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Education and Mortality in India
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Mishra, Uday Shankar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present paper made an attempt to understand the impact schooling/education on the mortality rate in India, in a developing country context. Present study aims at looking into differences in mortality rate by the status of completion of primary schooling.
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The South Asian Development Paradox: Can Social Outcomes Keep Pace with Growth?
Ghani, Ejaz - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 53, pp. 1-6
people living in debilitating poverty. How do the two coexist? The paradox of South Asia is that growth has been instrumental … in reducing poverty rates, but poverty rates have not fallen fast enough to reduce the total number of poor people, and …
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Targeting of social transfers : are India's elderly poor left behind?
Asri, Viola - 2017
the transparency of social pension allocation were indeed achieved, such that possession of the Below Poverty Line ration …
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Poverty Among Elderly in India
Srivastava, Akanksha; Mohanty, Sanjay - In: Social Indicators Research 109 (2012) 3, pp. 493-514
India. Poverty estimates are derived under three scenarios—by applying the official cut-off point of the poverty line to … adjusted to household composition. Results show that an estimated 18 million elderly in India are living below the poverty line … incidence of poverty among elderly and non-elderly households in India. This is in contrast to the notion that elderly …
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Does Family Planning Help The Employment of Women? The Case of India
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2011
This paper gives some insight into the existence of a positive effect of family planning programmes on women’s employment in developing countries. We study married women aged 15 to 49 living throughout India using a sample drawn from the National Health Family Survey (NFHS-2) for 1998-1999. We...
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Productive Employment and Empowering Education: An Agenda for India’s Youth
Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
Until very recently and despite human capital’s pre-eminent and empirically established contribution to economic growth, Indian policymakers planning for economic development concentrated largely on issues of capital, labour and, to a lesser extent, technology. This paper argues that India’s...
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
van soest, arthur; Bhalotra, S.; Valente, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...
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Determinants of the Low Female Labour Force Participation in India
Sorsa, Piritta; Mares, Jan; Didier, Mathilde; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
The low and declining female labour force participation rate in India despite strong growth over the past decade is puzzling and stands out among emerging markets. At the same time greater economic participation of women can be a source of inclusive growth, and wellbeing. Assessing determinants...
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Raising the Economic Participation of Women in India: A New Growth Engine?
Sorsa, Piritta - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
Economic participation of women in the labour force or as entrepreneurs is low compared to peers and has declined over the past decades despite strong growth. The gap with men is over 50%--the largest among key emerging markets. Participation declines with higher education achievements and...
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Determinants of Female Entrepreneurship in India
Daymard, Arnaud - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
overall growth and exit from poverty. The potential flexibility in time use from entrepreneurship can also facilitate …
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