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Background: The trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated very convincingly because of the absence …. Methods: We use five regression models to estimate the BMI trends of non-Hispanic US-born black and white children and … adolescents ages 2-19 between 1941 and 2004. Results: The increase in BMIZ values during the period considered was 1.3σ (95% CI: 1 …
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on the contribution of youth to national product. India at present suffers from remarkably high educated unemployment and … formation and unemployment among youth in India, focusing specially on educated unemployment. We find that current skill …/training situation of youth in India is inadequate. Surplus and shortage coexists in the labour market indicating serious mismatch …
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The present paper examines the changing nature of employment situation of rural youth in India by social group status …
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This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 … to a broader conclusion which was that all children in India suffered from sharper, but less publicised, forms of …-2 years of age, with a view to studying two aspects of the neglect of children: their likelihood of being immunised against …
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survivals to women and the chances of children being enrolled at school and, if enrolled, of continuing in school. The … school enrolment. Parental occupation matters for both infant survivals and schooling: children born to women who work as … with respect to demography and to schooling in India. These are: the numbers of pregnancies, live births and infant …
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This dissertation treats the topic of environmentally unfriendly consumption behaviour in relation to air pollution and the use of automobiles in Mexico City by analyzing three related aspects: i) relevant factors of driving patterns, ii) differences in the extent of pollution arising from...
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CSR activities as applicable under the new company law in India may be used as sustainability strategy by the business … critical stakeholders. This strategic framework propose sustainability model over triple bottom line by addressing holistic …
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The hypothesis is that Pareto and Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency have an aspect of sustainability in relation to inequality …
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We consider here optimal use patterns for renewable resources and address the problem of optimal use of renewable resources under a variety of assumptions both about the nature of the economy in which these resources are embedded and about the objective of that economy. Although we focus here on...
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sustainability of the policies pursued by states. In doing so, we start from clarifying and summarizing the main ideas on the … system sustainability. …
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