Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 261
Cover Image
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 two decades. Using two datasets—the Pakistan Demographic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945229
Cover Image
Employment and Poverty in India: 2000-2005
Sundaram, K. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper is principally focused on the changes in the size and structure of work force and the changes in labour productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a sharp acceleration in work force growth, and, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487545
Cover Image
Effect of Mobiles on Socio-economic Life of Urban Poor
Sarin, Ankur; Jain, Rekha - eSocialSciences - 2009
women far more likely than men to be only infrequent mobile users or not to have access at all. While cost of a handset is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991494
Cover Image
'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].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540528
Cover Image
Combining Data, Enhancing Explanation
Irwin, Sarah - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper the author analyzes the pros and cons of combining data from different sources to revisit some explanatory problems. The problems discussed have risen from a theoretical and analytic gap between people’s outlooks and values on the one hand, and their social circumstances on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512446
Cover Image
Poverty Dynamics in Rural Sindh, Pakistan
Lohano, Hari Ram - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512466
Cover Image
Asia Enters an Era of Strife
Wesley, Michael - eSocialSciences - 2009
The author argues that deep-seated religious conflicts will mar the region's prospects unless nations truly embrace secularism.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512491
Cover Image
Ramadan Effect on Price Movements: Evidence from Pakistan
Akmal, Muhammad; Abbasi, Muhammad Usman - eSocialSciences - 2011
Ramadan in Pakistan. For this purpose, the ARIMA methodology (simple and extended form), along with simple graphical and … scenario analysis, has been applied on the monthly data for overall, food and non-food indices of consumer prices in Pakistan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002266
Cover Image
Contribution of Services Sector in the Economy of Pakistan
Ahmed, Ayaz; Ahsan, Henna - eSocialSciences - 2011
The services sector has provided steady support to Pakistan’s economic growth. It share in GDP now stands a more than 50 percent. The paper analyses its continuation in the growth of the economy in general and the development of trade and genera tion of employment in particular. The study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009392233
Cover Image
Power, Profits and Inflation: A Study of Inflation and Influence in Pakistan
Ali, Syed Ozair - eSocialSciences - 2012
The analysis seeks to look at inflation as a political economic phenomenon, based on a framework devised by Jonathan Nitzan and christened differential accumulation. The theory of differential accumulation rejects the conventional definitions of capital and draws upon Veblenian economics to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393103