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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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Indian Gendercide: A Great Threat to Security
Kainth, Gursharan Singh - eSocialSciences - 2011
The result of 2011 census of India is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up; family size is … stabilizing. But there is one grim exception- India’s already skewed infant sex ratio is getting worse. India counted only 914 … girls aged six and under for every 1,000 boys or 75.8m girls and 82.9m boys. This sex ratio is the worst in the recorded …
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Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2009 (Provisional)
Pratham, Pratham - eSocialSciences - 2010
The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
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Identity Formation, Nationhood and Women An Overview of Issues
Raman, Vasanthi - eSocialSciences - 2010
The essay is begun with a reference to a television programme on one of the Hindi news channels - titled Burqe me Atankvad which was telecast sometime in mid-2005. The complex and turmoil-ridden and tortuous interrelationship between gender, national and other multiple identities are explored....
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The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low-and-Middle Income Countries
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Hansen, David; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
math difficult compared to boys. [Working Paper No. 361]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/361.pdf]. …
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Schooling and Adolescent Reproductive Behaviour in Developing Countries
Lloyd, Cynthia B. - eSocialSciences - 2008
Recent DHS data is used to document trends in schooling and adolescent reproductive behaviors among adolescents and then to explore the potential implications of rising school attendance rates for adolescent reproductive health. This exploratory analysis includes (1) comparisons of various...
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Budget for Children (BfC) in the Union Budget 2012-13
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2012
What the Budget of India, 2012-13 has got for children? [HAQCRC]. URL …
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Performance Evaluation of Cooked Mid-Day Meal (CMDM)
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2011
. From each school/centre 10 beneficiary students (5 boys and 5 girls) and their respective parents were selected. Further a …
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Quietly They Die: A Study of Malnourishment Related Deaths in Mumbai City
Hatekar, Neeraj; Rode, Sanjay - eSocialSciences - 2010
The attention of the media and planners has been focussed almost exclusively on rural and tribal malnutrition. However, malnutrition among urban children, particularly the economically vulnerable slum population has been almost entirely neglected, with the exception of a very few studies. A...
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Post-Independence Educational Development among Women in India
Pandey, Balaji - eSocialSciences - 2010
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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