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Productive Employment and Empowering Education: An Agenda for India’s Youth
Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
extent, technology. This paper argues that India’s demographic dividend with 65 per cent of the population in aged 15-24 in … 2012 is ideally suited to embark on a path of sustained high rate of economic growth for the foreseeable future if India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170336
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Determinants of Employment in India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, Manoj K. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
Using household level data this paper provides systematic evidence on the employment impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in three Indian states: Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. We model this as a two stage Heckman procedure where we model selection for NREGS in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466137
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Child Poverty and Compulsory Elementary Education in India: Policy Insights from Household Data Analysis
Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
analysis. The paper uses household level data for 2004–05 (NSS 61st Round) and 1993–94 (NSS 50th Round) for India and also … demographic transition in India (particularly the movement in Total Fertility Rates across Indian states) during 1961 … poverty status at the all-India and the state levels are reported and commented upon. Changes in magnitudes & proportions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861943
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Micronutrient Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Trap in Rural India
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Sharma, Anurag - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2006
workers separately. We use household level national data for rural India for the period January to June 1994 and robust sample … micronutrient deficiency is pervasive and has a significant impact on labour productivity of agricultural workers in rural India. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106827
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On Modelling Variety in Consumption Expenditure on Food
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Sharma, Anurag - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2006
micro nutrients (calcium, thiamine, riboflavin, calcium and iron) using an all India sample of rural households for 1994. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030312
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On Modelling Variety in Consumption Expenditure on Food
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Sharma, Anurag - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2006
micro nutrients (calcium, thiamine, riboflavin, calcium and iron) using an all India sample of rural households for 1994. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005115677
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An Optimal Surveillance Measure Against Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the United States
Kompas, Tom; Che, Tuong Nhu; Ha, Pham Van - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2006
Surveillance programs on farms and in the local environment provide an essential protection against the importation and spread of exotic diseases. Combined with border quarantine measures, these programs protect both consumers and producers from major health concerns and disease incursions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005041953
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CONTRASTING GIANTS: DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN CHINA AND INDIA
Golley, Jane; Tyers, Rod - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
The timing of China‘s and India‘s demographic transitions and the implications of alternative fertility scenarios are … be offset by rising aged dependency until beyond 2030. India‘s dependency ratio declines more sharply. Its higher initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186026
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Gender 'Rebalancing' in China: A Global-Level Analysis
Golley, Jane; Tyers, Rod - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
The rise in China's sex ratio at birth during the last two decades has had a wide range of economic and social consequences including excessive savings as families with boys compete to match their sons with scarce girls and rising disaffection and crime amongst the unmarried male population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201598
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Demographic Dividends, Dependencies and Economic Growth in China and India
Golley, Jane; Tyers, Rod - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
another decade, if not longer. In contrast with China, much of India's potential demographic dividend lies in waiting for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201639