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Book Review: Handicraft History in India
Roy, Tirthankar - eSocialSciences - 2009
Politics of Patronage and Protest: The State, Society, and Artisans in Early Modern Rajasthan by Nandita Prasad Sahai, Oxford University Press, 2006; 304 pp, $35.00 (cloth), ISBN978-0-19-567896-3.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250385
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Economic Backwardness in History: Deviation from a Eurocentric Theme
Hatekar, Neeraj - eSocialSciences - 2005
This paper aims to demonstrate that the economic behaviour of ordinary men and women in the pre-colonial Deccan was as … much ‘capitalistic’ as that of similar agents in contemporary Europe. The difference in the economic trajectories of … characteristics. These basic differences structured incentives for economic agents in such a way that different sets of actions became …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528093
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The Dance of Ideas: Dialectical Relationship between Feminism and Philosophy
Poonacha, Veena - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper attempts to delineate the dialectical relationship between feminism and philosophy, and begins by tracing … the rise of feminist consciousness. This is because ideas do not exist in abstraction, but arise out of specific socio-economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487673
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The Youth Employment Crisis: A Call for Action
eSocialSciences; International Labour Organisation ILO - 2013
Resolution and conclusions of the 101st Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 2012. [ILO].
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Productivity Response to a Contract Change
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; V´ericourt, Francis de - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change. The setting is a tea plantation in India. The activity in question is tea-plucking, the output from which is measurable and contractible. Payments to pluckers consist of a baseline wage, along with piece rates per kilogram of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945319
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Economic Policies and Agricultural Incentives: The Philippine Case
David, Cristina C. - eSocialSciences - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of economic policies on Philippine agricultural incentives from 1960 … up to 1992. Apart from economic policies affecting price incentives, cover public expenditures for agricultural support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945372
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Living Rough: Surviving City Streets
Mander, Harsh - eSocialSciences - 2013
into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, boys and girls in four cities: the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945450
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Metabolism Of Mumbai- Expectations, Impasse and the Need For a New Beginning
Reddy, B. Sudhakara - eSocialSciences - 2013
economic, social and environmental conditions of the city. On the input side, water, energy, food and construction material use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945508
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Capitalisation of Nature and Accumulation by Dispossession: At the Heart and the Frontier of Capitalism
Paranjape, Suhas - eSocialSciences - 2007
many red and green concerns into a single abstract concept. The term resonates across bio-physical, economic and semiotic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341807
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India: Large and Small
Sen, Amartya - eSocialSciences - 2007
of India links closely with the reach of our argumentative tradition. There are lots of economic and political issues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341826