India ranks 135th in the world in under-five mortality rate (United Nations Human Development Programme, 2013), 128th in maternal mortality ratio (The World Bank, 2019), and 123rd in physician density...
I have been thinking for some time about the effectiveness of human rights, particularly through the business and human rights approach and network to which I belong.
The HIV epidemic prompted a remarkable people’s movement where patient consumers demanded better care rather than submit to the discrimination and apathy of the state.
The challenge is structural and goes down to the foundational belief of the current paradigm that linear infrastructure is one of the key drivers of development and economic growth.