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Flying with the Crane-Recapturing KMVS’s Ten-Year Journey
Ramachandran, Vimala; Saihjee, Aarti - eSocialSciences - 2009
This document is at the behest of KMVS and is an effort to hold up a mirror to their journey. It is a documentation of their history, context, evolution, and experiences since its emergence in 1989. Additionally, it is also an attempt to critically foreground and map out the conceptual...
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Sri Laka Budget Speech
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka - 2008
2008 Budget presented by His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaksa
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Government Intervention in Commercial Crop Development: Case of Flue Cured Virginia Tobacco
Mani, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2010
industrial products through the establishment of state-owned enterprises. [Working Paper No. 243] …
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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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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - eSocialSciences - 2013
aimed at improving labor market outcomes of women residing in low-income households in a developing country. [IGC working …
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Participation in Economy
eSocialSciences; Central Statistical Organization CSO - 2014
This is the 4th Chapter of the report 'Women and Men in India' by CSO. Although women constitute a little less than the …
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The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low-and-Middle Income Countries
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Hansen, David; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries? A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked to household demographics shows that the gender gap appears to increase with age. It is shown that...
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The Youth of Arab Spring
Al Jazeera . - eSocialSciences - 2013
Al Jazeera Centre for Studies recently conducted an opinion poll, surveying 8,045 young men and women from Tunisia …
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Applying an Equity Lens to Maternal Health Care Practices in Pakistan
Mahmood, Naushin; Bashir, Saima - eSocialSciences - 2012
The focus of this study is to see how equitable the access and utilisation of health services are among married women … of health care among married women beginning in the urban areas and more recently spreading to rural areas. Among the … level of women improves utilisation of maternal health care services. The inequity pattern disfavouring the poor and the …
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Draft National Land Reforms Policy
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Rural Development GOI - 2013
marginalized, especially marginalized women. Policy provisions are also made in Draft for Discussion Purposes and Comments such a …
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