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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in …
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888372
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Do School get Their Money? PAISA 2012
Initiative, Accountability - eSocialSciences - 2013
The PAISA exercise uses planning and budgeting systems as the entry point, it is an attempt to build an empirical understanding of current governance processes at the grassroots to push for a larger debate on state capacity and administrative capability for building an education delivery...
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Revival of Rural PDS: Expansion and Outreach
Rahman, Andaleeb - eSocialSciences - 2014
Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's public distribution … outreach and offtake. States like Bihar and Jharkhand which were lagging behind earlier have shown a marked improvement. [IGIDR …
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Incidence of Poor and Poverty Risk in India across NSS Regions for Rual and Urban Areas, 2004-05 and 2009-10
Mishra, Srijit - eSocialSciences - 2014
This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for 2004-05 and 2009 … are not necessarily among the relatively worse-off CABMOUJ (kab mouj, referring to Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar, Madhya …
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Internal Migration for Education and Employment among Youth in India
S, Chandrasekhar; Sharma, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2014
such as Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka are gainers whereas traditionally backward states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945543
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - eSocialSciences - 2013
An innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar was introduced that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945551
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The potato value chain in Bihar: An assessment and policy implications
Minten, Bart; Reardon, Thomas; Singh, K.M.; Sutradhar, Rajib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
in Bihar, in collaboration between the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in Patna, the International Fund … the core crops that the NAIP project in Bihar are focusing on. Primary surveys were fielded with producers, traders, cold … storages, and retailers at the end of 2009 on the rural-urban potato value chain in Bihar, more in particular from the …
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Feed and Fodder Value Chains in Bihar: Some Empirical Evidences
Singh, K.M.; Singh, R.K.P.; Jha, A.K.; Kumar, Abhay; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
in India, both for household nutrition and income. Most of the livestock are kept in mixed farming systems, where crop … residues, mainly cereal straws have been an important feed resource. India is deficient in the supply of fodder, resulting in … very low levels of productivity that limit marketable surplus of milk. In Bihar State, over 50% of the land area is planted …
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The Age Distribution of Missing Women in India
Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - eSocialSciences - 2012
Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in India. Estimates suggest that more than 25 … explanations. A decomposition of missing women by age across the states of India is done. The state-wise variation in the … phenomenon in India. [BREAD Working Paper No. 326]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/326.pdf]. …
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