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Gender, Caste, Class, and Health Care Access
Iyer, Aditi - eSocialSciences - 2005
opportunities for a gender analysis along the crosscutting axes of caste, class, age and life stage. Such an exercise is more …
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The limits of tolerance and equality,or towards a 'new tolerance' and equality
eSocialSciences - 2006
view issues of gender, sect, class and colonial state formation. The tentative intersectional theoretical framework …Women's Equality in Transition: Intersectionality in Northern Ireland's/ North of Ireland's Equality Legislation Women … gender analysis. These absences have discursive and material implications for tackling women’s equality in a society in …
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Human Rights in Malaysia: Challenges and Constraints in the Malaysian Context
Abdullah, Mohammad Hirman Ritom - eSocialSciences - 2012
The paper discusses some of the main human rights areas of concern within Malaysia, over the years. [Working Paper Series No. 12]. URL:[http://www.ieas.unimas.my/images/stories/hirmanritom.pdf].
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Gender-based Indicators in Human Development: Correcting for ‘Missing Women’
Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle - eSocialSciences - 2008
Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations … better performing gender. This can lead to further additions to ‘missing women’. A correction is proposed to capture this …
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Women’s Economic Empowerment as the “Magic Potion†of Development?
Blumberg, Rae Lesser - eSocialSciences - 2008
enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion …
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State of the Economy and Prospects: chapter 1
Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2012
Economic Survey-Chapter1. [Economic Survey]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp]
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Can Tourism be a Vehicle for Conservation? An Investigation from the Mangrove Forests of the Indian Sundarbans
Guha, Indrila; Ghosh, Santadas - eSocialSciences - 2008
mangrove eco-system. The remote island communities that surround the Park are dependent on it for fishing, honey and prawn fry …
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Formalizing the Informal Economy: Women’s Autonomous Self-Employment in Rural South India
Watson, Samantha - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper considers the effects of contemporary restructuring of women and men’s employment in rural south India alongside ongoing efforts to recast India’s poor rural women as entrepreneurs. This study takes advantage of data from the year 2000 in the Indian National Sample...
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Nepal: Elusive Democracy and Uncertain Political System
Baral, Lok Raj - eSocialSciences - 2012
Persistence and breakdowns of democracy are the dominant features of Nepali politics.Democracy continues to be attractive amidst setbacks and discontinuity. So it remains perennially elusive, despite having undergone democratic upheavals. Some significant variables such as ideology, essence of...
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Research Study on Women’s Empowerment, Good-governance and Decentralisation : Assuring Women’s Participation in Panchayats of Two Backward Districts of Northern Part of West Be...
Sarkar, Dilip Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2012
The study focused on the factors and forces behind the participation of women in Panchayat Structure specially after the seventy third Constitution Amendment Act. The role performance, role awareness and role perception of the elected women Panchayats have been explored to understand the impact...
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