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Post-Doctoral Fellowship

WEBThe Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF) Programme has been instituted in IGIDR as part of its outreach activities. Its objective is to support high quality research by scholars with a doctoral degree and an outstanding academic record. Two fellowships are available for the year 2024. The fellowships are granted for an initial period of one year

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Synergies in Social Protection : Impacts of India s MGNREGA …

WEB1 Synergies in Social Protection Impacts of India’s MGNREGA and Public Distribution System on the health and nutrition of Women and Children1 Sudha Narayanan, Karthikeya Naraparaju, Nicolas Gerber2 Abstract

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Rural women s empowerment in nutrition: a proposal for …

WEBï ã a proposal for diagnostics linking food, health and institutions 1 Sudha Narayanan, Marzia Fontana, Erin Lentz, and Bharati Kulkarni 2 1 This paper was written as a contribution to the Expert Group Meeting on the priority theme of the 66 th xx ò

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Women s nutritional empowerment and their well-being …

WEBWP-2019-004. Women s nutritional empowerment and their well-being Identifying key drivers in India and Bangladesh. Sudha Narayanan, Udayan Rathore, Mohit Sharma Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai February 2019. Women s nutritional empowerment and their well-being Identifying key drivers in India and Bangladesh.

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Can Insurance Reduce Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health …

WEBThe paper brings out the importance of medical insurance in reducing the probability of catastrophic OOP health payments. The results also show that presence of senior members, education of head of the household and income increase the probability of incurring catastrophic OOP health expenditure.

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The Women s Empowerment in Nutrition Index

WEBWe find that our index is significantly associated with these outcomes, indicating that in rural South Asia, the women s empowerment in nutrition index can assist researchers to understand the nutritional status of women and their families. Keywords: gender, rural, nutrition, South Asia, empowerment JEL Code: J16, D63, I00. 1.

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Morbidity and Health Care in Kerala

WEB3 Morbidity and Health Care in Kerala: A Distributional Profile and Implications M.H. Suryanarayana 1. Introduction Conventional emphasis in public policy for economic growth and development has

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Impact of Public Spending on Health and Education of …

WEBWP-2014-049 Impact of Public Spending on Health and Education of Children in India: A Panel Data Simultaneous Equation Model Runu Bhakta Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai

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Measuring Human Development Index: The old, the new and …

WEB2 1. Introduction In the human development paradigm the emphasis is on human beings as ends in themselves and not so much as means of development.3 Further, the ends can be in multiple dimensions. It is in this context that Mahbubul Haq, the founder of Human Development Reports (HDR),4 considers one-dimensionality as the most serious …

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Take home rations (THR) and cash transfers for maternal and …

WEB4 debates are ongoing both within and outside the Government, particularly in the context of a larger shift towards Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT). 8 On November 14, 2018, the National Council on India ¶s Nutritional Challenges announced that it would pilot a cash transfer

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Covid-19: Impact on the Indian Economy

WEB2 India recorded the first case of the disease on January 30, 2020. Since then the cases have increased steadily and significantly. At the time of writing of this chapter (July 2nd week, 2020), and as shown in figure 1, India has recorded the third highest Covid-19 caseload in the world after the United States and Russia with

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Counting the Poor: Measurement and Other Issues

WEB3 Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in 1958. This poverty line was widely used in the 1960s and 1970s to estimate the poverty ratio at national and state level.

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POVERTY IN INDIA: MEASUREMENT, TRENDS AND OTHER …

WEB2 In India, we have had a long history of studies on measurement of poverty 1.The methodology for estimation of poverty used by the Planning Commission has been

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Deprivation and vulnerability among elderly in India

WEB3 economic condition of older women is more vulnerable in the context of the demographic and socio cultural change (Tout 1993). The situation of the elderly poverty has been a consistent

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Gender Development Index: Two Corrections

WEB2 ‘Missing women’ is the term coined by Sen (1992) to describe the deficit of women in Asia and North Africa. This term is used in the present paper as an analogy to describe disadvantaged gender. 3 The maximum value for each of the three indices is considered as ideal in each dimension.

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Analysing Catastrophic OOP Health Expenditure in India: …

WEBwhere household cannot borrow. Flores et al. (2008) presented revised definition of catastrophic OOP health expenditure after accounting for sources used to finance health expenditure. They showed that if the method of financing is …

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Food Consumption and Nutritional Status in India: Emerging …

WEBTable 2: Average Per Capita Calorie Intake and its Growth Rate in India Decile Classes K. Cal./day Rural 1972-73 1977-78 1993-94 1999-2000 1972-2000

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