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Conceptualising Informality: Regulation and Enforcement
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2009
The informality discourse is large and vibrant, and is expanding rapidly. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence … to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions leading to a plethora of alternative … article proposes that informality and formality should be seen in direct relation to economic activity in the presence of …
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Creating Jobs in India’s Organised Manufacturing Sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - eSocialSciences - 2014
Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector has eluded India. Using data from the Annual Survey of Industries, the factors holding back the growth of output and employment in this sector is examined. It is found that there...
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The Questions the Cotton Hill Incident is Raising
Padmanabhan, Roshni - eSocialSciences - 2014
take against the HM. The Minister should have taken the suggestion in a positive manner. Is this an exclusion against a …
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National Policy for Senior Citizens: 2011
Justice, Ministry of Social; GOI, Empowerment - eSocialSciences - 2011
. Social deprivations and exclusion, privatization of health services and changing pattern of morbidity affect the elderly. All …
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Social Group Disparities and Poverty in India
Mutatkar, Rohit - eSocialSciences - 2009
social exclusion and physical exclusion respectively, which continue to operate in contemporary Indian society.[IGIDR WP 2005 …
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‘Inclusive Citizenship’ for the Chronically Poor: Exploring the Inclusion-Exclusion Nexus in Collective Struggles
Masaki, Katsuhiko - eSocialSciences - 2007
The promotion of ‘inclusive citizenship’, through which the disadvantaged engage in collective struggles for justice and recognition, has been attracting growing attention as a solution to chronic poverty. This paper problematises this formulation by drawing on a case of landless...
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Inequalities Reinforced? Social Groups, Gender and Employment
N, Neetha - eSocialSciences - 2013
Based on the last four rounds of NSS data the study explores some dimensions of women’s labour market participation across social groups. [CWDS Occasional Paper No.59]. URL:[http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPaper/OccasionalPaper59.pdf].
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Migration and Poverty in India: A Multi-Patterned and Complex Reality
Shah, Amita; Kumar, Animesh - eSocialSciences - 2013
The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term migration with the help a large set of data collected from rural households in major states in...
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Understanding the Dynamics of Socio-Economic Mobility: Tales from Two Indian Villages
Wilson, Caroline - eSocialSciences - 2013
The study takes a comparative approach by examining household livelihood mobility within two very different villages …
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The Elite Brain Drain
Hunter, Rosalind S - eSocialSciences - 2009
They collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of … played by low mobility costs in the modern world.[IZA DP No. 4005] …
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