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Frontier Issues on the Global Agenda- Emerging Economy Perspective
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2011
The article is a report of RBI Minister Duvvuri Subbarao on issuesing concerning the G-20 countries and also issues effecting all the countries collectively.
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Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction: A State-wise Assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit. K. - eSocialSciences - 2009
scheduled commercial banks and the changes in below poverty line population. The result suggests that the growth in bank … accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. As a poverty …
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Assessing the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Poverty
McKay, Andrew - eSocialSciences - 2009
Fiscal policy measures are a key means by which governments can influence distribution and poverty, but in fact the … relationships between fiscal policy and poverty are not well understood. The most commonly used technique for assessing the … to more effective monitoring of the poverty impact of fiscal policy. [Discussion Paper No. 2002/43]. …
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Crimes of Habit: A Report on Custodial Torture in Vijay Vihar Police Station
Rights, PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic - eSocialSciences - 2014
This investigation report unfolds the custodial torture which some boys had to undergo in a police station in outer Delhi.
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The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF - eSocialSciences - 2012
The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of evidence and analysis, from UNICEF and partners, that scarcity and dispossession...
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Budget for Children (BfC) in the Union Budget 2012-13
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2012
What the Budget of India, 2012-13 has got for children? [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13_0.pdf].
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Human Rights in Malaysia: Challenges and Constraints in the Malaysian Context
Abdullah, Mohammad Hirman Ritom - eSocialSciences - 2012
The paper discusses some of the main human rights areas of concern within Malaysia, over the years. [Working Paper Series No. 12]. URL:[http://www.ieas.unimas.my/images/stories/hirmanritom.pdf].
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Integrating Urban Datasets: The Path to Effective Socio-Economic Planning in Urban Pakistan
Khan, Sohaib; Aslam, Amal; Zubair, Maria; Rehan, Ali - eSocialSciences - 2012
Effective urban policy making and implementation in Pakistan is impeded by the problem of integrating data containing incompatible spatial references. There is great heterogeneity across spatial units being used by different urban government departments for data collection and reporting in...
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Supporting Youth at Risk: A Policy Toolkit for Middle-Income Countries
Cunningham, Wendy; Cohan, Lorena M.; Naudeau, Sophie; … - eSocialSciences; World Bank - 2009
) early school leaving; iii) risky sexual behavior leading to early childbearing and HIV/AIDS; iv) crime and violence; v …
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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2...
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