As an extraordinarily powerful individual, Naomi Osaka presents challenges to institutional power most of us can only imagine. If she worked in coordination with other top athletes across different sp...
by Jeffrey Montez de Oca | On 29 Jun 2021 Fisher unions and farming communities of Manipur, India, commemorated the 2021 World Wetlands Day (2nd February) at Tonoma Chingjin, Mamang Ching, Pumlen Pat - a wetland devastated by the Ithai Barrag...
by | On 05 Feb 2021 While tourism may support a town economy, it can also damage the environment and ecology of the surrounding villages and destroy common grazing lands. Here’s how two villages fought to preserve their...
by Anjali P Iyer | On 06 Dec 2020 In Sawar village in Ajmer, over the years private mining companies, extracting stone and marble that is exported all over the world, have progressively encroached on village common lands. Not only h...
by Anjali P Iyer | On 27 Nov 2020 Thailand, Vietnam and Mongolia have taken control of managing the pandemic with great alacrity. There is much to learn from their systematic, people-centred and research-based approach to dealing with...
by | On 06 Jul 2020 • The development of an effective treatment and vaccine for COVID-19 is key to ending the pandemic and resuming social and economic activity. An international research effort to this end is underway.
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by | On 02 Jun 2020 For a COVID-19 like pandemic, the Achilles heel is an unsuspecting villain – rapid and global land use changes. The way governments, businesses and communities see, relate to and use land, not only in...
by | On 12 May 2020 Sudden eruption of migration crisis resulting from the out-break of COVID-19
again reminds us the urgency of the matter. This policy paper presents how our understanding
of migration and livelihood...
by R. B. Bhagat | On 08 May 2020 Along with the continuous development of the global economy, environmental deterioration has been widely recognized as a pressing issue nowadays, bringing environmental governance to the forefront of...
by Chun-Ping Chang | On 28 Mar 2019 World Report 2019 is Human Rights Watch’s 29th annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, draw...
by | On 27 Mar 2019 Over the coming decades, competition and conflict over land is likely to intensify with the growing pressures of climate change, population growth, increased food insecurity, migration and urbanizatio...
by Secretary-General United Nations | On 21 Mar 2019 Review of 'Nine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918' by Jim Leeke, McFarland, 2015. 216 pp. $19.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864- 7870-5.
by Leslie Heaphy | On 01 Mar 2019 This paper is a preliminary attempt to understand globalisation and social transformation in the rural Kerala. It addresses the socioeconomic changes in a village in the mid-land region of Kerala name...
by Mijo Luke | On 31 Jan 2019 The paper reviews green markets, technologies, and practices with a focus on developing Asian countries, and offers a set of policy options to enable governments and development finance institutions t...
by Daniele Ponzi | On 29 Jan 2019 Surface irrigation is a common pool resource characterized by asymmetric appropriation opportunities across upstream and downstream water users. Large canal systems are also predominantly state-manage...
by Hanan G. Jacoby | On 04 Oct 2018 This paper examines how women’s participation in family decision-making is affected by land rights in rural areas in India. The 2005 Hindu Succession Act was legislated to protect women’s rights to an...
by Harold Glenn A. Valera | On 26 Sep 2018 This working paper assesses the potential of incentive FAR approaches in two Indian cities, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, for leveraging the economic value of urban land. A thorough analysis of Mumbai’s clust...
by Apoorva Shenvi | On 25 Jul 2018 The paper analyses a nationally representative data set from India for the year 2013 in order to provide evidence on how short term migration is affected by household's ownership of land, and particip...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 25 Jul 2018 This paper describes and assesses the design of the UCT program. It evaluates the UCT based on data collected from three survey rounds from a sample of UCT household beneficiaries, as well as other pr...
by Celia M. Reyes | On 29 Jun 2018 The PILER 2016 report on the Status of Labour Rights, sixth in the series, based on the secondary research, aims to present an overview of the status of labour and the issues in the year impacting lab...
by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) | On 14 Jun 2018 Existing research on “access to justice” has shown how the understanding of the term developed as the human rights approach gained ground. The conventional notion of access to justice was limited to s...
by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights | On 20 Apr 2018 Taiwan has one of the world’s largest DWFs, with over 1,800 vessels flying the Taiwanese flag
operating across the world and hundreds of Taiwanese-owned vessels flying other flags.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 09 Apr 2018 This article presents a historical review of national community health worker (CHW) programs in
India using a gender- and rights-based lens. The aim is to derive relevant policy implications to
stem...
by Kavita Bhatia | On 06 Apr 2018 This paper analyses the way households in rural China use rural-urban migration and
off-farm work as a response to negative productivity shocks in agriculture. I employ
various waves of a longitudin...
by Luigi Minale | On 04 Apr 2018 The issue of global labour standards has been at the forefront of both regional and
multilateral trade negotiations over the past two decades, and will likely remain high on the
agenda of future tra...
by | On 28 Mar 2018 This study will focus on the natural hill forests found in the northern region of Pakistan, particularly the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP).
by Lubna Hasan | On 26 Mar 2018 Naga newspapers’ unwillingness to engage with the real issues plaguing the state was on display in the recent elections.
by Vikas Kumar | On 24 Mar 2018 This chapter reviews theoretical and empirical research on the relationship between legal
systems and innovation and culture and innovation. We highlight legal and cultural forces
that encourage inn...
by | On 23 Mar 2018 Nature-based solutions (NBS) are inspired and supported by nature and use, or mimic, natural processes to contribute to the improved management of water.
by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura UNESCO | On 23 Mar 2018 The issue of land and water for crops. It examines the
kinds of production responses needed to meet demand. It also assesses the potential
of the world’s land and water resources to support these de...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 22 Mar 2018 Following the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004,
Tamil Nadu lost about 8,000 people and the
lives and livelihoods of over 897,000 families
were affected. In 2015, Chennai, the capital city
of Tamil Nad...
by | On 09 Mar 2018 This report looks at global normative work, regional frameworks, and good country level practices, it provides an analysis of the most important aspects to be taken into consideration to successfully...
by Ombretta Tempra | On 09 Mar 2018 The paper examines how Kerala, a demographically and socially well advanced state in India, responded to the high population pressure during the 30 year period from 1975-76 to 2005-06.
by N. Ajith Kumar | On 07 Mar 2018 The paper says that the commonly held view is that the caste based stratification is a feature of the Hindu model of social organization.
by Khursheed Akbar | On 22 Feb 2018 The end of the Cold War in 1989 did not, as had been expected, bring about a reduction in armed conflicts. More than two thirds of the poorest countries in the world are in conflict regions. The natur...
by Austrian Development Agency (ADA) | On 21 Feb 2018 This article focuses on rape as a weapon of war, the sociological impacts of which can be widespread and long-lasting. This is especially due to the ensuing terror and disruption to livelihoods, relat...
by AMSA Global Health | On 21 Feb 2018 The report described the level and cases of gender based sexual violence during the armed conflict and proved that both the warring parties were involved in such heinous acts. It also showed the letha...
by Institute of Human Rights Communication, Nepal (IHRICON | On 21 Feb 2018 India's claim that all human rights violations are redressed stands sharply refuted by the report of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) which in its report to UPR2 stated that AFSPA remains i...
by Working Group on Human Rights (WGHR) | On 21 Feb 2018 Migration is a global phenomenon; and it will continue to do so in the
near future. All through human history, it has been a significant factor
influencing population change. Migration involves the...
by | On 20 Feb 2018 The current dynamic within the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has driven the
Council in certain cases to function more closely in accordance with normative standards,
as well as with the reality on t...
by | On 12 Feb 2018 Long-run institutional development co-evolves with fiscal accountability involving, perhaps
requiring, a low and declining dependence on devolved resources and a high and rising share of
direct taxe...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 National Parks in India are highly vulnerable due to excessive pressure on their ecosystems as a
result of growing population and high dependency of forest dwellers on these resources. This
has led...
by Syed Ajmal Pasha | On 24 Jan 2018 Contemporary India is witnessing a wide number of micro-level social movements struggling
against industrialisation, big dams and other similar development projects. This paper looks at the
tribal m...
by | On 24 Jan 2018 The present study seeks to examine the issue of human rights violations in the border areas of countries in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region. It is in an effort to...
by | On 12 Jan 2018 Property is widely recognized as an important resource for empowering women. Many development
policies worldwide therefore call for strengthening women’s rights to property, especially to physical
a...
by Rajendra Pradhan | On 11 Jan 2018 Migration is a global phenomenon, and will continue to do so in the near future. Every country aspires to regulate migration according to their requirements. But, not all country is successful. Hence...
by | On 04 Jan 2018 The case studies undertaken mainly from India revealed that a large number of local and village communities and also from backward communities are involved in the production of the GIs products.
by N. Gopalakrishnan | On 28 Dec 2017 This study constructs a new dependency ratio measure by taking into account the consumption needs of the young and elderly people, and the productivity of middle-aged people. Different from the way th...
by Xuehui Han | On 21 Dec 2017 This paper studies the mechanism through which intellectual property rights (IPR) protection can influence the impact of skilled migration on innovation activities in developing countries. We argue th...
by | On 18 Dec 2017 This paper explores the co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, it provides a stylized model of development wherein the rise of cities (urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of en...
by Wim Naudé | On 15 Dec 2017 In water-based transport generally, fuel costs are low and environmental
pollution is lower than in transport by road, rail, or air. The
waterway is naturally available, which has to be ‘trained’, m...
by | On 13 Dec 2017 Using data from 1961 to 2001, the paper shows the impact on crime of two age-specific sex ratios corresponding to pre-marital (ages 10 to 16) and marriageable (ages 20 to 26) age groups in India. To d...
by Rashmi Barua | On 12 Dec 2017 The study adopts a qualitative approach to understand the power dynamics and draws out conclusions from a wide variety of stakeholders regarding the issues at hand.
by Sadaf Liaquat | On 23 Nov 2017 About two-thirds of microfinance clients in India are reported to be in Self-Help Groups (SHGs). These mostly women’s groups have been promoted by nationalized banks since the early nineties to improv...
by Jean-Marie Baland | On 06 Nov 2017 Female foeticide because of preference for boys over girls for a host of reasons is gigantic in India. According to the estimates of Asian Centre for Human Rights, during 1991 to 2011, a total of 25,4...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) | On 26 Oct 2017 The study also provides recommendations on how the identified issues can be addressed.
by Marife M. Ballesteros | On 29 Sep 2017 This paper, however, demonstrates
that the effective history of thinking about political representation in the
form of reservations for women is as old as the women’s movement itself.
