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Can rigorous impact evaluations improve humanitarian assistance?
(Routledge, 2017)
Each year billions of US-dollars of humanitarian assistance are mobilised in response to man-made emergencies and natural disasters. Yet, rigorous evidence for how best to intervene remains scant. This dearth reflects that ...
Maternal health situation in India: A case study
(International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
Since the beginning of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, India has accounted for at least a quarter of maternal deaths reported globally. India's goal is to lower maternal mortality to less than 100 per 100,000 livebirths ...
Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency across the spectrum of glucose intolerance
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)
Background: Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is inversely associated with insulin resistance. We studied the prevalence of VDD across the spectrum of glucose intolerance, including normal glucose tolerance (NGT), prediabetes ...
Maternal healthcare financing: Gujarat's Chiranjeevi scheme and its beneficiaries
(International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
Maternal mortality is an important public-health issue in India, specifically in Gujarat. Contributing factors are the Government's inability to operationalize the First Referral Units and to provide an adequate level of ...
Covid-19 and Domestic Violence: an Indirect Path to Social and Economic Crisis
(Springer, 2020)
Purpose: We intend to identify the links between Covid-19 and domestic violence, expose the potential reasons behind an increase in domestic violence cases due to Covid-19, and argue that rising incidence of domestic ...
Getting the measurement right! quantifying time poverty and multitasking from childcare among mothers with children across different age groups in rural north India
(Routledge, 2020)
Existing research suggests that women spend a disproportionate amount of time on unpaid housework and childcare compared to men. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on unequal time burdens due to childcare among ...
Data aggregation for p-median problems
(2011)
In this paper, we use a pseudo-Boolean formulation of the p-median problem and using data aggregation, provide a compact representation of p-median problem instances. We provide computational results to demonstrate this ...
Sales training: A state of the art and contemporary review
(Elsevier Doyma, 2015)
Organizations of today face numerous challenges, and training their sales force is definitely high on its agenda. This paper endeavors to contribute to the sales training field by providing a comprehensive state-of-the art ...
Explore the Indian telemedicine industry- current positioning, potential growth, challenges being faced and relevant business models
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
According to WHO, Telemedicine refers to “the delivery of health care services, where distance is a critical factor, by all health care professionals using information and communication technologies for the exchange of ...
Indian agriculture: retrospective and prospects
(2001-07-17)
As India has depend almost exclusively on her own efforts and resources, she must not depend too much on external markets in the short run. She must economize on resources in all fronts ans channel them towards building ...