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Gender Equality Must Become A Lived Reality: Gender Budgeting, Our First Step Towards It
Dutta, Rituparna - eSocialSciences - 2014
prioritize the needs of women in order to work towards gender equality. For example, in the health sector, males and females have …The term gender budgeting has become a catch phrase to describe various government initiatives that seek to address … gender issues in the domain of public expenditure and policy. In India, the strategic framework for gender sensitivity in …
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Can Government-Allocated Land Contribute to Food Security? Intrahousehold Analysis of West Bengal’s Microplot Allocation Program
Santos, Florence; Fletschner, Diana; Savath, Vivien; … - eSocialSciences - 2014
Secure land rights are a critical, but often overlooked, factor in achieving household food security and improved nutritional status in rural areas of developing countries. This study evaluates the impact of India’s land-allocation and registration program in West Bengal, a program that...
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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 in Bangladesh
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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Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Female Teachers
Muralidharan, Karthik; Sheth, Ketki - eSocialSciences - 2013
developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. The gender gaps in …
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Financial Literacy among Working Young in Urban India
Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Barua, Samir K; Jacob, Joshy; … - eSocialSciences - 2013
dimensions of financial literacy among the working young in urban India. While the influence of several factors such as gender …
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India Migration Bibliography
Tumbe, Chinmay - eSocialSciences - 2013
The India Migration Bibliography covers over 3,000 books, research articles and reports written on the subject of internal migration, international migration and diaspora, related to India. The bibliography is inter-disciplinary and provides sections with selected publications by themes,...
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