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The Impact of Parental Death on Child Well-being: Evidence from the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Gas, Ava Gail; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Suriastini, Wayan; … - eSocialSciences - 2013

Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely to be correlated with other, unobserved, factors that affect child well-being. Population-representative longitudinal data collected in Aceh, Indonesia, before and after the...

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Politics and Public Policies: Politics of Human Development in Uttar Pradesh, India

Singh, Shyam; Kumar, V Anil - eSocialSciences - 2014

In India, public policies for human development are politically contested for many reasons like diverse political interests, commitment to specific social bases by political regimes etc. They have rendered human development policies and programmes ploys for political bargaining and clientelism...

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The Impact of Slum Resettlement on Urban Integration in Mumbai: The Case of the Chandivali Project

Vaquier, Damien - eSocialSciences - 2010

The paper studies the socio-economic impact of the shift of slum dwellers to new rehabilitation site of Chandivali. It also discuses the issue of availability and choice of employment as a key driver towards socio-economic urban integration.

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Personal Well-Being During Growth

Edmonds, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2007

This paper considers the relative importance of improvements in economic status in explaining improvements in non-monetary measures of well-being during Vietnam's economic boom in the 1990s.

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Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What and What Do We Lose?

Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2011

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is...

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Economic Well-being and Non-economic Well-being: A Review of the Meaning and Measurement of Poverty

Sumner, Andrew - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview is given of the last fifty years. This is followed by discussion of three groupings of indicators: those measures based primarily on economic well-being; those based on non-economic well-being and composite...

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Assessing Well-being Using Hierarchical Needs

Clarke, Matthew - eSocialSciences - 2010

Determining whether well-being has improved is an important multidisciplinary task. It is important therefore to develop a multidimensional measure of well-being that reflects a wide spectrum of human needs. A new approach is presented in this paper based on multidimensional hierarchical human...

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Wheat Marketing and its Efficiency in India

Gandhi, Vasant P; Koshy, Abraham - eSocialSciences - 2007

The study examines the marketing of wheat in India, focusing on the private marketing system, the marketing efficiency … of marketing is crucial to farmer incomes, consumer welfare, as well as government budgets and the economy. Substantial … changes are taking place in the marketing of wheat. The study finds that the farmers now almost invariably sell in the nearby …

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Consuming Lives, Consuming Landscapes:Interpreting Advertisements For Cafédirect Coffees

Wright, Caroline - eSocialSciences - 2007

This paper explores the marketing strategies of Cafédirect, a company that pays a guaranteed price for coffee to Latin …

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Having Customers Share The Perception Of Quality Assessments On The French Wine Market

Teil, Geneviève - eSocialSciences - 2008

The wine market is a pretty paradoxical research object for the economical and marketing studies. In France alone …

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