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Globalization and China's 'Race to the Bottom' in Labour Standards

Chan, Anita - eSocialSciences - 2006

and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although foreign investment has been flowing into … China and employment in the low-wage industries is expanding, wages of Chinese workers are not rising. In fact, China is … study of China's hukou system and how it affectes the wages of migrant workers, the paper shows how the Chinese hukou system …

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Agrarian Reform for a Liberal Pattern of Society? Karnataka's Land Policy and the New Dispensation

Herring, Ronald - eSocialSciences - 2006

It is puzzling how much the discourse of development has backed away from the seemingly central question of rural poverty: land. Elaborate rules concerning its distribution, rights, regulation, protection, utilities have multiple development objectives, but poverty alleviation, individual...

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National Budget of Bhutan: Financial Year 2012-13

eSocialSciences; Minister of Finance Bhutan - 2012

Budget of Bhutan 2012-13. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bt/downloads/BudgetReport2012.pdf].

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Indiaâ€™s Population: Past, Present and Future

Dyson, Tim - eSocialSciences - 2009

in the form of â€˜demographic bonus â€™. Urbanization is also expected to continue. Thus it seems that Indiaâ …

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Is Gender Equity In Formal Occupations an Explanatory Factor?

Narayana, D. - eSocialSciences - 2010

broad forces of modernization, such as urbanization, industridiization, shifts to non-agricultural labor, and increased …

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Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development

Cohen, Joel E. - eSocialSciences - 2010

This essay reviews important demographic trends expected to occur between 2010 and 2050, indicates some of their implications for economic and global development, and suggests some possible policies to respond to these trends and implications. The century from 1950 to 2050 will have witnessed...

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The Two Waves of Service-Sector Growth

Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - eSocialSciences - 2009

This paper will hopefully provide an important methodological tool for all researchers who may be attempting to analyze and explain the growth of the service sector and its share in the Indian GDP over the past decades. [ICRIER WP no. 235].

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Urbanization in India: Evidence on Agglomeration Economies

Mitra, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2011

The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of … urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …

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Final Report-Water Security and Climate Change: Challenges and Strategies

Kainth, Gursharan Singh; Sinha, Archana - eSocialSciences - 2012

The main objectives of this seminar has been to contribute to the understanding of the development processes and problems related to water security and climate change; to focus on studies relating to this problem of the by-passed section and regions; and to provide a forum for dialogue on the...

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Agricultural Growth and Rural Incomes: Rural Performance Indicators and Consumption Patterns

Balisacan, Arsenio M. - eSocialSciences - 2012

The present paper is part of a larger study on agricultural growth and rural incomes in the Philippines. This study examines the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms by which agricultural development changes the economic welfare of the various groups of population in...

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