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Draft National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy
eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2012
The National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy reaffirms the commitment of the Government of India to provide integrated services for holistic development of all children, along the continuum, from the prenatal period to six years of age. The Policy lays down the way forward for a...
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Fertility Regulation in an Economic Crisis
McKelvey, Christopher; Thomas, Duncan; Frankenberg, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
effort to reduce global fertility and increase investment per child worldwide. The importance for fertility behaviors of … longitudinal survey data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey, an analysis of the dramatic variation in prices and incomes that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319330
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Report on National Mineral Policy
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2007
Even after five years of after the liberalisation of the investment regime India has failed to attract FDI to come to … policies to attract global investment. In a study conducted in 2001 by the World Bank, ‘Mining Sector reforms and Investmentâ … other resource countries such as Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, and Indonesia. It is imperative that the bottlenecks in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170138
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Unique Identity Project in India: A Divine Dream or a Miscalculated Heroism?
Dass, Rajanish - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper, tries to put the current Unique Identity Project (UID) project of India into a perspective to evaluate the set of issues and concerns, as pointed by various stakeholders and try to understand the degree of criticality of those arguments. In this light, the areas of concerns around...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002288
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Domestic Wheat Price Formation and Food Inflation in India: International Prices, Domestic Drivers (Stocks, Weather, Public Policy), and the Efficacy of Public Policy Interventions...
Dasgupta, Dipak; Dubey, R N; Satish, R - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper gives information on global wheat market developments, price transmission and impacts on Indian domestic markets, as well as an assessment of public policies to manage domestic prices. This also tracks, monitors and forecasts fast-moving key macro-economic variables with potentially...
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Fall in Sex Ratio: A National Shame
Sen, Anwesha - eSocialSciences - 2011
Census figures show that the child sex ratio has gone down. There are several reasons for this. The issue is serious and issue should be dealt immediately.
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NAC Working Group on Gender and the Sex Ratio Draft Recommendations
Naqvi, Farah; Kumar, A.K. Shiva - eSocialSciences - 2012
The NAC Working Group held three national consultations on different aspects of the issue of declining child sex ratio. The Working Group conveners also separately met with Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and with the National Mission for 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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AIDAN Policy Brief: Drug Prices and Affordability
AIDAN, All India Drug Action Forum - eSocialSciences - 2009
India has a booming drug industry and has contributed to making generics at low prices worldwide. But medicines within India are overpriced and unaffordable. Price regulation of medicines is a key public policy measure for health of India’s teeming masses. Only the Government of India can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988801
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'To Be Or Not to Be': The Location of Women in Public Policy
Jain, Devaki - eSocialSciences - 2006
Despite great leaps in uncovering of knowledge, as well as extraordinarily skillful strategizing, neither has the value of women’s advisories to public policy been recognized; nor have the tools been adequate to achieve that recognition. There are in built difficulties, problematiques, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699252