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Karnataka Yeshasvini Health Insurance Scheme: Towards Comprehensive Health Insurance Coverage in Karnataka?
Kuruvilla, Sarosh; Liu, Mingwei; Jacob, Priti - eSocialSciences - 2006
This is a case study of the Yeshasvini Health Insurance Scheme for rural farmers and peasants in Karnataka. The scheme, now in its second year of operation, covers 2.2 million farmers and peasants who pay an annual premium of Rupees 60 ($1.50) for comprehensive coverage of all surgical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487812
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AT Times When Limbs May Fail: Social Security for Unorganised Workers in Karnataka
Rajasekhar, D.; Suchitra J.Y.; Madheshwaran S.; … - eSocialSciences - 2006
Policy makers, therefore, often encounter the following questions while formulating the social security schemes. What are the priority social security needs of unorganized workers? What existing mechanisms and strategies do they use to meet the social security needs? Do social security needs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341656
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Research Ethics in Use of Statistical Methods*
Mishra, Udaya S. - eSocialSciences - 2006
and the manner in which research findings are disseminated. This leads to a consideration of two levels of ethics while …
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Ethics of Social Research
Bose, Pradip Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2006
As society develops, it is important to keep ethical problems under continuing scrutiny and debate. It should also be recognized that a productive balance is between society’s need for knowledge and its member’s need for protection against intrusion, inconvenience, or discomfort....
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Ethics and the World of Finance
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2009
How do we, as individuals, approach issues of ethics and values? Are our approaches different in our personal and … professional lives? Are issues of ethics different in the financial sector? What are the ethical issues thrown up by the current … crisis? Has economics, as an academic discipline, lost its value base? Is that the root cause for the malaise in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025322
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Building World Class Businesses for the Long Term
Lee, Gillian; Malone, Roger - eSocialSciences - 2012
This report identifies some of the factors complicating the debate on role of the company in society. It focuses particularly on the changing models of ownership and differing time horizons and on how these have interacted in some ases to produce undesirable consequences.
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Liberty and Individualism in Gandhian Perspective: Implications for Sustainability of Societies
Iyengar, Sudarshan - eSocialSciences - 2006
facilitating agency is free. At the other end are the communism and socialism. Recent changes and developments have caused …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528121
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China’s Socialist Market Economy: Lessons for Democratic Developing Countries
Virmani, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper’s focus is on successful Chinese policies that can be emulated by other countries to an extent (within certain bounds) which mentined in the article. The author is not trying to draw lessons for China itself on what policies it should correct or how China can do better in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990959
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Towards Gender-Balanced Leadership: What has not Worked and What May?
Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper analyzes the the dynamics of gender balance in the corporate world. It examines the present scenario of leadership in this sector and the reasons of lack of female leaders.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752771
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Ethics Without Borders
eSocialSciences; Plos medicine Editors - 2009
The authors shows the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and also notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pragmatic. It discusses particularly the role of journals when papers arising from such research...
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