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Gambling on the Private Sector at the Cost of the Working Class: NTUI Statement
Mody, Gautam - eSocialSciences - 2013
The budget offers no programme for job creation or any substantive policy measures to contain inflation that continues to erode the real wage while it commits itself to cash transfers and cuts in subsidies all of which will contribute to further worsening the economic condition of the working...
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From Theory to Practice: Translating Research into Health Outcomes
Medicine, PLoS - eSocialSciences - 2008
Commenting on recent research articles which look at the potential health benefits of behaviour change, the PLoS Medicine Editors say that publication of the findings of such research is only one part of the behaviour-change process.
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Controlling Money and Politics – An Exercise in Damage Control
Walecki, Marcin - eSocialSciences - 2008
Whether there should be transparency in political finance? Whether there should be a control over the money that the political parties are receiving?
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Judicial Assault on Workers Rights
Rights, PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic - eSocialSciences - 2008
The last twenty years have witnessed a sustained attack on the working class and workers’ rights in India by both capital and the state. Certain practices and tendencies became more obvious by the 1990s. Most of them were not new, but the fact is they have been increasing, intensifying,...
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Regulate the Share Markets and Save the Country
Kango, Bhalchandra - eSocialSciences - 2011
The 1% rich and powerful have found the Occupy Wall Street movement unsettling and have also made attempts at curbing its influence and outreach. It is now possible for stock-traders in international share-markets to increase or decrease the prices of shares overnight and display their control...
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"I did not ask for it". Sexual Harassment: Impressions from Mumbai
Gartenberg, Indira; Priya, Lakshmi - eSocialSciences - 2011
Sexual harassment is a global issue. In a recent case in Mumbai, two young men, Keenan Santos (24) and Reuben Fernandez (29) were stabbed on 20 Oct 2011 while confronting some unknown men eve-teasing their female friends. Santos and Fernandez had to lose their lives in refusing to accept this...
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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomised Experiments in India
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Cole, Shawn; Linden, Leigh - eSocialSciences - 2006
to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …
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Civil Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation: The Long Term Effects of Political Violence in Perú
Leon, Gianmarco - eSocialSciences - 2010
.21 less years of education as an adult. In the short-term, the effects are stronger than in the long run. Further, children …
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The Great Education Muddle: State Failure and Judicial Jigsaw
Radhakrishnan, P. - eSocialSciences - 2005
A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 … consideration the size of the age-cohort population in the relevant age-groups, and cover all issues relating to higher education … such as ensuring social justice through education for all, relevance of public-private partnership, admission policy …
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Participation in a School Incentive Programme in Karnataka
Bernhardt, Sharon - eSocialSciences - 2006
Development education policy has recently focused on school-based recognition and conditional cash transfer programs to … that focus on levels (rather than changes) of achievement can exacerbate inequality in education. In addition, our findings …
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