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Infant and Child Mortality in Andhra Pradesh: Analysing changes over time and between states

Masset, Edoardo; White, Howard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

of a two-thirds reduction by 2015. Yet, some countries and regions have achieved impressive reductions, Kerala in India …. We conclude that raising service levels across India toward the levels found in Kerala is a necessary step toward meeting …

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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging

Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013

The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …

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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues

Saikia, Dilip - 2017

In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...

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The Structural Relationship Between Current and Capital Account Balance in India : A Time Series Analysis

Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Jaydeep; Sinha, Tanaya - 2010

aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …

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Child Mortality In China And Vietnam In A Comparative Perspective

Alberto, Gabriele; Schettino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper analyzes China’s and Vietnam’s performance in reducing under-five child mortality in a comparative perspective. Under the market socialist model, both countries achieved very high rates of GDP growth, but income distribution and the provision of key public services deteriorated....

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The Intra-household Economics of Polygyny: Fertility and Child Mortality in Rural Mali

Kazianga, Harounan; Klonner, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child survival within the framework of the collective household model. We carry out a test of the implications of this framework with data from Demographic and Health Surveys in rural...

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The African Slave Trade and the Curious Case of General Polygyny

Edlund, Lena; Ku, Hyejin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

General polygyny -- near universal marriage and polygyny -- is common in Africa. But why would men marry n wives for 1/n:th of the time instead of monogamously? Downsides include prolonged bachelorhood and a high degree of step-parenting. We point to the African slave trade which...

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Wealthiest Is Not Always Healthiest: What Explains Differences in Child Mortality in West Africa?

Ickowitz, Amy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Ghana has the lowest under-five mortality rate in West Africa. Understanding why Ghana’s child mortality rate is lower than in neighboring countries may offer useful insights for other developing countries that are trying to improve child health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower...

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Contraception and the Fertility Transition

Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Chakraborty, Shankha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Three profound changes - the mortality, fertility and contraception transitions - characterized the Victorian era in England. Economists, following Becker (1960), focus on the first two and underplay the third by assuming couples can achieve their fertility target at no cost. The historical...

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Services-led industrialization in India: Assessment and lessons

Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

discusses the nature of services, their distinction from products, and their categorization. It provides an overview of India … growth potentials. Based on this evidence, it appears that India’s manufacturing sector development may have been constrained … of different growth paths, the challenges of education and manpower training to support and sustain India’s development …

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