"This paper examines the causes of the observed increase in the average duration of unemployment over the past thirty … institutional changes can only partially account for the longer duration of unemployment. We construct a job search model and … calibrate it to U.S. data. The results indicate that more than 70 percent of the increase in the duration of unemployment over …

health care expenditure on hospitalization. About a third of the hospitalized patients either borrow money or sells assets to … pay the hospital bill. This situation of spread of new diseases due to environmental or socio-cultural degradation and the …

order to elicit views from stakeholders who are mainly mothers, pregnant women and lactating mothers and children and the …

of children dependent on prostitutes in Uttar Pradesh. Thus, it is imperative to conduct a field survey in the state of … Uttar Pradesh to examine the social problem of trafficking and prostitution in children and women and status of children …

tuition, parents’ education, household and village characteristics are retained. In addition, this year ASER tests mothers … on their numeracy skills. For the first time, ASER 2010 introduces questions on critical thinking for children in Std. 5 …

upazilas were selected from adjacent programme areas to serve as control. The study included 2,800 mothers, 1,440 children with … of health workers in managing ARI cases in the community, and changing health-seeking behaviour of mothers for …

special reference to children living in diverse poverty situations. …