Under the mantle of one-party rule, decades of fast economic growth has produced wealth, social ferment, and a far more sophisticated, better-informed, better-off population with higher expectations than their parents and grandparents.
Despite India's economic boom, most government services created in recent years help the "better-off population of city dwellers," according to a report in the journal Economic and Political Weekly on sanitation problems in the slums.
While rural clinics serve largely poor populations, urban clinics serve a slightly better-off population.
As a result of this degradation, much of the better-off population of the old city relocated to new housing schemes developed by the Cantonment Boards and the Karachi Development Authority (KDA).
The coverage of the MOH-VR system is biased toward the urban and better-off populations of eastern China, which does not represent the national population.
This deviation from common UI practice derives from the fact that in developing countries, the occurrence of unemployment tends to be concentrated among the better off, non-poor population.
Other studies over the past decade have consistently shown that those from more disadvantaged backgrounds tend to be less skilled than more educated and better off populations.
First, it seems that the effect of SES on the pattern of stunting between sexes is no longer present in better off populations like Namibia.
The observation that our studied population appeared to be better off than the general population reinforces our hypothesis that there appears a link between family structure (parents living together or not) and parental behaviour that is independent of social status.
But we obviously would be better off with a smaller population".
