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Worldwide Incidence of Malaria in 2009: Estimates, Time Trends, and a Critique of Methods
Cibulskis, Richard E; Aregawi, Maru; Williams, Ryan; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goal 6, including estimates of, and time trends in, the number of malaria cases, has relied on risk maps constructed from surveys of parasite prevalence, and on routine case reports compiled by health ministries. A critique of both methods are...
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On The Existence and Efficiency of Equilibria Under Liability Rules
Singh, Ram - eSocialSciences - 2008
The first objective of this paper is to contribute to the debate regarding the desirability of the sharing of liability for the accident loss. The second objective is to extend the efficiency analysis beyond Shavell (1980, 1987) and Miceli (1997), to search for the second-best liability rules....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528139
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Estimating the Probability of Trade Union Membership in India: Impact of Communist Parties, Personal Attributes and Industrial Characteristics
Pal, Rupayan - eSocialSciences - 2008
The paper analyses the impact of the reach of communist parties, the degree of political activism, personal attributes of workers, and industrial characteristics on the individual decision to unionise for Indian non-agricultural regular workers using micro data from the 2004-05 Employment and...
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Can Insurance Reduce Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure
Joglekar, Rama - eSocialSciences - 2008
expenditure and examine the impact of health insurance on probability of incurring catastrophic health expenditure. The study is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341722
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Moving to Goods and Services Tax in India: Impact on India’s Growth and International Trade
Chadha, Rajesh - eSocialSciences - 2010
The differential multiple tax regime across sectors of production leads to distortions in allocation of resources thus … introducing inefficiencies in the sectors of domestic production. With regard to India’s exports, this leads to lack of … resources and providing full tax offsets is expected to result in gains for GDP, returns to the factors of production and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511380
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Where are Food Prices Heading?
Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper aims to review the main considerations around food price movements. It includes a discussion on the impact of speculation. URL:[https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD0000000000270746.pdf].
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Consultation Report on Strengthening the Role of Agriculture for a Nutrition Secure India
Mishra, Srijit - eSocialSciences - 2011
The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi organized a workshop ‘Strengthening the Role of Agriculture for Nutrition Secure India’. [IGIDR Report]....
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State Focus Paper 2012-13: Karnataka
eSocialSciences; National Bank for Agriculture and … - 2012
The State Focus Paper (SFP) consolidates the PLPs of all the 30 districts and highlights the potential for flow of credit to various sectors in agriculture and rural development. The credit potential and the issues pertaining to various sectors, articulated in the PLPs-2012-13, are brought out...
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Production and Marketing of Coconut in India
eSocialSciences - 2011
The production and marketing scenario of coconut in the country has witnessed a phenomenal development, particularly in … the field of production such as development of improved high yielding dwarf varieties of crossbred coconut palm … developments that have taken place on production and marketing front of coconut and its products in the country. Therefore, a fresh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318503
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High-Value Agriculture in India: Past Trends and Future Prospects
Sharma, Vijay Paul; Jain, Dinesh - eSocialSciences - 2011
Given the declining share of traditional agricultural commodities in production, consumption and trade, horticulture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319325