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A Research Note on the Linkage between Poverty and Child Labour in India
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Throughout the world child labour has been an area of lively debate for about a decade with many different viewpoints on the issue. It is argued that in developing countries with poverty, inequality, social norms, credit-land-labour market imperfections, high fertility and unpredictable...
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Child workers in India: an overview of macro dimensions
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Child labour is in focus for last two decades as it robs children of the chance to enhance human capital. This paper examines the Indian situation using data from 50th, 55th and 61st rounds of NSSO Surveys. Child Workers have declined from 9.1 million in 1993 to 5.8 million in 2004, declining by...
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Migration and Human Development in India
Deshingkar, Priya; Akter, Shaheen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
strategies and economic growth in India, have led to inaccurate policy prescriptions and a lack of political commitment to … circular migrants in India contributing 10% to the national GDP. New vulnerabilities created by the economic recession are …
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Child Rights Convention and its Implementation
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
children issues and lessons emerging from Africa and India. …
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Child Deprivation: An Extended Approach to Child Labour
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The present paper imparts that it is need of the hour to take a broader view of child labour to include not only the reportedly working children but also those nowhere children, namely those neither reported working nor attend school. In line with the perspectives of human capital, human...
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The Structural Relationship Between Current and Capital Account Balance in India : A Time Series Analysis
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Jaydeep; Sinha, Tanaya - 2010
aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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The global labour standards controversy: critical issues for developing countries
Singh, Ajit; Zammit, Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Overview For some time now, the governments of a few advanced countries,as well as their unions and some parts of the business sector, have been pressing proposals to establish multilateral rules permitting punitive trade measures to be taken against countries deemed to be failing to uphold core...
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Understanding the case of international labour standards – methodological insights into an ongoing debate
Schmidt, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
"By globalization, national economies strengthen their ties towards each other; the same process causes growing interdependence" (Duwendag 2003, p. 119). Internationally agreed standards are regularly called for to guide and direct the process of globalisation. E. g. the German Vice-chancellor...
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