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Educational Development Index Based on DISE data for Districts of Uttar Pradesh
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
While assessing the status of the schooling infrastructure, the evaluation at the aggregate level (at the national or state level) always conceals the geographical spread across sub-regions, and therefore ignores regional disparities. The laggard regions always bring down the overall performance...
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Privatization of School Education in Andhra Pradesh : Regional Implications
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present paper explores trends in privatization of school education in Andhra Pradesh and regional variations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112003
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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
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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A theory of family education incentives and inequality
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper, we examine the consequences of imperfect information on the pattern of transfers from parents to children. Drawing on the theory of mechanism design, we consider a model of family contract with two levels of effort. We prove that equal transfers among children are expected under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113407
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Child Work and Schooling in a Backward Region of Andhra Pradesh, India: Observations from the Field
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The paper made an attempt present the micro reality with respect to child work and educational deprivation of children in the form of observations made based on the field survey in a village of backward district in Andhra Pradesh. The discussion sheds light on the circumstances that lead to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259764
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Education Inequality in Argentina. An analysis based on PISA 2009 data.
Marchionni, Mariana; Vazquez, Emmanuel; Pinto, Florencia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This article examines the determinants of inequality in the educational performance of Argentine students based on the results of the PISA 2009 tests. By using econometric multilevel models, it estimates to what extent the individual characteristics of the students, their families, peers, and...
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Education and Literacy in Andhra Pradesh (Pre-School, School, Higher and Technical Education and Adult Literacy and Skills)
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present background paper reviews the progress of education including K12, vocational and higher education, skill … observed that pre-primary education in the state, as is the case of all over India, still neglected and needs a strong policy … intervention. With respect to school education, although the quantitative expansion is remarkable in the state as well as in India …
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When Will India Achieve Universal Adult Literacy: Status and Prospects
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
/non-formal adult education programmes especially in the context of National Literacy Mission and its initiative of Total Literacy … country unless there is a policy intervention through adult education programme. The exercise indicates the need for …
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Diagnosis of attitudes in tolerance of Bialystok residents
Poleszczuk, Jan; Sztop-Rutkowska, Katarzyna; Kiszkiel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
is to provide a thorough and practical knowledge on the attitudes of the inhabitants of Bialystok within tolerance. Taken …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258465
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The Return Motivations of Legal Permanent Migrants: Evidence from Exchange Rate Shocks and Immigrants in Australia
Abarcar, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
return motivations of a national sample of Australian immigrants. On average, a 10% favorable exchange rate shock (a …
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