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Who Goes? Failures of Marital Provisioning and Women's Agency among Less Skilled Emigrant Women Workers from Kerala
Kodoth, Praveena - eSocialSciences - 2014
women, narrowing the material base from which aspiring migrants are drawn and rendering their agency suspect but emigrant …
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Migrants' Private Giving and Development: Diasporic Influences on Development in Central Gujarat, India
Guha, Puja - eSocialSciences - 2013
The paper addresses the migration-development debate by developing a framework for understanding who are the migrants … backgrounds and migration histories of migrants – in terms of their destination of migration, duration of stay, and occupation … central region of Gujarat, India as a reference case, it traces the pattern of private giving by migrants from the region and …
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Economic and Social Dynamics of Migration in Kerala, 1999-2004 Analysis of Panel Data
Rajan, S. Irudaya; KC, Zachariah - eSocialSciences - 2007
Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method, however, was used in the South Asia Migration study (SMS) conducted by the Centre for...
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The International Mobility of Technical Talent: Trends and Development Implications
D'Costa, Anthony P. - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper charts the complex dynamics of the movement of technical talent in the world economy and assesses broadly the impact of such mobility on both sending and receiving countries. Based on secondary data and primary information from the Indian and Japanese IT industry, the study presents a...
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The International Mobility of Talent and its Impact on Global Development
Solimano, Andrés - eSocialSciences - 2010
Human talent is a key economic resource and a source of creative power in science, technology, business, arts and culture and other activities. Talent has a large economic value and its mobility has increased with globalization, the spread of new information technologies and lower transportation...
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Impact of Remittances on Poverty in Developing Countries
Banga, Rashmi; Sahu, Pritish Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2010
This study undertakes impact analysis of remittances on poverty in developing countries at two levels. Firstly, it estimates the impact of remittances on poverty in 77 developing countries; Secondly, separate analyses are undertaken for 29 developing countries and 21 Asian developing counties,...
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Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and Informal Economy in India: Trends, Initiatives and Challenges
Dhanya M.B - eSocialSciences - 2013
This work examines the status of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW) in the informal economy in India and locates the gaps and challenges in ratifying the ILO Conventions 87, 98, 138 and 182. The study also tries to identify various gaps in the existing data base of the informal...
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Social Inclusion of Internal Migrants in India
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF - eSocialSciences - 2013
Social Inclusion of Internal Migrants in India aims to provide an overview of existing innovative practices that … increase the inclusion of internal migrants in society and act as a living document that would inspire and assist professionals … and governments officials in their attempts to facilitate the social inclusion of migrants. Through this publication …
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Seize the Spotlight: A Case for Gulf Cooperation Council Engagement in Research on the Effects of Labor Migration
Clemens, Michael - eSocialSciences - 2013
Labor migration to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has massive effects on the GCC, the countries migrants come … from, and the migrants themselves and their families. Yet existing research on the effects of Gulf migration is marked by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945311
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Women's Migration, Urban Poverty and Child Health in Rajasthan
Kumar, Maya Unnithan; MCNAY, K; CASTALDO, A - eSocialSciences - 2014
with a fifth of the urban population living below the poverty line and in slums. Increasing numbers of poor migrants in …
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