Feminist enga...
by Mary E. John | On 28 Sep 2017 This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance.
by Luc Christiaensen | On 27 Sep 2017 The report narrates that the basic philosophy of its operating principles was carefully nurtured from the start.
by Gerardo Sicat | On 26 Sep 2017 The report narrates that the diversity of smugglers has been examined in the academic and grey literature.
by Marie McAuliffe | On 25 Sep 2017 The focus of this paper is on the political history of modern Gujarat, which has been an intriguing one. The paper identifies and discusses in the broad landscape of Gujarat’s politics three notable d...
by Tannen Neil Lincoln | On 14 Sep 2017 The World Health Organization considered that its mission demanded it
should play a part in this debate, with the objective of illuminating how intellectual property rights might affect public health...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 14 Sep 2017 Shifting cultivation remains the main source of employment for large sections of the rural people who depend on agriculture for their livelihood in the hill areas of Manipur. Its inputs continue to be...
by Marchang Reimeingam | On 12 Sep 2017 Situating the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context, Jill C. Bender traces its ramifications across the four different colonial sites of Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, and southern Africa. B...
by Elizabeth Baker | On 11 Sep 2017 The paper suggests certain measures to reduce the conflicts across conservation, livelihoods and forest rights. National Parks in India are highly vulnerable due to excessive pressure on their ecosyst...
by Subhashree Banerjee | On 07 Sep 2017 This report explores the challenges facing
rural communities in Indonesia, Thailand,
and Mongolia when they try to obtain
information on pollution and evaluates
the multiple laws and pathways in e...
by Carole Excell | On 01 Sep 2017 Over the last ten years or so it have begun to see public lobbying over moral and cultural issues such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) rights, Sanctity of Life issues including aborti...
by Johannis Bin Abdul Aziz | On 02 Aug 2017 The NCAER State Investment Potential Index 2017 (N-SIPI 2017) is the second edition in the annual series of rankings of states on their growth and investment potential. It is a systematic and evidence...
by Research National Council of Applied Economic | On 31 Jul 2017 The report narrates that CDW can be recycled to replace natural building material; this is not only beneficial for the environment, but also results in substantial cost and resource savings.
by Venkatesh Vunnam | On 28 Jul 2017 Shifting cultivation is one of the main causes of deforestation and forest degradation in Sri Lanka. This study uses household data and satellite images to investigate the determinants of shifting cul...
by Prabath Nishantha Edirisinghe | On 28 Jul 2017 The incidence of parent-child co-residence in India is among the highest in the world. This paper examines the role of intra-household exchanges and potential bequests in creating incentives for adult...
by Sonalde Desai | On 27 Jul 2017 Book review of Reporting Pakistan By Meena Menon; Penguin Random House, Pp. 340, Rs 599.
by Amrit B L S | On 24 Jul 2017 With export demand stronger than expected in the first quarter of 2017, the region’s GDP is forecast to expand somewhat faster than forecast in April in Asian Development Outlook 2017.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jul 2017 This report provides support to the Maldivian government in formulating its high-priority policies by identifying the critical constraints to achieving inclusive growth. The report also provides polic...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 This publication is a continuation of the APWF Framework Document on Water and Climate Change Adaptation, developed for leaders and policy-makers in Asia and the Pacific in 2012.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 This publication reviews various country aspects of SME finance covering the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. It is expected to support evidence-based policy making and regulations...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 Jul 2017 The results of the study indicate that climate change will likely have significant negative impacts on agricultural output in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands.
by M.W. Rosegrant | On 05 Jul 2017 While women constitute up to 37 per cent of the agricultural workforce, their status is not recognised. Statistics do not collect suicides of women farmers as land is seldom registered in their names....
by | On 16 Jun 2017 The report narrates that the Sanjiang Plain wetlands are among the most important wetlands in the People’s Republic of China with unique habitats, species, and ecology. There is a considerable body of...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 Jun 2017 This report narrates that ADB has scaled up its assistance to Papua New Guinea for power infrastructure, with an emphasis on clean energy solutions, in line with the government’s prioritization of pow...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 Jun 2017 This publication examines the constraints in developing inland waterway transport (IWT) based on a study in the PRC’s Hunan province. Six major challenges threatening the viability of IWT and its inte...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 May 2017 The paper says irrigation schemes in the region are aging and underperforming, and, with land in short supply, there is little scope for creating major new schemes. Persistent inability to attract ade...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 19 May 2017 This paper analyzes interdependencies between optimal trade policy and 'preferred' liability doctrine to assess infringement damages, when intellectual property rights are probabilistic, in a model of...
by Apurva Dey | On 16 May 2017 The report say that the Singapore bond market has become one of the most developed open capital markets in Asia with over US$221 billion in total local currency bonds outstanding with an additional US...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 This paper draws on the background research by Saumya Mitra. PSDI thanks Erik Aelbers for preparing Appendix 2: Credit Guarantee Schemes in the Pacific, and Melissa Dayrit and Amanda Lucas-Frith for h...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 The study recognized the need for consideration of numerous issues when developing ecocompensation regulations. These include (i) provision of guidance for determining the ecocompensation rate; (ii) e...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 This paper introduces that the landscape approach has provided a platform for a wide-ranging
discussion about these issues, but has simultaneously opened up the opportunity for a discussion
about su...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 May 2017 India Skills Report 2017 is an report that aims to support this initiative; by providing a stock of the talent landscape of India and supporting in charting the future direction of matchmaking. Curren...
by United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] | On 15 Mar 2017 This paper explores the “Bill of Rights” in the Justice Verma Committee Report as an analytical framework for gender budgeting in justice. Gender budgeting in justice, as a public good, needs effectiv...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 03 Mar 2017 The report captures the importance of shaping macro-economic policies so they support inclusive growth, and ensuring that women entrepreneurs have access to technology and finance. It also highlights...
by | On 21 Feb 2017 Discrimination at work is a violation of a basic human right. Workers may be discriminated against on many different grounds, including their sex, with women being particularly discriminated against w...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 06 Feb 2017 The early literature on migrant urban communities emphasized the conditions and employment patterns of squatter residents who have emerged on the urban landscape. Only recently has attention shifted t...
by | On 23 Jan 2017 To translate Premchand into Tamil (or Tamil into Telugu) is not to translate into a neutral language in the manner of simply exalting, or improving, or diversifying, or nationally integrating. Rather...
by Nikhil Govind | On 12 Jan 2017 India registered rapid economic growth over the past couple of years, with the GDP growing 7.6 percent in 2015-2016. While economic activity remains buoyant, however, the country still has a long way...
by | On 11 Jan 2017 This work is a contribution, first, toward measuring and characterizing
some features of rural clientelistic institutions and then toward
exploring its impact on household access to an employment sc...
by Anindya Bhattacharya | On 30 Dec 2016 Climate change mitigation is a global challenge, however its impact will be varied across regions and temperature zones. Small island states will be hit the hardest with sea level rise. In bigger coun...
by | On 28 Dec 2016 This paper discusses the demographic and socio-economic profile
of religious communities (Castes among the Hindus, Sects among the
Muslims and Denominations among the Christians) in Kerala’s three
...
by K. C. Zachariah | On 06 Dec 2016 Women workers are found in certain activities traditionally falling within the male domain. This is particularly the case for landless women who largely belong to the hardcore poor group. It indicates...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 The paper shows that disincentives generated by the successive governments in Kerala through imposing artificial barriers on the freedom of farmers and
agricultural entrepreneurs resulted in the coll...
by Lekshmi R Nair | On 08 Nov 2016 When arriving at the ‘Doing Business’ rankings, the World Bank ranks 11 parameters that impact businesses across various stages of their lifecycle – at start-up, getting a location, getting financing,...
by | On 28 Oct 2016 While remarkable progress has been achieved during the past decade protecting the health and rights of women and adolescent girls in humanitarian settings, the growth in need has outstripped the growt...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 21 Oct 2016 Review of The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values. Human Rights in History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
by | On 17 Oct 2016 The right to food is about freedom from hunger. The narrow meaning at hunger may be understood as the right to have two square meals a day, while in its broader meaning would include under nutrition....
by Johani Xaxa | On 17 Oct 2016 To provide for protection of rights of transgender persons and their welfare and for
matters connected therewith and incidental thereto. [Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment unde...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 13 Oct 2016 Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging trend throughout the developing world,
and it is especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than...
by Xinxin Wang | On 10 Oct 2016 We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing im...
by | On 10 Oct 2016 Review of
Almost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York
by Githa Hariharan; Restless Books (Originally published by Fourth Estate, 2014), New York; 2016, 304 pages, $16.99.
by Dhanwanti Nayak | On 07 Oct 2016 It is the multi-layers of health providers that make health care possible. It is therefore important that we address the job security of the workers in the National Health Mission.
by Kavita Bhatia | On 03 Oct 2016 The productivity spillovers of industry-level FDI on both, the sector of manufacturing and
the sector of services, in seventeen South and East Asian economies. Using a dynamic panel
GMM methodology,...
by Nadia Doytch | On 29 Sep 2016 This paper focuses on the dispute over river Cauvery in Southern India. Among the causes of river water disputes are contested property rights, difficulty in enforcing such rights, conflict of uses an...
by | On 20 Sep 2016 The social and physical roles of sport are especially relevant
today, in a global context deeply challenged by discrimination,
insecurity and violence. We believe in the unique potential of
physica...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 20 Sep 2016 Comprehensive zoning is ubiquitous in U.S. cities, yet surprisingly little is known about its long-run impacts. This paper provides the first attempt to measure the causal effect of land use regulatio...
by Allison Shertzer | On 19 Sep 2016 Climate change is a term that refers to major changes in temperature, rainfall, snow, or wind patterns lasting for decades or longer. Both human-made and natural factors contribute to climate change”...
