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Effect of Employment Guarantee on Access to Credit : Evidence from Rural India
Saraswat, Deepak - 2011
for poverty alleviation, adopted by Government of India since independence. It was implemented in year 2006, starting with … the first phase of 200 most backward districts in India. Two more consecutive phases were implemented to cover all rural … regions in India but, even after almost 6 years of its implementation, it has not been adequately analyzed for its effect on …
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The Geography of Development within Countries
Desmet, Klaus; Henderson, J Vernon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This chapter describes how the spatial distribution of economic activity changes as economies develop and grow. We start with the relation between development and rural-urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural-urban distinction, we then focus on the continuum of locations in an economy...
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Indian Direct Investment in Developing Countries : Emerging Trends and Development Impacts
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash - 2009
This study has analyzed the overall and regional trends in Indian direct investment flows into developing region since 1960s and explored various development impacts they have on host developing countries. Evidence tends to indicate that developing region was the initial destination for Indian...
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The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2007
The role of improved schooling, a central part of most development strategies, has become controversial because expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved economic conditions. This paper reviews the role of education in promoting economic wellbeing, with a particular focus on the...
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Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries
Behrman, Jere R. - 2019
Parental human capital and endowments may affect children's human capital, which in turn may affect children's earning and occupations and thus affect social mobility. This paper focuses on what we know about these possible links in low- and middle-income countries. It starts with definitions of...
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The quality of medical advice in low-income countries
Das, Jishnu; Hammer, Jeffrey S.; Leonard, Kenneth - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 22 (2008) 2, pp. 93-114
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India : skilled migration to developed countries, labour migration to the Gulf
Khadria, Binod - In: Migration and development : perspectives from the South, (pp. 79-112). 2008
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The quality of medical advice in low-income countries
Das, Jishnu; Hammer, Jeffrey S.; Leonard, Kenneth Lynch - 2008
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The Quality of Medical Advice In Low-Income Countries
Das, Jishnu - 2008
and middle-income countries-India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Paraguay. The authors describe two methods-testing doctors and …
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Cities, Lights, and Skills in Developing Economies
Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2019
premia. This paper characterizes the spatial distributions of skills in Brazil, China, and India. To facilitate comparisons …. These lights-based metropolitan areas mirror commuting-based definitions in the United States and Brazil. In China and India … agglomeration is also skill-biased in Brazil, China, and India.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and …
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