— This paper attempts to quantify the impact of fiscal decentralization in India on its social infrastructure and on rural development. Overall, the results in this paper indicate that Government of India within a federal framework has been fostering development equitably across its states, particularly through health and education expenditures aimed at improving human capital development. In t...

In this study, we designed and developed two educational games on mobile phones with support for speech-recognition to examine and train the cognitive underpinnings of word reading in English as a Second Language (ESL) learners in rural India. Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that articulating a word aloud will be more advantageous for strengthening the sublexical components required for ...

We compared the screening performance of risk scores for Asians and whites for diabetes, dysglycemia, and metabolic syndrome. Our subjects were 451 people aged 15 to 64 years who participated in a cohort study from May 2003 through September 2010 in a rural area of the Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala, India. All outcome measures showed overlap in the range of area under the receiver opera...

Since early 90s Information and Communication Technologies are playing a pivotal role in the development process. In the globalization era, India using ICTs to promote their development programs as well as reaches the poor to strengthen their lively hood. In this paper how the ICT using in eradication of poverty as well as the e governance performance has been discussed. And also the current IC...

The aim of this research is to study the current scenario Rural Marketing in India, rural market presents with its various opportunities and challenges, given how diversely populated consumers India are. consists 83.3 crore people what attracts marketers enter market. To territory marketing corporations must understand consumer. There a shift incoming from urban as development levels literacy a...

Jogini is the name for a female sexually exploited temple attendant and is used interchangeably with Devadasi in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. Jogini are twice more likely than other women who are used for sexual intercourse in India to be HIV positive, and their rate of mortality from HIV is 10 times the total mortality rate for all women in India. The four states in India with the most ...

This paper presents the current scenario of energy availability in a typical rural telecom system and proposes green energy utilization in rural telecom sector in India. The paper discusses the renewable energy source as the best alternative for rural telecom to supply the required load at any given time. The technical suitability and financial viability of using green energy sources to meet en...

The fragility of livelihoods and hence the vulnerability of consumption growth due to aggregate shocks in the Indian rural sector have been highlighted recently. However, as yet there exist no estimates of the vulnerability of consumption growth in rural India. This paper attempts to fill this lacuna by providing certainty equivalent growth of consumption in 14 major states of India over the pe...