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Is the Value Added Tax Reform in India Poverty-Improving? An Analysis of Data from Two Major States
Raychaudhuri, Ajitava - 2014
The Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced in India in place of Sales Tax, taking effect in April 1, 2005. These taxes are in the domain of different state governments within the country's federal set up. Although VAT is widely acclaimed to be a better system than the sales tax on grounds of...
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School Choice around the World and the Lessons We Can Learn
Counihan, Christopher J.; Cowen, Nick; DeAngelis, Corey; … - 2021
Education reforms that allow new educational providers to supply schooling into a state system can improve parental … parental involvement and produces accountability. Education policies need to be informed by goldstandard research to ensure …
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School participation in rural India
Dreze, Jean; Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work …
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Basic education as a human right redux
Willmore, Larry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights promises free elementary education and free choice of schools to children and … allows parents almost no choice at all in basic education. …
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Poverty and ethnicity in Asian countries
Gradín, Carlos - 2016
factors that contribute to ethnic disadvantaged groups being poorer are the strongly persistent high inequalities in education …
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Further theoretical results on the regression-based approach to inequality decomposition and application to India
Bigotta, Maurizio; Krishnakumar, Jayalakshmi; Rani, Uma - 2012
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Is poverty the mother of crime? : empirical evidence of the impact of socioeconomic factors on crime in India
Bharadwaj, Ashish - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 1 (2014)
convincing result comes from the figures of elasticity of education with crime where a 10% increase in per capita expenditure on … education in India leads to a decline between 9.2-11.2% of overall property crime rates. …
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Poverty and ethnicity in Asian countries
Gradín, Carlos - 2016
factors that contribute to ethnic disadvantaged groups being poorer are the strongly persistent high inequalities in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576827
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Progressivity of public spending on health care at the sub-state level in India : an empirical investigation in Tamil Nadu and Bihar
Datta, Pritam; Dubey, Jay Dev; Choudhury, Mita - 2022
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Extraterritoriality of Service Tax in India : A Review
Jain, Tarun - 2015
Comparatively a recent entrant in the fiscal space, 'Service Tax' in India has garnered legislative and judicial attention more than its fair share. Given its contribution to the public exchequer and fueled by the consistent increase in collection, the legal and constitutional challenges to the...
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