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contemporary nexus between city shape and air pollution in India. I find that the compactness of a city has statistically … different compactness measures. While geographic dispersion allows for more fresh air corridors, differences in commuting …
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Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … findings highlight that alleviating commuting costs does not uniformly boost women's labor participation, as gender roles and …
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We investigate how air pollution impacts outdoor activity avoidance, leveraging changes in local wind direction in an instrumental variable setup for causal identification. Our findings reveal a substantial reduction in time spent outdoors during polluted days, mainly driven by decreased...
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pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face. …
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in many developing countries. In our study in central India, we randomly assign villages to a campaign by rural public …
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Deficiency of urban infrastructure facilities is one of the main problems behind the lower rate of urbanization in … India. It has also unfavorably affected the realization of the full potential of the urban sector's contribution to national … gross domestic product in India. From this perspective, by considering the population in Class I cities (cities with more …
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Karnataka is the seventh largest state in India with 38.67% of urban population as of 2011. With 1 out of every 7 … same period. It uses secondary data from the Census of India to compute measures of percent urban population, urban rural ….09). There is positive association between city-size and growth rate during 2001 to 2011. Thus, urbanization in Karnataka …
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In this paper we examine the quality of urbanisation in terms of deprivation index developed at a highly disaggregated level of urban centres (city/town) on the basis of dwelling conditions and basic amenities. Further, the demographic and economic characteristics in relation to the deprivation...
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nut processing factory in Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu State in India. Cashew nut industry is important at the …
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