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Governance and Health
Acharya, Shankar - eSocialSciences - 2007
As we celebrate 60 years of political independence and take pride in our dynamic private sector, our remarkable IT successes and all the other usual dimensions of success, let us remind ourselves that a great deal remains to be done to improve the foundations of India’s human resources...
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The Evolving Dynamics of Global Economic Power in the Post-crisis World: Revelations from a New Index of Government Economic Power
Basu, Kaushik; De, Supriyo; Ghosh, Rangeet; Shweta . - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s government in the international arena in as simple and parsimonious a manner as possible. For...
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The State of the World's Children 2009
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF - eSocialSciences - 2009
The State of the World’s Children 2009 focuses on maternal and neonatal health and identifies the interventions and actions that must be scaled up to save lives.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487730
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Values and Meanings of Citizenship
Kabeer, Naila - eSocialSciences - 2008
What does citizenship mean to poor and socially excluded people? How do their views help us understand and analyse what 'inclusive' citizenship means?
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Nutrition in India: Facts and Interpretations
Deaton, Angus; Drèze, Jean - eSocialSciences - 2010
The Indian economy has recently grown at historically unprecedented rates and is now one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Real GDP per head grew at 3.95 percent a year from 1980 to 2005, and at 5.4 percent a year from 2000 to 2005. Measured at international prices, real per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671982
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Mapping Exercise of Home Based Workers in Maharashtra
Gartenberg, Indira - eSocialSciences - 2012
Home-based work has a much wider scope of activity than the singular task of an individual working from his/her home. This essential service is tied in with a larger chain of forward and backward linkages that enable the value addition till the goods reach their final destination of sale. The...
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Interim Budget 2014-15
Chidambaram, P - eSocialSciences - 2014
Budget speech by 2014-15.
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Economic and Financial Outlook
Rajan, Raghuram G. - eSocialSciences - 2014
A picture about the macroeconomy that is, the world economy and the domestic economy is given. The two recent regulatory measures are given here. [FICCI/IBA Annual Banking Conference].
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Revisiting the Growth-Inflation Nexus: A Wavelet Analysis
Bhaduri, Saumitra N - eSocialSciences - 2013
Motivated by the concern that the recent surge in inflation could retard growth, the paper revisits the nexus between … inflation and growth from the perspective of an emerging economy, India. Examining this relationship using a wavelet multi … and inflation for a short time scale, while it is not significant for a longer time scale. …
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The Economic Cost of General Strikes in Nepal
Shrestha, Min Bahadur; Chaudhary, Shashi Kant - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper reviews the key aspects of general strikes and analyses the economic cost of such strikes in Nepal. Data analysis shows that average direct cost of general strikes stood at NRs. 1.8 billion per strike day and NRs. 27 billion per year at current prices during 2008-2013. [NRB Working...
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