National Council of Applied Economic Research
Attention has been paid to the significance of the non-farm sector in the rural Indian economy since the early 1970s. The importance of earnings from secondary non-farm occupations is not well documented. In this paper an attempt is made to assess the contribution of the nonfarm sector across population quintiles defined in terms of average... Read More
In India, utilisation of basic health services has remained poor. The reasons may be low levels of household income, high illiteracy and ignorance, and a host of traditional factors. In this paper, an attempt is made to discuss the issues associated with the demand and supply of the five measures of maternity care: antenatal care,... Read More
This paper first presents evidence to show that in recent years there has been a substantial fall in fertility among illiterate women in India. Subsequently, using the data from the Human Development Profile Survey of 1994, it shows that child schooling among illiterate parents is inversely related to family size and positively related to contraceptive... Read More
This paper examines disparities by social group in educational and economic indicators in India and looks for inter-state variations in these. Data from the 1994 NCAER-HDI survey in rural India reveals that differentials in enrolment persist in most cases even when controlled for parental factors such as education and income indicating current direct effect of... Read More
In this study, an attempt has been made to examine the determinants of health status and curative health care of children, adults and the elderly in rural India using the NCAER-HDI (Human Development Indicator) national-level survey data for 1994. Health status is defined in terms of illness prevalence rate and functional disability based measures. Descriptive evidence on the measures... Read More
In rural India access to education could act as a catalyst to change. Persons acquiring education could break through some of the social and cultural norms associated with certain occupations. However, access to education and the capacity to use it for economic betterment could differ by caste and religion. In independent India, social policies such as the reservation... Read More
This paper reports some new evidence from an all-India household survey on demand and supply issues in schooling. In India, most studies attribute poor educational performance to poverty. Though this factor is important, the recent survey evidence shows that lack of interest in schooling is the major factor explaining low enrolment and high dropout rates... Read More
The objective of this paper is to study the changes in public expenditures on social sector, as a result of the structural adjustment programme, that might have an impact on the sector's outcome. Therefore, an effort is made to assess the relationship between per capita public expenditure and the outcome across major states. The findings... Read More
There are at least two reasons why the debate regarding the impact of openness through liberalization on oil productivity growth is unresolved. First, there is the adequate theory of TFP growth and second, the empirical measurement of TFP is fraught with difficulties. An important methodological issue that has attracted limited attention in India is regarding... Read More
