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history contains myriad examples of discussion on this topic as far back as 1901. After India achieved independence from Great … segments of the population.In India, Bihar is amongst the poorest states with poverty incidence of 41.4 per cent. Per capita … average ($ 1220) and less than one-fourth of Haryana ($ 2052), one of the richest states in India (Government of Bihar, 2011 …
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Jharkhand state is carved out from Bihar state in 2000. The state is rich in mineral resources and poor in agricultural production. More than 75% of work force is engaged in agriculture, but generates only 20% of state’s GDP. About 45% area is under non-agricultural use and 32% is culturable...
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-Logue, a franchise of over 1000 locally-owned, Internet kiosks in rural villages in India. We seek to assess how this new …
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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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The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
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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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Those advocating “government as employer of last resort schemes” (ELR) nearly always assume, first, that “ELR employers” should be specially set up to employ those out of work, i.e. that these projects or “employers” should be separate from existing public sector employers. A second...
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rather than seeing the constituting problem of workfare as one of social policy/social security. Of course, at the end the … workfare. Then a second step will very briefly present the EUropean political debate, returning thereafter to the question what … we are actually dealing with when we talk about workfare. Then, in a third step, a paradox is presented: the gain of …
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Workfare has had a chequered history because it has not been well thought out. It increases employment not just because … employment subsidy of a type not tried before (except unwittingly as part of workfare). The subsidy is as follows. As full … into temporary jobs and this is more or less what workfare has always consisted of. This ought to reduce NAIRU. The above …
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Abstract Using national data from 14 representative developing countries, this paper explores rural wage employment and its potential as a mechanism for improving the living standards of the rural poor. The analysis suggests that the sector of employment (agricultural or non-agricultural) and...
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