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The Iban Population of Sarawak: 1947-2000
Kheung, Lam Chee - eSocialSciences - 2012
The paper gives an analysis and description of the quantity and quality of the Iban population of Sarawak. The information about the pattern and trends of change of the population over time is also shown here. [Working paper series no. 13]....
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Fertility Decline and Missing Women
Jayachandran, Seema - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex ratio. Standard survey questions … on fertility preferences ask the respondent her desired number of children of each sex, but people who want larger … families have systematically stronger son preference, which generates bias. This paper instead elicits desired sex composition …
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State of Literacy among Adolescents and Youth Population
Samal, A.K. - eSocialSciences - 2014
Gives an overall view about the literacy rates of youth and adolescents in India.
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Can these Policies Change their Life?
Sen, Anwesha - eSocialSciences - 2011
Women who come into the stream of domestic workers are poorly educated and do not know their rights. It is necessary that these women know about their rights. Even after reading the policies some questions remain: can these policies change their lives? Will they be able to lead a decent life?
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Quietly They Die: A Study of Malnourishment Related Deaths in Mumbai City
Hatekar, Neeraj; Rode, Sanjay - eSocialSciences - 2010
The attention of the media and planners has been focussed almost exclusively on rural and tribal malnutrition. However, malnutrition among urban children, particularly the economically vulnerable slum population has been almost entirely neglected, with the exception of a very few studies. A...
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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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Book Review: Are Women Really Empowered?
Thakkar, Usha - eSocialSciences - 2009
Book Review Discourse on Women and Empowerment, Vibhuti Patel (Ed), (Empowering Women Worldwide Series: 4), The Women Press, Delhi, 2009.
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Child Labour in Kerala's Coir Industry-Study of Few Selected Villages
Gulati, Leela - eSocialSciences - 2008
The objective of this study is to report on the extent and nature of involvement of children in the coir industry. For this purpose, it was decided to study only those operations of the industry in which children were found to be involded in significant numbers on tlie basis of actual...
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Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
Wang, Shing-Yi - eSocialSciences - 2012
within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
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Towards A Competitive Economy: VAT and Customs Duty Reform
Virmani, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper the issue of indirect tax reform, with a special focus on customs duty reform is examined. [WP]
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