by | On 14 Sep 2016 This paper sets out the water and food security challenges in Least Development Countries (LDCs) and developing countries. The document explores the rainfed-irrigation nexus in different regions of th...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 12 Sep 2016 According to the Basketball Federation of India, Basketball is now the fastest-growing sport among boys and girls, with five million participants-which they claim is second only to soccer 2 The Indian...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 The National Reports received to date were considered during the development of the Regional Report and examples from National Reports have been incorporated into the Regional Report as appropriate T...
by United Nations (UN) | On 07 Sep 2016 The paper examines the issues around mobilization of resources for the 11 countries of the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), by analysing their macroeconomic situation, he...
by | On 07 Sep 2016 This paper explores the normative and empirical consequences of the MDG hunger target (1C), to halve the proportion of people who are undernourished, measured by the proportion of children under 5 who...
by | On 06 Sep 2016 This paper analyses the trends, nature and extent of out-migration from South Asia and its neighbouring countries like Afghanistan and Iran and examines the economic implications in both sending and r...
by | On 06 Sep 2016 This article is about India's role in reducing food price volatility in the world. India has come a long way from a ‘ship to mouth existence’ to a country that is ready to confer legal right to food t...
by M. S. Swaminathan | On 02 Sep 2016 The ultimate goal of the resource manual is to ensure that all children
may equitably exercise their educational and environmental rights
in totality, as described in the Convention. The resource ma...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 29 Aug 2016 Drawing on interviews with Indian and Brazilian farmers’ rights activists, lawyers, agronomists and plant breeders, this article aims at better understanding how farmers’ rights are protected on paper...
by | On 25 Aug 2016 Efforts to promote food security must distinguish between short-term and medium-term measures, but also between countries with agricultural potential and without such potential, argues this paper. Fur...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 Indonesia’s efforts to combat forest fires have thus far shown some signs of
progress. Doubts over Indonesia’s commitment and the effectiveness of its
measures however seem to remain.
by | On 19 Aug 2016 The study attempts to identify the macroeconomic determinants of remittance inflows in South Asian countries. It uses additively separable utility function as theoretical framework and the Arellano-Bo...
by | On 16 Aug 2016 A bill to provide for mental healthcare and services for persons with mental illness and to protect,
promote and fulfil the rights of such persons during delivery of mental healthcare
and services a...
by Rajya Sabha Secretariat | On 10 Aug 2016 Landscapes of persons who constitute the shifting world in which we live: tourists, immigrants, refugees, guest workers and other moving groups and persons constitute the essential feature of the worl...
by | On 09 Aug 2016 SIDS underscore social development as one of the three dimensions of sustainable development key to ensuring results are achieved for most vulnerable and disadvantaged. Small island developing states...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 09 Aug 2016 The United Nations estimates that the number of people worldwide who suffer from chronic
food shortages might now exceed one billion. That skyrocketing prices of food in general,
and...
by Randall Arnst | On 22 Jul 2016 India’s latest crop insurance scheme, announced by the Narendra Modi Government earlier this year, is designed to overcome the many problems encountered in the implementation of previous programmes. T...
by Vinod Rai | On 21 Jul 2016 The agenda is a road map for people that will
build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals and ensure sustainable social and economic progress worldwide. It seeks not only to eradicate ex...
by United Nations (UN) | On 20 Jul 2016 As of July 7, 2016, rainfall in the country in the 2016 monsoon season is estimated to be 1% above normal rainfall. However, due to deficient rainfall in the country resulting in drought conditions ov...
by Tanvi Deshpande | On 18 Jul 2016 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the Monsoon Session between July 18 and August 12, 2016. There will be a total of 20 sittings. The agenda for legislation includes nine Bills for consideration...
by Kusum Malik | On 18 Jul 2016 This paper reviews the current state of the literature on Indian urbanization to analyze existing urban development trajectories at the state level in order to understand the challenges Indian cities...
by Meenu Tewari | On 15 Jul 2016 India’s water crisis is often perceived to have been perpetuated by the widening gap between the utilizable water resources and the aggregate demand for water in agriculture and other sectors in certa...
by | On 04 Jul 2016 India’s National Environment Policy stresses that the most secure basis
for protection of nature is to ensure that people dependent on natural resources obtain better livelihoods through conservation...
by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Chang GOI | On 01 Jul 2016 Taxation policies in India have historically not been environmentally oriented. A tax system is needed whic is environmentally more rational. It is argued in this study that India is currently going...
by D K Srivastava | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper aims to present an overview and analysis of the current investment landscape in Cambodia, as well as its impacts on people and the environment. It is hoped that the information ...
by Mark Grimsditch | On 01 Jul 2016 Human society has witnessed adventure with knowledge
resulting in scientific understanding of the secrets of nature
and converting them into technological innovations resulting
in metamorphosis of...
by Prabuddha Ganguli | On 30 Jun 2016 International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in their incomes, and offers a large number of other positive benefits to the sendin...
by | On 28 Jun 2016 In this paper investigates the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument that well functioning credit markets would ref...
by Sumon Kumar Bhaumik | On 27 Jun 2016 India claims to have achieved financial growth of 7% but despite this high growth rate, poverty and
inequality has also grown exponentially and social security, standard of life, security of labor ha...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 27 Jun 2016 The existence of an inverse relationship between farm size and output per unit of land is well documented. However, little research focuses on if and how an inverse relationship between farm size and...
by Klaus Deininger | On 27 Jun 2016 This study is based on the fact that the implementation of the Act involves serious financial and governance challenges. Considering that different Indian states are at different stages of development...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 23 Jun 2016 The present report is a result of efforts that were spread over a period of more than a year (2013
– 2014) and included two national level consultations and sharing meetings held in Delhi, visit to m...
by Simpreet . | On 23 Jun 2016 This booklet looks at the different ways in which copyright can help all kinds of creative individuals to make a living from their original literary and artistic works. [WIPO Booklet].
by WIPO WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION. | On 22 Jun 2016 There was a felt to revise the National Forest Policy, 1988
to integrate the vision of sustainable forest management
based on the principles of ecosystem approach,
landscape level planning and the...
by Indian Institute of Forest Management IIFM | On 21 Jun 2016 The sustainable management and restoration of our landscapes – achieving land degradation neutrality - will deliver many co-benefits. From biodiversity conservation and combating climate change to ens...
by | On 17 Jun 2016 This document covers the initiatives and contributions of Government of India, Science and Technology
Institutions and Civil Society Organisations in addressing the issues of desertification, land de...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 17 Jun 2016 Land degradation and desertification pose an ever - increasing
global environmental threat. Human activities such as over cultivation,
overgrazing, deforestation and poor irrigation practices, along...
by Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO | On 17 Jun 2016 Internal displacement continued in many countries to result from failures by parties to armed conflicts to respect the rights of civilian populations, including by taking necessary steps to prevent di...
by United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] | On 14 Jun 2016 This paper details the study on development of groundwater flow simulation model in a river basin by using a physically based model Visual MODFLOW has been done in order to understand the dynamics of...
by Ashwani Kumar | On 13 Jun 2016 Almost a billion people around
the world are now suffering from hunger and
malnutrition - a dramatic rise in number since the
soaring food prices over the last three years. Of
these, about half ar...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 10 Jun 2016 This paper argues that contrary to popular belief, in the bygone era, there was not one but two Silk Roads in Asia – the Northern and the less well-known South-western Silk Road (SSR). The SSR connect...
by | On 10 Jun 2016 In India, a majority of rural households meet their energy requirements from traditional fuel sources, such as fuel wood, agricultural residues and kerosene. Statistics shows that 21 percent of villag...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 The chapter tries to identify three dimensions of land rights – the type of ownership, tenants’ rights, and the right to transfer – to categorise the diversity of land tenures in colonial India. Also,...
by Anand Swamy | On 08 Jun 2016 Technology and the Internet have triggered important changes to how creative works are created, accessed and how creators and copyright-based industries generate their revenues. In this chapter, the e...
by Sacha Wunsch-Vincent | On 08 Jun 2016 This Occasional Paper shows the evolution of confiscation law in Taiwan. It reviews the
current state of confiscation laws and policies in Taiwan and also proposes suggestions
for reform of the conf...
by Helen Liu | On 08 Jun 2016 This Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) water report presents an economic framework for the assessment of the use of reclaimed water in agriculture, as part of a comprehensive planning process in...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 07 Jun 2016 If human development is defined as a comprehensive economic, social, cultural and political process aiming to improve the well-being of populations and individuals, then the one element that can serve...
by Gianna Alessandra Sanchez Moretti | On 06 Jun 2016 The paper deals with the above issues by analyzing the scenario
in NEI, as to how the region with its present status fits into the
LEP regime. In this regard, the contemporary ma...
by Gorky Chakraborty | On 06 Jun 2016 While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analy...
by | On 03 Jun 2016 The ageing of Japan’s population occurred quickly. In 1970, the ageing rate exceeded 7 per cent, the threshold which used to be considered as the onset of population ageing. It took only 26 years befo...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 02 Jun 2016 Today, more than half of international trade is regulated through preferential trade agreements (PTAs). While in the past, these agreements served as tools to eliminate further tariffs between the pa...
by | On 01 Jun 2016 This report—based on extensive research including interviews with more than 130 children who work on tobacco farms in Indonesia—shows that child workers are being exposed to serious health and safety...
by Human Rights Watch | On 31 May 2016 With growing populations and demand for food, farmers in ASEAN member states (except Singapore) are required to produce more and more food from land that continues to decline due to population growth,...
by | On 31 May 2016 This Report Card presents an overview of inequalities in child well-being in 41 countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It focuses o...
by | On 31 May 2016 This writ petition was filed in the year 2006, praying for a direction to the respondents to constitute a high level committee with the participation also of the NGOs to investigate the occurance of t...
by Supreme Court of India | On 30 May 2016 On account of May 1st being the Labour Day, India Youth Fund interviewed Professor Arup Mitra from the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi on a number of labour rights and reforms related issues in In...
by Arup Mitra | On 26 May 2016 This essay includes a review of major strategies for preservation of earth’s biodiversity including the biodiversity “hotspots,” “Wildlands Project,” and the “consensus” strategy. The essay includes a...
by | On 25 May 2016 China needs Africa’s forests, and Africa knows it. Chinese investments in African forests and woodlands are growing fast. China is the largest importer of tropical timber in the world — possibly accou...
by | On 25 May 2016 This book presents 19 case studies from 14 developing countries that show how local people have been democratising forest business and draws a set of conclusions from analysis of these case studies wh...
by | On 25 May 2016 Climate mitigation programmes and finance mechanisms like Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) must engage millions of forest farmers if they are to halt deforestation...
by Jeffrey Campbell | On 25 May 2016 The study collected information about farmers’ ability to access land, and their attitudes and knowledge of land law, particularly women’s land rights and farmers’ ability to solve land-related confli...
by Gina Alvarado | On 24 May 2016 This paper aims to answer the question of how and under what circumstances civilian control can be established in newly democratised nations. To do this, the paper proposes a new theoretical argument...
by | On 23 May 2016 SIPP is envisaged to facilitate protection of patents, trademarks and design of innovative and interested startups.
