Other Publications

Publications in Refereed Journals / Documents

• ‘Growth and Equity in India: Does Governance Matter?’ Published in Denouement, January -February 2005.
• ‘Rural Non-farm Employment in India: Access Incomes and Impact on Poverty’, jointly with Peter Lanjouw, Economic and Political Weekly, 39(40): 4429-4446, October 2, 2004.
• ‘Some Thoughts on Nature and Persistent of Poverty in India’, Working Paper, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, Oxford, (forthcoming); also presented in a seminar on ‘Alternative Concepts of Poverty in India’, jointly organized by NCAER and Oxford University, The UK, 1-2 April, 2002 at India International Centre, New Delhi.
• ‘Participatory Development Process and Poverty Analysis in India: A review’, jointly with V.S. Saravanan and Poushali Majumdar, Working Paper, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, Oxford, (forthcoming); also presented in a seminar on ‘Alternative Concepts of Poverty in India’, jointly organized by NCAER and Oxford University, The UK, held on 1-2 April, 2002 at India International Centre, New Delhi.
• ‘Indian Public Expenditures on Social Sector and Poverty Alleviation Programs during the 1990s’, jointly with Prabir Ghosh and S.K. Mondal, Working Paper 169: September 2002, Oversees Development Institute, London, The UK.
• ‘Emerging Global Markets: Implications for South Asia’, Denouement, June 2002.
• ‘State Adjusted Public Expenditures on Social Sector and Poverty Alleviation Programs’, jointly with Prabir Ghosh and S.K.Mondal, Economic and Political Weekly, 37(8):767-787, February23-March, 2002.
• ‘State of Life of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in India’, jointly with Tarujyoti Buragohain and P. K. Ghosh, Artha Vijnana, Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics, Vol. XLIII, Nos. 1-2, March-June 2001.
• ‘The Millennium Budget: Social Sector and Poverty Alleviation Allocations’, Margin, 31 (3), April - June, 2000.
• ‘Indian Education Scene and the Public Expenditure Gap’, Economic and Political Weekly, 35(15):1396-1406, April 15, 2000.
• ‘Employment and Wages in India: Pre and Post Reform Scenario’, The Indian Journal of Labour Economic, 42 (2):195 – 216; April - June, 1999.
• ‘Health Care Financing and Insurance: Perspectives for the India's Ninth Plan, 1997-2002’, jointly with Anil Gumber, Ravi Duggal and Moneer Alam, Margin 31(2):38-68 A refereed journal published by the NCAER, January - March, 1999.
• ‘Dynamics of Food Intake and Nutrition according to Expenditure Classes in India since 1973’, jointly with A. C. Malick, Economic and Political Weekly, 34(27):1790-1800, July 3-9, 1999.
• ‘An Integrated View of Development’, Yojana [a journal published by the Government of India] 42(8):95-99.
• ‘National Expenditures on Poverty Alleviation and Social Sectors: An Evaluation in the light of 1997-98 Budget’, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 40(1):307-326; 1997.
• ‘Contributions of the Informal Rural Sector: Structure and Share of State's Rural Household Sector in the States’ Indian Association of Social Science Institutions Quarterly, 15(3): 89-110, 1997.
• ‘Mother's Education Effect on Child Health: An Econometric Analysis of Child Anthropometry in Uganda’, jointly with Namkee Ahn, The Indian Economic Review, 30(2):203-222, 1995.
• ‘Morbidity and Health Expenditure in India’, Christian Medical Journal of India, 11(1):20-22, January-March 1996.
• ‘Determinants of Child Heights in Uganda: A consideration of the selection bias caused by child mortality’, jointly with Namkee Ahn, Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 16(1);49-59, 1995. [Published from Food and Nutrition Programme for Human and Social Development, The United Nations University, Boston, USA.]
• ‘A Comparative Study of Socioeconomic and Demographic Determinant of Fertility in Togo and Uganda’, Jointly with Namkee Ahn, International Family Planning Perspectives, 20(1): 14-17,22; 1994.
• ‘A Comparative Study of Socioeconomic and Demographic Determinant of Fertility in Togo and Uganda’, Jointly with Namkee Ahn, (French Translated version) International Family Planning Perspectives, 21(4), 1995.
• ‘Socio-Economic and Demographic Differentials between the Hindus and Muslims in India’, Economic and Political Weekly, 30(46):2947-2954, 1995; also published as ‘Some Socio-Economic and Demographic Aspects of Population According to Religion in India’, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism: Bombay, October 1993.
  ‘Role of Focus Group Interviews in Assessing the Primary Health Care and Family Planning Practice in India’, Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) Notes, (17):34-39, London: International Institute for Environment and Development, March 1993.
• ‘Women Workers: Gender Equality and Female Autonomy’, Social Change, 20(2):44-51, Special Issue on Women's Status and Employment, 1990.
• ‘Breastfeeding Practices, Beliefs and Taboos in Karnataka’, jointly with Chaman Farzana, Indian Journal of Social Work, 50(1):141-48, 1990.
• ‘Societal Determinants of the Regional Differentials in India’s Family Planning Programme Performance’, Demography India, 18(1&2):1-20, 1989.
• ‘Woman’s Status and Human Fertility in South India’, Demography India, 17(2), 1988.
• ‘Child Survival: A Village-Level Investigation of Some Cultural Factors Associated with Morbidity and Mortality in South India’, Human Organization, 46 (4):348 – 355, Winter 1987.

