Health and human development at sub-state level in India

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2248-2260

  Purohit, Brijesh C ^a  

^a MADRAS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (India)

Author keywords

Convergence; Disparity; Divergence; Health; Human development; India; Regression analysis; Social sector interventions; Sub state level

Indexed keywords

EID: 53449101905     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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