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Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban
Bansode, Prashant - eSocialSciences - 2013
Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act of 1986. Using data from employment surveys conducted before and after the ban, and … using age restrictions that determined who the ban applied to, we show that child wages decrease and child labor increases … after the ban. [BREAD Working Paper No. 402]. …
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WRR: Special Focus on Restoring the Flow
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
The June issue of World Rivers Review is overflowing with ideas on on how to maintain healthy flows in rivers, for their health and our own. If a river's flow is its heartbeat, then we humans have become the heart disease of the world's rivers. The articles in this issue look at three ways to...
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The Primacy of Public Health Considerations in Defining Poor Quality Medicines
Newton, Paul N; Amin, Abdinasir A - eSocialSciences - 2012
Poor quality essential medicines, both substandard and counterfeit, are serious but neglected public health problems. Anti-infective medicines are particularly afflicted. Unfortunately, attempts to improve medicine quality have been hampered by confusion and controversy over definitions. For...
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Revisiting the ARI Programme of BRAC: How Well are We Doing?
Islam, Qazi Shafayetul; Ahmed, Syed Masud; Khan, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
The ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection) control programme of BRAC has been in operation for the last few years. No independent evaluation has so far been conducted to explore how far the objectives of the programme have been achieved in terms of raising awareness among the health workers and...
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Declining Child Sex Ratio: Addressing the Imperatives
Sen, Anwesha - eSocialSciences - 2011
A discussion about the declining sex ratio in India is given. The various reasons for declining sex ratio are outlined.
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Global Trends in AIDS Mortality
Bongaarts, John; Pelletier, François; Gerland, Patrick - eSocialSciences - 2010
of AIDS mortality indicators, including numbers of AIDS deaths, the proportion of all deaths that are due to AIDS, and …
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The Syrian Christians of Kerala: Demographic and Socioeconomic Transition in the Twentieth Century
Zachariah, K.C. - eSocialSciences - 2010
comprising fertility, mortality, and migration. [Working Paper No. 322] …
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Child Mortality: Beyond Pattrns And Detrminants To Politics And Institutions
Das, Maitreyi Bordia - eSocialSciences - 2005
Comments on Deolikar's paper: Deolalikar’s paper provides the empirical basis for policy makers to trust their knowledge and provide additional resources (mot merely in monetary terms) to the most vulnerable districts, even if criticized for leaving out the better performing ones.
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What Information Do We Need To Reduce Child Mortality In India? Comments On Deolikar's Paper
Cropper, Maureen L. - eSocialSciences - 2005
While family surveys are excellent for elucidating patterns of infant and child mortality and thus targeting … interventions, they are not the best source of information on the effectiveness of interventions to reduce mortality. Indeed, simple …
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Child Mortality :Trends And Determinants-Comments
Klaauw, Bas van der - eSocialSciences - 2005
one point and draw out implications from it for actionable policies to reduce child mortality. The one point is: â …
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