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The present work builds on the affirmed desire of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) to be judged … the general discussion on the social determinants of health by complementing the work of the Commission’s other … (hereafter ECD). The areas of focus for each of the Commission’s Knowledge Networks—Globalization, Social Exclusion, Health …
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This paper is concerned with some aspects of the way one particular railway occupation – that of locomotive driver – has been perceived in Great Britain from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th. The occupation of locomotive driver is one of the most significant within the railway...
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Politics of Patronage and Protest: The State, Society, and Artisans in Early Modern Rajasthan by Nandita Prasad Sahai, Oxford University Press, 2006; 304 pp, $35.00 (cloth), ISBN978-0-19-567896-3.
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A section of lawyers has declared that till the Governor formally announces that Tamil will be an associate language in …
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Gives an overall view about the literacy rates of youth and adolescents in India.
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Language alone can no longer be the basis for division of states. Issues such as size, governance, economic viability …
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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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This paper examines migrants choice of destination conditional on migration. To this end, an empirical strategy is designed which remedies both migration selection and unobserved heterogeneity problems. The study uses data from two rounds of Nepal Living Standard Surveys and a Population Census...
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The paper tries to understand what are the aims of education.
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One of the principal mechanisms through which inequality is reproduced is language, specifically the language used as …
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