Budget and Annual Financial Statement for the year 2008-09.

Budget speech by Nepal Finance Minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.np/publication/speech/2011/pdf/budgetspeech_english.pdf].

New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult women. [WOrking Paper No. 41]. URL:...

The document enlists continued implementation of initiatives and prioritises initiatives to support all round youth development around the world. While stressing on sectoral and cross-sectoral youth policies, it calls on local, regional and national governments to create an environment where...

Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many developing countries in recent decades. [BREAD...

In this paper the issue of high dropout rates in India is examined which has adverse implications for human capital formation, and hence for the country’s long term growth potential. Using the 2004-05 National Sample Survey employment-unemployment survey data, transition probabilities of...

Railway Budget 2010-11.

The Equal Remuneration Act in India was enacted to prevent discrimination between workers on grounds of gender. The preamble to the act describes it as: An Act to provide for the payment of equal remuneration to men and women workers and for the prevention of discrimination, on the ground of...

In this paper the author analyzes the pros and cons of combining data from different sources to revisit some explanatory problems. The problems discussed have risen from a theoretical and analytic gap between people’s outlooks and values on the one hand, and their social circumstances on...

Papers and Proceedings of The Third Annual Himalayan Policy Research ConferenceSession Chairs and Discussants Session 1A: Conflict Resolution and Democratic Transitions Chair: Christopher Candland, Wellesley College Discussants: Prakash Adhikari, University of New Mexico Meeta S. Pradhan,...