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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor …
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Innovation through Long-distance Conversations? Lessons from Offshoring-based Software Clusters in Bangalore
Okada, Aya - eSocialSciences - 2009
skilled labor, made available through clustering has played an important role in facilitating learning, that is, diffusing the …
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The Great Education Muddle: State Failure and Judicial Jigsaw
Radhakrishnan, P. - eSocialSciences - 2005
A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 … consideration the size of the age-cohort population in the relevant age-groups, and cover all issues relating to higher education … such as ensuring social justice through education for all, relevance of public-private partnership, admission policy …
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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013
despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … working poor in acquiring education. From a field study conducted in Bangladesh, this paper provides invaluable insights for … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
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Much Ado about Nothing…Budget for Children a Mere Lip Service! India Fails to Protect its Children Once Again
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2013
Share of Dudget for Children in the Union Budget. [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%20Analysis%202013-14-1.pdf]
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Draft National Sports Development Bill, 2013
Youth, Ministry of; YAS, Sports Affairs - eSocialSciences - 2013
To provide for promotion and development of sports and welfare measures for sportspersons, promotion of ethical practices in sports (including elimination of doping practices, fraud of age and sexual harassment of women in sports, constituting and establishing bodies to deal with Sports...
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State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Executive Summary
Prakash, Padma; IKF, IRIS Knowledge Foundation - eSocialSciences - 2013
The State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills developed and produced by IRIS Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai on a commission from the UN-HABITAT Global Urban Youth Research Network of which it is part, is a first attempt to pull together a data and knowledge base on and...
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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel
Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three...
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Determinants of Clusters in Indian Manufacturing: The Role of Infrastructure, Governance, Education, and Industrial Policy
Fernandes, Ana M.; Sharma, Gunjan - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper investigates the determinants of spatial concentration and entry within manufacturing across states in India. Using an unbalanced panel of 180 industries spread across 16 major Indian states over the time period 1985-2007, the effect of location (state) characteristics interacted with...
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Do School get Their Money? PAISA 2012
Initiative, Accountability - eSocialSciences - 2013
capability for building an education delivery mechanism focused on outcomes. [Accountability Initiative]. URL …
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