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Budget Speech 2012-2013: India
Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2012
Speech of Pranab Mukherjee Minister of Finance, India. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2012-13/bs/bs.pdf].
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Release of Socio-Cultural Tables-Age: Data Highlights
Registrar General, India - eSocialSciences - 2013
Age is one of the core topics in Census. In Census 2011, for the first time data on both date of birth and age has been … recorded. [Census 2011]. …
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Living Rough: Surviving City Streets
Mander, Harsh - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper records the findings of a small investigation into a fragment of experiences of people living on streets and into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, boys and girls in four cities: the metropolises of Delhi and Chennai, and the cities of Madurai...
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A Case for Case Studies
Sapra, Ipsita - eSocialSciences - 2011
This essay attempts to look beyond the long-standing qualitative-quantitative tug of war in studying society. It takes as an example one approach, the case study, that often acts as a bridge between the positivist and interpretive epistemological positions. Arguing the case for more openness in...
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Can ‘Beautiful’ Be ‘Backward’? India’s Tribes in a Long-Term Demographic Perspective
Maharatna, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2009
-term demographic perspective on India’s tribal population rests on the premise that aggregation over diverse tribal groups is valid …
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The UNESCO Parsi Zoroastrian Project
eSocialSciences - 2008
The declining of Parsi population has become a serious question before India in general and Parsi community in … particular. Since 1990 questions were started being raised about this decreasing population among the community and about the … solution to it. The community experienced 33% fall in its total population in 50 years. A demographic module has been created …
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Patterns of Inclusive Growth in Developing Asia: Insights from an Enhanced Growth-Poverty Elasticity Analysis
Habito, Cielito F. - eSocialSciences - 2010
The primary objective of this research is to identify key factors that explain the observed wide variation in patterns of inclusiveness of economic growth—defined here as gross domestic product (GDP) growth that leads to significant poverty reduction—in Asia. In exploring this...
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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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How Backward are the Other Backward Classes? Changing Contours of Caste Disadvantage in India
Deshpande, Ashwini; Ramachandran, Rajesh - eSocialSciences - 2013
Using individual-level data from the National Sample Survey for 1999-2000 and 2009-2010, theur paper has done an empirical assessments of their socio-economic condition of OBCs, SC-STs. [CDE Working Paper No.233]. URL:[http://www.cdedse.org/pdf/work233.pdf].
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National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy-2012 (NDSAP-2012)
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Science and Technology GOI - 2013
The National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) is designed so as to apply to all sharable non-sensitive data available either in digital or analog forms but generated using public funds by various Ministries / Departments /Subordinate offices / organizations / agencies of Government...
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