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Trends in Health Status and Infrastructural Support in Tamil Nadu
Dhas, Albert Christopher; Helen, Mary Jacqueline - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper aimed at examining the health status in Tamil Nadu and to highlight the major issues on it. The health scenario of Tamil Nadu was examined, based on certain selected health indicators and the extent of health infrastructure available in the state and its utilisation were also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621618
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Defining and measuring decentralisation: a critical review
Torrisi, Gianpiero; Pike, Andy; Tomaney, John; Tselios, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
. Different “types of decentralisation” are separately presented before reviewing a generalised approach aiming both at … multitude of meanings attached to the term “decentralisation” and its related terms. However, having assembled terms together …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259745
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The Impact of Government Budget shifts to Regional Disparities in Indonesia: Before and After Decentralisation
Aritenang, Adiwan F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
led Indonesia to decentralisation with a new political and government budget order in 2001. Researches found that the … and after the decentralisation. The paper deploy a set of data on inter government fiscal transfer, expenditure rate, and … inequality level is still severe and convergence rate has decrease throughout the decentralisation era. Impacts from inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646828
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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258636
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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums
Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220685
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Quality education through Child-Friendly Schools: resource allocation for the protection of children’s rights
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper discusses the idea and purpose of Child-Friendly Schools (CFSs) initiated by the UNICEF. It analyses the implications of CFSs in terms of improving children’s health and nutrition, promoting gender equality, protecting children’s rights, re-defining education quality and creating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550564
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Should we expect a race to the bottom in welfare benefits? Evidence from a multistate panel, 1979-1995
Smith, Mark W - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
Evidence exists that welfare recipients migrate between states to seek more generous benefits, potentially leading states to lower AFDC benefits to avoid such welfare migration. Taken further, this raises the specter of states competitively lowering benefits in reaction to similar moves by other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619727
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Occupational structures, migration, religion and poor relief in nineteenth century urban Ireland
Cousins, Mel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Patterns of poor relief varied greatly amongst nineteenth century Irish cities. To date, however, there has been little examination of the reasons behind these divergences. One possible factor is the divergent occupational and demographic structures of these cities – ranging from the dramatic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839191
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How well has the Social Protection Scheme Reduced Vulnerability in Chile?
Bronfman, Javier; Floro, Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper empirically investigates the impact of Chile’s social protection’s monetary subsidies on vulnerability to poverty during 1996-2006. Using the National Socioeconomic Characterization panel survey data, we adopt the Chaudhuri et al. (2002) method to estimate vulnerability. Since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212952
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The Impact of A National Poverty Reduction Program on Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam: The Lens of Baseline and Endline Surveys
Nguyen, Cuong; Phung, Thu; Phung, Tung; Vu, Ngoc; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
To increase the opportunities for poor ethnic minorities to benefit from economic growth the government of Vietnam implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest Hardships in the Ethnic Minority and Mountainous...
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