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Women and Migration: Creating New Identities
Davin, Delia - eSocialSciences - 2006
The cultural demands made of women by migrant communities struggling to establish a new identity and the stereotypes of women of other races often promoted by host communities are important forces in shaping the way in which women live their lives as migrants.
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Report on National Mineral Policy
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2007
other resource countries such as Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, and Indonesia. It is imperative that the bottlenecks in …
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Swine Flu Casts its Spell across the Globe
Mavani, Rajeev - eSocialSciences - 2009
The swine flu has come to India also. What measures have been taken by the government to fight against the pandemic?
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The Global Race for Excellence and Skilled Labour: A Status Report
Rollwagen, Ingo; Renkin, Tobias - eSocialSciences - 2012
In this context, higher education as well as research and development (R&D) have long since ceased to be purely the domain of the developed Western economies. Numerous regions of the world, some in the emerging markets in particular – the often-cited BRIC countries – are catching...
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Trading with Asia’s Giants
Bosworth, Barry - eSocialSciences - 2008
India represents a sharp contrast to China in the small size of its goods trade. Although India’s GDP is a third that … of China, its global trade is only about 12 percent as large while its trade with United States is less than 10 percent … as large. Even more striking, Japan’s trade with India is less than 5 percent of its trade with China. The large U …
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Gender Disaggregated Analysis of South Gujarat Tribals: Role of Social Capital in Human Development
Nanavati, Arti - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper, based on ‘capabilities’ approach, analyses the ‘development outcomes’ forf ‘tribals’ of rural south Gujarat and examines the relative roles of physical, human and social capital within a gender disaggregated framework.
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Women’s Right To Land, Assets, And Other Productive Resources: Its Impact On Gender Relations And Increased Productivity
Rao, Nitya - eSocialSciences - 2006
It is often assumed that poverty reduction would lead to gender equality. Research however, points to the opposite, namely, that increasing prosperity can have perverse gender effects . It is therefore important to make a conceptual distinction between projects that seek to reduce poverty and...
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High Achievement in Mathematics and the Girl Child
Giri, Satyendra N. - eSocialSciences - 2006
This article reports on an investigation of the position of girls in respect of high achievement in mathematics. It is also aimed to collect and accumulate the reflections of of peopla asociated with mathematics teaching or research about such achievements of the girl child. Preliminary results...
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Gender Equality as Smart Economics: A World Bank Group Gender Action Plan (Fiscal Years 2007-10)
eSocialSciences; World Bank - 2006
An action plan to emplement World Bank's strategies.
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Book Review: Being Mothers
Yesudian, P. Princy - eSocialSciences - 2007
Review of Janani: Mothers, Daughters, Motherhood edited by Rinki Bhattacharya; Sage India, New Delhi, 2006; Pp 200, Rs. 280.
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