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Money for Education, Health, Child Protection not enough for 400 million children’s basic rights …
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, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2 extra months of schooling. The Vietnamese horoscope being gender …
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The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. [IZA Discussion Paper No. 115].
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The focus of this study is to analyze the pattern and costs of services in four areas, which critically affect most households in Kerala . The major concerns of this paper include answers to questions such as: How much did Kerala households spend for education of their children, for treatment of...
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A new framework for understanding migration as a series of phases, defining categories of people affected by migration …
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Return migration and health has received little attention in policy and research. This article will focus on the risk … factors and social determinants of health during all phases of migration that can impact the health of returnees. It will … highlight the diversity of returning migrants and illustrate through examples how return migration can influence the health of …
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It lays out a migratory process framework that highlights the multistaged and cumulative nature of the health risks and … intervention opportunities that can occur throughout the migration process, and points to the potential benefits of policymaking …
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Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these … higher rate after the incentive is removed. The migration rate is 10 percentage points higher in treatment areas a year later … heterogeneity in take-up and re-migration, and by conducting a new experiment with a migration insurance treatment. Several pieces …
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This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of their leadership. A … results are confirmed by various robustness tests. They propose a new channel through which migration may affect politics in …
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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...
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