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Gender, Poverty And Development: Gender Sensitive Budgeting And Other 'Best Practices'
Dewan, Ritu - eSocialSciences - 2009
Development approach. No Concept of development, however, can be complete unless and until it incorporates the gender component at …
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Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - eSocialSciences - 2010
Historically, in virtually all developed economies there seems to be clear evidence of an inverse relationship between female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy...
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The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Nizalova, Olena - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care supply, this study employs instrumental variable technique to account for the fact that the wage rate is likely...
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Preliminary Evidence on Internal Migration, Remittances, and Teen Schooling in India
Mueller, Valerie; Shariff, Abusaleh - eSocialSciences - 2013
Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. The 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey is used to examine correlations between the receipt of remittances from internal migrants and human...
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Combining Data, Enhancing Explanation
Irwin, Sarah - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper the author analyzes the pros and cons of combining data from different sources to revisit some explanatory problems. The problems discussed have risen from a theoretical and analytic gap between people’s outlooks and values on the one hand, and their social circumstances on...
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Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2009 (Provisional)
Pratham, Pratham - eSocialSciences - 2010
The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
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Gender Responsive Budgeting: The Case of Kerala
Vijayan, Aleyamma; George, Mariamma Sanu - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper we make an attempt to understand and analyze the budget from a gender perspective. The paper looks into the … different areas of allocations, how far it is ‘pro woman’ budget or a ‘gender responsive’ budget and whether the budget …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002271
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Socio-Economic Characteristics of the Tall and not so Tall Women of India
Viswanathan, Brinda; Sharma, Viney - eSocialSciences - 2011
New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult women. [WOrking Paper No. 41]. URL:...
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Outcome Document of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding
UN, United Nations - eSocialSciences - 2011
The document enlists continued implementation of initiatives and prioritises initiatives to support all round youth development around the world. While stressing on sectoral and cross-sectoral youth policies, it calls on local, regional and national governments to create an environment where...
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A Study on Gender Based Violence in Kerala
SAKHI Women's Resource Centre SAKHI - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper presents gender-based violence and theories its causes and correlates; it then reviews global information on … the prevalence of gender-based violence against women and its health consequences. The national context on gender … coexistence of indicators of high status with a relatively high prevalence of gender-based violence. [URL …
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