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 20 May 2016 This paper aims to sensitize the
stakeholders, concerned organization and citizens towards need and importance of regulating
SEPs as well as facilitating their availability at Fair, Reasonable and N...
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 19 May 2016 Creativity and innovation have been a constant in growth and development of any knowledge
economy. There is an abundance of creative and innovative energies flowing in India. India has a
TRIPS compl...
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 19 May 2016 The interministerial group will rework its strategy on labour laws and tweak it in such a manner that it maximises benefits for both workers and employers. In this paper, we outline the manner in whi...
by Shamika Ravi | On 18 May 2016 Using an audit experiment carried out on of India’s largest real estate websites, this study documents striking variations between landlords’ treatment of upper-caste Hindus, Other Backward Castes, Sc...
by Saugato Datta | On 18 May 2016 This paper evaluates housing policy in the Republic of Korea over the past several decades, describes new challenges arising from the changing environment, and draws lessons for other countries. The m...
by Kyung-Hwan Kim | On 18 May 2016 Kerala has the largest proportion of land area under wetlands among all the states of India, changes to which can significantly affect ecosystem processes. Compared to other states of the country, wet...
by Sheeba Abraham | On 17 May 2016 The Act covers conservation, use of biological resources and associated knowledge occurring in
India for commercial or research purposes or for the purposes of bio-survey and bio-utilisation. It prov...
by National Biodiversity Authority NBA | On 17 May 2016 Water rights in India in a formal, legal manner are still under formulation. Rights based on centuries old customs and conventions currently prevail. In recent years, reforms have sought to introduce...
by | On 12 May 2016 Rivers in Kerala are assailed by pollution, sedimentation, sand mining, and constriction of flows. The indiscriminate and unscientific sand mining,
even in the midst of many regulatory and protective...
by Lakshmi Sreedhar | On 04 May 2016 Using 2000-2009 data, the report finds that, while spending on environmental infrastructure has visible positive environmental impact, city spending is strongly tilted towards transportation infrastru...
by | On 04 May 2016 Climate change combat is often in the hands of policy-makers, researchers and
governments. However it is the marginalised and indigenous communities that feel
the full force of climate change effect...
by Serina Rahman | On 03 May 2016 This study shows how 13 important stock markets in Asia namely, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, China, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Pakistan, South Korea and Thailand...
by | On 02 May 2016 An absolute insistence on profits in numbers is increasingly driving the modern University system today. The insistence on metrics as an index of scholarship has entailed a shift toward the market mod...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 02 May 2016 The “Slater” villages of Tamil Nadu that were first surveyed by the University of Madras economist, Gilbert Slater, and his students in 1916, were resurveyed in the 1930s, 1960s and the 1980s. This pa...
by John Harriss | On 27 Apr 2016 A Patent Act is a country's legislation that controls the use of patents. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in...
by Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs GOI | On 27 Apr 2016 A Patent Act is a country's legislation that controls the use of patents. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in...
by Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs GOI | On 27 Apr 2016 The provisions aim at providing a clear legal framework for trademark owners who wish to use their marks on the Internet and to participate in the development of electronic commerce. They are intended...
by WIPO WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION. | On 26 Apr 2016 In this paper, the author examines the assertion that the establishment of secure property rights is a fundamental pillar of a well functioning market economy.
by | On 26 Apr 2016 In this paper, the author is examining the popular conceptions behind Patents and Copyrights and questioning whether they are legitimate forms of property.
by Tom Palmer | On 26 Apr 2016 This paper analyzes and deals with the IP law regime in India and the protections provided thereunder.
by | On 26 Apr 2016 This paper reviews the Indian Laws in the light of international convention on Intellectual Property and agreements and shows where we stand today.
by Mahima Puri | On 26 Apr 2016 The 2030 Policy Framework confirms the EU's firm commitment to lead by example in tackling climate change. It sets out a binding, economy-wide domestic reduction target of at least 40% greenhouse gas...
by European union | On 26 Apr 2016 An Act to amend the Copyright Act, 1957.
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 25 Apr 2016 Right-holders can create differences between their cultural goods to attract consumers with varying levels of willingness to pay. Some Internet intermediaries propose similar choices but do so without...
by | On 15 Apr 2016 Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh is in an advanced stage of crisis. While this is a generalised rural crisis, the burden has fallen disproportionately on small and marginal farmers, tenant farmers and ru...
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 12 Apr 2016 The Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) is an on-line platform that was launched by FAO in February 2010 with the objective of highlighting the major political, legal and cultural factors that infl...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 12 Apr 2016 Land and buildings are a preferred collateral for lenders in India due to its ease of valuation and
disposal in the event of default. Yet several distortions afflict Indian land markets that make thi...
by K.P. Krishnan | On 12 Apr 2016 IFPRI’s Flagship Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2015 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2016. This year’s report takes an in-dep...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 04 Apr 2016 This study of Adolescent Boys and Young Men highlights the importance of engaging adolescent boys and young men in sexual and reproductive health and rights (srhr) and gender equality. not only is thi...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 29 Mar 2016 Rate of coastal erosion in the Indian Sundarban have been measured to be
about5.50 sq kms / year within the time frame of 2001 - 2009 and eventually it is most
dominant in the south western edges of...
by Sugata Hazra | On 29 Mar 2016 Speech by the Financial Secretary.
by Hon John C Tsang | On 28 Mar 2016 Budget Speech of 2016 by Finance Minister of Singapore.
by Heng Swee Keat | On 28 Mar 2016 While often it describe the modern era - framed by the Post-Enlightenment narrative - as one marked by an unprecedented concern for identity and identification, it often lose sight of the parallel pro...
by Samir Kumar Das | On 21 Mar 2016 This paper outlines the place of Hindustani art music in the metropolis of Bombay/Mumbai, and its role in the fashioning of public spaces from the late 19th century to the 1960s. This music began to t...
by Tejaswini Niranjana | On 21 Mar 2016 The paper traces the impact of welfare and development on the Nicobarese not only in terms of economic and social domination, but in relation to its influence on cultural meanings and practices. The
...
by Ajay Saini | On 21 Mar 2016 As part of a national experiment, in 2008 Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability a...
by Songqing Jin | On 20 Mar 2016 This report identifies four critical constraints to inclusive growth in the Maldives: (1) inadequate and poor quality maritime infrastructure that constrains connectivity, limits provision of basic go...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2016 The 8th Lecture of Krishna Raj Memorial Lecture Series On Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Sciences: ‘The Golden Rule: a remedy for decadence in global health’ By Dr Eric Suba
by ... CEHAT | On 16 Mar 2016 This paper examines the impact of strengthening Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) on within-country income inequality for a cross-section of 65 developed and developing countries for the time period...
by Swati Saini | On 16 Mar 2016 The so-called “gig-economy” has been growing exponentially in numbers and importance in recent years but its impact on labour rights has been largely overlooked. Forms of work in the “gig-economy” inc...
by | On 15 Mar 2016 The Metaguidelines for Water and Climate Change were developed by the Asia–Pacific Water Forum (APWF) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) in collaboration with the Global Water Partnership (GWP). This pu...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The objective of this study is to systematically assess the prevalence of different types of fossil fuel subsidies in Thailand and analyze the potential impacts of their removal. It is hoped that this...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The government has taken unprecedented steps to create a basic framework to achieve its long-term objective of improving water quality in Chao Lake and protecting and maintaining all of its economic,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Housing policies in Japan after World War II were focused on the quantitative supply of houses with a wide range of targeted groups and public rental houses. The Japan Housing Corporation (now the Urb...
by Masahiro Kobayashi | On 14 Mar 2016 Tenancy has been on the rise in the post economic liberalization period from the decades of 1990s. It was also viewed that freeing the lease market for land may contribute to equity as well as efficie...
by E Revathi | On 14 Mar 2016 China, Russia, and the Central Asian States have consistently engaged in economic relations. However, the bilateral trade statistics that are publicly available show a history of inconsistent and unre...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 Strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights in Myanmar has the potential to act as a catalyst for economic growth, spurring foreign direct investment and in the long run helping the c...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 After a period of stability between China and Vietnam in the South China Sea with positive developments in terms of dispute management, China’s dispatch of a drilling rig to areas west of the Paracel...
by | On 11 Mar 2016 Over a year since its report was published, what are the implications and limitations of the UN Commission of Inquiry’s investigation into human rights violations in North Korea, and what is the best...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 Situation of children in Assam in 2016.
by Melvil Pereira | On 09 Mar 2016 The regulation of the transfer of property mortis causa has been a major concern of social reformers since the Enlightenment. Today, by contrast, the issue of the bequest of wealth from generation to...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 Human rights issues within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations pose a significant challenge as it seeks to remain relevant in an increasingly interconnected global system. On 20 July 2009, ASEA...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 On 20 April 2010, an explosion and a fire took place at the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, 65 kilometres from the Louisiana coast in the United States. The inc...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 The past month has witnessed several major environmental disasters in Asia. Of particular significance are the Pakistan floods, which have engulfed a fifth of Pakistan’s total land area and affected 2...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 The Fourth Bali Regional Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crimes – otherwise known as the Bali Process – was held in Nusa Dua, Bali, on 29-3...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 Thailand’s worst floods in decades have caused over 350 deaths, and are inflicting extensive damage to much of the country’s land, crops, livestock, infrastructure, housing and industrial areas. An es...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 02 Mar 2016 The past decade has seen economic links between the Gulf Arab region and Southeast Asia increase considerably – from just USD20 billion in 2002 to about USD100 billion in 2010. Notable factors driving...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 01 Mar 2016 With over a billion people in China, the issue of cultivated land conversion is extremely important both in terms of food security and environmental sustainability. This paper investigates the relatio...
