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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world’s working-age (15–64) population over the next … several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor …
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Rural Labor and Rural Nonagricultural Activities in the Philippines
Sanchez, Maria Teresa C - eSocialSciences - 2012
The study examines the different aspects of labor in the rural household economy. It identifies the factors that … significantly determine the rural households' labor allocation decisions. Moreover, it also looks at how the availability and growth … of rural nonagricultural employment opportunities affect the rural households' labor allocation decisions and the rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541433
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Kerala-The Land of Development Paradoxes
George, K.K.; Kumar, N. Ajith - eSocialSciences - 2012
An attempt has been made to understand the paradoxes of Kerala's development like the state's per capita consumer expenditure is more than the per capita state domestic product. But the nutritional intake is low. [CSES working paper 2]....
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Crime, City and Space: A Case of Mumbai Megapolis
Shaban, Abdul - eSocialSciences - 2009
The present study has been an attempt to examine spatial distribution of various forms of crimes in Mumbai city (Municipal Corporation) and find out their correlates. More specifically the attempts have been made to find out ‘hotspots’ of various forms of crimes, to analysed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004087
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Looking Beyond Literacy: Disparities in Levels of and Access to Education in a Kerala Village
Scaria, Suma - eSocialSciences - 2010
population despite high literacy, universal enrollment in schools and relatively better infrastructural facilities. In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677770
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The Impact of Slum Resettlement on Urban Integration in Mumbai: The Case of the Chandivali Project
Vaquier, Damien - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper studies the socio-economic impact of the shift of slum dwellers to new rehabilitation site of Chandivali. It also discuses the issue of availability and choice of employment as a key driver towards socio-economic urban integration.
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'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)
Chakravarty, Deepita; Chakravarty, Ishita - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].
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VIllage Economics and the Structure of Extended Family Networks
Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Rangel, Marcos A; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
population) and out-migration is lower the poorer and the less unequal the village of residence. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512432
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Social Security Nets for Marine Fisheries
Paul, Antonyto; Kurien, John - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper attempts to explain the provision of social security in the fisheries sector of Kerala State in south India. It enumerates the salient achievements and the problems faced by the state in providing concrete social security measures for fishworkers. They were a section of Kerala society...
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Trends in Diversion of PDS Grain
Khera, Reetika - eSocialSciences - 2011
This article estimates the proportion of grain "diverted" from the Public Distribution System (PDS) to the open market, using the well-established method of matching state offtake figures published by the government, with household purchase reported by the NSS. The limitations of this...
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