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Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War

Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2012

This paper examines the effect of U.S. food aid on conflict in recipient countries (these include Asian countries like Afghanistan, Sri Lanka). To establish a causal relationship, time variation in food aid is exploited which is caused by fluctuations in U.S. wheat production together with...

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Social Inclusion of Internal Migrants in India

United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF - eSocialSciences - 2013

, UNESCO wishes to increaseof Internal Migrants in India visibility and recognition of the internal migration phenomenon in …

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Our Future: Sustainable Cities--Turning Ideas into Action

McCarney, Patricia L. - eSocialSciences - 2006

In convening the third session of the World Urban Forum in Vancouver, the United Nations Human Settlements Program has asked us to focus our attention on the Sustainable City and consider critical challenges across three sub-themes: â€¢ Urban Growth And Environmentâ€¢ Partnership And...

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Creating Youth Employment in Asia

Dev, S. Mahendra - eSocialSciences - 2014

, social protection programmes, fair migration and indirect policies like pro employment macro policies. …

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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines

Beam, Emily; McKenzie, David; Yang, Dean - eSocialSciences - 2013

international labor migration. [BREAD Working Paper No. 396]. …

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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat

Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013

Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater … resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the … study assessed the multifactorial drivers of migration. [IGC Working Paper]. …

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Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and Informal Economy in India: Trends, Initiatives and Challenges

Dhanya M.B - eSocialSciences - 2013

This work examines the status of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW) in the informal economy in India and locates the gaps and challenges in ratifying the ILO Conventions 87, 98, 138 and 182. The study also tries to identify various gaps in the existing data base of the informal...

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India Migration Bibliography

Tumbe, Chinmay - eSocialSciences - 2013

The India Migration Bibliography covers over 3,000 books, research articles and reports written on the subject of … internal migration, international migration and diaspora, related to India. The bibliography is inter-disciplinary and provides … considerable interest to academics and non-academics working on migration related issues. [SSRN]. …

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The Impact of NREGA on Rural-Urban Migration: Field survey of Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu

Jacob, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2013

Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go … rural urban migration? [CCS Working Paper No. 202]. …

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Living Rough: Surviving City Streets

Mander, Harsh - eSocialSciences - 2013

This paper records the findings of a small investigation into a fragment of experiences of people living on streets and into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, boys and girls in four cities: the metropolises of Delhi and Chennai, and the cities of Madurai...

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