these might be enhanced. It identifies the programs that are working and the areas where action is needed. It also projects the possible cost of the suggested programs.
Muslim minorities in China and India form only a small fraction of their respective populations, yet as they principally live in troubled border states, they are of key strategic importance in the war on terror. In this global context, this book explores whether economics is more important than the suppression of rights in explaining social unrest.
This volume provides an account of the incidence, trends, and determinants of poverty in India and reviews the situation in the context of deprivations, empowerment, role of poor in governance, its geographical concentration, major policies and program implementation, and the legislative and other initiatives taken by the government.
This volume focuses on the defining developmental issues in the country today. In continuation with the three previous issues of the IDR, the volume covers issues such as: poverty reduction, internal trade barriers, public sector agriculture R&D, corporate sector performance, IPR policy, urban transportation, and public expenditure.
Twenty One Articles In The Volume Provide Indepth Insight Into The Process In The Rural Labour Markets, Examine The Role Of Market Forces State Intervention And Mobilization Of Trade Union, Political Parties And Ngos.
An index of names of persons who are described in various biographical dictionaries.