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The Clash Within: Democracy and the Hindu Right
Nussbaum, Martha - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 9 (2008) 3, pp. 357-375
The Gujarat pogrom of 2002 is evidence of a profound crisis in India's democracy. Samuel P. Huntington's influential … victory of respect over violence can learn from the case of India, where a wise institutional structure and a genuinely free … press are major assets in resisting the call to hate. On the other hand, India's current lack of emphasis on critical …
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What Constrains Business? The Role of the ‘Single Window’ in Gujarat, India
D'souza, Errol - eSocialSciences - 2011
The investment climate of a region reflects the location specific factors that provide opportunities and incentives for firms to invest, create jobs, and expand. A good investment climate removes unjustified costs, risks, and barriers to competition and encourages firms to invest and...
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Newsletter on Regional Economy: A bi-monthly four state update from IRIS India
IRIS, IRIS India - eSocialSciences - 2008
A monthly compilation by IRIS.
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Bihar’s Miraculous Economic Performance: Myth or Reality?
Ghatak, Shambhu - eSocialSciences - 2010
The Indian media has wrongly compared Bihar's (that is, 11.03per cent) average annual growth during the period 2004-05 to 2008-09 with that of Gujarat (that is, 11.05per cent). While the media has quoted the Gross State Domestic Product at factor cost (at constant 1999-2000 prices) data as...
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Working Women And Security: Self Employed Women's Association's response to crisis
Vaux, Tony; Lund, Francie - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 4 (2003) 2, pp. 265-287
India's Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is an organization of women who work informally. Between 1989 and 2001 …
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Refining State Level Comparisons in India
Bhandari, Pranjul - eSocialSciences - 2013
The performance of Indian States are analyzed across three critical sectors – health, education and infrastructure are analyzed. An index is constructed for each using the Principal Component Analysis technique. This technique assigns weights according to the relationship between the...
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Activism and awareness
Davenport, Christian; Trivedi, Priyamvada - In: Journal of Peace Research 50 (2013) 3, pp. 369-383
Gujarat, India, we find support for our argument. Specifically, Dalits who engaged in nonviolent action which increased either …
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Utilization of trawl bycatch in Gujarat (India)
Zynudheen, A.A.; Ninan, G.; Sen, A.; Badonia, R. - In: Naga 27 (2004) 3-4, pp. 20-23
India, particularly in the state of Gujarat, which contributes about 23 percent of the total marine fi sh landings in the …
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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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Incidence of Poor and Poverty Risk in India across NSS Regions for Rual and Urban Areas, 2004-05 and 2009-10
Mishra, Srijit - eSocialSciences - 2014
This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for 2004-05 and 2009 …
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