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Employment Guarantee For Rural India, A Ganesh-Kumar, Srijit Mishra, Manoj Panda
Employment Guarantee For Rural India, A Ganesh-Kumar, Srijit Mishra, Manoj Panda
Srijit Mishra
A report of a round-table discussion held in Mumbai in November 2004 on the proposed employment guarantee programme.
Secluded And Proximate Illiterates Among Couples: Implications On Health Of Women And Children, Srijit Mishra, Udaya Shankar Mishra
Secluded And Proximate Illiterates Among Couples: Implications On Health Of Women And Children, Srijit Mishra, Udaya Shankar Mishra
Srijit Mishra
This paper uses NFHS-2 (1998-99) data to explore certain linkages between literacy status of a couple (husband and wife) with outcomes like household standard of living index (SLI) and others having implications on women and child health. An attempt has also been made to link the proximate criterion in literacy in the couple domain with outcome variables such as SLI, instances of sickness among women from specific diseases as asthma, TB, malaria and jaundice; linkages with indicators like under-nutrition in women have also been analysed. The exercise affirms the advantage of proximate illiteracy over the secluded illiterate in terms of …