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National Human Development Report 2001
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2007
of the society where it is applied. It is therefore necessary for countries like India to develop a contextually relevant … Development Report 2001, India]. …
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Brand India: No Equity for Children
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2011
India has embarked upon an economic model driven by the free market incorporating processes of liberalisation … commitment to its children? URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/Brand%20India%20No%20Equity%20for%20Children.pdf]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367214
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Water in India: Situation and Prospects
Prakash, Anjal; Sharma, Medhavi; Chourey, Jayati - eSocialSciences - 2013
India, based on secondary information. It maps the current challenges and suggests feasible alternatives amidst increasing … water scarcity and disenfranchisement of resource bases for the poor and the marginalised. [UNICEF, FAO, SaciWATERs]. URL:[http://www.unicef.org/india/Final_Report.pdf]. …
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Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Duflo, Esther; … - eSocialSciences - 2014
The paper examines individuals’ abilities to identify the highly central people in their social networks, where centrality is defined by diffusion centrality (Banerjee, Chandrasekhar, Duflo, and Jackson, 2013), which characterizes a node’s influence in spreading information. It...
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Labour Market in Urban Agglomerations: A case from an Indian Global City
Paul, G.D Bino; M, Krishna Krishna - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global cities. To capture the role of labour market in urban agglomeration, particularly pooling of labour and concentration of economic activities, the paper present a case study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319328
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Governance in Public Transport Systems: Comparing Indian Railways and Airways
Goyal, Ashima - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper examines the basic reasons and feasible remedies for organizational weakness, and the possible contribution of ownership, industry and management structure, leadership, social norms, and institutional incentives to alleviating the weaknesses in the Indian context. The arguments are...
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Why India Needs the Women’s Reservation Bill
Dubochet, Lucy - eSocialSciences - 2014
Nine out of ten parliamentarians in India are men. Such dismal figures reveal the lasting grip of unfavourable social …
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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the …
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In the Balance: Press Freedom in South Asia 2007-2008
Muralidharan, Sukumar - eSocialSciences - 2008
The challenges for journalists and the media community in South Asia encompass a range of factors that indicate the level of press freedom in any country: Physical attacks, threats and questionable legal actions directed against journalists, media workers and media institutions with the...
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The Action Plan on Climate Change, G8 Declaration and the Accra Climate Change Meet: Points to Ponder
eSocialSciences; Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD - 2008
India, the largest economy of South Asia, has recently announced its National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC …). This is of special significance given the mounting pressure on fast growing economies like India, China and Brazil from the …
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