Power to choose? Examining the link between contraceptive use decision and domestic violence.

Contraception is a crucial tool that empowers women to control their bodily autonomy. Concurrently, domestic violence remains a pressing public health issue, depleting women's autonomy. We establish a causal link between a woman's contraceptive use decision and the occurrence of intimate partner violence.

Rising premature menopause and variations by education level in India.

The proportion of women experiencing premature menopause is on the rise in India, particularly in the age groups of 30-39 years. Consequently, there is a need to understand the factors influencing the prevalence of premature menopausal status among women. Our study uses the data from 180,743 women gathered during the latest Indian version of the Demography Health Survey (National Family Health Survey-5).

Do renewable energy sources perfectly displace non-renewable energy sources? Evidence from Asia-Pacific economies.

The existing scholarly discourse surrounding the energy transition has long operated on the assumption of perfect displacement of non-renewable energy. However, an evolving set of studies highlights an intricate web of inefficiencies and complexities that prevent the perfect displacement of fossil fuel energy with renewable energy production. Since this could carry serious implications for the environmental targets of several economies, it is crucial to accurately and continuously measure the actual extent of fossil fuel displacement.

Conceptualising and challenging child neglect in humanitarian action: Protecting displaced children in Jordan and Palestine.

Background: Humanitarian organisations commonly identify neglect as a specific form of harm from which children should be protected. However, lack of debate about the aetiology of child neglect has left intact a tendency to assume that it is due to a failure of caregivers. Obscured by this assumption are the role of the humanitarian system in supporting or, indeed, undermining the efforts of primary caregivers.

Four governance reforms to strengthen the SDGs.

A demanding policy vision can accelerate global sustainable development efforts.

Hosting the Tobacco Industry Supply Chain and Political Interference.

Introduction: We found no comprehensive studies on the location of transnational tobacco and leaf company (TTLC) subsidiaries (business entities they control) or the consequences of their presence on health policy.

Aims And Methods: Here we assess (1) the global reach of TTLCs by mapping their tobacco growing and manufacturing subsidiaries and (2) the relationship between in-country presence of the tobacco industry and their power and interference. Data on subsidiaries were collated through systematic searching for countries' supply chain activities in documents and web pages.

The symmetric and asymmetric effects of climate change on rice productivity in Malaysia.

The current study aims to examine the symmetric and asymmetric effects of climate change (CC) on rice productivity (RP) in Malaysia. The Autoregressive-Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Non-linear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) models were employed in this study. Time series data from 1980 to 2019 were collected from the World Bank and the Department of Statistics, Malaysia.

Energy consumption, CO emissions, foreign direct investment, and economic growth in Malaysia: an NARDL technique.

This study seeks to ascertain whether there is an unbalanced link  between CO emissions, foreign direct investment, and economic growth in Malaysia over a 40-year timeframe between 1980 and 2019. We investigated the asymmetric relationship , using  non-linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) technique. The findings showed a noteworthy asymmetry between FDI, CO emissions, and GDP in Malaysia.

Attitudes and practices related to smoking among university students in Thailand.

To investigate attitudes and practices toward smoking among university students and to identify associated factors. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1,299 students from five public universities in Thailand. Factor analysis and multiple regression were used for analysis.

Nowcasting India's Quarterly GDP Growth: A Factor-Augmented Time-Varying Coefficient Regression Model (FA-TVCRM).

Governments, central banks, private firms and others need high frequency information on the state of the economy for their decision making. However, a key indicator like GDP is only available quarterly and that too with a lag. Hence decision makers use high frequency daily, weekly or monthly information to project GDP growth in a given quarter.

Skin Prick Test in Educating Population of Rural Part of Eastern India and Promoting Health in Allergic Rhinitis: An Epidemiological Study.

Skin prick testing (SPT) is one of the most extensively used screening and diagnostic tool in contemporary allergy practice. It plays a vital role in diagnosis of type 1 hypersensitivity reaction in patients with rhinoconjunctivitis, asthma, urticaria, anapylaxis, atopic eczema and suspected food and drug allergy. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the pattern of allergenicity of aero-allergens and mites in the rural part of Eastern India using SPT.

India's Elusive Quest for Inclusive Development: An Employment Perspective.

This paper is an attempt to assess India's performance in generating the required quantity and quality of employment for its growing population since independence in 1947. But the exercise is set in a longer period that covers India's population growth since the turn of the twentieth century (1901) in relation to its ability to generate employment. The half-a-century preceding independence, despite a slow population growth, was a disaster in generating employment and any signs of structural change.

