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Mohanti, Subhash - eSocialSciences - 2011

Review of Corporate Social Responsibility: Past, Present and Future by Sanjay Kumar Panda; The Icfai University Press; 373pp, 2008.

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Negotiating the Terms of A New Social Contract: Private Companies, Civil Society and the State in India

Krichewsky, Damien - eSocialSciences - 2010

A detailed analysis of the stakes and dynamics at play in the public, civil and self-regulation of companies in India is offered. With the rapid growth and modernization of the country as the backdrop, this paper points towards a reconfiguration of relationships and the balance of power among...

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VIllage Economics and the Structure of Extended Family Networks

Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Rangel, Marcos A; … - eSocialSciences - 2009

This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and … inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-village extended family networks in 504 poor … rural villages are constructed. Family networks are larger (both in the number of members and as a share of the village …

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Social Security Nets for Marine Fisheries

Paul, Antonyto; Kurien, John - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper attempts to explain the provision of social security in the fisheries sector of Kerala State in south India. It enumerates the salient achievements and the problems faced by the state in providing concrete social security measures for fishworkers. They were a section of Kerala society...

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"I did not ask for it". Sexual Harassment: Impressions from Mumbai

Gartenberg, Indira; Priya, Lakshmi - eSocialSciences - 2011

Sexual harassment is a global issue. In a recent case in Mumbai, two young men, Keenan Santos (24) and Reuben Fernandez (29) were stabbed on 20 Oct 2011 while confronting some unknown men eve-teasing their female friends. Santos and Fernandez had to lose their lives in refusing to accept this...

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The Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010

eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2011

A bill to lay down judicial standards and provide for accountability of judges and establish credible and expedient mechanism for investigating into individual complaints for misbehaviour or incapacity of a judge of the Supreme Court or of a High Court and to regulate procedure for such...

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Book Review: Inside the Indian Family

Patel, Tulsi - eSocialSciences - 2008

Review of: Democracy in the Family: Insights from India. Edited by Joy Deshmukh-Randive Sage Publications. New Delhi …

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Populations at Risk: Other End of Youth Bulge

Priya, Lakshmi - eSocialSciences - 2011

While there is much written on the youth bulge in developing countries, little is being done to address the problems of the elderly. And yet demographically, it is this section that is showing high growth rates.

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Going Beyond Gender as Usual: Why and How Global HIV/AIDS Donors Can Do More for Women and Girls

Droggitis, Christina; Oomman, Nandini; Wendt, David - eSocialSciences - 2010

This brief shows how three of the biggest donors to global HIV/AIDS programs can go beyond their stated commitments to address gender inequality and more effectively combat HIV and AIDS.

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The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries

Wheeler, David; Hammer, Dan - eSocialSciences - 2010

Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded … family planning and female education will suffer from financing deficits that will leave millions of women unserved in the …

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