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Inititaing Public Debate on Reforms in Higher Education
Pitroda, Sam - eSocialSciences - 2007
Idea on National Knowledge Commission, what it is and what are they trying to accomplish, ask for the audience support, understanding and also talk about the need for major reforms in University education. [Convocation Address at University of Mumbai].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170157
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Who Owns Children and Does It Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice; Tertilt, Michele - eSocialSciences - 2010
. If parents have no claim on their children’s income, then the private benefit from producing a child may be smaller … ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents to children. … need for government intervention are analysed. The friction which is investigated is related to the ownership of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543088
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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493864
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The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2008
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2009
A bill to provide for free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002697
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Welfare impacts of rural electrification : evidence from Vietnam
Barnes, Douglas F.; Nguyen Huu Minh; Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003917126
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A Profession on the Margins: Status Issues in Indian Nursing
Nair, Sreelekha; Healey, Madelaine - eSocialSciences - 2009
This joint paper attempts an unusual collaborative approach that offers an understanding of the problems that registered nurses of India have faced. Through this paper, the problem of ‘social status’ in both historical and contemporary landscapes, representing a relatively rare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512482
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Interactive Workshop on Qualitative Research: From Data Collection to Data Presentation
Venkatachalam, Yamini; Kanani, Shubhada; Maniar, Smita - eSocialSciences - 2007
Hands-on training in qualitative research in the context of health, nutrition and development. The training included all major steps in qualitative research: deciding objectives, designing tools, data collection, note taking and expansion of notes, data management, analysis, and report writing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699366
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School Exclusion as Social Exclusion: The Practices And Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programme for the Poor in Bangladesh
Hossain, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2009
rural poor into school. It documents how the objects of policy – rural poor children and parents - are ‘seen’ by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976650
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Workbook on Life Skills
eSocialSciences; Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of … - 2009
RGNIYD planned to develop a workbook on Life Skills which would help adolescents to both understand the concepts of the ten core Life Skills and practice them. The workbook has been carefully designed so that adolescents learn and internalise the concepts through an interactive methodology. Each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005003754
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Looking Beyond Universal Primary Education: Gender Differences in Time Use among Children in Rural Bangladesh
Chandrasekhar, S.; Amin, Sajeda - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper addresses gender equity in parents‘ educational investments in children in a context of rising school … on time-use patterns of school-going children and adolescents. We find that time spent in work varies inversely with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642452