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Migration and Urban Poverty in India Some Preliminary Observations
Mishra, Udaya S.; Joe, William; Samaiyar, Priyajit - eSocialSciences - 2009
Employment - Unemployment Survey 1999-2000 (EUS) provided by the National Sample Survey Organisation. A broad descriptive socio …-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate …
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Economic Survey, 2010-11, Maharashtra
Government, Maharashtra - eSocialSciences - 2011
State income, public finances, agriculture and animal husbandry, education, health, population etc are given importance in the economic survey. URL: [http://mahades.maharashtra.gov.in/files/publication/esm_2010-11_eng.pdf]
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Final Report of the Task Force on Domestic Workers: Realising Decent Work
Labour, Ministry of; Employment MoL&E - eSocialSciences - 2011
This report presents the results of the deliberations of the Task Force. Section one provides the background. Section two presents the status of the implementation of March 2010 recommendations contained in the First Report. It then describes the deliberations of the Task Force regarding the...
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Feminist Economics of Trade: Reflections on the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Barria, Susana; Ramanujan, Purnima - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper examines the socio-economic condition of women in India. The paper begins by delving into different forms of … violence faced by women in India, giving special attention to the work sphere and the political economic order, in order to …
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Governance and Health
Acharya, Shankar - eSocialSciences - 2007
As we celebrate 60 years of political independence and take pride in our dynamic private sector, our remarkable IT successes and all the other usual dimensions of success, let us remind ourselves that a great deal remains to be done to improve the foundations of India’s human resources...
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Creating Jobs in India’s Organised Manufacturing Sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - eSocialSciences - 2014
has eluded India. Using data from the Annual Survey of Industries, the factors holding back the growth of output and … employment in this sector is examined. It is found that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector …
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Preliminary Evidence on Internal Migration, Remittances, and Teen Schooling in India
Mueller, Valerie; Shariff, Abusaleh - eSocialSciences - 2013
Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing … countries. The 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey is used to examine correlations between the receipt of …
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Myth of Chinese Labour Flexibility
Sundar, K.R. Shyam - eSocialSciences - 2014
India has been a land of myths. Industrial relations are no exception to this trend. The arguments in the name of … attracting foreign investment primarily due to its flexible labour market regime and further state that India lags behind …
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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor …
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Suicide and Property Rights in India
Anderson, Siwan; Genicot, Garance - eSocialSciences - 2012
Is there an impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568017