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Post-Independence Educational Development among Women in India
Pandey, Balaji - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper aims to examine the policy debates on women's education and highlight some of the basic issues affecting the … progress of women's education since the introduction of planned development in the country. [CWDS]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480370
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High Level Expert Group Report on Universal Health Coverage for India
Commission, Planning - eSocialSciences - 2011
The recommendations that follow take cognizance of the extraordinary opportunities that India offers – and the possibility for India to take a lead in introducing a well-designed UHC system that is eminently suited to the needs and resources of countries at a similar level of development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645209
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Inequalities Reinforced? Social Groups, Gender and Employment
N, Neetha - eSocialSciences - 2013
Based on the last four rounds of NSS data the study explores some dimensions of women’s labour market participation across social groups. [CWDS Occasional Paper No.59]. URL:[http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPaper/OccasionalPaper59.pdf].
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Role of Collective Agency in Gender Rights
Patel, Vibhuti - eSocialSciences - 2014
The fact that progress in equal rights for women has come about largely through the efforts of social reform movement in the 19th century and women’s liberation movement in the 20th century Maharashtra highlights the essential role of collective agency in human progress. Given the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133203
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Emerging Asia's Middle Class-A Force to be Reckoned With
Dyck, Steffen; Hansakul, Syetarn; Saxena, Rachna - eSocialSciences - 2009
The emergence of a large and dynamic middle class raises Asia’s profile as an attractive market destination for products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that the Asian consumer will replace the US as “world consumer of last resortâ€,...
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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 in Pakistan. It examines the changes in the pattern of maternal health care practices and the extent to which inequities in access to those services have changed over the past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945229
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K to 12: The Key to Quality Education?
eSocialSciences; Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO - 2012
The continuous deterioration of the quality of education in the Philippines has prompted the DepEd to push for the … high school in the basic education cycle. The proposal has spurred a heated debate on whether it could lead to improvements … or just exacerbate the present state of education in the country. [PB-11-02]. URL …
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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
domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540528
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995034
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Are Patients in the Transition World Paying Unofficially to Stay Longer in Hospital? Some Evidence from Kazakhstan
Thompson, Robin; Xavier, Ana - eSocialSciences - 2010
stay, severity, unofficial payments and socio-economic characteristics (age, gender, occupation and income) from a survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505785