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Socio-Economic Empowerment of Women through SHGs Case Study from Orissa
Baisakh, Pradeep - eSocialSciences - 2007
In a remote tribal village of Kandhamal District of Orissa, where there there are visible signs of empowerment of women … due to the formation of SHG in the village. The confidence level of women, who are illiterate, has gone up substantially … and the process has changed the man-woman equation. In economic terms, women are now able to help their counterparts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528134
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Women in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation: A Study in the Context of the Debate on the Women's Reservation Bill
Lema-Rewal, Stephanie Tawa - eSocialSciences - 2008
quotas – 33 per cent of seats - for women have been implemented since 1995. [CSH Occassional Paper No. 2] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341774
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Private Sector Industrialization in China: Evidence from Wenzhou
Strauss, John; Qian, Edward Y.; Shen, Minggao; Liu, Dong; … - eSocialSciences - 2010
The purpose of this study to help shed light on the entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and enterprise growth in Wenzhou …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008616868
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Survey Of Research In Industrial Sociology (1987-2002)
Bhowmik, Sharit - eSocialSciences - 2005
This paper attempts to assess the research done in the field of industrial sociology during the period 1987 and 2002. Only published work have been noted. The review does not cover unpublished M. Phil. and Ph. D. dissertations, nor does it take into account unpublished research reports. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528365
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Workshops Without Walls: Broadening Access to Science around the World
Arslan, Betul K; Boyd, Eric S; Dolci, Wendy W; Dodson, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Institute (NAI) conducted two “Workshops Without Walls†during 2010 that enabled global scientific exchange—with no travel required. The second of these was on the topic “Molecular Paleontology and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319345
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528388
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Estimating the Economic Benefits of Arsenic Removal in India: A Case Study from West Bengal
Roy, Joyashree - eSocialSciences - 2008
People living in almost fifty percent of the districts in West Bengal are exposed to arsenic contaminated water. The economic costs imposed by arsenic-related health problems are estimated. Data from a primary survey of 473 households carried out in the districts of North 24 Parganas and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170147
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The Unqualified Medical Practitioners Methods of Practice and Nexus with the Qualified Doctors
V, Naryana K - eSocialSciences - 2008
The presence of a large number of unqualified medical practitioners in the rural areas and urban slums indicate that they provide most of the outpatient services in the private sector. Given the huge quantum of services provided by the RMPs, the present study aims at identifying their number,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170162
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Ensuring ‘Collective Action’ in ‘Participatory’ Forest Management
Ghate, Rucha - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper is based on a qualitative analysis of three case studies, each belonging to one of three types of institutional structures: Self-initiated, NGO-promoted, and Government-sponsored JFM. The basic objectives of all three institutional structures is strengthening ecological security and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699164
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'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)
Chakravarty, Deepita; Chakravarty, Ishita - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].
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