Morning Briefing

"Young women in India are much better off than their mothers, but they fare much worse than their counterparts in many developing countries when it comes to the physical survival rate of women and participation in labor force, says a report by the World Bank ... titled 'Gender Equality and Development,'" Business Standard reports (10/13). The report "said that while life expectancy had increased in low- and middle-income countries by 20 years since 1960 ... almost 4 million women died too early in the developing world compared to rich countries," with almost one million of these excess deaths occurring in India, according to the Times of India (Dhawan, 10/13).