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Results from the NSS 61st Round Employment – Unemployment Survey, 2004-05 on the issue of fair access to social …
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This paper presents a lecture delivered by the author under The Pravin Visaria Public Lecture in GIDR. India has made considerable demographic progress since 1947; however it seems that the country’s population will reach about 1.4 billion by the year 2026. In case of mortality, despite major...
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framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural …
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Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded … family planning and female education will suffer from financing deficits that will leave millions of women unserved in the … coming decades. Since both activities affect fertility, population growth, and carbon emissions, they may also provide …
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Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to …
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The 11th Plan provides an opportunity to restructure policies to achieve a new vision of growth that will be much more broad based and inclusive, bringing about a faster reduction in poverty and helping bridge the divides that are currently the focus of so much attention. The first steps in this...
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. This means that this sector offers employment opportunities that are attractive. In order to exploit these opportunities …, the sector needs people with the approppriate employment profiles that match the changing requirements both in atributes … and numbers. However, the current education system is not equipped to provide the requisite profiles. This paper …
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This paper aims to examine the policy debates on women's education and highlight some of the basic issues affecting the … progress of women's education since the introduction of planned development in the country. [CWDS]. …
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Child Development Services, National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. …
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How does growth actually trickle down to remove an individual’s poverty? Is it through increases in employment? What … will underwrite effectiveness and ensure responsiveness in healthcare, education and information provision? …
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