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Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the impact of being a victim of school bullying on educational … for a number of individual characteristics and school fixed effects. Secondly, in order to attenuate the impact of … suggest that being a victim of school bullying has a considerable negative effect on student performance at both the fourth …
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Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects … takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary school system and uses cohort-by-cohort deviations in immigrant …
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Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
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aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
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In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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This study examines the profile and determinants of poverty in the two largest cities in Vietnam – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. Data used in this study are from the 2009 Urban Poverty Survey. Using the poverty line of 12,000 thousand VND/year, the poverty incidence is estimated at 17.4 percent for...
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With the growing urbanization in India, removal of poverty in cities through specified government programs has assumed …
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The positive relationship between human capital and income/wages has been supported by empirical research. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) enormously emphasize on human capital for curbing poverty. The economic development in East Asian...
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impossible to provide good didactics on what is inherently illogical. Basic observations: We would presume that school … reasoning, they all are hindered and obstructed. Mathematics forms a core element in education and destroys much of school life … of pupils and students in their formative years. Basic analysis: This situation arises not because it is only school math …
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