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Abstract Poor sanitation is one of the major factors for outbreaks of communicable diseases, which have adverse impact on human resources. In India, the percentage of households with latrines in rural area is insignificant. The GOI, under the 10th Plan aims to achieve 100 per cent coverage through the Total Sanitation Campaign. The investigation based… Continue reading Promotion of Individual Household Latrines in Rural Karnataka: Lessons learnt

Abstract While increasing income inequality in China has been commented on and studied extensively, relatively little analysis is available on inequality in other dimensions of human development. Using data from different sources, this paper presents some basic facts on the evolution of spatial inequalities in education and healthcare in China in the long run. In… Continue reading Spatial Inequality in Education and Health Care in China

Abstract This paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, and finally… Continue reading Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China: A Journey Through Central Planning, Reform and Openness