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Combining Data, Enhancing Explanation
Irwin, Sarah - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper the author analyzes the pros and cons of combining data from different sources to revisit some explanatory problems. The problems discussed have risen from a theoretical and analytic gap between people’s outlooks and values on the one hand, and their social circumstances on...
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Women, Work and Insecurities in India
Unni, Jeemol; Rani, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2007
The poor women in developing countries are burdened with the dual responsibility of taking care of housework and the need to supplement household income to meet the subsistence needs. The on-going flexibalisation process world over has no doubt created new jobs, most of them informal, but they...
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Girls in Science and Technology Education: A Study on Access, Participation, and Performance of Girls in Nepal
Koirala, Dr. Vidya Nath; Acharya, Dr. Susan - eSocialSciences - 2010
was undertaken essentially to achieve four objectives, viz. to review curricular and research materials from gender lens …) related subjects, find out the forces that are both conducive as well as obstructive to STE for girls, and work out measures … reviewed the report. And, a national workshop provided necessary input to finalize the STE work plan.[UNESCO Kathmandu Series …
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High Level Expert Group Report on Universal Health Coverage for India
Commission, Planning - eSocialSciences - 2011
The recommendations that follow take cognizance of the extraordinary opportunities that India offers – and the possibility for India to take a lead in introducing a well-designed UHC system that is eminently suited to the needs and resources of countries at a similar level of development....
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Whither Human Capital? The Woeful Tale of Transition to Tertiary Education in India
Chakrabarty, Manisha; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2012
In this paper the issue of high dropout rates in India is examined which has adverse implications for human capital formation, and hence for the country’s long term growth potential. Using the 2004-05 National Sample Survey employment-unemployment survey data, transition probabilities of...
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Selection into Worst Forms of Child Labor: Child Domestics, Porters and Ragpickers in Nepal
Edmonds, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2007
A large literature considers why children work, but little is known about why children participate in activities that …
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Voices from the Margin: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Northeast Thailand: Pak Mun Dam
Jenkins, Katie; McGauhey, Lyndia; Mills, Wesley - eSocialSciences - 2012
The protests against the Pak Mun Dam are amongst the longest running in the world. The dam is also one of the most studied, in part because it had all the features of a failed development policy: no participation of local people in the decision making process, a flawed Environmental Impact...
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper estimates the short-and-medium-run effects of participating in a sub- sidized vocational training program aimed at improving labor market outcomes of women residing in low-income households in a developing country. [IGC working paper].
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Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and Informal Economy in India: Trends, Initiatives and Challenges
Dhanya M.B - eSocialSciences - 2013
This work examines the status of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW) in the informal economy in India and …
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Driving Force: Labour Struggles and Violation of Rights in Maruti Suzuki India Limited
Rights, PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic - eSocialSciences - 2013
As reports of severe harassment of Maruti workers and their families trickled in in late July 2012, Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) undertook a fact finding investigation into the incident, its context and implications. [PUDR]....
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