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Poverty, RCH-Care Utilization and Fertility in India: A District Level Analysis
Gulati, S C - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study highlights interlinkages amongst district level poverty, socioeconomic developmental indices, RCH … estimates of the recursive structural system are based on data for 504 districts of India on relevant parameters from alternate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323714
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How Responsive is Poverty to Growth? A Regional Analysis of Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Indonesia, 1984-99
Friedman, Jed - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper uses six nationally representative household consumption surveys to develop successive poverty profiles for … Indonesia over a fifteen-year period of sustained high growth followed by rapid contraction. Adopting a â …€˜cost-of-basic-needs’ approach to poverty determination (an approach particularly suited to measures of absolute poverty), this paper develops price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690933
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Policy Brief: OECD: Decentralisation in Asian Health Sectors: Friend or Foe?
Uchimura, Hiroko; Jütting, Johannes - eSocialSciences - 2006
help the poor if local resources, accountability and governance are in good shape. The process in China and India had …, decentralisation in Indonesia and the Philippines produced better health outcomes because they reformed healthcare funding. This is key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341659
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Production and Marketing of Coconut in India
eSocialSciences - 2011
survey on production and marketing of coconut and coconut product in India was undertaken. This report attempt to study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318503
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ASEAN Auto Market Growing in the Shadow of China and India
Heymann, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2011
automakers. URL:[http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD0000000000278738/ASEAN+auto+market%3A+Growing+in+the+shadow+of+China+and+India.pdf]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321480
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Governance and Health
Acharya, Shankar - eSocialSciences - 2007
As we celebrate 60 years of political independence and take pride in our dynamic private sector, our remarkable IT successes and all the other usual dimensions of success, let us remind ourselves that a great deal remains to be done to improve the foundations of India’s human resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323683
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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
reliable route out of poverty for a region that is home to more than 40 percent of the world’s absolute poor. [World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493951
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Should Asian Countries Adopt Gm Crops Despite Trade Regulations
Gruère, Guillaume - eSocialSciences - 2009
crops in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the presence of trade regulations. [IFPRI Brief No.13] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512469
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Water Democracy: Reclaiming Public Water in Asia
FGS, Focus on the Global South - eSocialSciences - 2010
This collection of 19 new essays written by civil society activists, trade unionists and other water practitioners, presents examples of ongoing struggles against water privatization and commercialization as well as inspiring examples of people-centered public water management from across Asia....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513088
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Kerala Fights Clock in ASEAN Free-Trade Deal
Devraj, Ranjit - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543132