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Globalization is a deliberate decision to open up a national economy to the forces of product, factor and money markets … regime and went in for globalization in the early 1990’s. However, globalization of the Indian Economy has been defensive … in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural …
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Bank and other agencies. By contrast, nutrition began to improve only in the 1990s and remains high. The Bangladesh … Integrated Nutrition Program (BINP) has played a small role, if any, in this progress, which is mainly attributable to higher …
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The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. Casual labourers are those workers who work for a very short duration (for a few hours, a day or at most a few days under...
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A central prediction of the quasi-hyperbolic model of time preference is that consumers will be impatient over short-run tradeoffs. I present the first nonlaboratory test of this implication using data on the nutritional intake of food stamp recipients. Caloric intake declines by 10 to 15...
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The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. A large section of the unskilled labourers work as casual workers. Casual labourers are those workers who work for a very...
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This study analyzes social, ethnic and regional determinants of child malnutrition, as well as the effects of access to health services in the Andean Region, through a comparison between Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. These three countries share a profile with high stunting prevalence and strong...
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Economic growth continues to be a major objective of state governments in Mexico. What role do firm location, openness … importantes para los gobiernos estatales en México. ¿Cuál es el papel de la localización de las empresas, la apertura, la … examina la competitividad de los estados en México mediante el uso de índices de localización. El estudio trata de cerrar la …
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Es elevada la dependencia entre la industria maquiladora de exportación de México y el desempeño de la economía de … of Mexico and the United States with special reference to the manufacturing sector. The authors examine the dependency … between the assembly plant industry for export in Mexico and the performance of the economy of the United States. The authors …
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convergencia regional en México y aborda los fundamentos teóricos y empíricos en el cual las instituciones juegan un papel … importante en el proceso de integración regional en México y en especial en la frontera norte. Finalmente, se realiza un análisis … empírico de la convergencia regional de largo plazo para los estados de México, introduciendo una variable de corrupción dentro …
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