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mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children …Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a …'s school enrollment to a greater degree than education policy interventions. A succession of international meetings has …
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Pakistan is severely disadvantaged by its failure to achieve higher levels of human development. Low enrolment thirty … technology. Even today less than half of the school-age children are going to school. Some common but many of them disputed … perceptions about lower school-enrolment rate, at the household level are that the younger age children, younger in their brothers …
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This paper examines the empirical relationship between the quality of the Indian judiciary and the economic development … of the Indian States and Union Territories. It evaluates this causality by analysing the development of the state …, such as agricultural production, private sector development, capital formation, poverty rates, public security and …
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internal Socio-Economic development target units, Pumping money and strengthening the defense of the assisted nation only …
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This paper explores potential channels through which information technology (IT) affects economic development. The … produced, and in turn how that number may affect the development path of the economy. We then draw on our fieldwork in rural … India that examined the economics of rural Internet kiosks, and relate this multifaceted case study to the theoretical …
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offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India … scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We …In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are …
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level heterogeneity. Unlike most previous studies, the influence of parental health on children is examined. In addition … the health literature, no significant correlation between children’s health and per capita expenditures is found. This … most prices are not significant, the prices of food items that are mostly consumed by children are significantly and …
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children; particularly, siblings of the wife seem to compete with her children. The completion of primary education by both … spouses positively affects relative expenditures on children. Intergenerational effects, through education and wealth, are … to the estimated expenditures on children than with total household expenditure. This result on the one hand underscores …
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expenditure to revenue suggesting the preference of controlling the spending decisions to reduce the tax revenue-expenditure …
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Discusses the factors that influence long-term aged care demand and provides projections of future expenditure. Long …
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