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High Level Expert Group Report on Universal Health Coverage for India
Commission, Planning - eSocialSciences - 2011
The recommendations that follow take cognizance of the extraordinary opportunities that India offers – and the possibility for India to take a lead in introducing a well-designed UHC system that is eminently suited to the needs and resources of countries at a similar level of development....
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The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2007
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2012
With the aim of better regulation of traffic systems in cities, this Bill amends the existing Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Among other provisions, it makes way for state governments to allow recognised automobile associations to issue driving certificates. It also lays down a higher penalty...
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Post-Independence Educational Development among Women in India
Pandey, Balaji - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper aims to examine the policy debates on women's education and highlight some of the basic issues affecting the progress of women's education since the introduction of planned development in the country. [CWDS].
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Gender, Subjectivity and Sexual Identity : How young people with Disabilities Conceptualise the Body, Sex and Marriage in Urban India
Addlakha, Renu - eSocialSciences - 2009
Using qualitative data, this paper discusses notions of sexual identity among urban Indian youth through case studies of college students in Delhi. Gender emerges as a key analytical category in perceptions of sexuality among young men and women with visual and locomotor disabilities. The paper...
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Disability in India: Issues and Concerns
Chaudhuri, Leni - eSocialSciences - 2006
The disabled are deprived of all opportunities for social and economic development. The basic facilities like health, education and employment are denied to them. In spite of several international and national pronouncements the rights of the disabled has remained on paper. Given the magnitude...
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Encountering Disability: The Making and Unmaking of DEvelopment Categories in the Third World
Anand, Shilpaa - eSocialSciences - 2006
social and legal construction of disability from a human rights perspective. …
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Geodisability Knowledge Production and International Norms: A Sri Lankan Case Study
Campbell, Fiona Kumari - eSocialSciences - 2006
In this paper I argue that United Nations norm standard setting, as a form of geodisability of knowledge which delimits and denotes the kinds of bodies known as disabled, is a technology for reining in, and thus controlling anomalous/disablized bodies. A discussion of geodisability knowledge...
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Forgotten Youth: Disability and Development in India
Singal, Nidhi - eSocialSciences - 2008
In 2001, it is estimated that 270 million Indians belonged in the 12-24 years age group. While attention is being focused on these young people’s potential for social transformation, some of them – such as those with disabilities – remain alienated from mainstream debates on...
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For Love or Money? Motivating Workers
Naeem, Saima; Zaman, Asad - eSocialSciences - 2013
An analysis of the ability of employers to provide care and attention as a way to motivate their employees is done. Workers not only compare their wages, as pointed out in previous literature, but also compare the socio-emotional resources provided by their employer. This provides important...
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Compensating Wages for Occupational Risks of Farm Workers in India
P, Indira Devi; Shanmugam, K R; Jayasree, M. - eSocialSciences - 2013
facing these risks? This paper attempts to measure the wage premiums that farm workers in India receive for health risks … agricultural laborers who do not handle pesticide from Kerala in 2009-10 and the hedonic wage approach. Results indicate that the … farm workers in India receive approximately an additional wage premium of Rs. 20 per hour for facing occupational health …
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