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New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult women. [WOrking Paper No. 41]. URL:...
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The report is a rich source with qualitative and quantitative data on the status of children in India from authentic …
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Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L. JeyaseelanSage publication, 2009, Pp 264, Rs. 595/-
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of the society where it is applied. It is therefore necessary for countries like India to develop a contextually relevant … Development Report 2001, India]. …
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done by CPRC in India. There is no map of chronic poverty in India, but have an approximate idea of numbers and communities …
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intergenerational cycle of poverty and inequity and of laying the foundation for a more peaceful, tolerant and equitable world. URL …
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This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) three- decade-long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains a local and an informal economy...
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This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in …
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The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …
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, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal … them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …
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