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Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations Development Program. Population share of the genders enter the formulation of these indicators in such a way that it favours the better performing gender. This can lead to...
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The popularly known Human Development Index (HDI) is obtained through linear averaging (LA) of indices in three dimensions - health, education and standard of living. LA method assumes perfect substitutability among the indices. We question its appropriateness and propose an alternative measure,...
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Using Minkowski distance function we propose a class of Human Development Index measures. Special cases of this turn out to be the popularly used linear average method as also a newly proposed displaced ideal method. Two measures of penalty are suggested. One captures the non-uniform attainment...
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South Asian organizations in countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are trying to professionalize management practices in recent years. Inspite of such efforts, employees indiscipline, politicised labor unions, low individual productivity, and unsatisfactory enterprise...
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We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is affected by country characteristics. We introduce a focus on a set of variables - namely factor endowments - which inuence the relative productivity of human capital in political versus production activities....
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India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues : employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …) : SEEPZ, Madras and Noida. The analysis reveals that employment generation has been the most important channel through which …
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The objective of this working paper is to examine the extent of employment oriented migration of females in India and … though the percentage is very small for employment oriented migration an analysis of work force participation of female … on the increase in response to the employment opportunities in export industries, electronic assembling and garment units …
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capital for domestic production as well as cross-border trading to generate income and employment, and attract talent to the …
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capital for domestic production as well as cross-border trading to generate income and employment, and attract talent to the …
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capital for domestic production as well as cross-border trading to generate income and employment, and attract talent to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278247