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Book Review: Microfinance-Is it a means of Empowering Women?
Das, Sanchita; Sen, Anwesha - eSocialSciences - 2010
Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250471
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Flying with the Crane-Recapturing KMVS’s Ten-Year Journey
Ramachandran, Vimala; Saihjee, Aarti - eSocialSciences - 2009
This document is at the behest of KMVS and is an effort to hold up a mirror to their journey. It is a documentation of their history, context, evolution, and experiences since its emergence in 1989. Additionally, it is also an attempt to critically foreground and map out the conceptual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543112
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Commercialisation of Microfinance in India: A Discussion on the Emperor’s Apparel
Sriram, M S - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper looks at the growth and commercialization of microfinance in India. It starts out be looking at how the … commercial microfinance has evolved internationally by discussing two specific examples and then moves on to examine the … specifics cases of four large microfinance institutions in India. The basic argument of the paper is that most of the early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008544604
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An Ethnographic Study on Women in Prostitution in Bihar
Srivastava, Nina - eSocialSciences - 2008
looked into the complementary role of NGOs, civil society, family. Interviews with 55 female sex-workers in the Chaturbhuj …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528256
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Hobbes, Coase and Baliraja: Equity and Equality in Surface Water Distribution
Sivramakrishna, Sashi; Jyotishi, Amalendu - eSocialSciences - 2008
It is attempted to understand the implications of equality in water distribution on social welfare with a simple abstract analysis using Leontief-type fixed production function.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487599
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Interest Groups and Patent Reform in India
Ramanna, Anitha - eSocialSciences - 2009
important industry groups who revised their positions, and new NGOs that promoted reform. The preferences of actors and their … of a pro-reform constituency among industry and NGOs. Yet preference formation is complex and depends on interpretation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042383
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Incentives in Elementary Education - do They Make a Difference
Ramachandran, Vimala; Mehrotra, Nishi; Jandhyala, Kameshwari - eSocialSciences - 2009
This study tried to bring together the experiences of different approaches to incentives followed by six NGOs in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009916
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Social Protection for Informal Workers: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Mechanisms
Unni, Jeemol; Rani, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper presents a broad definition of social protection to include basic securities, such as income, food, health and shelter, and economic securities including having income generating productive work. A conceptual framework is developed to analyse the causes of insecurities of informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543086
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Note on the Maharashtra Government Resolution, April 2006
Rights, Child; CRY, You - eSocialSciences - 2009
The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act was passed in 1986. It banned Child Labour from a list of hazardous industries, and over the next 25 years, continued to add sectors and tasks to the list of ‘hazardous’ ones, thus gradually increasing the scope of the act to cover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543108
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Voluntary Organisations, NGOs and the ‘Politics of Development’ in India: A Critical Exploration
Sarkar, Swagato - eSocialSciences - 2006
of the voluntary sector, NGOs in particular, as a representative in this contested domain. It argues that the critique of … NGOs cannot be simply directed at foreign aid, but to NGOs’ capacity to absorb ‘intellectuals’, by providing a … effect of NGOs then actually relates to the crisis faced by the ‘intellectuals’ and their role in society, rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699353