In India migration is assuming greater significance with the emerging development dynamics and it... more In India migration is assuming greater significance with the emerging development dynamics and its ensuing implications. Although migration as a process has different aspects, this paper primarily focuses on empirically examining the 'sustainability' potential of migrants from two statistical approaches: sustainability through 'probabilistic approach' and 'distributional approach'. It was found that from the probabilistic view point, the migrants with educational reason progress slower to longer duration of stay as against migration with employment, implying employment as a reason more sustainable when seen as progression. Conversely, from the distributional perspective, education led migration has higher cumulating migrant stock in the initial period and hence in the distributional sense more sustainable.
Huge investments have been made in improving the health system of India since early independence,... more Huge investments have been made in improving the health system of India since early independence, which has resulted in health outcomes such as infant and maternal maternity rates and life expectancy levels to exhibit impressive reductions and increments, respectively. Although at the national level these have been impressive, it is appalling at the state level. States such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu have always topped in displaying low infant and maternal mortality rates associated with high levels of health workers and infrastructure in contrast to states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. In the present study, we use data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess and compare the health system across states of India. Using DEA, we attempt to derive desired levels of health manpower and infrastructure to be emulated, to make the health systems efficient. The study limits to two outputs and two inputs for 27 states of India and used the output oriented DEA. It was found that of the 27 states on...
Health economics is a sub-discipline of economics that has significant relevance to public health... more Health economics is a sub-discipline of economics that has significant relevance to public health. The academic discipline of health economics has not evolved in India till now. Since India became independent country, the public health practice in India has revolved largely around public health systems; the private health system has functioned in parallel with negligible regulatory control by the government. The recent launch of a large health insurance program by the Indian government has opened the door of public resources for the private sector in health. It is envisaged that a substantial portion of public money will be diverted to the private sector with little regulation. This situation will potentially change the landscape of public health care delivery in the country. With this change, the role of health economists is bound to increase, given the increased demand for economic evaluation. Ironically, there is a complete dearth of educational institutions offering specialised...
In India migration is assuming greater significance with the emerging development dynamics and it... more In India migration is assuming greater significance with the emerging development dynamics and its ensuing implications. Although migration as a process has different aspects, this paper primarily focuses on empirically examining the 'sustainability' potential of migrants from two statistical approaches: sustainability through 'probabilistic approach' and 'distributional approach'. It was found that from the probabilistic view point, the migrants with educational reason progress slower to longer duration of stay as against migration with employment, implying employment as a reason more sustainable when seen as progression. Conversely, from the distributional perspective, education led migration has higher cumulating migrant stock in the initial period and hence in the distributional sense more sustainable.
Huge investments have been made in improving the health system of India since early independence,... more Huge investments have been made in improving the health system of India since early independence, which has resulted in health outcomes such as infant and maternal maternity rates and life expectancy levels to exhibit impressive reductions and increments, respectively. Although at the national level these have been impressive, it is appalling at the state level. States such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu have always topped in displaying low infant and maternal mortality rates associated with high levels of health workers and infrastructure in contrast to states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. In the present study, we use data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess and compare the health system across states of India. Using DEA, we attempt to derive desired levels of health manpower and infrastructure to be emulated, to make the health systems efficient. The study limits to two outputs and two inputs for 27 states of India and used the output oriented DEA. It was found that of the 27 states on...
Health economics is a sub-discipline of economics that has significant relevance to public health... more Health economics is a sub-discipline of economics that has significant relevance to public health. The academic discipline of health economics has not evolved in India till now. Since India became independent country, the public health practice in India has revolved largely around public health systems; the private health system has functioned in parallel with negligible regulatory control by the government. The recent launch of a large health insurance program by the Indian government has opened the door of public resources for the private sector in health. It is envisaged that a substantial portion of public money will be diverted to the private sector with little regulation. This situation will potentially change the landscape of public health care delivery in the country. With this change, the role of health economists is bound to increase, given the increased demand for economic evaluation. Ironically, there is a complete dearth of educational institutions offering specialised...
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