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Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World
Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2009
Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country governments. Letting domestic prices adjust to reflect the full change in international prices generates inflationary pressures and causes severe hardship for poor households lacking access to social safety nets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479134
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Girls, Educational Equity and Mother Tongue-based Teaching
Benson, Carol - eSocialSciences - 2007
One of the principal mechanisms through which inequality is reproduced is language, specifically the language used as the medium of instruction. The learner’s mother tongue holds the key to making schooling more inclusive for all disadvantaged groups, especially for girls and women.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699174
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The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
Mercier, Marion - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of their leadership. A database is constructed on the personal background of 932 politicians who were at the head of the executive power in a developing country over the 1960-2004 period. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133117
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Asian Economic Integration ASEAN+3+1 or ASEAN+1s?
Batra, Amita - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the most efficient approach to regional economic integration in Asia …. Given that ASEAN is an existing regional bloc in Asia, alternative approaches to the alignment of China, Japan, Korea and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008598647
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Prospects for Regional Cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean Region and the Asia and Pacific Region: Perspective from East Asia
Medalla, Erlinda M.; Balboa, Jenny D. - eSocialSciences - 2010
The Asia and Pacific region and Latin America and Caribbean region are two regions divided not only by vast geographic … cooperation between the Asia and Pacific region and Latin America and the Caribbean. It also provides some recommendations to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694245
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Proportion of Births Attended by a Skilled Health Worker 2008 Updates
eSocialSciences; World Health Organisation WHO - 2008
In our analysis, attempts have been made to quantify the proportion of births attended by health workers other than doctors, nurses and midwives in order to show the proportion of births conducted by such groups of providers. [Factsheet Department of Reproductive Health and Research].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699070
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Decline in Birth rate in Kerala
Nair, P R Gopinathan - eSocialSciences - 2010
underdeveloped countries of Asia and Latin America. The conventionally held point of view is that, whereas mortality rates can be and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752356
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Definitional and Statistical Issues Relating to Workers in Informal Employment
Bhalla, Sheila - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper based on Indian and international documents assesses existing definition, criteria and methodologies for estimating employment and income generated in the informal economy in India. [NCEUS WP NO 3].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025324
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The Chinese Aid System
Lancaster, Carol - eSocialSciences - 2009
Questions about Chinese aid—how large it is and how fast it is growing; how decisions are made on how much aid is provided each year; which countries receive it and how much they get; how the aid is managed within the Chinese government and how it is evaluated are explored. The Chinese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543133
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Restoring the Asian Silk Route: Toward an Integrated Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N; De, Prabir - eSocialSciences - 2009
Lack of full regional connectivity is one of the major constraints hindering regional growth and integration in Asia …, as well as with the rest of the world. One of the conclusions of this paper is that Asia must strengthen its physical … and transport integration issues among the countries in Asia as well as challenges that need to be addressed in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009914