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In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be done about it. Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human development, the Report argues that the option to grow now, clean up later no longer exists for...
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This is the 4th Chapter of the report 'Women and Men in India' by CSO. Although women constitute a little less than the half of the economically active population, but their contribution to economic activity is far below its potential. The progress toward gender equality in respect of...
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According to Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) “The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012†report, there is a reduction of 34.9 percent in prevalence of undernourishment from 1990-1992 to 2010-2012 (down from 26.9 percent in 1990-1992 and 17.5 percent in 2010-2012).
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This study assessed the sources and levels of infrastructure financing in the Philippines for the last five years (2008-2012). [PIDS Discussion Paper No. 2014-01].
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This study explores the three way linkage between weather variability, agricultural performance and internal migration in India at state and district level using Indian Census data.[MSE].
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Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries? A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked to household demographics shows that the gender gap appears to increase with age. It is shown that...
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Is there sufficient allocation for children in the budgets? [HAQ CRC].
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This paper examines the labour market characteristics for adults and the entire population. Then it analyses challenges and opportunities in labour market for youth. Next, the paper discusses the existing and needed policies for taking care of the challenges in overall and youth labour markets....
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This paper attempts to analyse the benefit incidence of health spending in the context of India. Benefit incidence analysis (hereafter BIA) is used here. This is a methodology that addresses this question. It brings together the elements of the supply of and demand for public services and can...
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This booklet explains the SECC,2011, as it relates to rural India, and details the entire process in simple language. [Ministry of Rural Development]. URL:[http://rural.nic.in/sites/downloads/general/Caste_Census_book_indd.pdf].
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