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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal

Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...

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Proximate Determinants of School Dropout: A study on Rural West Bengal

Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

School dropout has emerged as major hindrance to human capital formation in developing countries globally and efforts are on to stem this. The present paper attempts to identify proximate determinants of school dropout and suggest policies to tackle the problem in India context by using field...

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Proximate Determinants of School Dropout: A study on Rural West Bengal

Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In recent days, controlling school dropout has emerged to be the prime hindrance to spread literacy and formation of human resource thereby. The present paper is an attempt to identify proximate determinants of school dropout and suggest probable solutions to the problem. Status of enrollment &...

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Productivity Growth in Small Enterprises - Role of Inputs, Technological Progress and 'Learning By Doing'

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) in an overpopulated developing economy serve the dual role of job-creation and shifting the occupational structure. However, their contribution to the overall health of the economy are being questioned on grounds of low productivity and economic viability....

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Emergence of Knowledge Society: The Indian Scenario

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Knowledge Society is characterised by recognition of knowledge as main source of efficiency, competitiveness, and … of ‘Knowledge Economy’ in OECD countries and its emergence in the developing countries. This new model of growth and … development, depending more on human knowledge and efficiency rather than on difficult to disperse physical capital, is supposed …

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Unemployment among educated youth: implications for India’s demographic dividend

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Researchers claim that India is poised for reaping demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income-employment situation utlising the relatively larger share of youth or working age persons in total population. However, the outcome depends on the contribution of youth to national...

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India’s demographic dividend: opportunities and threats

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Demographic transition creates a small window for countries to leverage their demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income-employment situation. This opportunity comes in the middle stage of demographic transition when the population pyramid shows signs of maturity and bulges in...

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Workers on the move: migrated labour in post-reform india

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Migration is a universal phenomenon. From time immemorial women and men have travelled in search of better living. Historical nomadic instinct of man had been in tune with his necessities – more endurable climate, adequate water supply, fertile land and general availability of resources have...

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Intergenerational mobility in educational & occupational attainment: a comparative study of social classes in India

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Discrimination against specific ethnic groups transcends the boundary of current generation and perpetuates across future generations as well. This is manifested as low Intergenerational Mobility in terms of both Education and Occupation in developing countries in general, and among specific...

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A quarter of a century: mobility and stagnation in India’s rural labour market

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Transformation of the countryside from agrarian subsistence economy to non-farm monetised economy is propagated as a precursor of growth and development and involves shifting of labour from farming to off-farm activities. India has started its journey in this path but has a long way to go....

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