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Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the … article identifies what seems to be the lack of a ‘politics of poverty' in India and the various cultural, historical … perceptions of India's new economic policy. The article first situates itself within the context of new theoretical literature on …
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poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which …. Countries with low post-childbirth poverty include those with an explicit pro-natalist orientation and socio-democratic regimes …. High post-childbirth poverty rates are found in pro-traditional and South European conservative countries, and especially …
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This paper examines the evolution of the breadth and target of social policy in the US. By analyzing LIS household data from the US, the paper brings fresh evidence to longstanding debates over how inequality influences income redistribution, whether a welfare retrenchment has occurred, and...
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This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade … of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3 … reducing poverty among people in need. This study has also highlighted how the Russian society is now slowly acquiring those …
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classes, i.e. Scheduled Castes, in India. We have looked at the impact of types of government on the reduction of the gap …-party majoritarian government is better at reducing the gap in terms of poverty and school drop-out rates, improves the employment …
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of India plays a vital role in regulating the caste system in the Indian society. In one hand it tries its best to … this situation Article 15(4) was inserted in to the Constitution of India. It says that State is not prevented to make any … not regard that class as backward class within this Article. Secondly, poverty alone can be the criteria to determine the …
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, STs & OBCs) and their health status in Jammu & Kashmir. In the context of India as well as Jammu & Kashmir, the existence … than all India level …
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The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using …
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In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
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