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Aspirations, Segregation and Occupational Choice
Mookherjee, Dilip; Napel, Stefan; Ray, Debraj - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper examines steady states of an overlapping generations economy with a given distribution of household locations over a one-dimensional interval. Parents decide whether or not to educate their children. The model therefore combines local social interaction with global market interaction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341735
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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism
Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘limited’ by the financial status of the parent. [CDE WP 101].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341789
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The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF - eSocialSciences - 2012
The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of evidence and analysis, from UNICEF and partners, that scarcity and dispossession...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652074
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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, GOI 2012-13
Initiative, Accountability - eSocialSciences - 2012
This brief uses Government reported data to analyse Sarva Shiksha Ahiyan performance along the following parameters: a) Overall trends in allocation and expenditures, b) Expenditure performance across key SSA activities, c) Coverage and outputs. [AI Report]....
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Budget for Children (BfC) in the Union Budget 2012-13
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2012
What the Budget of India, 2012-13 has got for children? [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13_0.pdf].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535386
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Draft National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy
eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2012
focus on early learning, for every Indian child. [Ministry of Women and Child Development]. URL:[http://wcd.nic.in/]. [Send …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542221
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Book Review: Visualizing Children: Images and Imagination
Lerner, Loren - eSocialSciences - 2008
Review of Erika Langmuir Imagining Childhood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-10131-7.
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Performance Evaluation of Cooked Mid-Day Meal (CMDM)
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study covered 17 states and 48 districts. Two blocks from each district were selected. Five schools from each block was selected. A village where the sample school was located stood selected as sample village for canvassing the schedules. From each school/centre 10 beneficiary students (5...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321512
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The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2010
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2011
A bill further to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000. [Rajya Sabha passed this bill]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Juvenile%20Justice/juvenile%20justice%20Bill.pdf].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323732
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Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2011
The Optional Protocol (OP) on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict was ratified by … implementation of the OP to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict. The … nodal ministry, the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), has prepared the report in consultation with other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323751