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on education attainment and some health measures. In addition, our results can rule out any negative effect on health. …
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Child labor is a phenomenon that has attracted a great amount of attention and research. Theoretical propositions suggest that child labor is inefficient if it adversely affects future earning ability. This paper contributes to the literature on the effects of child market work on human capital...
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) can realise substantial health benefits not only for the company, but also for its public sector partners and communities … health care in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The extractive industries in PNG are already actively involved in health service … delivery and improving health conditions in the area within which they operate. With the prospect of major economic growth in …
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This paper offers a fresh insight into the performance and reform opportunities of the formal health system of Papua … health system in PNG is not capitalizing on potentially positive incentives and motivations inherent in the broad range of … non-formal institutions that frame the PNG health system. The paper suggests that an enhanced understanding of these non …
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dietary awareness, the health outcomes may well be grim. …
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India. Micro-level National Family Health Survey (NFHS-III) data for the year 2005-06 has been used in the study. We employ …This paper examines the effect of domestic violence on the health of ever-married women of reproductive age group in … disease, body mass index, under nutrition level and anemia as the measures of health and physical, emotional and sexual forms …
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In this paper, the trend and determinants of health and poverty among the elderly in rural India is analysed. Two … of the key determinants of health among elderly in rural India. …-96 and 2004 while increased proportion of elderly with poor health status is continued. Results suggest that poverty is one …
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Derived from livelihoods surveys and ethnographic material about people living on the chars, or river islands, in deltaic lower Bengal, this paper illustrates the complex, diverse and ingenious ways that the poor manage money. These islands constitute some of the most vulnerable locations...
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such volatility for India. It provides results on the determinants of inflation volatility and expected inflation …
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threatened. India's national rural employment guarantee scheme's (NREG) institutional design (mandating village assemblies to …
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