Discusses three small-scale mining operations in Bolivia, the Philippines and Zimbabwe. Focuses on issues of health and …

Reports on child labour, working conditions and occupational safety and health in informal gold mining. …

Increased availability of energy, especially electricity, is important for India to help advance economic and human … development. Coal, which currently accounts for more than 50% of total primary commercial energy supply in the country and for … about 70% of total electricity generation, is likely to remain a key energy source for India for at least the next 30 …

recognition. The North Eastern Region (NER) of India comprises eight states: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram …Development of village, micro and small enterprises in India has a special significance with regard to bridging up the … taken a step further to globalization and liberalization, India has recognized the relevance of small enterprises. Enactment …

This study is an investigation into the real wage rates of casual labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya … unskilled casual labourers from the rural Meghalaya, Nepal, Bihar, Bengal, Bangla Desh, Assam, etc to Shillong has kept up an …

Meghalaya, a state in the North Eastern India, is inhabited by over 2.3 million of population of which 70 percent are … of population in the rural areas of Meghalaya is certainly better off than their Hindu or Muslim counterparts, they score … comparatively poorly in the urban areas of Meghalaya. In the urban areas, the Muslim segment of the population is in the most …

. In India, women have little social or economic independence. They are treated inequitably at home as much as at the … East India, presents a case different than the rest of the country at large (except Kerala and some other pockets). A very … matrilineal (and matrifocal). In this paper we investigate how women in Meghalaya perform, vis-à-vis men, in the socio …

labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. Casual labourers are those workers who work for a very short …The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual …

city of Meghalaya, India. Two views of poverty have been considered; first at the per capita (per month) income level and …