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  Improving maternal and child health in India: evaluating demand and supply side strategies (IMATCHINE)

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  Over the past decade, the Central government and various State governments in India have introduced a range of programs aimed at improving maternal health indicators. A central feature of several of the new programs is to encourage pregnant women to deliver their babies in designated medical facilities rather than at home.
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  The economics and psychology of long term savings and pensions: a randomised experiment among low-income entrepreneurs in Maharashtra, India

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  It is widely accepted that access to banking can provide both growth and security to vulnerable households. It is also well understood that poor households, especially in developing countries, tend to be underserved by credit markets. In recent decades, the question of credit has emerged as a major focus in development economics.
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  “If we eat well, we can study”: Dietary diversity in the everyday lives of children in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India

  Young Lives, 2015

  Dietary diversity refers to the number of foods consumed over a specific period of time. Research shows that dietary diversity is associated with the appropriate intake of essential macronutrients (carbohydrates, fats and proteins) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals), as well as with better nutritional outcomes in both children and adults.
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  A wide angle view of learning Evaluation of the CCE and LEP programmes in Haryana, India

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  Current enrollment rates at the primary school level in India are well over 95 per cent, and dropout rates do not appear to increase dramatically with age - children between the ages of 11 and 14 are only three percentage points more likely to be out of school than children between the ages of 7 and 10.
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  Does building more toilets stop the spread of disease? Impact evidence from India

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  Over one-third of the 2.5 billion people worldwide who do not have access to improved sanitation live in India. Nearly 69 per cent of the population practise open defecation. Typically, the government of India’s national sanitation schemes have focused on building more latrines for reducing open defecation, health-related illness and child malnutrition.
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  Implementing energy subsidy reforms: evidence from developing countries

  World Bank, 2013

  This report aims to provide the emerging lessons from a representative sample of 20 country case studies that could help policy makers to address implementation challenges, including overcoming political economy and affordability constraints, by looking at complementary instruments to compensate vulnerable groups for energy price increases.
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  Reforming the liability regime for air pollution in India

  Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 2015

  The recent uproar about the toxic levels of pollution in the country’s national capital region has once again brought to fore the failure of the regulatory and legal mechanisms in India to control air pollution.
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  Low-carbon south Asia: India

  Christian Aid, 2014

  A key development challenge for India is addressing poverty and deprivation through inclusive sustainable development. One-third of the global poor, living on less than $1.25 a day, are in India – the highest in any country. In 2009/10, the number of people living below the official Indian poverty line was 354.7 million – 29.8 per cent of India’s population.
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  Towards upscaling the application of low-carbon and energy-efficient technology in the construction sector in South Asia - cases of India, Nepal and Pakistan

  Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, 2015

  The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is a network of 22 governments in the Asia-Pacific region that promote research, the participation of developing countries in research, and strengthens the links between policy-makers and scientists.
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  Making space for women in urban governance? Leadership and claims-making in a Kerala slum

  Environment and Planning A, 2015

  This paper looks at the role of gender in the shaping and exercise of political authority. Its empirical focus is a slum in central Trivandrum, Kerala's capital city, which is undergoing a phased process of formalisation and rebuilding funded through a flagship Indian national programme, the JNNURM.

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