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Awareness as an Adaptation Strategy for Reducing Mortality from Heat Waves: Evidence from a Disaster Risk Management Program in India
Das, Saudamini; Smith, Stephen - eSocialSciences - 2013
Since 2002, the Indian state of Odisha has been undertaking a grassroots awareness campaign on “dos and don’ts†during heat wave conditions through the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) program. The selection criteria for DRM districts were earthquake, flood, and cyclone incidence,...
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European Union Foreign Policy And the Challenges of Globalisation
Patten, Christopher F. - eSocialSciences - 2010
The European Union is a profoundly political project and one which has attempted to achieve important political goals …
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Proportion of Births Attended by a Skilled Health Worker 2008 Updates
eSocialSciences; World Health Organisation WHO - 2008
In our analysis, attempts have been made to quantify the proportion of births attended by health workers other than doctors, nurses and midwives in order to show the proportion of births conducted by such groups of providers. [Factsheet Department of Reproductive Health and Research].
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Prudential Discipline for Financial Firms: Micro, Macro, and Market Structures
Wall, Larry D. - eSocialSciences - 2010
discussion notes that microprudential supervisors are typically assigned a variety of goals that sometimes have conflicting … policy implications. In such a setting, the structure of the regulatory agencies and the priority given to prudential goals … are critical to achieving those goals. [ADBI Working Paper 176] …
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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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