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Revival of Rural PDS: Expansion and Outreach
Rahman, Andaleeb - eSocialSciences - 2014
Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's public distribution system (PDS) in the rural areas. The results suggest a significant improvement in the performance of PDS in terms of its outreach and offtake. States like Bihar and Jharkhand...
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Andhra Pradesh Budget Speech 2009-10
Pradesh, Government Andhra - eSocialSciences - 2009
Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
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Do School get Their Money? PAISA 2012
Initiative, Accountability - eSocialSciences - 2013
The PAISA exercise uses planning and budgeting systems as the entry point, it is an attempt to build an empirical understanding of current governance processes at the grassroots to push for a larger debate on state capacity and administrative capability for building an education delivery...
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Food Prices and Child Nutrition in Andhra Pradesh
Galab, S.; Reddy, P. Prudhvikar - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper makes an attempt to assess the impact of food price rise on the nutritional status of children of five year … old. Young lives panel data provides the nutritional status of the children when they were one year old and when they have … grown five year old. This provides an opportunity to use the nutritional status of children when they were one year old as a …
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Child Work and Schooling in Rural North India: What do Time Use Data Say about Tradeoffs and Drivers of Human Capital Investment?
Narayanan, Sudha; Dhanraj, Sowmya - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study examines time use data for 1244 children in the age-group 6-12 years in 274 villages in eight states in …
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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda - eSocialSciences - 2012
. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, it is shown that a majority of students spend years of …, rather than the standard (if implicit) assumption that all children learn the same from the same instruction. [CGD Working …
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Primary School Teachers: The Twists and Turns of Everyday Practice
Ramachandran, Vimala; Bhattacharjea, Suman; Sheshagiri, K M - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper examines the role played by of classroom environment in the development of a teacher. The paper studies the concept of 'teacher development' in India. URL:[http://www.eruindia.org/files/Teacher%20booklet%20edited%20final%2028%20Oct%2008.pdf].
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Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2011
The Optional Protocol (OP) to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on the Sale of Children, Child …), the Government of India (GoI), in consultation with concerned Ministries and agencies working for children in India …
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A Report of Fact Finding Team on Children Rescued from Zari Industry, Delhi and Restored in Their Families in Various Districts in Bihar
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2009
Committee, Nirmal Chhaya, Delhi, to follow-up on the children rescued from the Zari industry in June 2005 and January 2006 by … adopt for procuring children from the source area and their proximity to the vulnerable families in order to assess the … possibilities and threats of children being re-trafficked. The ability of the traffickers to constantly lure young children in the …
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Aims of Education
eSocialSciences; National Council of Educational … - 2009
The paper tries to understand what are the aims of education.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000238