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Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What and What Do We Lose?
Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2011
Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is...
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Three Conundrums in Measuring Poverty with a Changing Population
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2006
This note considers income distribution at two points in time where the population has also changed in some way, constructing three scenarios—population growth, population decline, and a constant population size that nevertheless churns around a constant income distribution to illustrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250111
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Supply Creates Demand for Schooling
Venkatanarayana, Motkuri - eSocialSciences - 2005
Supply factors, have a potential capacity to raise the demand for schooling. Socio-economic factors at the household level notwithstanding, it is the quality of education that raises the demand for schooling.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250187
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Progressive Social Change – Women’s Empowerment
Speight, Tim Braunholtz; Harper, Caroline; Jones, Nicola - eSocialSciences - 2009
is important not only for tackling the greater levels of deprivation and vulnerability that girls and women routinely …
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On the Random Distribution of Educational Deprivation of Children in India
Venkatnarayana, M. - eSocialSciences - 2007
development perspectives of development. Hence educational deprivation is recognized as the primary agent of human deprivation and … examining the levels and inequities associated with the phenomenon of educational deprivation of children during 1990’s in … information obtained in National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO). The persistence of educational deprivation among children in …
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On the Non-Random Distribution of Educational Deprivation of Children in India
Venkatanarayana, Mothuri - eSocialSciences - 2010
development perspectives of development. Hence educational deprivation is recognised as the primary agent of human deprivation and … examining the levels and inequities associated with the phenomenon of educational deprivation of children during 1990’s in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677783
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Applying an Equity Lens to Maternal Health Care Practices in Pakistan
Mahmood, Naushin; Bashir, Saima - eSocialSciences - 2012
in Pakistan. It examines the changes in the pattern of maternal health care practices and the extent to which inequities … in access to those services have changed over the past two decades. Using two datasets—the Pakistan Demographic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945229
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Market Power and Industrial Performance in Pakistan
Ullah, Akbar; Ghani, Ejaz; Javed, Attiya - eSocialSciences - 2013
Using a panel of eight Pakistani manufacturing industries, We have examined the changes in price-cost margin (gross profitability) during 1998-2009. In this study the traditional industrial organization approach of Structure-Performance has been applied to analyze the effects of concentration...
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Vital Stats: Parliament in the Monsoon Session 2013
Malik, Kusum; Kala, Mandira; Vaishnava, Saumya - eSocialSciences - 2013
files related to the allocation of coal blocks, border security issues with Pakistan and China, and the current economic …
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Federal Budget Pakistan: 2012-13
eSocialSciences; Minister of Finance Pakistan - 2013
Budget speech by Minister of Finance. [Ministry of Finance]. URL:[http://www.finance.gov.pk/budget/budget_Speech_12_13.pdf].
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