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Proximate Determinants of School Dropout: A study on Rural West Bengal
Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
School dropout has emerged as major hindrance to human capital formation in developing countries globally and efforts are on to stem this. The present paper attempts to identify proximate determinants of school dropout and suggest policies to tackle the problem in India context by using field...
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Proximate Determinants of School Dropout: A study on Rural West Bengal
Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In recent days, controlling school dropout has emerged to be the prime hindrance to spread literacy and formation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108525
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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
development and literacy particularly during the last two decades in Andhra Pradesh and an attempt is made to identify gaps. It is … development programmes in the state. Again, despite the progress in expansion of education in the state literacy rate is one of … there is a strong policy intervention, Andhra Pradesh will never achieve universal adult literacy in the near future. All …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112598
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The long-run Relationship between Human Capital and Economic Growth in Sweden
Awel, Ahmed Mohammed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The relationship between education and economic growth has been one of the fundamental themes of economic analysis. Despite the growing interest in the relationship between growth and education, and despite the strong theoretical foundations for a key role of education/human capital in economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108298
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Role of Education and Skill Development for Sustainable Development
Chakrabarty, Aritra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The Indian economy is widely expected to grow at sustained high rates over the next few decades and emerge as the second largest economy by 2050. These robust projections have much to do with the demographic profile of the country. India is slated to have one of the youngest populations, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111520
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The medieval Origins of Capitalism in the Netherlands
van Bavel, Bas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Large parts of the Netherlands saw an early rise in market traffic during the late Middle Ages already. Exchange via the market became the dominant form not only for goods, but also for land, labour and capital, and this during the course of the sixteenth century already. This contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107981
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La coopération interuniversitaire aux frontières extérieures de l’Union Européenne et la contribution à la politique européenne de voisinage
Horga, Ioan; Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The European continent, under the urge of the events generated by the process of building Europe that has led to an enlargement of the external European Union borders towards the east, undergoes a process of alteration. No matter on which side of the EU border they may be, the citizens of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114070
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Income and migration revisited
Graves, Philip E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1979
While there was no abstract for this paper, it provides a theoretical model and empirical results that support an important role for climate in the human location/relocation decision.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567672
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Divergent historical experiences and inequality in academic achievement: the case of Poland
Herbst, Mikolaj; Rivkin, Steven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Divergent histories and changing country boundaries can lead to substantial within country variation in economic and social structures and inequality in economic and social outcomes. Given its changing borders and turbulent history, Poland provides a fertile setting for an examination of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368154
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Facets and factors of human development in Tripura
Mishra, SK; Nayak, Purusottam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper systematically presents the geographical and historical forces that have shaped the resource base, infrastructure, connectivity, socio-economic milieu and consequently the economy of Tripura determining the level of human development in the state. In spite of a great burden of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620185