by Shunji Cui | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper considers the issue of migration of the Rohingyas from the lens of international law. It evaluates the responses of the countries that have been the destination of these migration flows – n...
by Ramandeep Kaur | On 01 Mar 2016 The analysis of the paper begins in the next section by setting out broad economic changes in India as key context for change in Palanpur, with a particular focus on the three drivers set out above; s...
by Himanshu Prof | On 29 Feb 2016 In this paper we explore an innovative approach to poverty reduction by the introduction of an agro-forestry variant of sustainable agricultural land technology among the rural farming population of a...
by Roger Montgomery | On 29 Feb 2016 Land struggles in countries like Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 29 Feb 2016 Issues or problems associated with land have become more multi-layered in the 21st century. In the Philippines, a number of “pro-poor” land laws were enacted after the Marcos dictatorship. These laws...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 29 Feb 2016 Land reforms require urgent attention in emerging market economies, and there is a vast body of literature that deals with the economic impact land reforms, especially land titling (Acemoglu et al., 2...
by Madalasa Venkataraman | On 27 Feb 2016 THE NEWS has been coming in thick and fast. Floods and landslides caused by heavy rainfalls in parts of Southeast Asia seem to have become normal occurrences. As if this is not enough, we also hear of...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 26 Feb 2016 Diasporic communities that advance their ancestral homelands through forging links with it can be best examined in the context of the history of migration of these communities and the culture of devel...
by Sudeep Basu | On 26 Feb 2016 While property taxation has existed since ancient times, and the taxation of land has been a mainstay of public finances through the Middle Ages, in both Europe and Asia, it has all but ceased to be a...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the
international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fears
that the global recovery may be faltering, while ris...
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 This paper examines the effect of land reform and land transfer actions of farmer beneficiaries on land ownership concentration. A case study of two rice-growing villages was used to track down owners...
by Marife M. Ballesteros | On 25 Feb 2016 This paper argues that development policies operate in Indian democracy at the interstices of two largely different yet interconnected worlds – of technical formulation and political formations. The I...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 The principle of non-discrimination which comprises national treatment and most-favored-nation (MFN) treatment is an important pillar of the multilateral trading system. The World Trade Organization (...
by Sherzod Shadikhodjaev | On 25 Feb 2016 Japanese corporations and American and European corporations take different approaches when it comes to business in China in general: (i) American corporations are concentrated in the music, motion pi...
by Yoshio Iteya | On 24 Feb 2016 In this report 10 sites from seven landscapes are assessed located in the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, for their potential to harbour viable reintroduc...
by Wildlife Institute of India | On 24 Feb 2016 The country's biodiversity faces a variety of threats, ranging from land use changes in natural habitats to overexploitation of natural resources, proliferation of invasive species and climate change....
by Ministry of Environment and Forest | On 24 Feb 2016 This paper documents two different models that can be adopted by tribal villages for forest-based bamboo trade under the ambit of the FRA, 2006.
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 24 Feb 2016 Japan’s small farming represents a puzzle. Currently nearly three-quarters of farmland is operated by farmers whose farm size is well under optimal size. Being too small is the main reason for the hig...
by Yoshihisa Godo | On 24 Feb 2016 Russia’s peatland fires, like those in Indonesia, have been triggered by high global temperatures. The heatwaves behind the current Russian fires bear similarities with the Indonesian experiences in 1...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 Much of the attention on institutional development within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has focused on the progress in establishing the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC)....
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The World Bank (2005) reported that from 1985 to 2003, per capita gross domestic product increased only by about 0.7% per year, well below the 3.7% average of neighboring countries (Indonesia, Malaysi...
by Eduardo Gonzalez | On 23 Feb 2016 This paper reviews and highlights lessons from the stabilisation and reform programme that Thailand, Malaysia and Korea implemented in response to the 1997 crisis. The three countries’ rapid recovery...
by Kanit Sangsubhan | On 23 Feb 2016 Growing food demands and escalating environmental stresses create a series of challenges throughout Southeast Asia. Projected population and consumption patterns strongly suggest that food production...
by J. Ewing | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper reviews some of the current debates on the reform of the international monetary system. Despite its deficiencies, the United States (US) dollar will remain the dominant currency and Special...
by Yung Chul Park | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper discusses the financial landscape of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a region engaged in building an economic community (a “single market and production base”) by 2015....
by Choong Lee | On 21 Feb 2016 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s ground-breaking visit to Myanmar signals a shift in US attitude towards that country. Quicker rapprochement could benefit both countries as well as Southeast Asia.
by | On 20 Feb 2016 This lecture is based on the realization that the current global approach to land systems cannot meet the needs of the majority of people in developing countries in regard to security of tenure and it...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 The present study reviews the framework
on adaptation in India and provides an estimation of the public resources devoted to
this sector.
by Kaushik Ganguly | On 18 Feb 2016 In the upland areas of Southeast Asia, most smallholder farmers keep animals. Buffalo provide a traditional source of draught power for land preparation or transport, and animal manure is often used t...
by Research Consultative Group on International Agricultural | On 18 Feb 2016 This paper describes the structure and construction of a social accounting matrix (SAM) for Pakistan for 001-02. A SAM is an internally consistent extended set of national accounts that disaggregates...
by Paul Dorosh | On 17 Feb 2016 The current Southeast Asian haze problem is not a function of the lack of commitment on the part of President Jokowi’s government. The ineffectiveness of forest fire prevention and response lies deepe...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 In Pakistan innovation and risk taking is severely inhibited by the intrusive role of government in the marketplace. From the early days of planning when protection and subsidy policies determined win...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 16 Feb 2016 In “Calibrating Law Enforcement and Its Purpose,” published by Addiction on November 10, 2014, Vanda Felbab-Brown comments on Harold Pollack and Peter Reuter’s article “Does tougher enforcement make d...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 Following the Hausmann, et al. (2005) methodology, an attempt is done to identify the constraints to growth in Pakistan. It is argued that governance failure and institutional shortcomings are the h...
by Abdul Qayyum | On 14 Feb 2016 This study explores closed cases filed under section 498A of the IPC, which pertains to cruelty to a married woman by her marital family. It draws from two datasets of both primary and secondary data,...
by Anjali Dave | On 14 Feb 2016 The primary objective of this study is to understand if the strategy which was developed by and for the violated woman, is at all detrimental to her and her access to rights.
by Anjali Dave | On 14 Feb 2016 Private schooling in India has expanded rapidly in the past decade. However, few studies have looked at its implications for educational quality. Using data from the recently collected India Human Dev...
by Sonalde Desai | On 14 Feb 2016 Using original data from a newly collected nationwide survey for 40,000 households in India, we examine variation in social capital in India across caste, tribe, and religion. Our primary measure uses...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 13 Feb 2016 This paper considers how technology trends and a globalized economy are reshaping the way we create, distribute and access content. The results of that study are intended to help everyone with an inte...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 he present paper on Exceptions to Patent Rights in Developing Countries is a part of the efforts of the UNCTAD/ICTSD Project to contribute to a better understanding of the use of patent exceptions for...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 This version of the literature survey updates and expands a working draft produced in ugust 2000 as part of a project funded by the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID). It will contin...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Intellectual Property and Competition Law is one further contribution of the ICTSD Programme on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development to a better understanding of the proper role of...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 The possibility for developing WTO Members to suspend concessions in the field of trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPS) to redress an injury suffered with respect to trade in goods or ser...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 This paper underlines that the WIPO DA presents a timely and valuable opportunity to re-evaluate the design and delivery of IP training and education. It points to possible lessons to be learned by lo...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 This paper finds that PTAs are clearly drivers of significant IP reform in developing countries and that the implementation challenge for these countries is real and complex. The challenge does not on...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 During the decades of the USSR, the Mongolian People’s Republic was a somnolent client of Moscow with only token relations with the West. After the break with the Soviet Union in 1990, and democratiza...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 North Korea appointed Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of Kim Jong Il, to the position of vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at the third Party Conventi...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 This publication aims to provide a wide range of perspectives from various stakeholders on how trade policies and processes could contribute to advancing the objectives of sustainable land management...