Published in Conference Proceedings and Monograph Chapters

• ‘User fees in public health care Institutions’ jointly with Subrata K. Mondal in Prasad, Sujata and C. Sathyamal (edits), Securing Health for All: Dimensions and Challenges, New Delhi: Institute for Human Development, 2006. pp 491 – 505.
• ‘Communal Relations and Social Integration’, in India: Social Development Report, jointly with Azra Razzak, published by Oxford University Press: New Delhi in 2006.
• ‘Some thoughts an nature and persistence of poverty in India’, in Diwakar, D. M and G. P. Mishra (edit), Deprivation and Inclusive Development, published by Manak Publications: New Delhi in 2006, PP 295-335.
• ‘Food and Nutritional Status of the Poor in India: A State Level Analysis’, jointly with Prabir K. Ghosh and Abhilasha Sharma, in M. S Swaminathan and Pedro Medrano (eds.), Towards Hunger Free India: From Vision to Action, Chennai: East West Books (Madras) Pvt. Ltd.
• ‘The Impact of Privatization on Competition: A case Study of India’ jointly with Dr. Kanhaiya Singh in a two day conference organised by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Organisation Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Centre for Cooperation with Non-Members (CCNM), Paris on Privatization and Corporate Governance of State Owned Assets in ICSSR Campus, New Delhi; November 27-28.
• ‘Rural Non farm Employment in India: Access, Incomes and Poverty Impact’, Jointly with Peter Lanjouw, in Abusaleh Shariff and Maithreyi Krishnaraj (eds) State and Markets in Human Development in India, Orient Longman Press (forthcoming).
• ‘Household Food and Nutrition Security in India’, in S. Babu and A. Gulati (eds) Economic Reforms and Food Security in South Asia, Oxford University Press (forthcoming); also presented in a workshop on ‘Welfare, Demography and Development’ organized by Cambridge University, Cambridge, 11-12 September, 2001.
• ‘Determinants of Maternal Health Care Utilization in India: Evidence from a National Survey’, jointly with Geeta Singh, in Abusaleh Shariff and Maithreyi Krishnaraj (eds.) State and Markets in Human Development in India, Orient Longman Press (forthcoming).
• ‘Indexing Human Development in India: indicators, scaling and composition’, jointly with Amitabh Kundu and Prabir Ghosh, in Abusaleh Shariff and Maithreyi Krishnaraj (eds) State and Markets in Human Development in India, Orient Longman Press (forthcoming).
• ‘Human Development Profile of Rural India’, in Raja J. Chelliah and R. Sudarshan (eds) Income Poverty and Beyond: Human Development in India, pp. 53-71, 1999, New Delhi: Social Science Press.
• ‘An Integrated view of Development: Income Distribution, Employment and Social Security during the Structural Reforms’ in UNDP- EDAP Joint Policy Studies Series 9, Social Reform and Development in the Asia Pacific, Seoul: Korea Development Institute, 1999. Earlier presented in a regional conference on Social Implications of the Asian Financial Crisis, organized jointly by the Korea Development Institute, UNDP and Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, July 29-31, 1998, Seoul, Korea.
• ‘Economic and Human Development in India: Linkages and Issues’, in UNDP – EDAP Joint Policy Studies, Social Reform and Development in the Asia Pacific, Seoul: Korea Development Institute, 1998.
• ‘Economic and Policy Reforms and Employment in Manufacturing Sector’, in Concept and Measurement of Labour Flexibility with Special Reverence to Organized Sector in India, Seminar proceedings jointly published by Institute of Applied Manpower Research and Department of Statistics, Government of India, New Delhi, November 1997, pp 39-53.
• ‘Women’s Status and Child Health’, in Krishnaraj, Maithreyi, Ratna M Sudarshan and Abusaleh Shariff (eds), Gender Population and Development, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998: pp 185-219.
• ‘Gender Disparities in Literacy, Schooling and Cost of Education in Rural India’, jointly with Tarujyoti Buragohain and K.K. Tripathy, (Hindi translated version) in a monograph published by National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi; presented in a National seminar on `Cost of Education', Organized by National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, 31 December, 1996 - 2 January 1997.
• ‘Education and Health Transition in India’, proceedings of a conference of Structural Adjustment and Gender in India, published jointly by Federic Ebert Foundation and UNDP, pp. 45-117, New Delhi, India, 1996.
• ‘Prospects of Trade in Health’, in Prasad, H.A.C. and Rajendar Kapoor (eds) Trade in Invisibles: An Indian Perspective,: pp. 111-120, New Delhi: Commonwealth publishes, 1996.
• ‘Widowhood in India’, in J.P.Singh (ed), Indian Woman, New Delhi: Gyan Publishers, 1996.
• ‘A comparative Study of Fertility Determinants in Togo and Uganda: A Hazard Model Analysis’, Proceedings of the International Congress of the IUSSP, held at Montreal, Canada, August 1993.
• ‘A few cultural concepts and socio-behavioral aspects of human health in India’, in Caldwell, J Etal (eds) What we know about Health Transition: the cultural, social and behavioral determinants of health, the proceedings of an International Workshop, pp. 788-805, 1990, Canberra: The Australian National University.

