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Shariat Courts and Women’s Rights in India
Hussain, Sabiha - eSocialSciences - 2009
The main thrust of this paper is: Why should women go to these courts to settle matrimonial disputes while there are … provisions for them in secular courts? Do women face less harassment and get quick justice according to Islamic law by … approaching these courts? Who are the women who approach these courts? Should the mode of justice not it be left to the women to …
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From Theory to Practice: Translating Research into Health Outcomes
Medicine, PLoS - eSocialSciences - 2008
Commenting on recent research articles which look at the potential health benefits of behaviour change, the PLoS Medicine Editors say that publication of the findings of such research is only one part of the behaviour-change process.
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Women’s Malnutrition in India: The Role of Economic and Social Status
Dahiya, Shikha; Viswanathan, Brinda - eSocialSciences - 2014
women between 20 to 40 years of age in India. BMI captures both undernutrition and over nutrition and a quantile regression …
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PUDR's Submission of Suggestions to Verma Commission for Changes in Law and Procedure Regarding Violence Against Women
Manjit, D; Gupta, Asish - eSocialSciences - 2013
Legal mechanisms to achieve justice should factor in the challenges and roadblocks of its implementation, structural or otherwise, right from the stage of planning and framing the law. Law can be expected to promote justice it cannot do so in absence of its strict adherence and swift...
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Schooling and Adolescent Reproductive Behaviour in Developing Countries
Lloyd, Cynthia B. - eSocialSciences - 2008
-enrolled, (2) a review of the evidence on the links between school exit and marriage timing and (3) an assessment of the relative …
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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2 extra months of schooling. The Vietnamese horoscope being gender …
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Incentives in Elementary Education - do They Make a Difference
Ramachandran, Vimala; Mehrotra, Nishi; Jandhyala, Kameshwari - eSocialSciences - 2009
This study tried to bring together the experiences of different approaches to incentives followed by six NGOs in the states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Issues dealing with incentives and the hidden cost of education have been explored with a view to gaining...
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Child Marriage: Social and Economic Linkages and Opportunities for Intervention
Gupta, Geeta Rao - eSocialSciences - 2007
The presentation shows the consequences of child marriage, how to prevent child marriage. [Power Point Presentation]. …
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Dowry and Property Rights
Anderson, Siwan - eSocialSciences - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528228
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India Migration Bibliography
Tumbe, Chinmay - eSocialSciences - 2013
The India Migration Bibliography covers over 3,000 books, research articles and reports written on the subject of internal migration, international migration and diaspora, related to India. The bibliography is inter-disciplinary and provides sections with selected publications by themes,...
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