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Rural Poverty and Agricultural Development in Tamil Nadu
Dhas, Albert Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Tamil Nadu is basically an agricultural economy. Agriculture is the backbone of the development of the Tamil Nadu … economy. The role of agriculture in shaping the economy could be reflected from the large proportion of population that … depends on agriculture for their livelihood and the significant contribution of agriculture to the state income. Due to its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113543
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Dependency insurance in Belgium
Karakaya, Güngör - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we analyze the system of long-term care insurance currently in place in Belgium or rather in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of the country), since the French and German-speaking parts have not yet such insurance. More precisely, we review the scope, benefits, financing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790437
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Dietary quality and tree cover in Africa
Ickowitz, Amy; Powell, Bronwen; Salim, Mohammad; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The relationship between forests and human nutrition is not yet well understood. A better understanding of this … relationship is vital at a time when the majority of new land for agriculture is being cleared from forests. We use Demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258726
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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums
Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220685
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Intrahousehold and interhousehold child nutrition inequality in Malawi
Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
health outcomes for household members. This paper investigates whether child nutrition inequalities are attributable to … method to estimate the between and within contributions of both the explained and unexplained variances of child nutrition …. Child nutrition is measured using height-for-age z-scores, and weight-for-height z-scores. The empirical analysis uses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322624
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Child Health and the Income Gradient: Evidence from Australia
Khanam, Rasheda; Nghiem, Hong Son; Connelly, Luke B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837071
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The Effects of the War in Iraq on Nutrition and Health: An Analysis Using Anthropometric Outcomes of Children
Guerrero Serdan, Gabriela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
paper also addresses the channels through which the conflict has affected health and nutrition. The results have not only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031398
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Le Statut Nutritionnel des Elèves de L'École Polytechnique
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Abstract: Examines the Physical Stature of The elite students attending the École Polytechnique military academy in the Early Nineteenth century. Concludes that their height was some 7 cm greater than that of average French youth their age.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005403930
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Nutrition and Economic Development in Post-Reconstruction South Carolina: an Anthropometric Approach
Komlos, John; Coclanis, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Examines the height of students who attended The Citadel, the military academy in Charleston in the late-19th and the first half of the 20th century. Shows a long stagnation in the biological standard of living in this part of the South until the 1910s, when it began to increase substantially.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005403931
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The Nutritional Status of French Students
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Examines the Physical Stature of The elite students attending the École Polytechnique military academy in the Early Nineteenth century. Concludes that their height was some 7 cm greater than that of average French youth their age.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005403933