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Migration and Urban Poverty in India Some Preliminary Observations

Mishra, Udaya S.; Joe, William; Samaiyar, Priyajit - eSocialSciences - 2009

-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate … individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on …

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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 Womenâ€™s Associationâ€™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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Migration and Poverty in India: A Multi-Patterned and Complex Reality

Shah, Amita; Kumar, Animesh - eSocialSciences - 2013

The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level … studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term migration with the help a large set of …

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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated

Schiff, Maurice - 2006

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration's impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …

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