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This Report is focused on the informal or the unorganized economy which accounts for an overwhelming proportion of the poor and vulnerable population in an otherwise shining India. It concentrates on a detailed analysis of the conditions of work and lives of the unorganized workers consisting of...
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The paper aims at understanding the reasons which influence migration and mobility choices, ways by which vulnerabilities can be managed and the role that local, national and regional policy responses can play in strengthening the knowledge base and improving collaborative platforms for action.
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Poor governance and lack of state capabilities in around 45 countries pose a threat to global security and development. The involvement of the international community is required to help these states break out of their low development– high-conflict traps. Recent years have seen a number...
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and long-term poverty, and to reduce vulnerability, and are thus one of the most significant areas of policy for … children, at risk of growing up poor and, in turn, passing their poverty on to their children. 100 million are older people …
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public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. …
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€™ experiences of poverty differ in important ways. It is also discussed how understanding the gender dimensions of chronic poverty … is important not only for tackling the greater levels of deprivation and vulnerability that girls and women routinely … face in many country contexts, but also for tackling poverty more broadly. [Policy Brief No. 12]. …
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This paper studies the impact of taxation on poverty and ex ante vulnerability of households in rural China based on … national household survey data in 1988, 1995 and 2002. It has been confirmed that i) poverty and vulnerability have reduced …€™s poverty and vulnerability. The abolishment of rural tax since 2006 would thus have a significant negative impact on both …
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The paper examines how the state and other agencies in the host state (Kerala) responded to reduce the vulnerability of …
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with this should be analysis of present vulnerability in the face of current climate variability. Then the focus is on the …
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Review of Erika Langmuir Imagining Childhood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-10131-7.
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