Mimeographs / Working Papers

• ‘Food Security for Sustained Poverty Alleviation in the Asia–Pacific Region: The Forgotten Gender Dimension’, (mimeo) a report written at the instance of the FAO and Association of Food Marketing for the Asia–Pacific Region, Bangkok, Thailand.
• ‘Rural Non farm Employment in India: Access, Incomes and Poverty Impact’, Jointly with Peter Lanjouw, Working Paper No. 84, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, India, 2002.
• ‘Determinants of Reproductive Healthcare Utilization in India: Evidence from a recent Micro-household Data’, Jointly with Geeta Singh, Working Paper No. 85, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, India, 2002.
• ‘Economic Reforms and the Poor’, Mimeograph, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, August 1998, a project report reviewing the poverty over the last four decades and its association with the structural adjustment reforms. The focus of this research was on impact of reforms on intermediary mechanisms such as employment, real wages, food supply and food security for the poor.
• ‘Poverty, Deprivation and Levels of Living in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal’, a comprehensive report (three volumes) written at the instance of DFID, British Development Cooperation, New Delhi, August 1998.
• ‘Health Care Financing and Insurance: Perspectives for the Indian Ninth Plan, 1997-2002’, (mimeo), A policy document prepared by a committee of which I was the convener and writer of the report, Submitted to Ministry of Health, Govt. of India, May 1996.
• ‘Programme / Project Sensitivity Analysis of the UNDP Funded Interventions to promote Sustainable Human Development: A Methodology’, (mimeo), A report written at the instance of UNDP: New Delhi, December 1995.
• ‘Health Transition in India’, Working Paper No. 57, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, India, September, 1995.
  ‘Employees' State Insurance Scheme in Gujarat: Key Results of a Survey’, (mimeo), The Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India, March 1994. pp. 117.
• ‘Determinants of Child Health: Search for maternal Education effects in Gujarat’, Working Paper No. 47, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India, June, 1993.
• ‘Family Planning Program In Gujarat: A Qualitative Assessment of Inputs and Impact’, (Mimeo), jointly with Praveen Visaria. The Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India, November 1991. pp. 160.