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This article outlines work in progress on a study of technological choice in the context of North-South development …
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The object of the paper is to place the present issues of world poverty, development, demographic change into proper …
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geographical area, but supports, 8 % of its population. The state is characterized as most backward state of India. In Bihar there … remained almost constant up to 2005-2006. There has not been any significant influence of the agricultural development and … and launching of various development programmes, including MNREGA, occupational profile of rural households has changed …
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under cultivation. Despite the abundance of industrial production, rural population has not benefited and majority are … observed that lack of employment opportunity might have caused the poverty in the state because only one-third population is …
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Ethnic diversity and provision of public goods have long been understood to share a negative relationship. While there has been a concerted effort to define and measure ethnic diversity around the world, we are interested in analyzing the possible differences in these measures when it comes to...
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More than half of the HIV/AIDS-infected population today are women. We study a dynamic model of (in)fidelity, which …
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investment in human capital. In the model, the aggregate production function exhibits increasing returns to population arising … generates a demographic transition but, since households do not internalize the positive effects of a larger population on …
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population age structure as a catalyst for and reflection of a host of changes in societies that can affect governance and …
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Purpose – The objective of this paper is to understand better the determinants of child labour and schooling in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses data from a survey based in rural Bangladesh and considers the children aged 5-17 years living in rural households in...
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This paper explores the role of two important food sources, potatoes and milk, in explaining the large population … of the potato from the New World has a significant explanatory role for within country population and urbanization growth … population and urbanization growth is positively related to milk consumption. As the frequency of milk consumption approaches …
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