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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...

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Lasting impact of early life interventions : evidence from India’s Integrated Child Development Services

Dhamija, Gaurav; Sen, Gitanjali - 2020

In the year 1975, the Indian government initiated the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), the largest national program in the world targeting long-term nutrition and holistic development of children, to be implemented through the Anganwadi Centers (AWC). Combining differences across...

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The Impact of a Community Health Worker Program on Childhood Immunization : Evidence from India's 'ASHA' Workers

Rao, Tanvi - 2014

In 2005-06 the Indian government introduced a new cadre of Community Health Workers known as Accredited Social Health Activists or ASHA workers to improve basic health outcomes through community engagement. The initial roll-out of the program, between 2005 and 2009, was heavily focused on 18...

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Income inequality and intimate partner violence against women: Evidence from India

Rashada, Ahmed Shoukry; Sharaf, Mesbah Fathy - 2016

, we find education level, husband's employment status, living in rural areas, being from non-scheduled caste, and the …

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Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums: An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data

Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017

In India, 52 98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...

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Migrant Adolescent Girls in Urban Slums India : Aspirations, Opportunities and Challenges

Agarwal, Siddharth; Jones, Eleri; Verma, Shabnam - 2017

exceptions-some recently married migrant girls did engage in education or employment-although social norms restricting these … are neither in education nor employment, pregnant girls or new mothers, and those with difficult relationships in marital … population in policies and programmes, prioritising three particularly vulnerable groups: girls who are neither in education nor …

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Providing Generic Medicines to the Poor in India : An Overall Assessment of Government-Run Generic Medicine Scheme Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) With Reference to the Experience of Store Owners in the City of Jaipur

Pareek, Manoj; Prakash, Dr. M. - 2019

Out of Pocket expenditure on medicines constitutes more than 50% of healthcare expenditure in India. The poor are most affected as branded medicines are expensive and treatments involving the use of such medicines pushes them further into poverty. To address this issue government central...

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Prospects for Growth and Issues in Marketing of Health Insurance in India

Pareek, Manoj - 2018

Health insurance market in India has become the fastest growing segment in non–life insurance sector in India. The health insurance business in India saw a 24% growth in FY 17 with a premium of INR 30,765 Cr and a market share of 24%. It has been the fastest growing market segment registering...

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Adult Undernutrition in India : Is There a Huge Gender Gap?

Jose, Sunny - 2015

The prevalence of discrimination against women along with the absence of data led to an assumption that a large gender gap existed in adult under-nutrition in India. The availability for the first time of comparable all-India nutritional data for men and women enables us to examine the empirical...

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Electronic Health Records in India : Legal Framework and Regulatory Issues

Kaur, Harleen - 2021

The demand for healthcare is increasing globally. In India, a dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases along with an ageing population is affecting the demand for healthcare. Concerns for providing efficient and effective healthcare to the vulnerable population has led to the...

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