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Socio-Economic Characteristics of the Tall and not so Tall Women of India
Viswanathan, Brinda; Sharma, Viney - eSocialSciences - 2011
New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult women. [WOrking Paper No. 41]. URL:...
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Book Review: Microfinance-Is it a means of Empowering Women?
Das, Sanchita; Sen, Anwesha - eSocialSciences - 2010
Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L. JeyaseelanSage publication, 2009, Pp 264, Rs. 595/-
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Suggesting Effective Policy Frames for Chronic Poverty Alleviation in India
Nath, N C B - eSocialSciences - 2008
done by CPRC in India. There is no map of chronic poverty in India, but have an approximate idea of numbers and communities …
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From Local to Global and Informal to Formal: Entering Mainstream Markets
Nanavaty, Reema - eSocialSciences - 2010
This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) three- decade-long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains a local and an informal economy...
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Learning from Crises
Thorat, Usha - eSocialSciences - 2009
that are so typical of market driven systems. [The 'Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) Distinguished Speaker Series …' lecture delivered by Mrs. Usha Thorat Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India at Singapore]. …
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GenNext Banking: Issues and Perspectives
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2009
The speech covers the macro setting for GenNext banking by way of discussing the demographic composition of Indiaâ … their banking activities is also discussed. A discussion on how to facilitate banking in the context of knowledge economy …/society is discussed. Certain implications and challenges arising from GenNext banking which need further deliberation are …
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The Two Waves of Service-Sector Growth
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper will hopefully provide an important methodological tool for all researchers who may be attempting to analyze and explain the growth of the service sector and its share in the Indian GDP over the past decades. [ICRIER WP no. 235].
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Contemporary International and Domestic Banking Developments and the Emerging Challenges
V, Leeladhar - eSocialSciences - 2008
A broad overview, from the Indian perspective, of the factors underlying the credit market crisis in the west, the implications of the crisis for the financial sector, lessons learnt from it, the various suggestions made at different fora for pre-empting the recurrence of such events, the Indian...
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Deconstructing China’s and India’s Growth: The Role of Financial Policies
Aziz, Jahangir - eSocialSciences - 2008
India. [WP No. 224]. …
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Bancassurance : A Feasible Strategy for Banks in India ?
A, Karunagaran - eSocialSciences - 2007
the synergy in the context of India having the largest banking network on the one hand and lower insurance penetration and …The scope for bancassurance models as feasible source of sustainable income to banking sector is explored by exploiting … going by the present pace, bancassurance would turn out to be a norm rather than an exception in future in India and it …
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