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that women and children suffer greater poverty than in households which conform with a more common (and idealised) male … imagined not only to compromise the material well-being of children, but to compound other privations – emotional … the start that children have in life, nor of their trajectories into adolescence and adulthood. On the basis of such …
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for children. Within the child budget, the share of education and child protection has indeed increased when compared to …
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Most studies on poverty alleviation and reduction programmes emphasize structural bottlenecks, asymmetric information, and rent seeking behaviour. This paper provides an analytical characterization of the beneficiaries in a situation of much structural and conditional rigidity, where all...
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So what’s social policy got to do with economic growth? Quite a lot, it would appear, if one takes the results of cross-country growth regressions at face value, as they are by many social policy analysts, even as they criticize the findings of the economic policy part of the very same...
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During the period 1972-73 to 2004-05 in rural India, the total number of workers expanded more in the non-farm sector than the farm sector with the rise in male workers being sharper than that of female workers. This enquir,y primarily based on NSS data, throws up ample evidence of the...
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