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The process of development, in any society, should ideally be viewed and assessed in terms of what it does for an … average individual.For any approach or development framework to be meaningful and effective in directing public policies and … programmes it has to be anchored in a social context. More importantly, it should reflect the values and development priorities …
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The present study emphasizes on independent variable analysis in assessing gender development at the disaggregated … district level to account for problems such as the major contradiction facing this century which relates to development sans …, the second section deals with some of the debates and measures of development indicators. Section three presents the …
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A review and extended discussion is presented of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises important issues related to the practice of statistics and that has been widely commented...
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Much recent thinking on poverty and poverty reduction is ‘big’ in terms of its ideas, units of analysis, datasets, plans and ambitions. While recognising some of the benefits of such approaches this paper argues that researchers should counterbalance this through ‘thinking...
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estimates of the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on the methodology and database used for estimation. It extensively reviews the …
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explains the methodology followed. Second, the firm’s entry strategy is discussed to highlight how the Japanese view business …
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that the standard methodology used will almost invariably lead to biased elasticity estimates, and proposes an alternative … methodology which avoids this problem. [WP] …
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In this paper, a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts is illustrated. In India, exam …
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Singapore business within a holistic framework using case study methodology. Following the Introduction in Section 1, Section 2 … turn of the millennium. Section 3 provides an outline of the scope, methodology and rationale of this study. Section 4 … organisations in respect of the specified aspects of their business development. Section 5 contains notes and comments based on …
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the concepts through an interactive methodology. Each life skill has been explained using everyday examples which will …
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