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The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2008
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2009
A bill to provide for free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002697
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Right To Education Bill, 2005
Pratham, Pratham - eSocialSciences - 2007
reposibility of the state, reponsibility of the schools to give education, entry age, reponsibility of parents in giving education … to children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528396
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Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India
Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133281
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Working with Existing Systems: Lessons from INHP
CARE, CARE - eSocialSciences - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502491
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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism
Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341789
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From Income to Urban Contest in Global Settings: Chronic Poverty in Bangalore
Benjamin, Solomon - eSocialSciences - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512435
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Food Consumption and Nutritional Status in India: Emerging Trends and Perspectives
R, Radhakrishna - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper reviews the trends over three decades in the consumption of cereals, calories and micronutrients and nutritional status based on anthropometric measures using the data sets of NSS, NNMB and NFHS. It provides an explanation for the slow growth of nutrient intake and slow reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077863
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Dual Practice by Public Health Providers in Shandong and Sichuan Provinces, China
Meng, Qingyue; Jan, Stephen; Bian, Ying; Sun, Qiang; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
Private practice in the health sector was re-introduced from 1980, when China began its economic reform from a planned … the point of view of health policy- making as little is known about it. The aim of this study was to describe policies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543099
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Does Organic Agriculture Lead to Better Health among Organic and Conventional Farmers in Thailand? An Investigation of Health Expenditure among Organic and Conventional Farmers in...
Setboonsarng, Sunantar; Lavado, Rouselle F. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic farming practices leads to better health. As … a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of organic and conventional rice … provinces, we calculate catastrophic health expenditures as out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenditures exceeding a specified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487682
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Economic Survey 2012-13: A Comedy of Errors?
H, Suryanarayana M - eSocialSciences - 2013
There is lack of clarity and concepts in the Economic Survey. The Survey has not covered many topics which it was expected to cover.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133283