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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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I evaluate the out-of-sample forecasting performance of five models of Chinese and Indian energy consumption. The results are mixed, but in general the auto-regressive distributed lag and unobserved components models perform the best over multiple evaluation criteria. I then use these two models...
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The present study investigates the state of health of the older adults in India from a socioeconomic and cultural …
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This work attempts to develop a conceptual framework to model health of older adults (OA) in India in association with … household also affects disease prevalence among the male populations. The amount of land possessed by a household affects the … disease prevalence among rural OA only. In the case of disabilities, age and economic dependency of the OAs have significant …
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In this paper, we examine the demographic transition and its effect on economic growth using a cross-country data. We use a threshold regression model to verify the transition and to confirm whether the demographic transitions are compressed or not in developing countries. We found out that in...
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This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian …
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can be explained in terms of reduction in child mortality due to the immunization program. Kumar (2009) finds that UIP has … a significant and negative eect on infant and under-five mortality. …
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The present paper made an attempt to understand the impact schooling/education on the mortality rate in India, in a … developing country context. Present study aims at looking into differences in mortality rate by the status of completion of …
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largest increase in child schooling. We present suggestive evidence that falling mortality risk is strongly positively … population density is negatively related to fertility. Finally we show the robust negative correlation of mortality risk on child …
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The present study applies purpose-built dynamic computable general equilibrium models for Ghana and Kenya with a disaggregated country-specific representation of the power sector to simulate the prospective medium-run growth and distributional implications associated with a shift towards a...
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