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From Economic Meltdown to Social Crunch – Impact of the Global Economic Recession on Social Capital Building in Developing Countries and What We still Don't Know!
Wong, Sam - eSocialSciences - 2011
the Crisis affected men and women differently, but how different groups of men and women were affected by the Crisis is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323686
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Child Marriage: Social and Economic Linkages and Opportunities for Intervention
Gupta, Geeta Rao - eSocialSciences - 2007
The presentation shows the consequences of child marriage, how to prevent child marriage. [Power Point Presentation].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487836
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Proportion of Births Attended by a Skilled Health Worker 2008 Updates
eSocialSciences; World Health Organisation WHO - 2008
In our analysis, attempts have been made to quantify the proportion of births attended by health workers other than doctors, nurses and midwives in order to show the proportion of births conducted by such groups of providers. [Factsheet Department of Reproductive Health and Research].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699070
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Girls, Educational Equity and Mother Tongue-based Teaching
Benson, Carol - eSocialSciences - 2007
disadvantaged groups, especially for girls and women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699174
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Women in Indian Engineering: A Preliminary Analysis of Data from the Graduate Level Engineering Education Field in Kerala and Rajasthan
Nair, Sreelekha - eSocialSciences - 2012
Are there substantial changes in the relationship between women and engineering in recent times? This is a fascinating … question to explore especially since it has been so little studies especially in India. This study attempts to understand women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133099
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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].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540528
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Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture (focus on Food Security) in Asia-Pacific Region
Dev, S. Mahendra - eSocialSciences - 2011
The objective of this paper is to identify climate change related threats and vulnerabilities associated with agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity). The paper analyses the connections between the nature of human action...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323716
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Growth of Asian Pension Assets: Implications for Financial and Capital Markets
Hu, Yuwei - eSocialSciences - 2012
Pension assets have seen rapid growth world-wide over the past decades, although they suffered large losses during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Such growth is notably due to both structural and parametric pension reforms since the 1980s. In the Asian region too, the pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133098
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Innovations for Reviving Small-Scale Industries
Gupta, Anil K - eSocialSciences - 2010
led by the entrepreneurs, policy makers and also other support organizations. There are several innovative options that … innovations for developing new products and services and (d) forging new partnerships among the entrepreneurs and also with the R … small entrepreneurs will anyway soon vote on the vision of the parties in taking country out of the current stressful …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008455846
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Why Don’t Small and Medium Enterprises Innovate More : Creating a Cooperative Learning Environment at Individual, Firm and Regional Level
Gupta, Anil K - eSocialSciences - 2007
or practices, Indian small scale entrepreneurs will have to benchmark their current status in this regard with the best …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170169