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Gender-based Indicators in Human Development: Correcting for ‘Missing Women’
Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle - eSocialSciences - 2008
Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528100
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Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War
Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper examines the effect of U.S. food aid on conflict in recipient countries (these include Asian countries like Afghanistan, Sri Lanka). To establish a causal relationship, time variation in food aid is exploited which is caused by fluctuations in U.S. wheat production together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493964
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What Explains the Productivity Decline in Manufacturing in the Nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026233
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Gendering Human Development Indices: Recasting the Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure of India
eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2009
Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) developed by UNDP need to be recast to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496179
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The Concept and Measurement of Group Inequality
Chakraborty, Achin - eSocialSciences - 2010
tradition of measurement of inequality that follows from this conceptualisation have not paid adequate attention to the need for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671998
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The Debate on the Poverty Estimates of 1999–2000
Datta, K.L. - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper compares the latest estimates of poverty (1999–2000) made by the Planning Commission with earlier … (2003) in this regard. The paper traces the comparable poverty estimates for the 1980s and 1990s in their levels and change … and uses the extent of poverty reduction implicit in these estimates to assess the magnitude of poverty reduction in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511373
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VIllage Economics and the Structure of Extended Family Networks
Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Rangel, Marcos A; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512432
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Globalisation Produces Good Outcomes, Enhance Them: Prof Bhagwati
Bhagwati, Jagdish - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper talks of good outcomes of Globalisation which needs to be further inproved wherein Institutional response mechanisms should be designed to address any problems that may arise in specific areas, complimentary policies should be used to enhance the good effects and more caution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512456
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Migration and Urban Poverty in India Some Preliminary Observations
Mishra, Udaya S.; Joe, William; Samaiyar, Priyajit - eSocialSciences - 2009
individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on …-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512465
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Poverty Dynamics in Rural Sindh, Pakistan
Lohano, Hari Ram - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512466