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Social Security Nets for Marine Fisheries
Paul, Antonyto; Kurien, John - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper attempts to explain the provision of social security in the fisheries sector of Kerala State in south India. It enumerates the salient achievements and the problems faced by the state in providing concrete social security measures for fishworkers. They were a section of Kerala society...
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Highlights of the Budget for FY2012: Japan
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance, Japan MOF, Japan - 2012
1) Allocating budget to the measure for the real revitalization of Japan to recover Japan’s economy and society 2) Reviewing the existing budget based on the result of evaluation by the Policy Proposing Type Screening 3) Reducing public sector’s waste thoroughly 4) Following the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133218
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India's Public Distribution System: A National and International Perspective
Radhakrishna, R.; Subbarao, K.; Indrakant, S.; Ravi, C. - eSocialSciences - 2014
lessons from various approaches to targeting and design of programs. …
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Impact of Reservations of Panchayat Pradhans on Targeting in West Bengal
Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip; Torrado, Monica Parra - eSocialSciences - 2006
examine effects on targeting to poor and SC/ST households of IRDP credit, agricultural extension programs, employment programs …, and budgetary policies. The reservations were associated with improved targeting of the IRDP program, but poorer targeting … employment programs, the net effect of the reservations appears to have worsened targeting to SC/ST and landless households. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487665
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Pro-Poor Targeting and Accountability of Local Governments in West Bengal
Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2006
of 80 West Bengal villages concerning targeting of credit, agricultural input kits, employment programs and fiscal grants … negligible adverse effects on targeting of private goods to the poor within villages, but with lower employment generation out of … levels among the poor were not systematically related to targeting. [BREAD Working Paper No. 105, November 2005] …
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Targeting and Distribution of Post-Tsunami Aid in Sri Lanka : A Critical Appraisal
Gunawardena, Asha; Wickramasinghe, Kanchana - eSocialSciences - 2011
effectiveness of targeting. The study also attempts to quantify the factors underlying the allocation of such asset transfers. Data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002314
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Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
Alatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
A unique data-set from Indonesia is analysed to understand what individuals know about the income distribution in their village to test theories such as Jackson and Rogers (2007) that link information aggregation in networks to the structure of the network. The observed patterns are consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568018
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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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Estimating human resource requirements for scaling up priority health interventions in Lowincome countries of Sub-Saharan Africa: A methodology based on service quantity, tasks and...
Mills, Anne; Kurowski, Christoph - eSocialSciences - 2010
in two case studies carried out in Tanzania and Chad. Kaspar Wyss and N’Diekhor Yemadji led the case study in Chad and … Salim Abdulla participated in the Tanzania team.[HEFP working paper 01/06, LSHTM, 2006] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462827
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Human Resources for Health: Requirements and Availability in the Context of Scaling-Up Priority Interventions in Low-Income Countries
Mills, Anne; Kurowski, Christoph; Wyss, Kaspar; … - eSocialSciences - 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the role and importance of human resources for the scaling up of health services in low income countries. In the case studies, the following have been analyzed: (i) investigated the size, composition and structure of the current health work force; (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462831