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Home-based Work in India: A Disappearing Continuum of Dependence?

Unni, Jeemol - eSocialSciences - 2006

In India, the recent decade has seen particularly dynamic changes in the economy due to the economic reforms. This might have had a significant impact on the labour markets and also led to expansion of markets. The growth of home-based work is viewed within the context of expansion of markets...

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Government Structure and Labour Market Outcomes in Garment Embellishment Chains

Unni, Jeemol; Scaria, Suma - eSocialSciences - 2010

The perspective of global commodity chain or GCC framework and social embeddedness are used to understand the organizational and social linkages in the embellishment production network in garment industry. The findings are based on the fieldwork conducted in Bareilly situated in Uttar Pradesh,...

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Agrarian Reform for a Liberal Pattern of Society? Karnataka's Land Policy and the New Dispensation

Herring, Ronald - eSocialSciences - 2006

It is puzzling how much the discourse of development has backed away from the seemingly central question of rural poverty: land. Elaborate rules concerning its distribution, rights, regulation, protection, utilities have multiple development objectives, but poverty alleviation, individual...

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Differential Impact of Development Interventions on Multiple Ethnic Groups

Conroy, Czech - eSocialSciences - 2008

This paper looks at the effects on livestock of silvi-pasture development on common lands in relation to (a) ruminant systems and (b) livestock numbers and ownership patterns in Rajasthan, India. [SDC Knowledge Management Platform Series 1]

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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China

Miquel, Gerard Padro-i-; Qian, Nancy; Yao, Yang - eSocialSciences - 2013

This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/366.pdf].

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Location Identification for Rapid Evacuation from a Disaster Site: A Case Study from KAPS

Roy, Debjit; Sharma, Anuj - eSocialSciences - 2014

affected area for our purposes, data on various aspects like distance of each village from the radiation source, its road … each village and its respective rallying post while providing the detailed evacuation route for each village. A resource … optimizing heuristic is proposed to allocate transportation resources to each village. …

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The Impact of NREGA on Rural-Urban Migration: Field survey of Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu

Jacob, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2013

Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go to cities to find work because they cannot survive on what they can earn in their own villages. Can NREGA be used to curb rural urban migration? [CCS Working Paper No. 202].

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Manual for Integrated District Planning: Report of the Task Force of the Planning Commission

Commission, Planning - eSocialSciences - 2014

This manual is a step by step guide to district planning which will assist planners at the local, district and State levels. District planning, by taking into account resources locally available, infrastructure status and gaps, the aims and vision of the local people and weighing options of lead...

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Labour Migration and Remittances in Uttarakhand

Jain, Anmol - eSocialSciences - 2012

The type, volume, and mode of transfer of remittances in Uttarakhand is analysed. The impact of remittances, in terms of both financial flows and transfer of new skills and the perceptions in relation to poverty, development, and gender are studied. The study focused on the hill state of...

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Does the System of Rice Intensification Outperform Conventional System? A Case Study of Gujarat

Pathak, Jharna - eSocialSciences - 2011

The paper examines the farm level performance of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of paddy cultivation as against the traditional method. The role of NGOs in raising awareness among farmers about the SRI technique as also of agricultural extension services in general. [Working Paper...

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