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Forgotten Youth: Disability and Development in India
Singal, Nidhi - eSocialSciences - 2008
In 2001, it is estimated that 270 million Indians belonged in the 12-24 years age group. While attention is being focused on these young people’s potential for social transformation, some of them – such as those with disabilities – remain alienated from mainstream debates on...
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Intersectionality and gender mainstreaming in international health: Using a feminist participatory action research process to analyse voices and debates from the global south and n...
Tolhurst, Rachel; Leach, Beryl; Price, Janet; Robinson, Jude - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1825-1832
Critiques of gender mainstreaming (GM) as the officially agreed strategy to promote gender equity in health internationally have reached a critical mass. There has been a notable lack of dialogue between gender advocates in the global north and south, from policy and practice, governments and...
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Adults with autism in India: A mixed-method approach to make meaning of daily routines
Daley, Tamara C.; Weisner, Thomas; Singhal, Nidhi - In: Social Science & Medicine 116 (2014) C, pp. 142-149
Although individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have been diagnosed in India for over fifty years, virtually nothing is known about the social circumstances of adults, their daily lives, and their families. Where are adults with autism? How do they spend their time? Who are they with,...
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Health at Old Ages in India: Statistical Exposition of Its Socio-Cultural and Gender Dimensions
Bakshi, Sanjeev; Pathak, Prasanta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This work attempts to develop a conceptual framework to model health of older adults (OA) in India in association with various socio-economic and cultural (SEC) factors. For this purpose, four different populations of OAs are considered namely rural male (RM), rural female (RF), urban male (UM)...
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Microlending in India: An Equal Access Possibility
Thompkins, Allison V. - In: Applied Economics and Finance 2 (2015) 1, pp. 76-90
People with disabilities are disproportionately represented among the poorest of the poor in developing countries. An increasingly common method of combating poverty in developing countries, microlending, has been largely unavailable to those with disabilities. This paper reports on one of the...
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Microlending in India: An Equal Access Possibility
Thompkins, Allison V. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2015
People with disabilities are disproportionately represented among the poorest of the poor in developing countries. An increasingly common method of combating poverty in developing countries, microlending, has been largely unavailable to those with disabilities. This paper reports on one of the...
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People’s Health Movement in India
Phadke, Anant - eSocialSciences - 2007
‘Health movement’ as an area of social work has been comparatively a newer tradition that has emerged during last 25 years. In India, today about 10 million people are pushed below the poverty line annually because of unaffordable health care expenditure on hospitalization. About a...
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Women and Migration: Creating New Identities
Davin, Delia - eSocialSciences - 2006
The cultural demands made of women by migrant communities struggling to establish a new identity and the stereotypes of …
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Religious Identity and the Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the Indian Princely States.
Chaudhary, Latika; Rubin, Jared - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013
Religious identity affects preferences and can consequently affect policy. We propose two mechanisms through which a … ruler's religious identity can affect public good provision: i) greater provision of goods in regions where more subjects …'s co-religionists. Empirically, identifying the causal effect of religious identity on policy is often impossible, since …
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Economic Comparison and Group Identity: Lessons from India
Fontaine, Xavier; Yamada, Katsunori - HAL - 2012
The caste issue dominates a large part of India's social and political life. Caste shapes one's identity. Furthermore …
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