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The study presents an initial assessment of the situation and to raise the main issues in terms of farmers’ and workers’ rights. It is part of a long term process involving farmer movements, trade unions, NGOs and international organisations aimed at developing strategies by which...
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On 14 December 2008, a worker died in an accident at the same site. What followed was unprecedented: workers at the site struck work and demanded that his body be released and shown to, them. They also demanded better working, living and sanitation conditions. This incidence also paved the way...
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This paper analyzes the inter-state imbalances in three major sectors of the economy, namely, education, health and family welfare, and water supply and sanitation for fifteen major states. It uses two principal indicators namely the per capita GSDP (reflecting the disparity in fiscal capacity...
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This paper analyzes Singapore’s multi-pronged approach to managing prolonged low fertility which has led to population aging, labor force shortages, increasing elderly dependency ratios, and feminization of the elderly population. This approach has emphasized high growth, and has given...
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inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-village extended family networks in 504 poor …
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growth experience; (ii) rising inequality as a threat to growth, and (iii) the case for continued development assistance to …
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There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationship between income inequality and growth, manifested in … on developing countries has led to an upsurge of interest in linkages between policy reform, growth, inequality and … poverty. They use the WIDER/UNDP World Income Inequality Database to investigate the links between growth, inequality and …
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The economist’s conceptualisation of inequality in terms of interpersonal distribution of income or wealth, and the … tradition of measurement of inequality that follows from this conceptualisation have not paid adequate attention to the need for … reckoning inequality across social groups. In this paper they show that certain simple statistical tools to analyse categorical …
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They conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. They focus on China‟s decades old household registration system, or the hukou institution, which categorizes citizens into urban and rural residents, and...
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This paper uses six nationally representative household consumption surveys to develop successive poverty profiles for Indonesia over a fifteen-year period of sustained high growth followed by rapid contraction. Adopting a ‘cost-of-basic-needs’ approach to poverty determination (an...
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