Week # 7-8: Role of Government for provision of education, health & Sanitation

  • Education
  • Estimating rate of return to education
  • Measuring contribution of education to economic growth
  • Role of women in economic development
  • Women’s education
  • Women’s health and Mother’s Index
  • Policies to reduce gender gap
  • Nutrition
  • Water
  • Health
  • Killer diseases: Malaria, Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS
  • Other diseases and health expenditure
  • Impact of ill health on growth and development
  • Defining Institutions
  • Role of institutions
  • Measuring institutions
  • Institutions versus geography
  • Role of democracy

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