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Provisional Population Totals: Rural Urban Distribution India: Series I
eSocialSciences - 2011
The rural-urban distribution of the population is shown. URL:[http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/india/paper2_1.pdf].
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Living Rough: Surviving City Streets
Mander, Harsh - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper records the findings of a small investigation into a fragment of experiences of people living on streets and into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, boys and girls in four cities: the metropolises of Delhi and Chennai, and the cities of Madurai...
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Rural Labor and Rural Nonagricultural Activities in the Philippines
Sanchez, Maria Teresa C - eSocialSciences - 2012
The study examines the different aspects of labor in the rural household economy. It identifies the factors that significantly determine the rural households' labor allocation decisions. Moreover, it also looks at how the availability and growth of rural nonagricultural employment opportunities...
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Draft National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy
eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2012
The National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy reaffirms the commitment of the Government of India to provide integrated services for holistic development of all children, along the continuum, from the prenatal period to six years of age. The Policy lays down the way forward for a...
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VIllage Economics and the Structure of Extended Family Networks
Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Rangel, Marcos A; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and … inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-village extended family networks in 504 poor … rural villages are constructed. Family networks are larger (both in the number of members and as a share of the village …
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Social Security Nets for Marine Fisheries
Paul, Antonyto; Kurien, John - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper attempts to explain the provision of social security in the fisheries sector of Kerala State in south India. It enumerates the salient achievements and the problems faced by the state in providing concrete social security measures for fishworkers. They were a section of Kerala society...
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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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The Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2011
A bill to lay down judicial standards and provide for accountability of judges and establish credible and expedient mechanism for investigating into individual complaints for misbehaviour or incapacity of a judge of the Supreme Court or of a High Court and to regulate procedure for such...
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Book Review: Inside the Indian Family
Patel, Tulsi - eSocialSciences - 2008
Review of: Democracy in the Family: Insights from India. Edited by Joy Deshmukh-Randive Sage Publications. New Delhi …
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Populations at Risk: Other End of Youth Bulge
Priya, Lakshmi - eSocialSciences - 2011
While there is much written on the youth bulge in developing countries, little is being done to address the problems of the elderly. And yet demographically, it is this section that is showing high growth rates.
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