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Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Duflo, Esther; … - eSocialSciences - 2014
The paper examines individuals’ abilities to identify the highly central people in their social networks, where centrality is defined by diffusion centrality (Banerjee, Chandrasekhar, Duflo, and Jackson, 2013), which characterizes a node’s influence in spreading information. It...
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Corruption
Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema; Mullainathan, Sendhil - eSocialSciences - 2012
In this paper, a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies is provided. The standard way to model corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter penalties with the eradication of corruption as the final goal. An...
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Negotiating the Terms of A New Social Contract: Private Companies, Civil Society and the State in India
Krichewsky, Damien - eSocialSciences - 2010
reconfiguration of relationships and the balance of power among market players, the state and civil society organizations. …
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National Policy on the Voluntary Sector
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2008
between the Government and the Voluntary Sector, without affecting the autonomy and identity of Voluntary Organizations …
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Obituary: Veena Mazumdar (1927-2013)
Patel, Vibhuti - eSocialSciences - 2013
Obituary: Veena Mazumdar (1927-2013)
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Educational Innovations in Rural Tamil Nadu: Tsunami-affected Arunthatiars of Sathyamangalam
Prabhu, Vrunda - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper reports on the human aspect of a two-and-half-year collaboration between mathematics teachers of the City University of New York (CUNY), and grassroots organizers in rural Tamil Nadu. Reporting on student success in Calculus classrooms in New York at the International Conference to...
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Emerging through Technological Capability: An Overview of India’s Technological Trajectory
Ray, Amit Shovon - eSocialSciences - 2008
In this paper an overview of India’s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India’s technological capability and the role it has played in the process of India’s economic progress. [WP No. 227].
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Draft National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy
eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2012
focus on early learning, for every Indian child. [Ministry of Women and Child Development]. URL:[http://wcd.nic.in/]. [Send …
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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda - eSocialSciences - 2012
Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly low learning gains … instruction with no progress on basics. Shallow learning profiles are in part the result of curricular paces moving much faster … than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, a simple …
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Incentives in Elementary Education - do They Make a Difference
Ramachandran, Vimala; Mehrotra, Nishi; Jandhyala, Kameshwari - eSocialSciences - 2009
This study tried to bring together the experiences of different approaches to incentives followed by six NGOs in the states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Issues dealing with incentives and the hidden cost of education have been explored with a view to gaining...
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