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Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...
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. From each school/centre 10 beneficiary students (5 boys and 5 girls) and their respective parents were selected. Further a …The study covered 17 states and 48 districts. Two blocks from each district were selected. Five schools from each block …
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these based on data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-1). [WP No. 167]. …
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girls aged six and under for every 1,000 boys or 75.8m girls and 82.9m boys. This sex ratio is the worst in the recorded …The result of 2011 census of India is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up; family size is … stabilizing. But there is one grim exception- India’s already skewed infant sex ratio is getting worse. India counted only 914 …
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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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attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a threshold level to define catastrophic health …
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and which tobacco products to consume analyzed. Household level data from National Sample Survey in India for the year …The consumption patterns, socio-economic distribution and the household choice of a variety of tobacco products across … rural and urban India are analyzed. Using a Multinomial Logit Model, the choice behavior of a household in deciding whether …
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The National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy reaffirms the commitment of the Government of India to …
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Girls and Girlhoods at the Threshold of Youth and Gender-A Vacha Initiative By Vibhuti Patel (ed.), The women Press …
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This brief uses Government reported data to analyse Sarva Shiksha Ahiyan performance along the following parameters: a …
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