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 08 Feb 2016 The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development is the flagship publication of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women. It is presented to the Second Committee of the General Ass...
by UN Women | On 08 Feb 2016 Launched in June of 2000, "Progress of the World's Women" is UNIFEM's biennial investigation of progress made towards a world where women live free from violence, poverty and inequality. The first iss...
by UN Women | On 08 Feb 2016 This paper traces the process of recognition of children’s budget and the introduction of
Statement 22- Budget Provisions for Schemes for the Welfare of Children in the Expenditure Budget Volume 1. I...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 08 Feb 2016 Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas and investigate the r...
by Nancy H. Chau | On 07 Feb 2016 Today’s climate financing landscape poses a number of governance challenges. It is characterised by fragmentation and weak coordination, begging better clarity, connectivity and accountability for tho...
by Transparency International TI | On 07 Feb 2016 Unprecedented pressures on land and its governance have been created. As evident around the globe, where land governance is deficient, high levels of corruption often flourish. Under such a system, la...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 This study is an attempt to examine empirically the association between socio-economic measures of deprivation—such as food insecurity, landlessness, unemployment, and human under-development—and the...
by Sadia Mariam Malik | On 06 Feb 2016 Public property common pool resources in many developing countries are manage them in a sustainable manner. While this explanation may have some merit, it is certainly inadequate. Instead, we argue th...
by Junaid Memon | On 03 Feb 2016 The Karakoram-Pamir Landscape lies at the junction between the black Karakoram mountains, which mostly lie within Pakistan, and the grey Pamir mountains, which mostly lie within China. It is known for...
by Eklabya Sharma | On 02 Feb 2016 Pakistan faces important policy challenges in improving service delivery and growth and development. Low levels of tax revenue act as a serious constraint to economic growth, provision of services and...
by Benjamin Olken | On 02 Feb 2016 National pension provision in Asia/Pacific is very diverse. Nine economies have public schemes that pay earnings-related pensions. They are called “defined-benefit” (DB) schemes because the value of t...
by OECD Development Centre | On 01 Feb 2016 A gender analysis of the human rights situation is therefore necessary in order to understand the impact of the crisis on women and their livelihoods. In South Asia, there is an urgent need for engagi...
by Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural PWESCR | On 31 Jan 2016 Long-term planning and investment are essential to prevent increasing vulnerability to climate change in developing countries. Tackling only the impacts will fail: fragmented action are only partial s...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Arguably, ensuring food and nutrition security for all people in the coming decades is the major challenge for the global community. Food demand is increasing in aggregate and per capita values, in pa...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 In order to understand the policies and programmes of the present Government, it is necessary to highlight the basic transformation that has taken place in the Island Republic. Chandrika Kumaratunga a...
by Suryanarayan V. | On 31 Jan 2016 This paper assesses the likely implications for exporting and importing countries from a trade deal in cotton. The study estimates the price, production and trade effects of reforming cotton subsidies...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 In this discussion paper, the question of technology transfer, intellectual property rights is addressed in the context of climate change. Technology development and transfer has been identified as a...
by K.Ravi Srinivas | On 30 Jan 2016 This Handbook on “Social Work Intervention in the Prison Setting” attempts to document the intervention strategies in working with various groups found in prison e.g. male and female prisoners, under...
by Prayas NGO | On 30 Jan 2016 The study tries to examine the implementation process of the Forest
Rights Act 2006 in Kerala, in terms of providing individual holding land rights and
community rights over forest products. The stu...
by Jyothis Sathyapalan | On 29 Jan 2016 The establishment of the WTO Agreement on TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) and the proliferation of plurilateral, bilateral and regional agreements have significantly cont...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper draws recommendations for transboundary and participatory biodiversity conservation from ICIMOD’s pioneering Kangchenjunga Conservation Landscape Initiative. The Kangchenjunga landscape, sh...
by Karma Phuntsho | On 28 Jan 2016 Phobjikha Valley, a wetland situated on the western slopes of Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park, is an important wintering habitat for the vulnerable Black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis). One of t...
by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Devel ICIMOD | On 28 Jan 2016 This document elaborates the scientific framework of the Adaptation to Change Programme in an attempt to improve the connections between science, policy, practice, and stakeholders and to tackle chall...
by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Devel ICIMOD | On 28 Jan 2016 Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) brings in uniformity in the standards of intellectual property rights among the member countries of the WTO irrespective of their developmental statu...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper compares the experiences in India and China and draws lessons for policy formulation. The important lessons are: (a) self-financing nature of FLC/SWC is a crucial factor for achieving effec...
by Jeemol Unni | On 28 Jan 2016 South Asia's girls and women do not have the same life advantage as their Western counterparts. A human rights based approach may help to overcome gender related barriers and improve the wellbeing of...
by Omrana Pasha | On 28 Jan 2016 Economists and experts have been batting for bringing the fiscal
federalism, the activist fora has been criticizing the newly brought in fiscal arrangements between Centre and States. This contradict...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper reviews the agricultural policy environment in Myanmar up until 2014 with an eye towards identifying policies that can help to accelerate productivity and profitability in the agricultural...
by Ulrike Nischan | On 28 Jan 2016 Under the 2014 US Farm Bill, US cotton producers will receive significant subsidies which will have trade-distorting effects irrespective of future cotton prices. At a futures market cotton price of U...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 This publication focuses on the issues related to domestic workers such as financial inclusion of urban poor , issues related to identity proof for opening accounts in the banks, best practices for do...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 27 Jan 2016 The paper reviews the payment guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India, global experiences for non-banks in payments and the lessons therefrom. It also outlines the recent developments in financ...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The policy paper examines the financing for Farmer Producer Organisations and offers recommendations to initiate discussion by the policymakers, financiers and practitioners to design appropriate poli...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 27 Jan 2016 India’s comparative advantage in health care is due to a large resource pool and competence in English. Indian migration to the US, UK or Australia has been widely studied, but not much attention has...
by Ayona Bhattacharjee | On 27 Jan 2016 The paper assembles detailed information about the IP provisions contained in active RTAs notified to the WTO. The goal was to expand beyond the more commonly studied RTAs, to review the full array of...
by Maegan McCann | On 27 Jan 2016 Meghalaya is a landlocked and largely agrarian state in northeast India with an approximate population of three million. Various government surveys report that roughly half the state lives below the p...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 We examine in this paper the impact of the tightening of IPRs, notably patents rights, and the adoption of utility model laws on export diversification. To perform our analysis, we used panel data cov...
by Kimm Gnangnon | On 26 Jan 2016 Harmonisation of intellectual property rights among the members of WTO has in the recent years seen informed debates on access to medicines. While the developing countries are lured to such agreements...
by Samira Guennif | On 26 Jan 2016 Thailand, Brazil and Vietnam are examples of developing countries that have successfully reduced undernutrition. While each country used its own set of policies, strategies and approaches to address u...
by Sheila Vir | On 26 Jan 2016 A thriving and open Internet provides the foundation for the fourth industrial revolution. There has been growing concern that the Internet may be in danger of splintering into a series of bordered cy...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 25 Jan 2016 India’s political landscape is likely to be dominated by a new leader, Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in ways that the international community is yet to decipher. For now, as Mr Mo...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 The briefing paper primarily focuses on violations of women’s and girls’ reproductive rights and right to be free from sexual violence arising from child marriage in six South Asian countries—Afghanis...
by Center for Reproductive Rights CRR | On 23 Jan 2016 The report identifies four future scenarios of this complex waste/resource management landscape using tools from Foresight methods and political economy analysis. We also identify the dynamics within...
by Ashish Chaturvedi | On 23 Jan 2016 There continues to be widespread criticism of the extension of patent rights on pharmaceuticals in the developing world as required by World Trade Organization membership. This paper examines argument...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 This report summarizes outcomes of collaboration between ADB and implementing agencies of Bhutan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Philippines, and Viet Nam to address gaps in the production of a...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jan 2016 In India, institutional arrangements around climate finance have mostly followed national policy responses to climate change. This paper maps the emergence of climate change policy in India and subseq...
by Vyoma Jha | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper contributes to the empirical understanding of the concept of commitment and the role it plays in shaping India’s social policy implementation. Taking the case of the landmark policy, the Ma...
by Deepta Chopra | On 21 Jan 2016 The issue of land rights and that of gender equality are strongly affected by the prevalent economic and social policy regimes, at both national and global levels. The dominant policy regimes decide t...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This working group on Disadvantaged Farmers, including women is one of the key working groups for defining agricultural policy in the Twelfth Five Year Plan. Eighty-three percent of India’s farmers cu...
by Bina Agarwal | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper is organized in three main sections. The first section provides some definitions of the key terms and describes how both internal and international migration impact on development. An under...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 Human trafficking is one of the most widely spread and fastest growing crimes in the world. However, despite the scope of the problem, the important human rights issues at stake and the professed inte...
by Ngan Dinh | On 19 Jan 2016 The recent success of India and Bangladesh in settling the complicated issue of political enclaves in each other’s territories could be traced to the spirit displayed by the leaders of the two countri...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 The paper identifies five important aspects of agriculture that
need immediate attention to bring economic advantages to millions of farm families. First, output
per hectare, which is a common measu...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 Jan 2016 We empirically analyze the language proficiency of migrants in the Netherlands. Traditionally, the emphasis in studying language proficiency and economic outcomes has been on the relation between earn...
by Hans Bloemen | On 15 Jan 2016 Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace...
by Bridget Daldy | On 14 Jan 2016 In this brief review of recent approaches relevant to climate smart agriculture (CSA) programs, the researcher presents ideas on why emerging CSA policies and plans lack the attention to gender that w...
by Sonja Vermeulen | On 14 Jan 2016 The following is a report based on PUDR’s repeated visits to
Atali and its interactions with Muslim and Jat families over the last four
months.
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 13 Jan 2016 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were introduced to monitor implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization based...
by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | On 13 Jan 2016 This Overview Report on Gender and Migration takes a broad approach to migration – it looks at the gender dynamics of both international and the lesser-researched internal migration and the interconne...
by | On 13 Jan 2016 This paper synthesizes the evidence of a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental quality. It shows that inequality exerts adverse impact on environmental outcomes through seve...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 In this article, I depart from the factual difficulties of undocumented migrants to access a state’s protection mechanisms for avowedly universal human rights. I relate this aporia to two competing co...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The paper looks at the flow of ideas from the South Asian Diaspora groups to their original homelands. This is occurring in the areas of economic management and political change. As a result of the in...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper throws light on the view that the Indian state has been one that has been perpetrated by injustice irrespective of a series of ground-breaking legislative acts that enshrine a number of soci...
by John Harriss | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper tries to analyse the effects of TRIPS on public welfare in the context of the pharmaceutical sector. It takes a closer look at the policies of some developing countries and their usage of t...
by Deeparghya Mukherjee | On 09 Jan 2016 The Pakistan Army’s ideological hegemony, especially in the country’s Punjabi-speaking heartland, the continuing focus on the state’s narrative of a religion-based unitary identity which is under a co...
by Aasim Akhtar | On 08 Jan 2016 Land is regarded as an important source of livelihoods to many people, especially rural people. For those people, access to and control over land resources is the source of livelihoods. Therefore, lan...
by Samana Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 Cross-border production networks have been playing an increasingly important role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries’ trade in recent years, but micro-level studies are ra...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 07 Jan 2016 This report identifies the main constraints to Thailand’s transition to a more modern industrial and service economy. Further major transformation is in order: this includes accelerating market reform...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jan 2016 In 2013, through massive quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the yen depreciated about 25% against the US dollar, stoking fears of Japan bashing by the US. However, this sharp depreciation...
