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Protocol on Prevention,Rescue, Repatriation and Rehabilitation of Trafficked & Migrant Child Labour
Labour, Ministry of; Employment MoL&E - eSocialSciences - 2008
, repatriation and rehabilitation of trafficked and migrant child labour. Comments are invited by the Ministry and may be sent to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699125
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Ethics and the World of Finance
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2009
How do we, as individuals, approach issues of ethics and values? Are our approaches different in our personal and professional lives? Are issues of ethics different in the financial sector? What are the ethical issues thrown up by the current crisis? Has economics, as an academic discipline,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025322
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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
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Ethics in Social Science Research: Reflections from a Student of Economics
Swaminathan, Padmini - eSocialSciences - 2006
If poverty and nutrition are issues also of social justice and the commitment that a democratic state makes to its citizens (namely, ridding the country of hunger and malnutrition and also of ensuring food security) then the discipline of economics needs to pose its problem differently. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487602
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Ethics in Social Science Research: A Note for Discussion
Iyengar, Sudarshan; Das, Biswaroop - eSocialSciences - 2006
Some questions relevant in the context of ethics in social science research are: Does social science have peculiarities which are masked by discussions on science at large? Given the need for objectivity in scientific inquiry can theory laden-ness be kept sufficiently distinct from value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528171
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Corporate Sustainability a Panacea for Growth: Values, Convictions and Acrions
Padmanabhan, G - eSocialSciences - 2014
Can corporate sustainability aid growth, create value and actions on environmental protection? The answer can be positive. But at the same time, level of development of the country, poverty etc. also needs to be factored in while calibrating the corporate sustainability action commands. Please...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133127
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Skills, Informality and Development
Maiti, Dibyendu S.; Mitra, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2010
an increase in distress-led informalization inequality tends to rise. Adoption of labour intensive technology in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690329
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Human Capital, Labour Productivity and Employment
Bhat, Savita; Siddharthan, N S - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper analyses the importance of human capital in determining the inter-state differences in labour productivity … determinants of productivity. Furthermore, higher enrolments in high schools not only contribute to higher labour productivity but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690331
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Government mediated program on intensifying industry- academia linkages for human resource development; Experiences of an innovative model from TIFAC
Ayyaswamy, Jancy; Saxena, Neeraj; Parida, Antaryami - eSocialSciences - 2010
The importance of academia- industry linkages for development of an economy is well recognized. With a view to make the higher technical education relevant, by forging and catalyzing functional linkages between industry and academia, an innovative model was conceived by TIFAC in the shape of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690333
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Informalization of Industrial Labour in India: Are labour market rigidities and growing import competition to blame?
Goldar, Bishwanath - eSocialSciences - 2010
Since the 1980s, there has been increasing informalization of industrial labour in India. It has taken two forms … itself through subcontracting and use of temporary and contract workers. The paper investigates whether and how far labour … market rigidities and increasing import competition are responsible for the increasing informalization on industrial labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690337