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The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of evidence and analysis, from UNICEF and partners, that scarcity and dispossession...
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Throughout human history, technology has proven its ability to contribute to higher material living standards, yet the … work of poverty alleviation is far from complete. We believe that in the modern age, biotechnology holds remarkable … potential for reducing poverty and its attendant adversities. However, the extent to which this promise is fulfilled will depend …
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There is an incessant flow of technical innovations for newer and newer consumer goods and gadgets in our contemporary … times. Even though technology has benefitted modern civilization through major scientific inventions in industry, medicine …, health, energy, agronomy there are some market-driven indiscriminate innovations in the field of electrical, electronic …
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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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technology in building construction in Kerala. [WP No. 30]. …
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This paper has the objective of analysing the determinants of FII investment in firms in high-tech corporate sectors like automobiles, drugs and pharmaceuticals, IT software and IT hardware for the period 2000 to 2004. The paper focuses on on the analytics of transnational holding of equity and...
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With liberalization of foreign technology import policy in the 1990s, India has seen declining R&D intensity at … national level. This has generated a general concern on how Indian industries are doing in technology accumulation under the … new policy regime. The present study has made a preliminary attempt to analyze different modes of technology acquisition …
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cross section of Indian states for the period 2003- 2007. It argues that the current technology is human capital and … technology, persons with less education would become victims. The panel model results of Generalised Least Squares using cross …
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This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to … empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this context, this paper examines an interventionist …
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This statement following a workshop on ‘Hunger and Health: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue attended by a cross …-section of India’s nutritional scientists, health professionals, public health specialists, economists, agriculturists and … recognise this fact and address its impact on health as an integral part of the developmental plan for the equitable and …
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