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'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)
Chakravarty, Deepita; Chakravarty, Ishita - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].
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Impact of Remittances on Poverty in Developing Countries
Banga, Rashmi; Sahu, Pritish Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2010
This study undertakes impact analysis of remittances on poverty in developing countries at two levels. Firstly, it estimates the impact of remittances on poverty in 77 developing countries; Secondly, separate analyses are undertaken for 29 developing countries and 21 Asian developing counties,...
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The International Mobility of Talent and its Impact on Global Development
Solimano, Andrés - eSocialSciences - 2010
Human talent is a key economic resource and a source of creative power in science, technology, business, arts and culture and other activities. Talent has a large economic value and its mobility has increased with globalization, the spread of new information technologies and lower transportation...
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Migrants' Private Giving and Development: Diasporic Influences on Development in Central Gujarat, India
Guha, Puja - eSocialSciences - 2013
The paper addresses the migration-development debate by developing a framework for understanding who are the migrants, what they are sending back, and how these transfers are being utilised in the local economy. It argues that the social backgrounds and migration histories of migrants –...
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Who Goes? Failures of Marital Provisioning and Women's Agency among Less Skilled Emigrant Women Workers from Kerala
Kodoth, Praveena - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper draws upon a selection of narratives from interviews with over 150 less skilled emigrant and returnee women … women, narrowing the material base from which aspiring migrants are drawn and rendering their agency suspect but emigrant … women maneuver local and family patriarchy by foregrounding the failure of marital provisioning and create the space to go. …
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Economic and Social Dynamics of Migration in Kerala, 1999-2004 Analysis of Panel Data
Rajan, S. Irudaya; KC, Zachariah - eSocialSciences - 2007
Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method, however, was used in the South Asia Migration study (SMS) conducted by the Centre for...
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The International Mobility of Technical Talent: Trends and Development Implications
D'Costa, Anthony P. - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper charts the complex dynamics of the movement of technical talent in the world economy and assesses broadly the impact of such mobility on both sending and receiving countries. Based on secondary data and primary information from the Indian and Japanese IT industry, the study presents a...
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HIV Prevention in Vulnerable Indian States: Lessons from the Chayan Project
CARE, CARE - eSocialSciences - 2009
This document highlights the results and associated processes from Chayan’s implementation experience under the RACHNA program. The programmatic framework, designed for low-prevalence contexts in India, draws on standard targeted intervention approaches but is grounded in community-based...
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The Sexual Harassment of Women at the Workplace (Prevention and Redressal) Bill, 2007: A Critique
Tiwary, Mahalaxmi - eSocialSciences - 2009
Before 1997, women experiencing sexual harassment at workplace had to lodge a complaint under Indian Penal Code, 1860 … Women (CEDAW), arts. 11 and 24, which the Government of India ratified on 25 June 1993, and the general recommendations of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512439
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Muslim Women’s Rights Discourse in the Pre independece Period
Hussain, Sabiha - eSocialSciences - 2009
The present paper deals with the discourse of the rights of Muslim women in the pre- independence period with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512468