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The effects of kin on child mortality in rural Gambia
Sear, Rebecca; Steele, Fiona; McGregor, Ian A.; Mace, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
In this paper we analyse data that were collected continuously between 1950 and 1974 from a rural area of The Gambia to determine the effects of kin on child mortality. Multilevel event history models are used to demonstrate that having a living mother, maternal grandmother or elder sisters had...
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Cooperative environmental governance and waste-to-energy technologies in Asia
Forsyth, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
the Philippines and India, and especially the choice between the technologies of incineration, pyrolysis and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884601
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Tenancy in Palanpur
Tyagi, Ashish; Himanshu, Himanshu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
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Credit in rural India: a case study
Dreze, Jean; Lanjouw, Peter; Sharma, Naresh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997
studies of credit in rural India. …
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Investigating rationality in wage-setting
Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
This paper investigates the efficiency wage hypothesis and derives a tractable expression for the profit loss incurred by deviations from the efficiency wage. The extent of the wage deviation can be inferred from production function parameters. The resulting profit loss shown to depend upon the...
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Minority representation and policy choices: the significance of legislator identity
Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
law in India to test this prediction empirically. The principal finding is that minority representation has increased …
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Building deliberative public–private partnerships for waste management in Asia
Forsyth, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
–private partnerships in waste-to-energy projects in the Philippines and India to identify how principles of institutional design may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928805
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Non-farm diversification and rural poverty decline: a perspective from Indian sample survey and village study data
Himanshu, Himanshu; Lanjouw, Peter; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty … close study over a period of six decades. Sample survey data indicate that the non-farm sector in rural India has grown … in India as both particularly closely linked to rural non-farm development and recording particularly high rates of urban …
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Poverty, inequality and mobility in Palanpur: observations from Palanpur
Himanshu, Himanshu; Bakshi, Ishan; Dufour, Camille - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745146
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The auto-component supply chain in China and India: a benchmark study
Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
manufacturers in China and six in India; a range of general component suppliers in both countries, and on a detailed benchmarking …
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