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25 years. In India, today about 10 million people are pushed below the poverty line annually because of unaffordable … health care expenditure on hospitalization. About a third of the hospitalized patients either borrow money or sells assets to …
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Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through...
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Gender discrimination manifests itself as violence in the family, community, and society. It takes the forms of female foeticide, female infanticide, abuse of the girl child, social harassment, mental torture, physical violence, and cruelty affecting body and mind of women. The present study...
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risk and why there is an increasing discrimination against girls in India, it is particularly important to consider the …
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In this study attempt has been made to link the gender differences in parental resource allocation in demand for education at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education to gender differences in returns to education in these respective categories in Pakistan. The hypothesis was that if we...
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The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global cities. To capture the role of labour market in urban agglomeration, particularly pooling of labour and concentration of economic activities, the paper present a case study of...
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A review of development of school education in India reflects an expansionary phase of number of institutions and …
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Building upon a larger research project at four sites in the Western Ghats of peninsular India, this study examines the …
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The study looks at the relationship between indigenous people and their forest homes using a novel field field experiments approach. [Policy Brief No. 48-10]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/uploads/documents/publication/906_PUB_Policy_Brief_48_Rucha.pdf].
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dataset from India, analyzes the determinants of dietary diversity, which is measured using the Entropy Index. Heterogeneous …
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