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Impact of Air Pollution on Human Health in Dehra Doon City
Gautam, A.; Mahajan, M; Garg, S - eSocialSciences - 2009
To study the adverse health effects of exposure to ambient air pollution in different areas of Dehra Doon. To examine … the relationship between the levels of air pollution and the percentage of affected people in selected area of Dehra Doon … city. Air quality monitoring and a questionnaire-based health survey in four areas of Dehra Doon were conducted during …
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The Interface Between Economic Development, Health and Environment in India : An Econometric Investigation
Nagar, A L; Ray, Amit Shovon; Sawhney, Aparna; Samanta, … - eSocialSciences - 2008
indices of physical infrastructure (PI), social infrastructure (SI) and air pollution index (API). The three indices by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528281
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Addressing Key Issues in the Light of Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) in Health and Family Welfare Sector in India
Kanwal, Vineeta; Mondal, Samir K. - eSocialSciences - 2010
The policies including that of ‘World Bank’ and the recent ‘Indian Health Report (WHO) 2000’, now recognise the … importance of investing in health & also providing for a ‘safety net’ for the poor and vulnerable to promote economic … development and reduce poverty. So, there is an urgent need to address several issues to revamp the entire health sector in India …
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The Wide Angle: The End of Population Growth
Sanyal, Sanjeev - eSocialSciences - 2011
The the population dynamics of the 21st century is shown here.
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Challenges and Opportunities in a Trillion Dollar Economy
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011
The Indian economy reached the trillion US dollar GDP milestone in 2007 and joined other countries of the trillion dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil and Russia. In fact, over the period 1960 to the late 1980s, India’s GDP in US...
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Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development
Cohen, Joel E. - eSocialSciences - 2010
for contraception and reproductive health, and implementing demographically sensitive urban planning, particularly …
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The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries
Wheeler, David; Hammer, Dan - eSocialSciences - 2010
Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded support without any appeal to global climate considerations. However, even relatively optimistic projections suggest that family planning and female education will suffer from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740422
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Three Conundrums in Measuring Poverty with a Changing Population
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2006
This note considers income distribution at two points in time where the population has also changed in some way, constructing three scenarios—population growth, population decline, and a constant population size that nevertheless churns around a constant income distribution to illustrate...
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The Challenge of Employment in India: An Informal Economy Perspective Volume I - Main Report
NCEUS, NCEUS - eSocialSciences - 2012
India is perhaps the first country to set up, at the national level, a commission to study the problems and challenges being faced by what in India is called the unorganized economy - or the informal economy as it is usually referred to internationally – and recommend measures to the...
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Snakes, Ladders and Traps: Changing Lives and Livelihoods in Rural Bangladesh (1994-2001)
Kabeer, Naila - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some households have gained, while others have failed to gain, in the processes of change involved. The analysis is...
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