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Microlending in India: An Equal Access Possibility
Thompkins, Allison V. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2015
People with disabilities are disproportionately represented among the poorest of the poor in developing countries. An increasingly common method of combating poverty in developing countries, microlending, has been largely unavailable to those with disabilities. This paper reports on one of the...
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Realizing the significance of socio-economic triggers for mental health outcomes in India
Andrés, Antonio Rodríguez; Chakraborty, Bidisha; … - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 50 (2014) C, pp. 50-57
This paper investigates the impact of socio-economic triggers on mental health outcomes, proxied by male and female suicide rates. For that purpose we estimate a fixed effects panel data model of 15 major Indian states over the years 1992–2009. Our results show that urbanization and crimes...
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Interview Interruption and Responses to Questions About Domestic Violence in India
Rabel, Brenna V.; Cunningham, Solveig A.; Stephenson, Rob - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014
This article uses the National Family Health Survey 2005-2006 (NFHS-3) of India to examine the relationship between interview interruption and the reporting of domestic violence.
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Access to Media and HIV Knowledge in India
Agarwal, Smriti; Araujo, Pedro de - In: Economies 2 (2014) 2, pp. 124-146
This paper aims to better understand the relationship between HIV knowledge and media exposure in India. We use a two-stage hurdle model to estimate the effect of media sources such as newspapers, radios and television on AIDS-related knowledge among Indian men and women using demographic health...
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Regional estimates of multidimensional poverty in India
Dehury, Bidyadhar; Mohanty, Sanjay K. - 2015
Using unit data from the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS), 2004-05, this paper estimates and decompose the multidimensional poverty dynamics in 84 natural regions of India. Multidimensional poverty is measured in the dimensions of health, knowledge, income, employment and household...
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Regional estimates of multidimensional poverty in India
Dehury, Bidyadhar; Mohanty, Sanjay K. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-36, pp. 1-35
Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS), 2011-12. Multidimensional poverty is measured in the dimensions of health, education … indicates that the economic dimension accounts for 22%, the health dimension accounts for 36%, the education dimension accounts …
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ON BACKWARDNESS AND FAIR ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA: SOME RESULTS FROM NSS 55TH ROUND SURVEYS 1999-2000
SUNDARAM, K. - Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics - 2006
Against the backdrop of policy of reservation of seats in Higher Education for the Other Backward Castes in India, this … different social groups and (ii) assessment of fairness of access to higher education of an identified “backward” social group … and the non-SC/ST Others. On the issue of fair access to higher education, it is argued that the extent of under-(or over …
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Regional estimates of multidimensional poverty in India
Dehury, Bidyadhar; Mohanty, Sanjay K. - 2015
Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS), 2011-12. Multidimensional poverty is measured in the dimensions of health, education … indicates that the economic dimension accounts for 22%, the health dimension accounts for 36%, the education dimension accounts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379707
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The Great Education Muddle: State Failure and Judicial Jigsaw
Radhakrishnan, P. - eSocialSciences - 2005
A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 … consideration the size of the age-cohort population in the relevant age-groups, and cover all issues relating to higher education … such as ensuring social justice through education for all, relevance of public-private partnership, admission policy …
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The impact of public spending in education and health on human development in India
Ruzima, Martin; Veerachamy, P. - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 28 (2023) 2, pp. 390-403
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