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This paper examines data on urbanization. We review the most commonly used data sources, and highlight the difficulties inherent in defining and measuring the size of urban versus rural populations. We show that differences in the measurement of urban populations across countries and over time...
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production and trade and enhancing its human capital with emphasis on women.s empowerment. Family planning programmes that have … caused fertility to decline significantly are a hallmark of Tunisia.s development strategy. This paper reviews Tunisia …
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demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now … looks like Western Europe—below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and … increasing out-of-wedlock birthrates, characterize many countries formerly distinguished by replacement-level fertility and early …
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fragmented in India.s cities between the urban development authorities, which are state agencies, and the cities. To determine …
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We use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level. While there are significant gains (of about 0.3 years for...
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The paper discusses views on China and India as country role models. In so doing the article recounts the economic and …
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India addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and …
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that the primary conduit of policies that brought about significant growth in India was productivity that registered an … demand. In addition, we examine the effective tax rates in India and find that while investment taxes barely fluctuated …
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