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Child Poverty, Demographic Transition and Gender Bias in Education in India: Household Data Analysis (1993–94 and 2004–05)
Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
This paper begins by highlighting some key characteristics of the demographic transition and child education and their relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951–2001) and those from NSS surveys in 1993–94 and 2004–05. Although total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364039
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India's Gender Bias in Child Population, Female Education and Growing Prosperity: 1951–2011 with Projections to 2026
Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
Using Census and NSS data this paper studies the evolution of Gender Bias (GB) in the age group 0–6 in India and its association with education and higher prosperity. GB is pervasive and has grown over time with higher prosperity and resultant demographic transition and enhanced education. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318170
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The Determinants of Household Level Fertility in India
Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
Using NSS data for 1993-94 and 2004-05 this paper highlights the impact of growing incomes, social and household decisions of households, and regional and ethnic factors on patterns of household level fertility in India. These have helped determine the composition of India's young (aged 9 to 34)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762616
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A generic approach to investment modelling in recursive dynamic CGE models
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2015
There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252693
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The Returns to Occupational Foreign Language Use: Evidence from Germany
Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887011
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The emergence of China : opportunities and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean
Devlin, Robert (ed.); Estevadeordal, Antoni (ed.);  … - Inter-American Development Bank; David Rockefeller … - 2006
"The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean provides a comprehensive … overview of China's economic policy and performance over recent decades and contrasts them with the Latin American experience …. What are the underlying factors behind China's competitive edge? What are the strategic implications of China's rise for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003294883
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Repositioning in the Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post-MFA Era: Strategic Issues and Evidence from Sri Lanka
Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Ekanayake, Raveen - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
quota-free global market, large low cost countries (in particular China and India) and countries in proximity to the major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095316
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Sri Lanka's Trade Policy: Reverting to Dirigisme?
Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
This paper surveys recent development in Sri Lankan trade policy, with an emphasis on emerging protectionist tendencies, using Sri Lanka’s Trade Policy Review (2010) by the World Trade Organization as a reference point. The Sri Lankan experience for over the three decades following the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144021
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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters
Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653526
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The Impact of Foreign Labour on Host Country Wages: The Experience of a Southern Host, Malaysia
Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Devadason, Evelyn S - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of foreign labour on domestic manufacturing wages through a case study of Malaysia, a country where foreign labour immigration has played a key role in manufacturing growth over the past two decades. The main focus of the paper is on an econometric analysis of...
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