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Understanding Inflation and Controlling It
Basu, Kaushik; Marks, C - eSocialSciences - 2011
Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will be a cardinal mistake. While inflation policy does require judgment and intuition, it is...
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Access and Utilisation of Health Care Services in Urban Low-income Settlements in Surat, India
Acharya, Akash - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper investigates a range of aspects including socio economic status,morality, morbidity requiring inpatient as well as outpatient care, health care-seeking behavior etc.
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Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2009 (Provisional)
Pratham, Pratham - eSocialSciences - 2010
The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
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Food Consumption and Nutritional Status in India: Emerging Trends and Perspectives
R, Radhakrishna - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper reviews the trends over three decades in the consumption of cereals, calories and micronutrients and nutritional status based on anthropometric measures using the data sets of NSS, NNMB and NFHS. It provides an explanation for the slow growth of nutrient intake and slow reduction in...
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - eSocialSciences - 2009
decisions are modelled and test has been done to predict model's predictions us- ing survey data from India. …
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Declining Child Sex Ratio: Addressing the Imperatives
Sen, Anwesha - eSocialSciences - 2011
A discussion about the declining sex ratio in India is given. The various reasons for declining sex ratio are outlined. …
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Child Mortality :Trends And Determinants-Comments
Klaauw, Bas van der - eSocialSciences - 2005
one point and draw out implications from it for actionable policies to reduce child mortality. The one point is: â …
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Socioeconomic Factors and All Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality among Older People in Latin America, India, and China: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Ferri, Cleusa P; Acosta, Daisy - eSocialSciences - 2012
Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reported, standardized mortality ratios … and economic factors. Compared with the US, mortality was much higher in urban India and rural China, much lower in Peru … comparing mortality experience with that in the United States, and estimated associations with socioeconomic factors using Coxâ …
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Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2010
Registrar General, India - eSocialSciences - 2012
The Sample Registration System (SRS) in India is the largest demographic survey in the world covering about 1.5 million … households and 7.3 million population. It has continued to be the main source of information on fertility and mortality …
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Perinatal and Neonatal Mortality in Rural Punjab A Community Based Case-Control Study
Joshi, Rohina - eSocialSciences - 2009
The study aimed at identifying social and biomedical risk factors attributable to perinatal and neonatal mortality (PN …
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