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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions
McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel; Glassman, Amanda - eSocialSciences - 2012
Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to …
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The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries
Wheeler, David; Hammer, Dan - eSocialSciences - 2010
family planning and female education will suffer from financing deficits that will leave millions of women unserved in the …Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded … coming decades. Since both activities affect fertility, population growth, and carbon emissions, they may also provide …
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India’s Population: Past, Present and Future
Dyson, Tim - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper presents a lecture delivered by the author under The Pravin Visaria Public Lecture in GIDR. India has made considerable demographic progress since 1947; however it seems that the country’s population will reach about 1.4 billion by the year 2026. In case of mortality, despite major...
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - eSocialSciences - 2007
framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170185
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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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The Socio-Economic Determinants Behind Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality
Innovation, Indian Trust for; ITISC, Social Change - eSocialSciences - 2009
A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and Maternal Mortality Rate.
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Women’s Economic Empowerment as the “Magic Potion†of Development?
Blumberg, Rae Lesser - eSocialSciences - 2008
Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion.†[Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of...
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Applying an Equity Lens to Maternal Health Care Practices in Pakistan
Mahmood, Naushin; Bashir, Saima - eSocialSciences - 2012
The focus of this study is to see how equitable the access and utilisation of health services are among married women … of health care among married women beginning in the urban areas and more recently spreading to rural areas. Among the … level of women improves utilisation of maternal health care services. The inequity pattern disfavouring the poor and the …
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Draft National Sports Development Bill, 2013
Youth, Ministry of; YAS, Sports Affairs - eSocialSciences - 2013
practices in sports (including elimination of doping practices, fraud of age and sexual harassment of women in sports …
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Saksham: Measures for Ensuring the Safety of Women and Programmes for Gender Sensitization on Campuses
eSocialSciences - 2014
As institutions of higher education engaged in teaching, research and the spread of knowledge, (Higher Educational …
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