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The scalpel and the ledger : finance, medicine and the making of a professional life in Ireland, India and Britain, 1888-1921
Cassidy, Daniel; Fitzpatrick, Kieran - 2022
By the time of his death in September 1921, Peter Johnstone Freyer was an extremely wealthy man. After an education at Queen's College Galway, his medical career had been defined by colonial service in India, and the establishment of a successful surgery and consultancy on London's Harley...
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Working for a living? : women and children's labour inputs in England, 1260-1850
Horrell, Sara; Humphries, Jane; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2020
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George Gunton's divergent view on the origin of the great divergence : the dynamics of social wants in England and India
Sivramkrishna, Sashi - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 1, pp. 31-54
Most contemporary historians have proposed a multitude of supply-side factors that arguably propelled the Great Divergence between the West and the East. A late nineteenth-century economist, George Gunton, instead proposed a demand-centric theory to explain the root cause for the divergence...
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Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India
Sen, Kunal - 2014
Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory discrimination policies which have been adopted for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) since independence were recommended for Other Backward Classes (OBC) by...
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Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2021
Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory discrimination policies which have been adopted for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) since independence were recommended for Other Backward Classes (OBC) by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325318
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Caste, ethnicity and poverty in rural India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414802
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The role of banking capital in industrial sector micro enterprises for poverty alleviation : a study in East Java, Indonesia
Purmiyati, Atik; Berma, Madeline; Talib, Basri Abdul; … - In: Foundations of Management : the journal of Warsaw … 11 (2019) 1, pp. 131-142
efficiency and other factors on the poverty status of micro entrepreneurs using logistic regression. The average technical … beverage products. The factors that influence the poverty status of micro-entrepreneurs are technical efficiency, income, KUR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124733
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Chapter 67 Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Southeast Asia
Estudillo, Jonna P.; Otsuka, Keijiro - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3435-3468). 2010
Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … rice technology. An important lesson for poverty reduction is to increase agricultural productivity through the development … employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024052
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Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277292
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Caste, ethnicity and poverty in rural India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318344