enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion …

If one were to look at the process of economic development as one where individuals experience improvements in the … suffering from limitations of birth, sex, caste, creed, language, class, etc, then social development becomes tantamount to … economic development. Adopting this broader view of economic development, means a commitment to seeing economic policies …

education. Too little is spent on primary education—the category of education of most direct benefit to the poor—while on … average public subsidies to secondary education are roughly three times as high as subsidies to primary education, and … subsidies to tertiary education are thirty times as high. In consequence, the higher income deciles benefit disproportionately …

Early childhood education is a widely accepted term to describe a program aimed at providing all round development for …

National Curriculum Framework as a means of evolving a national system of education, recommending a core component … derived from the vision of national development enshrined in the Constitution. The Programme of Action (POA, 1992) elaborated …

The process of development, in any society, should ideally be viewed and assessed in terms of what it does for an … average individual.For any approach or development framework to be meaningful and effective in directing public policies and … programmes it has to be anchored in a social context. More importantly, it should reflect the values and development priorities …