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Migration and Poverty in India: A Multi-Patterned and Complex Reality

Shah, Amita; Kumar, Animesh - eSocialSciences - 2013

The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level … studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term migration with the help a large set of …

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Economic Well-being and Non-economic Well-being: A Review of the Meaning and Measurement of Poverty

Sumner, Andrew - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview is given of the last fifty years …

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Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research

Blattman, Christopher; Miguel, Edward - eSocialSciences - 2009

A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the...

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A Case-Control Study to Assess the Relationship Between Poverty and Visual Impairment from Cataract in Kenya, Philippines and Bangladesh

Kuper, Hannah; Polack, Sarah; Eusebio, Cristina; … - eSocialSciences - 2008

The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in …

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Climate Variability and Internal Migration: A Test on Indian Inter-State Migration

Dallmann, Ingrid; Millock, Katrin - eSocialSciences - 2013

Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological indicators of climate variability, based on the standardized...

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Growth of the Urban Shadow, Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities and Commuting by Workers in Rural and Urban India

Sharma, Ajay; Chandrasekhar, S. - eSocialSciences - 2014

paper fills this gap by using a nationally representative data set from India to analyze factors that affect the decision of …

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Statistics in the Reserve Bank of India

Mohanty, Deepak - eSocialSciences - 2014

. [Remarks at Reserve Bank of India at the 8th Statistics Day Conference, Mumbai]. …

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Tobacco Control in Schools in India (India Global Youth Tobacco Survey & Global School Personnel Survey, 2006)

SInha, Dhirendra Narain - eSocialSciences - 2008

India Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) 2006 and Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) 2006 were undertaken region …-wise, namely, North, South, East, West, Central and North East, covering 99.7% of the total population of India. Altogether, 12 … the first half of 2006. Data from India GYTS 2003 and GYTS 2006 was analyzed to examine the change in different variables …

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Wastewater Irrigation, Heavy Metals and the Profitability of Rice Cultivation â€“ Investigating the East Calcutta Wetlands in India

Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Gupta, Gautam - eSocialSciences - 2012

In India, as in many developing countries, wastewater is often used to irrigate crops. This undoubtedly helps to …

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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, GOI 2012-13

Initiative, Accountability - eSocialSciences - 2012

This brief uses Government reported data to analyse Sarva Shiksha Ahiyan performance along the following parameters: a) Overall trends in allocation and expenditures, b) Expenditure performance across key SSA activities, c) Coverage and outputs. [AI Report]....

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