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Remoteness and Unbalanced Growth: Understanding Divergence Across Indian Districts
Das, Samarjit; Ghate, Chetan; Robertson, Peter E. - eSocialSciences - 2013
The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given the relatively free flows of capital, labor and commodities across state borders. A new data set of district level income and socio-economic data is used to explore the...
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Climate Variability and Internal Migration: A Test on Indian Inter-State Migration
Dallmann, Ingrid; Millock, Katrin - eSocialSciences - 2013
Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological indicators of climate variability, based on the standardized...
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Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with West Bengal Potato Farmers
Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; Torero, Maximo; … - eSocialSciences - 2013
farmers and local trade intermediaries, in West Bengal, India is conducted. Farmers in randomly chosen villages were provided …
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Impact of Private Tutoring on Learning Levels: Evidence from India
Dongre, Ambrish; Tewary, Vibhu - eSocialSciences - 2014
correlated with learning outcomes. This paper utilizes a large household survey conducted in rural India, and employs Fixed …
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Growth of the Urban Shadow, Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities and Commuting by Workers in Rural and Urban India
Sharma, Ajay; Chandrasekhar, S. - eSocialSciences - 2014
paper fills this gap by using a nationally representative data set from India to analyze factors that affect the decision of …
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Participation in Decision Making
eSocialSciences; Central Statistical Organization CSO - 2014
This is the 5th chapter from the report 'Women and Men in India 2014' by CSO. This is shows the participation of women … in India. …
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Address by the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee to Parliament
Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2013
Reviving economic growth is the priority of the government. [http://presidentofindia.nic.in/sp210213.html].
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Growth and Deprivation in India: What Does Recent Data Say?
Motiram, Sripad; Naraparaju, Karthikeya - eSocialSciences - 2013
The report investigate the relationship between growth and deprivation in India, an issue of immense interest. Given … the continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, they used a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of …
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Incidence of Poor and Poverty Risk in India across NSS Regions for Rual and Urban Areas, 2004-05 and 2009-10
Mishra, Srijit - eSocialSciences - 2014
This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for 2004-05 and 2009 …
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Child Focussed Questions in Parliament in 2012
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2013
One third of the population of India are children below the age of 18 years. They are citizens of this country. Even …
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