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The Gender Differences in School Enrolment and Returns to Education in Pakistan
Qureshi, Madeeha Gohar - eSocialSciences - 2013
In this study attempt has been made to link the gender differences in parental resource allocation in demand for … education at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education to gender differences in returns to education in these …
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How Do Intrahousehold Dynamics Change When Assets are Transferred to Women? Evidence from BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor Program...
Das, Narayan; Yasmin, Rabeya - eSocialSciences - 2014
BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in Bangladesh are studied, which targets asset transfer (primarily livestock) and training to rural women in poor households. The intrahousehold impacts using mixed methods are...
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A Gender-Based Theory of the Origin of the Caste System of India
Bidner, Chris; Eswaran, Mukesh - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper proposes a theory of the origins of India’s caste system by explicitly recognizing the productivity of women in complementing their husbands’ skills. Its interesting to know the emergence of caste system its hereditary nature, its insistence on endogamy (marriage only...
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Budget Speech 2013-2014
Chidambaram, P - eSocialSciences - 2013
Budget Speech by Chidambaram.
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Why India Needs the Women’s Reservation Bill
Dubochet, Lucy - eSocialSciences - 2014
political life. Six decades have gone by since Independence brought hopes that democracy would equilibrate gender representation … gender imbalance at higher political levels remains unaddressed. After decades of delays and posturing, it is time to pass …
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Migration and Chronic Poverty
Kothari, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper provides an overview of conceptual understandings of, and methodological research issues on, the relationship between chronic, or long-term, poverty and processes of migration. The paper presents a framework to enable an analysis of social relations and processes of exclusion, and the...
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Looking Beyond Universal Primary Education: Gender Differences in Time Use among Children in Rural Bangladesh
Chandrasekhar, S.; Amin, Sajeda - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper addresses gender equity in parents‘ educational investments in children in a context of rising school … Bangladesh Adolescent Survey, we analyze correlates of time spent in school, studying outside school, and work, using a data set … on time-use patterns of school-going children and adolescents. We find that time spent in work varies inversely with the …
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