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Challenges and Opportunities in a Trillion Dollar Economy

C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011

The Indian economy reached the trillion US dollar GDP milestone in 2007 and joined other countries of the trillion dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil and Russia. In fact, over the period 1960 to the late 1980s, Indiaâ€™s GDP in US...

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Snakes, Ladders and Traps: Changing Lives and Livelihoods in Rural Bangladesh (1994-2001)

Kabeer, Naila - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some households have gained, while others have failed to gain, in the processes of change involved. The analysis is...

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Socioeconomic Factors and All Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality among Older People in Latin America, India, and China: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Ferri, Cleusa P; Acosta, Daisy - eSocialSciences - 2012

Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reported, standardized mortality ratios … comparing mortality experience with that in the United States, and estimated associations with socioeconomic factors using Coxâ …€™s proportional hazards regression. Cause-specific mortality fractions were estimated using the InterVA algorithm. Crude mortality …

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Revisiting the ARI Programme of BRAC: How Well are We Doing?

Islam, Qazi Shafayetul; Ahmed, Syed Masud; Khan, … - eSocialSciences - 2011

The ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection) control programme of BRAC has been in operation for the last few years. No independent evaluation has so far been conducted to explore how far the objectives of the programme have been achieved in terms of raising awareness among the health workers and...

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Government wage policy formulation in developing countries : seven country studies

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Social security for the excluded majority : case studies of developing countries

Ginneken, Wouter van (ed.) - 1999 - 1. publ.

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Recent Employment Situation and Labor Market Developments in Bangladesh

Rahman, Md. Habibur; Younus, Sayera; Hossain, Md. Sakhawat - eSocialSciences - 2011

This note examines recent trends in the labor market and employment situation in Bangladesh and draws some policy implications keeping the poverty reduction imperatives in view. [BB PP No. 0807]. URL:[http://www.bangladesh-bank.org/openpdf.php].

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ASEAN Auto Market Growing in the Shadow of China and India

Heymann, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2011

The automobile industry in the ASEAN countries has expanded rapidly over the last few years. The growth potential of the ASEAN auto market and its now very major absolute importance for the industry warrant a more detailed analysis. In the following report depicts which opportunities the ASEAN...

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More and Better Jobs in South Asia

Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012

This report investigates how more and better jobs can be created in South Asia. It does so for two reasons. First, this region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the worldâ€™s working-age (15â€“64) population over the next several decades. It is important to determine...

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Employment Promoting Growth in Bangladesh: Monetary and Financial Sector Issues

Mujeri, Mustafa. K. - eSocialSciences - 2009

Although economic growth has improved in recent years in Bangladesh, the better economic performance has not translated into satisfactory poverty reduction. The type of growth that matters Bangladesh is the one that creates employment opportunities especially for the poor. In Bangladesh,...

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