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Early life health and net nutrition shape childhood and adult cognitive skills and human capital. In poor countries …
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among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … villages in Madhya Pradesh to measure the effect of the program on toilet access, sanitation behavior, and child health … outcomes. The study analyzed a random sample of 3,039 households and 5,206 children under five years of age. Field staff …
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This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey … improved sanitation and fixed-point defecation. There is a 47 percent reduction in diarrhea prevalence between children living …
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The social and economic consequences of poor mental health in the developing world are presumed to be significant, yet … are largely under-researched. The authors argue that mental health modules can be meaningfully added to multi … patterns of association between mental health and socioeconomic characteristics across countries. Individuals who are older …
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, specifically locally elected leaders and parents of children enrolled in public schools, into committees and gives these powers … members in a new testing tool, and training and organizing volunteers to hold remedial reading camps for illiterate children … teacher effort or learning outcomes in those schools. However, the intervention that trained volunteers to teach children to …
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A bill to provide for free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years. …
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This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children …
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Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component … effectiveness at scale. This paper describes how the INHP learnt and evolved in its strategies in engaging existing public health …
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This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
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The paper is a research which studies the government policies and agendas that affect the poor in India. For the research 8 to 10 families, who had been intervened several years ago were re-interviewed to identify and explore the processes that reinforced or helped them escape the situation of...
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