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Intergenerational Persistence of Industry of Employment in India

Nandi, Tushar K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper studies the intergenerational persistence of industry in India. Using data from a nationally representative …

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Impact of Alternative & Innovative Education Programmes: A Study of Bridge Course Centres in Bardhaman District

Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

all children under coverage of Elementary Education, which sadly has not been possible yet in India. Policy makers have … India through some of its alternative, innovative, and flexible programs. In this paper we examine the performance of one of …

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Regional Disparities in Poverty and Education in India

Sivakumar, Marimuthu; Vijay, M - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

India is a witness of regional disparities in many sphere of socio- economic development. On one side, world’s majority … of new billionaires are in India and on the another side, India has majority of poor people. Like that, in development … (education) in India with the emphasis on State wise analysis. The elasticity concept has used to study the relationship between …

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Primary completion rates across socio-religious communities in West Bengal

Husain, Zakir; Chatterjee, Amrita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Primary completion rates of Muslims in West Bengal are substantially lower than that of upper caste communities as well as backward castes, scheduled castes and tribes. Further, analysis of age-specific pcr indicates that differences in pcr between Muslims and other communities may have actually...

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Analysing demand for primary education: Slum dwellers of Kolkata

Husain, Zakir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The low level of literacy within the Muslim community is traditionally explained in terms of the conservative values characterising Muslim society. Based on a field survey of slum dwellers in selected areas of Kolkata, this article argues that economic factors and uncertainties in the labour...

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Human Development Measurement: A broader approach in India

Sarvalingam, A; Sivakumar, Marimuthu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

How can we measure economic development? Is it in money terms or in human terms? If it is the second one, how can we measure economic development in human aspects? These questions had been asked and argued for several years. Human development concept and its index gives answer for these...

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Human Deprivation Index: A Measure of Multidimensional Poverty

Sivakumar, Marimuthu; Sarvalingam, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Poverty is multidimensional in nature. Poverty is associated not only with insufficient income or consumption but also with insufficient outcomes with respect to health, nutrition, and literacy and deficient social relations, insecurity, and low self-esteem and powerlessness. Since poverty is a...

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Gender disparities in primary education across siblings: is intra household disparity higher in regions with low child sex ratios?

Husain, Zakir; Dutta, Mousumi; Saha, Manashi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Strong son preference in developing countries often motivates parents to undertake sex selection at birth, infanticide, and subsequent neglect of daughters, leading to low child sex ratios in these countries. An interesting question is whether such attitudes also lead to gender discrimination in...

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Educational and occupational mobility across generations in India: social and regional dimensions

Ray, Jhilam; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

intergenerational mobility in both educational and occupational attainments for diverse social groups in India to understand the inertia … market. Regional disparities in mobility levels indicate that states in India have had different social processes in force. …

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Intergenerational mobility in educational & occupational attainment: a comparative study of social classes in India

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

India to understand the inertia of discrimination prevalent. Results indicate strong intergenerational stickiness in both …

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