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India’s health care and health financing provision is characterized by too little Government spending on health, meager … level of health insurance penetration in India. Health insurance cover is found to be a strong determinant of modern health …
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Despite a central element of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the progress in making pregnancy and childbearing safer for women has been slow in many developing countries. Though Bangladesh has achieved commendable progress in reducing maternal mortality in recent decades, the country...
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Objectives: This study investigates how socioeconomic status and demographic factors determine child malnutrition as well as how these determinants account for socioeconomic inequality in child malnutrition during the period of 2007-2011 in Bangladesh. Methods: The dataset of this study...
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Using self-assessed health status together with several indicators of individual morbidity and socio-demographic characteristics, we study the quality of health and income related health disparity in five racial/ethnic groups as well as across 17 geographic areas of New York State. The American...
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Using India’s National Sample Survey data on consumption expenditure by households this paper examines how access to … affordability of electricity services have fared under power sector reform programme that was pursued in the of State Orissa (India …
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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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The effects of motherhood on women's labour force participation are estimated usually for mothers who are co … co-resident mothers in South Africa, not co-resident mothers are significantly more likely to be labour force … participants. The selection on co-residency, which excludes mothers who are labour migrants, therefore overestimates the negative …
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This paper uses same sex sibling composition as a strategy to identify the exogenous effects of childbearing on female labour force participation in South Africa. International studies typically find that sibling sex composition is strong instrument for childbearing, satisfying the two...
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