Unequal: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours

by Swati Narayan

A newborn girl can expect to live to eighty in Sri Lanka, seventy-four in Bangladesh and sixty-nine in India. This is but one of a range of Swati Narayan's insights from a five-year study across four countries: India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. She found that even poorer neighbours were doing better than India on a range of social indicators: health, nutrition, education, sanitation, with more women working outside the home.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9357769986
• ISBN13: 9789357769983
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Context
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"