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Children not included in "Inclusive‟ Budget: Where is the "Aam Bachcha†in the Budget, Mr FM?
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2010
Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive†Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per … cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.63 paise to children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464833
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How Sapient is Homo Economicus? The Evolutionary Origins of Trade, Ethics and Economic Rationality
Basu, Kaushik; Guha, Ashok - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper argues that economism and, in particular, the individual drive to maximize utility and amass profit are not enough to ensure the efficient functioning of an economy; and that even for elementary economic activities, such as trade, exchange and contracting to occur smoothly, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512454
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Winners and Losers of State Electricity Boards Reforms : An Organisational Analysis
Ruet, Joel - eSocialSciences - 2008
formerly in the dark. This article aims at giving a detailed analysis of the working and the rationality within the â …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528186
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Pluralism, Tenancy and Poverty: Cultivating Open-Mindedness in Poverty Studies
Olsen, Wendy - eSocialSciences - 2008
, judgemental rationality and open systems are recommended for interdisciplinary investigations of poverty. [DSA, Annual conference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699110
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The Nature of the Beast: What Behavioral Economics is Not
Darling, Matthew; Datta, Saugato; Mullainathan, Sendhil - eSocialSciences - 2013
There are many misconceptions on what behavioral economics is. This is essay clearly says what is behavioral economics. [CGD essay].
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From Income to Urban Contest in Global Settings: Chronic Poverty in Bangalore
Benjamin, Solomon - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper is a research which studies the government policies and agendas that affect the poor in India. For the research 8 to 10 families, who had been intervened several years ago were re-interviewed to identify and explore the processes that reinforced or helped them escape the situation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512435
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A Report of Fact Finding Team on Children Rescued from Zari Industry, Delhi and Restored in Their Families in Various Districts in Bihar
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2009
Committee, Nirmal Chhaya, Delhi, to follow-up on the children rescued from the Zari industry in June 2005 and January 2006 by … adopt for procuring children from the source area and their proximity to the vulnerable families in order to assess the … possibilities and threats of children being re-trafficked. The ability of the traffickers to constantly lure young children in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512447
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Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2009 (Provisional)
Pratham, Pratham - eSocialSciences - 2010
The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
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K to 12: The Key to Quality Education?
eSocialSciences; Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO - 2012
The continuous deterioration of the quality of education in the Philippines has prompted the DepEd to push for the implementation of the K to 12 program, which entails the institutionalization of kindergarten and the addition of two more years of high school in the basic education cycle. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421316
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Is Economic Growth Associated with Reduction in Child Undernutrition in India?
Subramanyam, Malavika A; Kawachi, Ichiro; Berkman, Lisa F; … - eSocialSciences - 2011
association between changes in state per capita income and the risk of undernutrition among children in India were assessed. Data …, 1998–99, and 2005–06 in India. The sample sizes in the three waves were 33,816, 30,383, and 28,876 children …,326 children. URL:[http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000424]. …
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