Articles by Sakti Padhi

Infant/child mortality is not a simple function of the level of economic development, pace of economic growth or material prosperity. Proximate conditions having a direct bearing on infant and child mortality are such that they cannot be influenced through increases in income and purchasing power alone and are outside the market domain. The National Family Health Survey provides rich and variegated data which are useful for studying the early mortality in Orissa and provide a solid empirical foundation for further probing of certain questions such as accessibility and quality of a whole range of public goods and services which have a direct bearing on premature mortality.

in Agriculture Some General Implications in Indian Context Sakti Padhi On the basis of a discussion of the contrasts and convergences in the nature of social property systems, mode of organisation of production, etc, for a set of cases of western countries, this article attempts to identify the general principles underlying the emergence of full-fledged capitalist agriculture, some of which stem from the specific characteristics of agriculture.