Labour induction and augmentation with Prostaglandin and Oxytocin are well established as standard practice worldwide. They are safe when used judiciously, but may be associated with maternal and neonatal morbidities. Other safer alternatives have been studied including dates consumption during late pregnancy with various outcomes. The aim of this randomised controlled trial was to investigate ...

This study uses Indian unit record data from expenditure and employment surveys, in conjunction with State level indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than others, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics, on child labour and child schoolin...

In 1997 the New Labour government launched major initiatives in the area of financial regulation, consolidating regulation under a new Financial Services Authority and enacting new legislation that was proclaimed to be ‘light-touch’ and yet comprehensive. The new regime, widely admired in its initial years, came to be severely tested by the events of global financial crisis that started in 2007...

This paper develops a model of intellectual labor augmentation to explain both the marriage wage premium and educational assortative mating. We suggest that husbands and wives are complementary factors of production where a spouse’s education and skills augment their partner’s productivity and earnings potential. We test this proposition using data from the 2000 U.S. Census of Population and th...

Within the context of national and regional labour regulatory frameworks, this paper argues that distinctive and uneven landscapes of skill formation and labour regulation can also be identified at the local level. Within an urban situation, and drawing upon a study of skills training in Greater London, differential access to state-funded training provision is interpreted in terms of both the r...

BACKGROUND HIV screening in a labour ward is the last opportunity to initiate an antiretroviral prophylaxis among pregnant women living with HIV to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission. Little is known about the feasibility and acceptability of HIV screening during labour in West Africa. FINDINGS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the labour ward at the Tokoin Teaching Hospital in ...

This study portrays the extent of Domestic Child Labour (DCL) Students and mathematics learning at primary level mathematics. It concentrates on the specific themes of emerging research questions such as situation of learning environment to the DCL students, and influencing factors that affect the learning of DCL students in learning mathematics. In dealing with these research questions, I used...

Article history: Received 14 November 2014 Received in revised form 20 May 2015 Accepted 21 May 2015 Available online 29 May 2015 This paper investigates the relationship between political instability and labour market institutions. We develop a theoretical model in which political instability creates incentives for a government to introduce labour market regulation in the economy. The distorti...

Promoting child development and welfare delivers human rights and builds sustainable economies through investment in 'cognitive capital'. This analysis looks at conditions that support optimal brain development in childhood and highlights how social protection promotes these conditions and strengthens the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific. Embracing...