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Railway Budget 2010-11
Banerjee, Mamata - eSocialSciences - 2010
Railway Budget 2010-11.
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Women in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation: A Study in the Context of the Debate on the Women's Reservation Bill
Lema-Rewal, Stephanie Tawa - eSocialSciences - 2008
This article presents the findings of a survey conducted in 2000 in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC), where quotas – 33 per cent of seats - for women have been implemented since 1995. [CSH Occassional Paper No. 2]
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Workshops Without Walls: Broadening Access to Science around the World
Arslan, Betul K; Boyd, Eric S; Dolci, Wendy W; Dodson, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Institute (NAI) conducted two “Workshops Without Walls†during 2010 that enabled global scientific exchange—with no travel required. The second of these was on the topic “Molecular Paleontology and...
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Estimating the Economic Benefits of Arsenic Removal in India: A Case Study from West Bengal
Roy, Joyashree - eSocialSciences - 2008
People living in almost fifty percent of the districts in West Bengal are exposed to arsenic contaminated water. The economic costs imposed by arsenic-related health problems are estimated. Data from a primary survey of 473 households carried out in the districts of North 24 Parganas and...
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The Unqualified Medical Practitioners Methods of Practice and Nexus with the Qualified Doctors
V, Naryana K - eSocialSciences - 2008
The presence of a large number of unqualified medical practitioners in the rural areas and urban slums indicate that they provide most of the outpatient services in the private sector. Given the huge quantum of services provided by the RMPs, the present study aims at identifying their number,...
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Socio-Economic Empowerment of Women through SHGs Case Study from Orissa
Baisakh, Pradeep - eSocialSciences - 2007
In a remote tribal village of Kandhamal District of Orissa, where there there are visible signs of empowerment of women due to the formation of SHG in the village. The confidence level of women, who are illiterate, has gone up substantially and the process has changed the man-woman equation. In...
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‘Inclusive Citizenship’ for the Chronically Poor: Exploring the Inclusion-Exclusion Nexus in Collective Struggles
Masaki, Katsuhiko - eSocialSciences - 2007
The promotion of ‘inclusive citizenship’, through which the disadvantaged engage in collective struggles for justice and recognition, has been attracting growing attention as a solution to chronic poverty. This paper problematises this formulation by drawing on a case of landless...
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Ensuring ‘Collective Action’ in ‘Participatory’ Forest Management
Ghate, Rucha - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper is based on a qualitative analysis of three case studies, each belonging to one of three types of institutional structures: Self-initiated, NGO-promoted, and Government-sponsored JFM. The basic objectives of all three institutional structures is strengthening ecological security and...
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BMC Budget 2011-12
BMC, Municipal Commissioner - eSocialSciences - 2011
Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011
How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
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