Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 13,489
Cover Image
Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258151
Cover Image
On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - 2011
changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507307
Cover Image
On the concept of equity in opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - 2011
changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379832
Cover Image
On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2011
changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291917
Cover Image
Education, paludisme et moustiquaires imprégnées d'insecticide en Afrique sub-saharienne
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
education. The analysis is based on a panel sample of 41 countries of sub-Saharan African over the period 2001-2006. Our results … suggest that cover of insecticide-treated mosquito net positivelyaffect the indicators of education. Cet articles’intéresse à … la relation entre la couverture en moustiquaires imprégnées d’insecticide et quelquesindicateurs d’éducation. L’étude est …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108448
Cover Image
Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare
Mundle, Sudipto - 2018
This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898729
Cover Image
Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings: Evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2017
We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using purposively digitised birth registers linked to school catalogues, census files and tax records to generate longitudinal microdata that track individuals through five stages of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917053
Cover Image
Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings : evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2017
We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using purposively digitised birth registers linked to school catalogues, census files and tax records to generate longitudinal microdata that track individuals through five stages of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011708489
Cover Image
Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions - Working Paper 295
Glassman, Amanda; McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel - 2012
Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556238
Cover Image
Financing Human Development in India: Strategies and Options
Aziz, Ghazala - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
education. India is ranked 134th on the Human Development Index (2011 ranking). Public expenditure on human development is given … indicated by Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2009, in terms of realization of objectives of Right to Education Act and … consequently the increased public funding of primary education, the situation is grim. Similarly the ambitious program like …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201786