The National Center for Health Statistics growth reference, recommended by the World Health Organization for international use since the late 1970s, has served many useful purposes. Among the most important are the provision of a single set of growth references for the assessment of the general nutritional status of populations of children in diverse settings, as an ancillary tool to screen chi...

It is well known that households in developing countries often experience weather-related and other shocks that drastically affect incomes. A large and growing literature explores the ef®cacy of ex ante and ex post responses to these events. One strand examines how households respond to these shocks. Three studies that exemplify work in this area are Udry (1990) on credit as insurance, Fafchamp...

Fire-growth modeling on complex landscapes can be approached as a search for the minimum time for fire to travel among nodes in a two-dimensional network. The paths producing minimum travel time between nodes are then interpolated to reveal the fire perimeter positions at an instant in time. These fire perimeters and their fire behavior characteristics (e.g., spread rate, fireline intensity) ar...

This article challenges a prevailing view that diminished electoral prospect of the incumbent UPA government is the result of neglecting growth to launch populist welfare schemes. We look at a wide range of economic indicators to show that compared to the NDA regime, the UPA period has been characterised by faster growth, higher savings and investment, growing foreign trade and capital inflows,...

this study describes the length-weight and length-length relationships for 28 populations of garra ruffa in different basins of iran, including tigris, karkheh, karun, persis and hormuz. the length-weight relationships from most localities are reported here for the first time. for most populations the b value was not significantly different from 3, indicating an isometric growth, in a few, it w...

Abstract This research develops an expanded unified growth theory that incorporates the endogenous accumulation of physical capital, population, human and technology. The model a complementarity between capital can be extended to multi-country setting with international technology diffusion. analytical characterization mechanisms behind observed patterns long-run comparative development deliver...