by Ronald McKinnon | On 07 Jan 2016 Following are excerpts from Report of a PUCL Fact Finding Team into unrest and repression in the Sundergarh scheduled district of Odisha.
by People's Union of Civil Liberties PUCL | On 06 Jan 2016 The present study was taken up in this context with the objective of examining the land
laws and administration in AP and see how the existing laws are implemented, forced
acquisition of lands is ta...
by Ramachandraiah C | On 05 Jan 2016 In late 2010 The Asia Foundation in Sri Lanka commissioned a public perceptions survey that aimed to capture the post-war mood of the nation. The survey sought to gauge public opinion about the overal...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 The policy paper reviews selected case studies of Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana, a sub-component of the National Rural Livelihood Mission. The paper provides key learnings to the practitioners...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Jan 2016 Open educational resources made their appearance in early 2002 as a promising tool for enhancing the quality of and access to education and were perceived to have the potential to reduce costs by reus...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper presents a simple model of industrial upgrading as a result of backward and forward information linkages between upstream and downstream relations. It also serves as an empirical investigat...
by Tomohiro Machikita | On 30 Dec 2015 Clearly, the monograph addresses a set of critical issues related to the forest rights and livelihood and makes a sincere effort to draw attention to the plight of forest dependent communities. Policy...
by Tapas Kumar Sarangi | On 30 Dec 2015 The Hilaungad watershed, a sub-catchment of the larger Lastargad basin, lies on the west bank of the Mandakini river which rises from the nearby snow covered peaks of the high Himalayas. For the purpo...
by Ravi Chopra | On 29 Dec 2015 Southeast Asia is vulnerable to climate change, yet is also on a carbon intensive development trajectory.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has analyzed the potential role the region can play in climate...
by Jindra Samson | On 29 Dec 2015 Myanmar’s agriculture sector offers substantial unexploited potential to underpin the country’s inclusive economic development. With extensive land, water, and labor resources, as well as proximity to...
by Jindra Samson | On 29 Dec 2015 Most of the trade between South Asia and Southeast Asia is by sea. However, with improved infrastructure and easier border crossing procedures, land traffic could grow to boost trade in goods, service...
by Jean-Francois Gautrin Gautrin | On 29 Dec 2015 Nepal's lackluster economic performance during the post-conflict period (that is, after November 2006) has been driven by remittances from the export of labor services and the improved performance of...
by Pradumna Rana | On 29 Dec 2015 With closer regional integration there is increasing interest within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and on the part of ASEAN's dialogue partners in the potential gains of closer co...
by Termsak Chalermpalanupap | On 29 Dec 2015 The Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) represents one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic regional communities. This report identifies some of the key trends and critical issues for the Indian Oc...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 A new feature of international migration for work is the increase
in the numbers of overseas women migrant workers, which in
countries like the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka exceed
the numbe...
by | On 28 Dec 2015 This study examines the relationship between firm characteristics and borrowing from commercial banks by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and five Sout...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 24 Dec 2015 Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the biggest food producers, they earn only one-tenth of the world’s income and own less than 1% of the world...
by | On 23 Dec 2015 This paper intends to ascertain whether a uniform national law would be beneficial to the interests of the three main parties involved with refugee policy in India, namely the Government of India, the...
by Arjun Nair | On 22 Dec 2015 The imperatives for Thailand’s investment in the Northeast have come from two important considerations, reflecting longterm strategic objectives of the Look West Policy of Thailand. First, India’s nor...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 Women form a disproportionately large share of the world’s unbanked population. Gender inequalities in employment and earnings mean that women have lower incomes, making them less able to open account...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 This paper addresses the issue of disability and its public health implications within the human rights framework. It also throws light on people with physical disabilities at least get noticed but th...
by Leni Chaudhari | On 21 Dec 2015 The strengthening of El Niño weather phenomenon has led to lower than average rainfall for India’s monsoon season, thereby raising concerns for paddy crops production.
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 21 Dec 2015 Although Nepal formulated an agricultural mechanization promotion policy in 2014, there is still much to learn about tailoring mechanization policies to different types of farm households. The Terai b...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed on 21 November 2006, made an unprecedented commitment to those children who had been involved in Nepal’s decade long civil war. It stipulated that those
...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 Sri Lanka, home to a plethora of ethnically diverse communities, saw horrific
communal bloodshed in July 1983. Over three decades down the line, history seems to be repeating itself as hordes of Budd...
by Chaarvi Modi | On 17 Dec 2015 The report sheds light on the prevalence of different forms of violence against children, with global figures and data from 190 countries. Where relevant, data are disaggregated by age and sex, to pro...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 The challenge of climate change is huge; it requires an urgent response from all generations. As the effects of climate change become more visible and extreme, they are likely to affect adversely the...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 In this policy paper, Vanda Felbab-Brown explores the relationship between conflict,
peace dynamics, and drugs and other illicit economies in Thailand and
Myanmar/Burma since the 1960s through...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 16 Dec 2015 This study highlights three central themes of the MGNREGA: first, the innovative policy framework of the Act, which brings together rights-based entitlements, demand-driven employment, and citizen-cen...
by Ellen Ehmke | On 16 Dec 2015 The special focus of this paper are the merchants of labour, the public and private agents who move workers over borders. The ILO Convention 97 (1949) recommended that migrants move over borders with...
by Philip Martin | On 15 Dec 2015 Many people are excited about data, particularly when those data are big. Big data, we are told, will be the fuel that drives the next industrial revolution, radically reshaping economic structures, e...
by | On 15 Dec 2015 This report examines the political predicament that confronts governments and other political actors when they address the issue of irregular migration. Primarily, it sets out the rights, and claims t...
by | On 10 Dec 2015 The purpose of this manual is to collaborate with grass-roots organizations, in particular with NGOs, in defining the content of economic, social and cultural rights (ESC rights) and to empower the ac...
by Maritza Formisano Prada | On 10 Dec 2015 The thesis that Asian values are less supportive of freedom and more concerned with order than discipline than are Western values and that the claims of human rights in the areas of political and civi...
by Amartya Sen | On 10 Dec 2015 There are a wide range of agriculture-based practices and technologies that have the potential to increase food production and the adaptive capacity of the food production system, as well as reduce em...
by | On 09 Dec 2015 These Notes are mainly about three interconnected themes; the international and Indian ‘take’ on control over land (and water); the distinction between an agricultural crisis and an agrarian crisis;...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 09 Dec 2015 This paper critically examines how lease farming can be a viable livelihood option for landless rural poor, especially women in India. In the absence of land ownership and education, the majority of l...
by | On 08 Dec 2015 Budgets are the most solid expression of a government’s priorities, performances, decisions and intentions both at the national as well as the level of the states. This budget for children (BfC) in Me...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 08 Dec 2015 The “Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009: Who Answers to Women?” demonstrates that one of the most powerful constraints on realizing women's rights and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (...
by | On 07 Dec 2015 Climate change has been the part of many discussions and to understand it causal factors behind it data is needed.
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 07 Dec 2015 The future of tropical deforestation is projected from 2016-2050 with and without carbon pricing policies, based on 18 million observations of historical forest loss spanning 101 tropical countries.
by Jonah Busch | On 04 Dec 2015 To inform the formulation of policies and interventions to strengthen women’s land rights, this paper analyzes nationally representative data from Bangladesh,
Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam to...
by Kathryn Sproule | On 02 Dec 2015 Tracking the the Indian Railways is as much an exercise in history as it is an excursion into the political and social debates of the period that determined the fate of a nation.
This is the first i...
by Anuradha Kumar | On 21 Nov 2015 Review of The Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India. Harper Collins India, 2015; pp. 552, Rs 527/-
by Sandeep Dubey | On 20 Nov 2015 The Ministry of Mines’ fundamental job is to mine. Many of the violations and human rights abuses that result from mining, especially with respect to children, are not the mandate of the ministry to a...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Nov 2015 At Pratirodh, the Writers' Convention organised on 1 October 2015, Romila Thapar began with an anecdotal account of her recent lecture on secularism in Mumbai, a lecture for which she was advised to t...
by Romila Thapar | On 18 Nov 2015 If it passes muster, Corporate Human Rights Benchmark will undeniably be the next big thing in human rights tracking
by Sudeep Chakravarti | On 10 Nov 2015 Given the importance of securing women’s rights to land as India grows and develops and recognizing the dearth of available data to guide the design of gender-sensitive interventions, this study provi...
by | On 04 Nov 2015 Targeted Public Distribution System was introduced in the country following the failure of the
Universal PDS to serve below the poverty line and poorest of the poor households.It is being
implemente...
by T Jayan | On 04 Nov 2015 An RTI filed by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights with Jail No.7 in Tihar, brought to light the
shocking violations of Child Rights and Juvenile Justice in the Tihar Jail. It was found that
within a peri...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 03 Nov 2015 Water, sanitation and hygiene services are central to addressing poverty, livelihoods and health. They are also critical in addressing the needs of poor communities and in achieving the Millennium Dev...
by M.V. Ramachandrudu | On 29 Oct 2015 This digest throws light on how terrorism has affected the social and religious atmosphere of the country. This digest tries to bring a clear picture on the dangerous understanding that a particular c...
by Ram Puniyani | On 29 Oct 2015 In this lecture, the author discusses the concept of Indian secularism. She suggests that the concept of secularism went beyond politics. The lecture discusses on three aspects of what is involved in...
by Romila Thapar | On 28 Oct 2015 This Report focuses on the economic and social dimensions of gender equality, including the right of all women to a good job, with fair pay and safe working conditions, to an adequate pension in older...
by UN Women | On 23 Oct 2015 This paper examines policies for the support of families with children, in particular child-related financial transfers and early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. The analysis is mainly f...
by Mary Daly | On 21 Oct 2015 After India gained independence in 1947, the country's leaders promised its diverse constituents citizenship rights that extended across religion, gender, and caste. Distinct from its previous British...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 The achievement of substantive equality is understood as having four dimensions: redressing disadvantage; countering stigma, prejudice, humiliation and violence; transforming social and institutional...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 This is an analytical narrative about post-conflict dynamics of poverty in a block of villages in north Bihar known as ‘the Mushahari Project’. It is related with the socio-economic and political cons...
by Anand Kumar | On 20 Oct 2015 Narendra Modi is the first PM after Indira Gandhi with the power and possibly the intention to change the Indian system.
