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This paper uses panel data from the 16 main states in India during the period 1967- 1999 to study the effects of having … higher female representation in the State Legislatures on public goods, policy and expenditure. I find that women legislators … make different decisions than men legislators. Moreover, women elected in seats reserved for scheduled castes and tribes …
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cognitive development in Andhra Pradesh, India. Our peer group definition takes the form of networks, whose structure allows us …
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institutional approach, the paper compares examples of partnerships involving waste-to-energy investment in India, the Philippines …
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This paper provides a comprehensive description of the financial environment for households and small businesses in a defined geographical region. It develops a new, functional approach to financial access surveys, which involves asking detailed questions about how respondents meet their...
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in French-speaking West Africa and India, this study looks comparatively at how different groups use multiple forms of …
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A working democratic set-up provides ample space to mitigate the tensions in a society to a large extent. Unfortunately, democracy could not work in Jammu and Kashmir the way it is expected to work in a free society. Denial of democracy and misgovernance became almost an accepted way of...
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The paper reviews the theoretical and the empirical case for public investment in education in India. Though the … aforesaid factors, we argue that the empirical relation between education expenditure and growth for India has been inconsistent. …
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This paper measures the degree of inequality in child mortality rates across districts in India, using data from the …
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As economic power shifts towards Asia---particularly China, India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN … within the ASEAN region and the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) but with nations such as India, Russia, the United States, and … Australia as well. This study, though, focuses more on India and how its Look East Policy helps forged trade and other bilateral …
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, which are settings with high burdens of maternal and neonatal mortality. Interviews were analysed using a common analytic …
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