Socio economic condition of migrant workers in Aligarh city, India

Socio-economic burden of diabetes in India.

T 2 diabetes is the commonest form of diabetes constituting 90% of the diabetic population in any country. The global prevalence of diabetes is estimated to increase, from 4% in 1995 to 5.4% by the year 2025.1 The countries with the largest number of diabetic subjects are, and will be India, China and U.S. and in the former two countries diabetes occurs mostly in the age range of 45-64 yrs, in ...

Socio-economic Dimensions of Globalization in India

Introduction: After Independence, the managers of the Indian economy took very cautious steps. They found the world sharply divided into two blocs: the one led by the capitalist economies (the US in particular) and other led by the communist economies, primarily the then USSR. There was a cold war between these two blocs. Lessdeveloped economies had no option than to join either of the two and ...

Nutritional status of children in India: household socio-economic condition as the contextual determinant

BACKGROUND Despite recent achievement in economic progress in India, the fruit of development has failed to secure a better nutritional status among all children of the country. Growing evidence suggest there exists a socio-economic gradient of childhood malnutrition in India. The present paper is an attempt to measure the extent of socio-economic inequality in chronic childhood malnutrition ac...

Nutritional Status of Children in India: Household Socio-Economic Condition as the Contextual Determinant

Economic Status and Social Attitudes of Migrant Workers in China

Migrant workers, meaning those who used to be farmers but have left rural areas and found jobs in cities as a result of economic reform and rapid development in China, have made a significant contribution to the burgeoning labor market and played an important role in speeding up the transition from a planned to a market economy. This present paper considers the economic status and social attitu...