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Emerging Asia's Middle Class-A Force to be Reckoned With
Dyck, Steffen; Hansakul, Syetarn; Saxena, Rachna - eSocialSciences - 2009
The emergence of a large and dynamic middle class raises Asia’s profile as an attractive market destination for products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that the Asian consumer will replace the US as “world consumer of last resortâ€,...
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Union Budget 2007-08: Continuing Neglect of Public Health Care
Kathuria, Vinish - eSocialSciences - 2007
Allocations to the budget for health appear to be impressive but a closer look shows that this is not so, especially … neglect of urban public health care. Importance has to be given to Millennium Development Goals that are still unmet. Health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323760
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Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?
Berg, Erlend; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Manjula, R; Roy, Sanchari - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper studies the interaction of incentive pay and social distance in the dissemination of information. BREAD Working Paper No. 380. URL: [http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/380.pdf].
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Developmental Disability Index for Hill States in India
Pandey, Ritu; Dasgupta, Purnamita - eSocialSciences - 2014
Tthe first objective of this study is to construct a cost disability index in provision of developmental infrastructure. The second objective is rooted in the poor state of developmental infrastructure in hill states reflected in widening gaps when compared with non- hill states. [NIPFP Working...
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Urban Governance and Finance in India
Bird, Richard.M.; Rao, M. Govinda - eSocialSciences - 2010
Over 330 million people live in India’s cities; 35 cities have a population of over a million and three (Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata) of the 10 largest metropolises in the world are in India. India’s cities are large, economically important, and growing. However, neither urban...
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Pakistan Budget in Brief 2008
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance, Government of … - 2008
Budget in Brief is designed to summarize the detailed information into an overview comprising essential information about expenditure and receipt and the resulting budget balance.
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Public Services and GATS
Adlung, Rolf - eSocialSciences - 2005
The status of public services is one of the most hotly debated issues surrounding the GATS. There are two approaches to distinguish such services from any other services: an institutional approach that focuses on the legal and institutional conditions governing supply (e.g. ownership status,...
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Working with Existing Systems: Lessons from INHP
CARE, CARE - eSocialSciences - 2009
Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component … effectiveness at scale. This paper describes how the INHP learnt and evolved in its strategies in engaging existing public health …
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Could Make “Health for One†True
Jia, Qian - eSocialSciences - 2007
The present paper analyzes the possibilities of Traditional Chinese Medicine to become a perfect medicine.
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An Explanatory Analysis of Deprivation and Ill Health Led Poverty in Urban India: A Case Study of Delhi
Chowdhury, Samik; Mehta, Aasha Kapur; Das, Suparna; … - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation …. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and increases expenditure on medication, thereby … causing asset depletion, increasing debt and worsening poverty. The bulk of ill-health related expenditure in India is borne …
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