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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013: A Generation at Risk
eSocialSciences; International Labour Organisation ILO - 2014
This issue of Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on youth labour markets around the world, focusing …
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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor …
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Book Review: Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia
Iyer, Sandhya S . - eSocialSciences - 2010
Review of 'Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia'; S. Ahmed, S. Kalegama and E. Ghani (Editors). Published by Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2010
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Is Community Forest Management Good for the Environment and the Poor? – A Review
Shyamsundar, Priya; Ghate, Rucha - eSocialSciences - 2012
Over the last two decades, community-based forest management has graduated from being an experimental strategy to becoming a much more mainstream approach. In developing countries, an estimated 22 percent of forest estate is owned by or reserved for community and indigenous groups. Now a SANDEE...
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Labour Market in Urban Agglomerations: A case from an Indian Global City
Paul, G.D Bino; M, Krishna Krishna - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319328
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The Impact of Slum Resettlement on Urban Integration in Mumbai: The Case of the Chandivali Project
Vaquier, Damien - eSocialSciences - 2010
also discuses the issue of availability and choice of employment as a key driver towards socio-economic urban integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008594116
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'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)
Chakravarty, Deepita; Chakravarty, Ishita - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].
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Employment Promoting Growth in Bangladesh: Monetary and Financial Sector Issues
Mujeri, Mustafa. K. - eSocialSciences - 2009
into satisfactory poverty reduction. The type of growth that matters Bangladesh is the one that creates employment … opportunities especially for the poor. In Bangladesh, monetary policy can create better employment opportunities with a well …
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Informalization of Industrial Labour in India: Are labour market rigidities and growing import competition to blame?
Goldar, Bishwanath - eSocialSciences - 2010
: rising share of the unorganized sector in manufacturing employment and informalization of the organized manufacturing sector … in India. An econometric model is estimated for this purpose using unit level data of the NSS 61st round employment … casual employment among workers with education above primary. The results also show that education enhances the probability …
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Food Security in South Asia: Issues and Opportunities
Mittal, Surabhi; Sethi, Deepti - eSocialSciences - 2009
The study aims to identify issues relating to food security, the policy initiatives taken to tackle these issues, evaluate these policies and suggest measures to overcome identified constraints in order to improve the food security situation in the region. [ICRIER WP No. 240].
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