From the Ballot to the Blackboard provides the first comprehensive account of the political
economy of education spending across the developed and developing world. The book …

This study using access to education and health as the indicators of gender inequality
examines gender inequality and state level openness in the different states of India. Further …

Based on an extended Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for 2002–03, this study shows how
sectoral growth in India affects inequality. A breakdown of the wage account into three …

Using state-level data from India over the period 1983–2005, this paper shows a strong
negative relationship between financial depth (as measured by credit volume) and rural …

This paper quantifies the impact of trade liberalization at the household level using data from
the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey from 2002 to 2016. Household welfare is …

This paper examines the impact of economic liberalization on interregional inequality in
India. It has been observed in many studies that interregional inequality in India has been …

India's success story in services is well documented at the national level, but similar
literature does not exist for India's states. We bridge this gap by studying India's services …

Food security has important positive implications for cognition, the basis for human capital
formation. This paper points to the highly probable food insecurity mediated poverty trap …

Inclusive economic development has become a pressing goal of government policy in India
in the face of rising regional inequality. This paper examines the role of targeted …

Neoliberal economic reforms over the last four decades have altered the economic
cartography of emerging market economies such as India, particularly in the context of …