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Appropriating the Abject: An Anthropophagic Approach to Organizational Diversity
Islam, Gazi - HAL - 2013
identity and otherness. To show how this perspective contributes to understandings of diversity and difference, I read …-coloniality and discussing its relations with diversity and difference. …
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Appropriating the Abject: An Anthropophagic Approach to Organizational Diversity
Islam, Gazi - HAL - 2013
identity and otherness. To show how this perspective contributes to understandings of diversity and difference, I read …-coloniality and discussing its relations with diversity and difference. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026175
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Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?
Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell - CESifo - 2012
This paper addresses whether children’s exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability …-age population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using data from Norway, a country where around 10% of the working …-age population rely on disability benefits, we find that the amount of time that children are exposed to their fathers receiving …
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High Level Expert Group Report on Universal Health Coverage for India
Commission, Planning - eSocialSciences - 2011
The recommendations that follow take cognizance of the extraordinary opportunities that India offers – and the possibility for India to take a lead in introducing a well-designed UHC system that is eminently suited to the needs and resources of countries at a similar level of development....
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The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2007
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2012
With the aim of better regulation of traffic systems in cities, this Bill amends the existing Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Among other provisions, it makes way for state governments to allow recognised automobile associations to issue driving certificates. It also lays down a higher penalty...
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Disability in India: Issues and Concerns
Chaudhuri, Leni - eSocialSciences - 2006
The disabled are deprived of all opportunities for social and economic development. The basic facilities like health, education and employment are denied to them. In spite of several international and national pronouncements the rights of the disabled has remained on paper. Given the magnitude...
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Encountering Disability: The Making and Unmaking of DEvelopment Categories in the Third World
Anand, Shilpaa - eSocialSciences - 2006
social and legal construction of disability from a human rights perspective. …
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Geodisability Knowledge Production and International Norms: A Sri Lankan Case Study
Campbell, Fiona Kumari - eSocialSciences - 2006
In this paper I argue that United Nations norm standard setting, as a form of geodisability of knowledge which delimits and denotes the kinds of bodies known as disabled, is a technology for reining in, and thus controlling anomalous/disablized bodies. A discussion of geodisability knowledge...
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Forgotten Youth: Disability and Development in India
Singal, Nidhi - eSocialSciences - 2008
In 2001, it is estimated that 270 million Indians belonged in the 12-24 years age group. While attention is being focused on these young people’s potential for social transformation, some of them – such as those with disabilities – remain alienated from mainstream debates on...
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Choosing to Live: Guidelines for Suicide Prevention Counselling in Domestic Violence
Burte, Aruna; Deosthali, Padma; Rege, Sangeeta - eSocialSciences - 2005
Nearly a million people take their own lives every year, more than those murdered or killed in war. Suicide is a problem that affects people of all ages and economic levels, and is recognised by the WHO as a significant public health problem. A large significant proportion of suicides are among...
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