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composite indices based on available important techniques using 12 indicators variables on health and education. The findings …
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The role of human capital (education and health) is recognized both in theoretical and empirical economic literature …. Better education and health services enhance productivity and earnings of the workers. So the present study is an attempt to … for the analysis. Three equations have been estimated by using the ordinary least square method. Education and health …
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Education in every sense is one of the fundamental factors of development. No country can achieve sustainable economic … development without substantial investment in human capital. Education enriches people’s understanding of themselves and world. It … improves the quality of their lives and leads to broad social benefits to individuals and society. Education raises people …
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This paper provides new evidence on the consequences of foetal exposure to high levels of pollution for the risk of stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes from a persistent weather system that affected...
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child. By setting standards in health care; education; and legal, civil and social services, it tried to protect the basic …
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Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
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India also guarantees certain child rights covering basic issues, like ‘health’, ‘education’ and protection from ‘hazardous …
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education. India is ranked 134th on the Human Development Index (2011 ranking). Public expenditure on human development is given … indicated by Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2009, in terms of realization of objectives of Right to Education Act and … consequently the increased public funding of primary education, the situation is grim. Similarly the ambitious program like …
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unhappy or very unhappy feelings. The rest of the factors such as income, education, age, gender, and employment status are …
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This paper explores the causal pathway by which poor fetal health translates into reducing educational attainment and earnings as an adult. Using insights from the medical literature, I decompose low birth weight infants into two distinct subtypes: a symmetric type, which is characterized by...
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