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How can infrastructure help to reduce the gender education gap in developing countries? In this paper, I analyze the … complementarity of all-weather roads and a bicycle program in Bihar, India, which aimed to increase girls' secondary school enrollment …-weather roads. Their net secondary school enrollment rate increased by over 87 percent, reducing the respective gender education gap …
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How can infrastructure help to reduce the gender education gap in developing countries? In this paper, I analyze the … complementarity of all-weather roads and a bicycle program in Bihar, India, which aimed to increase girls' secondary school enrollment …-weather roads. Their net secondary school enrollment rate increased by over 87 percent, reducing the respective gender education gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441519
using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference …
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The role of infrastructure in fostering economic growth and enhancing public welfare is more pronounced in developing … of infrastructure was the 'sine qua non' of economic development of this country. The complete consensus obviated the … need for any debate on this issue and it was taken for granted that infrastructure sector needed both large scale action …
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Imbalances in regional infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in India. This paper examines the veracity of this argument in light of empirical results at the district level using a multidimensional approach with sub-sectoral, sectoral and composite...
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Railways are a key infrastructure that facilitates trade and regional integration with potential consequences on local …-economic and environmental infrastructure impacts for the case of the Konkan Railway, which is one of the biggest railway … cover induced by the railways. The findings encourage policy makers - in assessing the effects of transport infrastructure …
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Imbalances in regional infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in India. This paper examines the veracity of this argument in light of empirical results at the district level using a multidimensional approach with sub-sectoral, sectoral and composite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252127
Wide regional variation has been a major characteristic of development experience in India. In the present study, the multidimensional facet of development is sought to be reflected through composite indices of development. It deals with the development trends exhibited at the National as well...
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Imbalances in regional infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in India. This paper examines the veracity of this argument in light of empirical results at the district level using a multidimensional approach with sub-sectoral, sectoral and composite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620157