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locations over a one-dimensional interval. Parents decide whether or not to educate their children. The model therefore combines …
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This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
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Higher income households likely spend less per person on whole and canned milk than do lower income households, but … on dairy purchases. For example, a 10-percent increase in income generates a 1.3-percent decline in fresh whole milk …
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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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Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological indicators of climate variability, based on the standardized...
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of labor allocation and their sources of income as well as the structure of employment. It also makes use of labor market … sources of income as well as the structure of employment. It also makes use of labor market indicators to trace the labor …
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safety in food. Food expenditures grow faster than quantities purchased as income rises, suggesting that consumers with … income elasticity of demand for quantity of most foods is near zero. China’s food market is becoming segmented. The demand … for quality by high-income households has fueled recent growth in modern food retail and sales of premium-priced food and …
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The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic farming practices leads to better health. As a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of organic and conventional rice-farming households in North and Northeast Thailand is done. Using...
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Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
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Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner
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