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The process of development, in any society, should ideally be viewed and assessed in terms of what it does for an average individual.For any approach or development framework to be meaningful and effective in directing public policies and programmes it has to be anchored in a social context....
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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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Development approach. No Concept of development, however, can be complete unless and until it incorporates the gender component at …
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Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations … better performing gender. This can lead to further additions to ‘missing women’. A correction is proposed to capture this …
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The poor women in developing countries are burdened with the dual responsibility of taking care of housework and the need to supplement household income to meet the subsistence needs. The on-going flexibalisation process world over has no doubt created new jobs, most of them informal, but they...
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Modernisation necessarily leads to the emergence of dowry as a direct transfer to the groom ("groom-price"). The historical instances of dowry can be classified according to the schema implied by the model. The implications of the model are also tested using current data from Pakistan; a country...
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efforts have been made to incorporate mainstream gender in socio-economic policies, including gender budgeting initiatives …. The paper analyses the scope and limitations of gender budgeting initiatives in the context of the fiscal decentralisation … budgetary reforms in Morocco through a gender lens. It goes on to explain the future directions of local level gender responsive …
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persuasion through which people are invited to recognize the poverty of seeing social relations as exchange value between things …
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This is an attempt to investigate gender issues in the mining sector in India with a view to understand how these … understand the gender issues at play, the study focuses not only on women’s experiences but also analyses how they are utterly …€™s economic advancement and reducing women’s poverty, by ensuring greater involvement of women in the mining sector. …
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