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School Libraries and Language Skills in Indian Primary Schools: A Randomized Evaluation of the Akshara Library Program
Borkum, Evan; He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L. - eSocialSciences - 2012
A randomized evaluation of a school library program on children’s language skills is conducted. The program had little impact on students’ scores on a language test administered 16 months after implementation. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than...
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Preliminary Evidence on Internal Migration, Remittances, and Teen Schooling in India
Mueller, Valerie; Shariff, Abusaleh - eSocialSciences - 2013
countries. The 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey is used to examine correlations between the receipt of …
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Measures, Spatial Profile and Determinants of Dietary Diversity: Evidence from India
Das, Mousumi - eSocialSciences - 2014
dataset from India, analyzes the determinants of dietary diversity, which is measured using the Entropy Index. Heterogeneous …
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Rural Migration, Weather and Agriculture: Evidence from Indian Census Data
Viswanathan, Brinda; Kumar, K S Kavi - eSocialSciences - 2013
in India at state and district level using Indian Census data.[MSE]. …
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Quality Healthcare and Health Insurance Retention: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Kolkata Slums
Delavallade, Clara - eSocialSciences - 2014
poor. Using data from a field experiment in India, the impact of high-quality care experiences in the form of a free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945327
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Address by the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee to Parliament
Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2013
Reviving economic growth is the priority of the government. [http://presidentofindia.nic.in/sp210213.html].
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Foreign Investment in Farmland No Low-hanging Fruit
Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2012
A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led to increasing arable land, and when land has been limited by nature or wars, food shortages...
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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
Jayachandran, Seema - eSocialSciences - 2014
Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through...
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Doha Declaration and Compulsory License for Access to Medicines
N, Lalitha - eSocialSciences - 2009
The Doha Declaration provides for access to medicines particularly by simplifying the compulsory licensing (CL) clause. This paper tries to provide a comprehensive review of the working of CL in the developed and developing countries with some useful case studies. [GIDR WP No. 184].
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R&D for Development of New Drugs for Neglected Diseases How Can India Contribte?
Chaudhuri, Sudip - eSocialSciences - 2009
The focus of this paper is India. In line with TRIPS India has introduced a product patent regime in pharmaceuticals … new drugs more suited to the needs of India and other developing countries? Can the innovation capabilities be utilized … for developing new drugs for neglected diseases? Can India contribte to lowering the cost of new drug development and make …
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