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Return migration and health has received little attention in policy and research. This article will focus on the risk … factors and social determinants of health during all phases of migration that can impact the health of returnees. It will … highlight the diversity of returning migrants and illustrate through examples how return migration can influence the health of …
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Vietnam's (re) discovery in recent years by the international investor community gives the country a second chance to become and Asia tiger. The article looks into the economic, social, political, performance of the country.
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This paper focuses on social cleavages based on class , caste,religion and ethnicity in India. It examines the … ethnicity help to mutually reinforce one another. It presents Indian evidences in order to demonstrate the link between social …
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Does a social scientist need to renounce his ethnicity in order to be objective and unbiased? The issue of how and why …
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An extensive literature reflects millennia of concern over what we humans call ourselves and others. All life sciences are now grappling further with how to categorize and study the nearly infinite polymorphisms within and among “species†as awareness grows that the species concept...
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In this paper the issue of high dropout rates in India is examined which has adverse implications for human capital formation, and hence for the country’s long term growth potential. Using the 2004-05 National Sample Survey employment-unemployment survey data, transition probabilities of...
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In this paper the author analyzes the pros and cons of combining data from different sources to revisit some explanatory problems. The problems discussed have risen from a theoretical and analytic gap between people’s outlooks and values on the one hand, and their social circumstances on...
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The present study attempts to capture chronic poverty in Sri Lanka by examining general information on poverty and drawing conclusions on those who are likely to be among the chronic poor. Certain population groups that are likely to experience poverty over many years (or all their lives) are...
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The Pendang parliamentary and Anak Bukit by-elections for the Kedah state legislative assembly were among the most contentious of by-elections in recent Malaysian politics. Held simultaneously on 18 July 2002, the elections had arisen as a result of the death of the incumbent for both seats,...
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Evidence is presented to show that shared codes, religious beliefs, ethnicity - cultural proximity - between lenders …
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