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Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and...
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This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
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health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … growth of real incomes, most likely reflecting the importance of factors such as education and the quality of institutions …
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One of the principal mechanisms through which inequality is reproduced is language, specifically the language used as …
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This policy study seeks to move the debate on labour standards beyond the present stalemate onto a more constructive plane. While closely examining the economic arguments in this controversy, it is also concerned with the broader political and moral dimensions. The authors suggest that...
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promoting science education by introducing schemes, fellowship programs, encouraging use of ICT, and advocating science events …This paper presents the findings of a study concerning educational policies related to science education and diversity … in India which is a geographically and socio-politically diverse country. If the education system does not completely …
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The mapping of the social and political constraints that marginalized communities and individuals encounter in their interface with e-governance projects, perhaps, has implications for the optimistic political vision of new media technologies as a decolonizing force facilitating development of...
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technology (ICT) and foreign direct investment (FDI), with reference to its implications on economic growth. For the empirical …
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The paper examines Australian Indymedia collectives as a means to improve understanding of the practices of alter-globalisation movements. Indymedia, which emerged around the anti-World Trade Organisation protests in Seattle in 1999 is an attempt by media activists to offer new forms of...
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The Overseas Development Institute in the UK recently carried out a study on ICT for rural livelihoods, commissioned by … country studies carried out with partners in Argentina, Uruguay, Tanzania, South Africa, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. ICT was …
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