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Does a social scientist need to renounce his ethnicity in order to be objective and unbiased? The issue of how and why scholars choose their subjects and approaches has been debated for almost a century in many disciplines, first as 'insiders-outsiders', 'in’cross-cultural studies' and in...
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This pager is an attempt to apply the technique of social cost-benefit analysis to the problem of choice of technology in building construction in Kerala. [Working Paper No. 030]
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This paper reports the European experience with a basket currency, the ECU. The ECU was initially introduced as a reference unit and later became the anchor of the European Monetary System. Public policy was complemented by private sector initiatives and use of the ECU for denomination of...
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Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. The fertility … response to an unanticipated mortality shock is investigated that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure is identified, both …
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A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agencies have forgotten pregnant women. Given the unacceptably high number of maternal and perinatal...
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Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to … fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30 years. At the same time, mortality rates … income per capita and mortality rates, a correlation that also exists within countries, where richer, better-educated people …
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Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reported, standardized mortality ratios … comparing mortality experience with that in the United States, and estimated associations with socioeconomic factors using Coxâ …€™s proportional hazards regression. Cause-specific mortality fractions were estimated using the InterVA algorithm. Crude mortality …
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households and 7.3 million population. It has continued to be the main source of information on fertility and mortality …
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The ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection) control programme of BRAC has been in operation for the last few years. No independent evaluation has so far been conducted to explore how far the objectives of the programme have been achieved in terms of raising awareness among the health workers and...
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A discussion about the declining sex ratio in India is given. The various reasons for declining sex ratio are outlined.
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