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Provision Of Universal Access To Quality Education Through Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

Chavan, Madhav - eSocialSciences - 2005

The following note touches upon some broad features and is not intended to go into details of each although in some places these may have been touched. Among other things, the SSA requires planning to start at the village with participation of the people. Often this is not the case. There is a...

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Why Does Mental Health Not Get the Attention It Deserves? An Application of the Shiffman and Smith Framework

Tomlinson, Mark; Lund, Crick - eSocialSciences - 2012

ages. Despite this burden, mental illness has thus far not achieved commensurate visibility, policy attention, or funding … understand why some global health initiatives are more successful in generating funding and political priority than others. [Plos …

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Report of the Expert Group for Modernizaion of Indian Railways

Railways, Ministry of - eSocialSciences - 2012

, Indigenous development, Safety, Funding, Human Resource and Organization. It is important to keep in mind that Safety and …

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Climate Conference in Copenhagen Success is a Political Must

Heymann, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2009

This conference is one of the most important and most complex in the history of climate policy negotiations. The objective is to form a treaty as a successor for the Kyoto Protocol. To enable a breakthrough on climate policy to be made in Copenhagen particularly vigorous efforts should be made...

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Drivers of Inequality in Millennium Development Goal Progress: A Statistical Analysis

Basu, Sanjay; Stuckler, David; McKee, Martin - eSocialSciences - 2010

health funding (both overall and as percentage of available domestic funds), or health system infrastructure. Also, the …

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Inititaing Public Debate on Reforms in Higher Education

Pitroda, Sam - eSocialSciences - 2007

Idea on National Knowledge Commission, what it is and what are they trying to accomplish, ask for the audience support, understanding and also talk about the need for major reforms in University education. [Convocation Address at University of Mumbai].

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Responsive Philanthropy in Mumbai: Corporate Sector and Social Justice Philanthropy

Jogdand, P.G.; Bansode, Prashant - eSocialSciences - 2006

Philanthropy of America in April 2003 to study the role of four funding organisations. The emphasis of the study was to understand … the funding organisation develops the networks with the NGOs and selects its partner for carrying out the projects and the … disbursement of the funds. In short: How does funding reach the beneficiaries? …

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Rebuilding Chinaâ€™s Social Safety Net: Why Governance Matters

Pei, Minxin - eSocialSciences - 2005

China has adopted a wide-ranging program of pension reform since the late 1990s. The new pension system has replaced the pre-existing enterprise-based system. This paper analyzes the background of this reform, surveys the progress of Chinaâ€™s pension reform, describes its principal...

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China: Pension Provision and Pension Administration

Wang, Shaoguang - eSocialSciences - 2006

In the long term, there is little doubt that China will be better off with a single and unified pension insurance system covering the whole country, just as most of other countries do. In the short term, however, it is feasible for China to establish only a province-based pension system, a...

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Private (Occupational) Pensions in China: A Note on Recent Developments

Hu, Yu-Wei - eSocialSciences - 2005

China, as the most populous country in the world, is ageing rapidly. Against the background of dramatic demographic changes in this century, Chinaâ€™s current pension system is badly structured, and not able to cope with the rapid ageing population. The Chinese government is well aware of...

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