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Inclusive National Accounts: Introduction
Dasgupta, Partha - eSocialSciences - 2012
An outline of what would be ideally needed for a comprehensive set of national accounts is given. National governments and international agencies ought ideally to go even beyond green national accounts. Unfortunately though, that ideal cannot be met, at least not in the near future....
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Jobs and Livelihoods Mapping the Landscape
IKF, IRIS Knowledge Foundation - eSocialSciences - 2014
wage informal employment, and scarcity of decent regular wage employment. The collection of essays discuss the labour … that skill development, inclusion of women, agricultural employment and social security need special focus. The articles … and employment. …
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The Paddy Chain: Building Constructive Alternatives
Ramanjaneyulu, G V; Ghose, Bishwadeep; Douma, Willy; … - eSocialSciences - 2008
Research Studies on Rice/Paddy initiated by Hivos in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and The Netherlands looked at several aspects related to ecological/environmental, economic, institutional, social/gender dimensions of rice production, trade and consumption. The sharing of findings from these...
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What Determines the Success and Failure of ‘100 Days Work’ at the Panchayat Level? A Study of Birbhum District in West Bengal
Mukherjee, Subrata; Ghosh, Saswata - eSocialSciences - 2010
West Bengal is not among the best performing states with regard to NREGA. The performance of all districts in the state is not equally discouraging. Some districts, in fact, have done well in generating good number of average person-days per household or in distributing the benefits of work in...
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Union Budget 2008-09: A Bag of Tricks to Get the Vote
Kumar, Arun - eSocialSciences - 2008
The budget is an election budget. There are lots of sectors which needs more attention. Many questions are raised at the end of the document which the government may fail to answer
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Factor Employment, Sources and Sustainability of Output Growth: Analysis of Indian Manufacturing
Virmani, Arvind; Hashim, Danish A. - eSocialSciences - 2010
employment to a growing labour force, especially that of less skilled type and second by its own healthy growth, stimulate and … provide a foundation for, organic growth in other sectors of the economy. On both these counts, however, the manufacturing … present study examines in detail the main determinants of factor employment, their shares, and output growth. The framework …
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Revisiting the Devolution of ENR Functions
eSocialSciences; Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO - 2012
The devolution of environment and natural resource functions to local government units was a bold move in the history of environmental Management in the Philippines. However, the implementation of these functions was considered partial, insignificant and with limited success due to issues on...
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Approximate Poverty
Williams, David - eSocialSciences - 2007
The changed survey methodology of the 55th round (and the consequent furore that has ensued) has demonstrated that there is indeed uncertainty surrounding estimates of poverty. The uncertainties concern the analysis of the NSS data, the poverty line benchmarks and the data themselves. This...
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Women's Contribution to the Economy Through Their Unpaid Household Work
Pandey, R N - eSocialSciences - 2009
, quantification of unpaid work in the Indian economy has been attempted for two states, namely Haryana and Gujarat. [NIpFP Discussion …
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Providing Microfinance and Social Space to Empower Adolescent Girls: An Evaluation of BRAC’s ELA Centres
Shahnaz, Rizwana; Karim, Raihana - eSocialSciences - 2010
social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …
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