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Human Trafficking: The Shameful Face of Migration
eSocialSciences; PLoS Medicine Editors - 2011
A new framework for understanding migration as a series of phases, defining categories of people affected by migration and suggesting estimates of the likely size and importance of each group is given. URL:[http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/browseIssue.action]
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Regional Implications of National Reconciliation in Myanmar
Gong, Lina - eSocialSciences - 2012
The paper examines the implications of Myanmar's reforms for its neighbours- China, India, Thailand and Bangladesh. Issues of major concern to the four countries include energy, humanitarian consequences and other non-traditional insecurities resulting in Myanmar's internal challenges.
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Women's Health
Abhiyan, Jan Swasthya - eSocialSciences - 2007
are the stresses and strains of modern life, environmental degradation and increasing insecurity and violence. Here are …
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Women, Work and Insecurities in India
Unni, Jeemol; Rani, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2007
are characterized by low incomes and high levels of insecurity. There is a need to address the economic needs of the women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528140
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The Buoyant Billions: How “Middle Class†Are the New Middle Classes in Developing Countries? (And Why Does It Matter?)
Sumner, Andy - eSocialSciences - 2012
Middle-income countries (MICs) are now home to most of the world’s extreme poor—the billion people living on less than $1.25 a day and a further billion people living on between $1.25 and $2. At the same time, many MICs are also home to a drastically expanding emerging middle or...
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Educational Innovations in Rural Tamil Nadu: Tsunami-affected Arunthatiars of Sathyamangalam
Prabhu, Vrunda - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper reports on the human aspect of a two-and-half-year collaboration between mathematics teachers of the City University of New York (CUNY), and grassroots organizers in rural Tamil Nadu. Reporting on student success in Calculus classrooms in New York at the International Conference to...
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Emerging through Technological Capability: An Overview of India’s Technological Trajectory
Ray, Amit Shovon - eSocialSciences - 2008
In this paper an overview of India’s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India’s technological capability and the role it has played in the process of India’s economic progress. [WP No. 227].
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Draft National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy
eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2012
focus on early learning, for every Indian child. [Ministry of Women and Child Development]. URL:[http://wcd.nic.in/]. [Send …
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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda - eSocialSciences - 2012
Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly low learning gains … instruction with no progress on basics. Shallow learning profiles are in part the result of curricular paces moving much faster … than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, a simple …
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Incentives in Elementary Education - do They Make a Difference
Ramachandran, Vimala; Mehrotra, Nishi; Jandhyala, Kameshwari - eSocialSciences - 2009
This study tried to bring together the experiences of different approaches to incentives followed by six NGOs in the states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Issues dealing with incentives and the hidden cost of education have been explored with a view to gaining...
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