Gauging Class and Caste differences in Mortality: The Indian Experience.

This study is an exposition of class-caste based differences in mortality experience based on an indicator called household prevalence of death. It involves 75,432 death cases collected in National Family Health Survey-4, analysed using Relative Deprivation Index (RDI). We found, the prevalence of death found to be 11.

What lowered inflation in India: monetary policy or commodity prices?

India has seen lower inflation by historical standards for the past 6 years. This has been attributed to the adoption of inflation targeting by the central bank, the Reserve Bank of India in 2016. In particular, it has been asserted that the lower inflation reflects the anchoring of expectations.

The legacy of public action and gender-sensitivity of the pandemic response in Kerala State, India.

Kerala State, India has received global attention in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Its response effectively attended to the health pandemic and focussed on economic relief. This paper attempts to understand how gender-responsive Kerala's policies were.

Dynamic linkages between climatic variables and agriculture production in Malaysia: a generalized method of moments approach.

Climate change continues to pose a threat to the agricultural sectors worldwide, jeopardizing food and nutritional security, which is a critical component of the sustainable development agenda. Consequently, this study attempts to examine the impact of climatic variables (CO emissions, energy resources, rainfall, temperature, fossil fuel consumption, and humidity) on agricultural production of rice, cereals, vegetables, coffee, and agriculture value added (as a percentage of GDP) in the Malaysian context. To this end, this study applied a generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator on the data obtained from the metrological station Malaysia, Department of Statistics Malaysia and World Development Indicators (WDI) spanning the period 1985-2016.

The role of technological innovation and diffusion, energy consumption and financial development in affecting ecological footprint in BRICS: an empirical analysis.

Economic activities, technological innovation and diffusion, energy consumption and financial development have been significant in BRICS countries over the last three decades. Corresponding to it, BRICS have been facing substantial environmental deterioration. The growth of such factors needs a comprehensive analysis.

COVID-19 and Federalism in India: Capturing the Effects of State and Central Responses on Mobility.

Unlabelled: In response to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, governments resorted to containment and closure measures to reduce population mobility and ensure social distancing. Initially, India's state governments enacted varying social-distancing policies until the Central government overrode states to impose a nationwide lockdown on 24th March. This paper examines the relative impact of state- and central-level social-distancing policies on changes in mobility, comparing the periods before and after the national lockdown.

Treatment and rehabilitation of stroke patients in India: A gendered analysis based on repeated cross-sectional national sample surveys on health, 2014 and 2019.

We attempt a gendered inspection of sex differentials in care following stroke in India using data from two rounds of NSSO. While almost all men and women receive allopathic care, a higher percentage of women (51.8%) were treated in public hospitals compared to men (32.

jacksoni Population Crash and Impending Extinction due to Environmental Perturbation and Human-Wildlife Conflict.

The critically endangered Malayan tiger ( jacksoni), with an estimated population of less than 200 individuals left in isolated rainforest habitats in Malaysia, is in an intermediate population crash leading to extinction in the next decade. The population has decreased significantly by illegal poaching, environmental perturbation, roadkill, and being captured during human-wildlife conflicts. Forty-five or more individuals were extracted from the wild (four animals captured due to conflict, one death due to canine distemper, one roadkilled, and 39 poached) in the 12 years between 2008-2019.

Impact of COVID-19 infection on life expectancy, premature mortality, and DALY in Maharashtra, India.

Background: The COVID-19 infections and deaths have largely been uneven within and between countries. With 17% of the world's population, India has so far had 13% of global COVID-19 infections and 8.5% of deaths.

Intersection of class, caste, gender and unmet healthcare needs in India: Implications for health policy.

Despite renewed policy priorities to universalise health coverage, unmet need for healthcare is long-standing concern in India. The recent data suggests the unmet healthcare need amounts to a notable share of twelve per cent. While studies have examined inequalities in healthcare utilisation in single axes of social power, there was no consensus on the role of the intersectionality between class, caste and gender in shaping the unmet health need.

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Internal Labour Migration in India: A 'Crisis of Mobility'.

This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on migration. The rapid spread of the pandemic caught countries across the world off guard, resulting in widespread lockdowns that clamped down on mobility, commercial activities and social interactions. In India, the pandemic precipitated a severe 'crisis of mobility', with migrant labourers in many major cities seeking to return to their hometowns.