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Gender Equality and the Labour Market: Cambodia, Kazakhstan and Philippines
eSocialSciences; Asian Development Bank Institute - 2014
Increasing job opportunities and decent work for women are essential for inclusive growth, and they are vital for advancing economic and social development in a country. This approach to attaining economic and social wealth is based on reliable academic and statistical evidence and is...
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Archiving the Nation –State in Feminist Praxis: A South Asian Perspective
Chakravarti, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2009
This essay mainly examines the relationship between feminism and nationalism as a point from which it looks at South … feminists to interrogate their own nation states and the idea of nationalism .The writer looks at the interventions and …€˜practice’ with nationalism and the nation-state in India. Indian feminists have been critical of the class character of nationalism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543102
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Are Patients in the Transition World Paying Unofficially to Stay Longer in Hospital? Some Evidence from Kazakhstan
Thompson, Robin; Xavier, Ana - eSocialSciences - 2010
on 1508 trauma and surgical patients discharged from Almaty City (the former capital of Kazakhstan) three main hospitals …
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Employment and Unemployment Situation among Major Religious Groups in India
eSocialSciences; National Sample Survey Office NSSO - 2013
This report is based on the eighth quinquennial survey on employment and unemployment conducted in the 66th round of NSS during July 2009 to June 2010. The survey was spread over 7402 villages and 5252 urban blocks covering 100957 households (59129 in rural areas and 41828 in urban areas) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945428
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Event, Memory and Historical Analysis: A Reconstruction of Temple Destructions in India
Suman, Amit K; Singh, Namita - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper will highlight the myths that surround the question of mass conversion to Islam and the so called temple … understanding of Islam. Some of the important questions dealt with in this paper are: Were the attacks on Hindu temples during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945568
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Detection and Forecasting of Islamic Calendar Effects in Time Series Data: Revisited
Rao, Nasir Hamid; Bukhari, Syed Kalim Hyder; Jalil, Abdul - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper is an attempt to revisit the pioneering work of Riazuddin and Khan (2002). A complete business cycle has been elapsed (2002-2010) since their study, so there is need to review the results with additional information. This revisited attempt, based on a theoretically specified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321494
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Identity Formation, Nationhood and Women An Overview of Issues
Raman, Vasanthi - eSocialSciences - 2010
The essay is begun with a reference to a television programme on one of the Hindi news channels - titled Burqe me Atankvad which was telecast sometime in mid-2005. The complex and turmoil-ridden and tortuous interrelationship between gender, national and other multiple identities are explored....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513091
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Al Qaeda in the West as a Youth Movement: The Power of a Narrative
Roy, Olivier - eSocialSciences - 2009
In recent years there has been a strong focus on ‘Islamic radicalisation’ in Europe, due both to the threat of terrorism and its security implications, and to the issue of integrating second generation migrants in Europe. This paper analyses two main approaches to studying the roots...
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The Integration of Religious Minorities in China: The Case of Chinese Muslims
Leslie, Donald Daniel - eSocialSciences - 2006
and later, the paper looks at Chinese policy's thousand year old fluctuating relationship with Islam. It is argued here … that the non-proselytisation impetus of Islam allowed the religion to be tolerated by Chinese authorities, who consequently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528324
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Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
Banerjee, Abhijit; Pande, Rohini - eSocialSciences - 2007
Increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized by incomplete policy commitment, then ethnicization reduces average winner quality for the pro-majority party with the opposite...
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