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The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level …
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urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …
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This paper explains the gaps between official objectives and the actual accomplishments of the Aquino government, with an emphasis on the implementation record of agricultural-based strategies. Summary of the lessons learned is provided. [Discussion Paper NO. 94-01]....
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individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on … Employment - Unemployment Survey 1999-2000 (EUS) provided by the National Sample Survey Organisation. A broad descriptive socio …-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate …
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This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and …
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analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …
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How does growth actually trickle down to remove an individual’s poverty? Is it through increases in employment? What … people become poor in the first place? What pathways lead people downward into poverty? The results of some recent research … show that health is, indeed, closely related to the accretion and persistence of poverty. Those who fall into poverty and …
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There are three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital … channels. ‘Employment generation’ has been the most important channel through which SEZs lend themselves to human … development concerns, in India. Employment generated by zones is remunerative. Wage rates are not lower than those prevailing …
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This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this context, this paper examines an interventionist ICT policy undertaken by Kudumbasree (an innovative...
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social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …
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