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Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the study assessed the multifactorial drivers of...
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Resolution and conclusions of the 101st Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 2012. [ILO].
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Even though the economic and social benefits of thriving entrepreneurship and innovation are evident, it is critical to recognize that these benefits will only accrue if the key gaps in the ecosystem are addressed. Five key areas that an entrepreneur would need to address on a priority basis are...
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In 2007-08, short-term migrants constituted 4.35 per cent of the rural workforce. A total of 9.25 million households in rural India had short-term migrants.Using a nationally representative data for rural India, this paper examines differences in consumption expenditure across households with...
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. It argues that the time has come to constantly and explicitly make a clearer distinction between income earning …
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This report investigates how more and better jobs can be created in South Asia. It does so for two reasons. First, this … productivity. Second, creating more productive jobs—with jobs defined to include all wage work and self employment— is the most …/01/09/000333038_20120109022653/Rendered/PDF/662290PUB0EPI00r0jobs0in0south0asia.pdf] …
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, but school drop out increases with the arrival of new export jobs. The workers induced to enter export manufacturing … eventually earn less than they would have earned had the jobs never appeared and they stayed in school. URL …
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Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector 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...
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The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the world’s largest and most controversial hydropower project. The 600 kilometer-long reservoir has displaced 1.3 million people and is wreaking havoc with the environment. The reservoir reached its final height in 2010, but many of its impacts...
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A unique data-set from Indonesia is analysed to understand what individuals know about the income distribution in their …
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