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Economic Survey 2005-06, Chapter 10
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance - 2006
Social Sectors
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Union Budget 2006-07: Speech
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance - 2006
The bulk of the resources must go to the UPA Government’s eight flagship programmes: Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Mid-day Meal Scheme, Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission, Total Sanitation Campaign, National Rural Health Mission, Integrated Child Development Services, National Rural Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341823
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Towards Public Policy Education: Imparting Economic and Financia Literacy
Nandy, Amarendu; Asher, Mukul - eSocialSciences - 2008
Financial and economic literacy is essential for understanding forces that are driving social change in India, and globally. It is also an essential contributing factor in determining employability and in designing and delivering public services. India needs to establish widely accessible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323765
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Seeking Knowledge Initiatives in Agriculture: Staving Off a Collapse
Tamboli, Prabhakar - eSocialSciences - 2008
While sections of the central ministry of agriculture might recognize that major developments in the sector can only come about now with drastic and comprehensive changes little is being done to revolutionise the nature, content and quality of agricultural research.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250150
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Minimal Visible Inequality is Human Development
Rao, Bhanoji - eSocialSciences - 2006
The urgent task ahead is the reduction of the visible inequalities in education, health and housing, thus contributing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250162
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Elementary Education: Rising Expenditure, Poor Quality: Book Review
Rani, P. Geetha - eSocialSciences - 2006
Review of 'The Economics of Elementary Education in India: The Challenge of Public Finance, Private Provision and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250378
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Global Patterns of Income and Health: Facts, Interpretations, and Policies
Deaton, Angus S. - eSocialSciences - 2006
growth of real incomes, most likely reflecting the importance of factors such as education and the quality of institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528103
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Making and Unmaking Poverty: Social Science, Social Programmes, and Poverty Reduction in India and Elsewhere
Krishna, Anirudh - eSocialSciences - 2006
will underwrite effectiveness and ensure responsiveness in healthcare, education and information provision? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528247
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The Persistence of Underdevelopment:Institutions, Human Capital or Constituencies?
Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - eSocialSciences - 2006
underdevelopment comes from poor education. Neither explanation is fully satisfactory, the first because it does not explain why poor … education is so persistent. This paper tries to reconcile these two views by arguing that the underlying cause of …-interested constituencies that, in equilibrium, perpetuate the status quo. In other words, poor education policy might well be the proximate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528313
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Teacher Truancy in India: The Role of Culture, Norms and Economic Incentives
Basu, Kaushik - eSocialSciences - 2006
Social scientists often emphasize how ‘culture’ and ‘social norms’ can be important determinants of economic behavior and development. This raises questions of the relative importance of economic incentives and these other more social variables, like culture, and of how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696010