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Socio-Economic Characteristics of the Tall and not so Tall Women of India
Viswanathan, Brinda; Sharma, Viney - eSocialSciences - 2011
New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult women. [WOrking Paper No. 41]. URL:...
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - eSocialSciences - 2007
The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. [IZA Discussion Paper No. 115].
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Health and nutrition profile of children in rural Kerala: A call for an action
Vipin chandran, K.P - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Child health as an area of policy option has been given much attention by health economists, public health experts, planners etc. children are vital to the nation’s present and her future. The increasing interest on child health and nutrition has been justified on many ways. Under five years...
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Central Asia after fifteen years of transition : growth, regional cooperation, and policy choices
Dowling, John Malcolm; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2006
Republics (CARs) since 1990. The focus is on the pattern of growth and structural change during the cycle of decline and …
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The role of structural change in European regional productivity growth
O'Leary, Eoin; Webber, Don J. - In: Regional studies 49 (2015) 9, pp. 1548-1560
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Transition economics meet new structural economics : editorial introduction
Berglöf, Erik; Lin, Justin Yifu; Radošević, Slavo - In: Journal of economic policy reform 18 (2015) 2, pp. 89-95
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Performance of the service sector in the Republic of Korea : an empirical investigation
Park, Donghyun - 2012
prospects as an engine of growth. Our analysis resoundingly confirms the conventional wisdom of an underperforming service …
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The service sector in Asia : is it an engine of growth?
Park, Donghyun; Shin, Kwanho - 2012
The underdeveloped service sector in Asia has the potential to become a new engine of economic growth for developing … Asia, which has traditionally relied on export-oriented manufacturing to power its growth. The central objective of this … paper is to empirically analyze the prospects for the service sector as a future engine of growth. Our analysis of 12 Asian …
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From tradition to modernity : economic growth in a small world
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2012
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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa
Page, John M.; Shimeles, Abebe - 2014
Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors … - has not featured in Africa's post-1995 growth story. As a result, the region's fastest growing economies have the least …
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