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Oct 2015 The report reveals new evidence of human trafficking and the use of violence in the Thai fishing industry and inaction on the part of the Government to identify and prosecute criminals, corrupt offici...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 16 Oct 2015 Present study has been
undertaken to understand that to what extent reforms measures in terms of repeal of
the act has affected investment in agricultural marketing infrastructure. The present
s...
by Vijay Intodia | On 14 Oct 2015 Why does gender equality in the media matter? Because of the many influences that shape the way we see men and women, media are among the most powerful. Media shape our daily lives, infusing their mes...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 07 Oct 2015 This paper was written in response to something that happened at one session of the 2013 Cuddalore Conference of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS). In India, net sown area had expanded from 1950-51 up...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 01 Oct 2015 Roughly 40 percent of the world’s poor live in South Asia, where poverty is basically a rural problem. Therefore, a significant gain in rural poverty reduction in this sub-region will be crucial to re...
by | On 30 Sep 2015 This paper examines the trafficking of vulnerable populations in Southeast Asia and the effectiveness of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in combating human trafficking in the region. Human...
by | On 29 Sep 2015 This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and food security, with a particular focus on women as food producers, consumers, and family food managers. The discussion is set against...
by Bina Agarwal | On 29 Sep 2015 This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. It recognises that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions...
by United Nations UN | On 28 Sep 2015 The objective of the mission was to evaluate the impact of the power plant on the livelihoods of the people and ecology of the region, examine the legal framework governing its and assess if the propo...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 28 Sep 2015 Can election change the condition of Bihar? At least improving the transport facilities....
by T.N. Ninan | On 26 Sep 2015 Urbanization provides South Asian countries with the potential to transform their economies to join the ranks of richer nations in both prosperity and livability, but a new World Bank report finds the...
by World Bank | On 25 Sep 2015 This study examines the implications of variations in climate variables on ground water sources of irrigation and agricultural income in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Our findings, based on a panel...
by Balasubramanian R | On 24 Sep 2015 Far from modern ideologies focusing on fixed ascriptive religious identities, the Shaivite ascetic sect of the Nath Yogis had a long tradition of close relationships with Islam. This article will focu...
by Véronique Bouillier | On 24 Sep 2015 Mauritius has been an independent nation since 1968. It was founded on the history and structures of a plantation society and is mainly inhabited by descendants of Indian (and Hindu) indentured labour...
by Mathieu Claveyrolas | On 24 Sep 2015 Almost three years since the enforcement of POSCP Act is a good time to review its implementation and
build evidence that can be used to seek improvement and/or appropriate changes.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 24 Sep 2015 The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005, an inheritance law that covers 83.6% of the population of India, corrected some of fundamental inequalities in the law bringing the women in equal status to...
by Sohini Pal | On 23 Sep 2015 This Handbook is mainly for human rights practitioners who want to familiarise themselves with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and use the human rights fram...
by | On 23 Sep 2015 In this concept note authors aim to put forth a broad canvas of the various issues that need to be considered and positions that need to be formulated, in order to argue that it is possible to make Un...
by Dr. Abhay Shukla | On 23 Sep 2015 Is democracy in Bangladesh on a reverse course? Is there a culture of intolerance being engendered by deliberate design? Will creeping extremisms create an inevitable schism within the nation? The pap...
by | On 23 Sep 2015 This paper seeks to provide an overview of the complex and dynamic relationship between nutrition and growth, examine how different growth patterns lead to different nutritional outcomes, and identif...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to strengthen the evidence base on child labor and labor conditions in the shrimp and seafood supply chain and within the communities engaged in the shrimp...
by ASIA FOUNDATION | On 18 Sep 2015 This paper analyses the legal framework and policy innovations undertaken towards achieving the stated objectives of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. This paper seeks to cri...
by | On 15 Sep 2015 The purpose of the national consultation was to bring together initiatives from across the country to share experience and challenges. This report is the final draft of the discussions and a common ag...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 14 Sep 2015 This study highlights that India has not been complying with its obligations under the ICCPR and has indeed been imposing death penalty without legal sanction. While the violations of international fa...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 14 Sep 2015 The report reveal the magnitude of the challenge that the world still faces in the quest for gender equality. This report promotes the cause of inclusion of women by informing research and policy disc...
by World Bank | On 11 Sep 2015 There have been numerous investigations in recent years to determine the incidence and prevalence of modern slavery worldwide, and debt bondage in India has been found to be the most extensive form of...
by Sarah Knight | On 10 Sep 2015 Nepali society is highly stratified with many glaring inequalities among different socioeconomic groups. The worst positioned among them are Dalits. The caste system segregates Dalits from the rest to...
by | On 10 Sep 2015 The report explores how climate change has become one of the major challenges to the enjoyment of the basic rights to life, food, health, water, housing and self-determination in one of the World's mo...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 08 Sep 2015 The report calls for overfishing, pirate fishing and modern-day slavery in the Thai fishing industry to be addressed as interconnected issues. It examines the complex and multi-faceted problems in Tha...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 08 Sep 2015 Humanities departments in public universities are under attack across the country for their potential to spawn dissent. We need them to take the fight to the powers that be. [Transcript of a talk pres...
by Brinda Bose | On 07 Sep 2015 IDMC estimates that as of July 2015 at least 31,400 people are internally displaced as a result of conflict and violence in Indonesia. Nearly all are protracted internally displaced persons (IDPs) who...
by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre | On 03 Sep 2015 This paper explores the dynamics of economic growth, poverty, inequality and migration in Thailand, and evaluates the relevance of Lewis model to Thailand’s long-term development. Thai economy seems t...
by Somchai Jitsuchon | On 03 Sep 2015 On 21 October 2011, hundreds of Mexican civil society organizations formally submitted a petition to the Lelio e Lisli Basso Foundation in Rome to justify the opening of a Mexican Chapter of the Perma...
by Rosalba Icaza | On 02 Sep 2015 The paper analyses the nexus between growth, employment and poverty and points out situations where high economic growth may fail to bring about a commensurate rate of poverty reduction if simultaneo...
by | On 02 Sep 2015 In this lecture, the author discusses the concept of Indian secularism. She suggests that the concept of secularism went beyond politics and none of the mainstream political parties adhered to it, and...
by Romila Thapar | On 31 Aug 2015 This report focuses on three main issues – gender equality, maternal health and slums – which provide clear examples of how the MDGs and the targets set fall short of international human rights standa...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 31 Aug 2015 This report highlights deficiencies in the Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) undertaken by Vedanta Resources Plc for its proposed bauxite mine in Niyamgiri, Orissa, its alumina refinery in Lanji...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 31 Aug 2015 Saudi Arabia has attracted more low-paid Indian migrants over the last 25 years than any other country in the Gulf region. Every day, close to 1,000 Indian low-wage migrant workers are provided with e...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 31 Aug 2015 If there is one thing the Census 2011 shows, it's that India will remain overwhelmingly Hindu forever
by T.N. Ninan | On 29 Aug 2015 Notwithstanding its impressive economic growth, food insecurity in South Asia continues to be a stark reality for a large number of households. Despite several successful policy interventions by Gover...
by K. S. Kavi Kumar | On 19 Aug 2015 This publication attempts to study major concepts of WTO and present some perspectives on Nepal’s membership in this rule based global trading organization. The chapters presents an introduction with...
by Nepal Rastra Bank NRB | On 17 Aug 2015 Against the post-New Industrial Policy (1991) growth witnessed in large-scale industries, a corresponding boom in the small and mid-sized domestic industry has been conspicuously absent. The paper see...
by Amit Chandra | On 13 Aug 2015 The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE), 2009 ratified education as a fundamental right and seeks to promote equitable access to education for all children up to the age of 14...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 13 Aug 2015 Street vendors’ rights to carry on their trade in public spaces, has been the subject matter of debate and discussion in India for a very long time. In fact it has taken numerous judgments of the Supr...
by Amit Chandra | On 13 Aug 2015 The National Policy on Biofuels sets an indicative target of 20per cent blending of biofuels by 2017 to tackle the twin problem of energy security and climate change. Although biofuels seem to be the...
by Gopinath Reddy | On 13 Aug 2015 Of all the markets in which politicians interfere with prices, the land market is probably the last that will be reformed.
by T.N. Ninan | On 08 Aug 2015 This paper presents a novel analytical framework to study transnational activism in the context of today’s international governance architecture. While there is a considerable amount of literature on...
by Sabrina Zajak | On 07 Aug 2015 This project aims to assess the impact of IPR rules on economic growth (including investment), environmental protection (including biodiversity) and social goals (including rural development). There w...
by IPDEV . | On 06 Aug 2015 Newer production processes with changing global spaces have produced newer division of labour and work categories. The two studies presented here draw attention to the shrinking space for articulation...
by Swati Ghosh | On 31 Jul 2015 The report looks beyond the proclamations and communiqués to assess what has really changed since the crisis erupted. While not exhaustive, the report looks at: Overseas Development Assistance, both i...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 Save the Children believes that a strong, diverse and independent civil society can play an important role in ensuring the realisation of children’s rights. This policy brief outlines why Save the Chi...
by Save Children | On 28 Jul 2015 This paper captures the policy processes leading to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RFCTLARR) Ordinance, 2014. It maps the role an...
by G. Raghuram | On 28 Jul 2015 This paper talks about the right to marry as an essential freedom of all human beings as it relates to their right to self-expression and their right to associate with a person of their choice. The au...
by | On 27 Jul 2015 This paper explores what constitutes the mechanics of the legal and the administrative world of food rights in the Dooars area of West Bengal, specifically food rights of the tea plantation labourers....
by Geetisha Dasgupta | On 24 Jul 2015 This document compiles the explicit references to girls’
and women’s right to education in national reports and
is intended to serve as a practical tool for both advocacy
and monitoring. The factsh...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 22 Jul 2015 An Ordinance further to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. This ordinance, 2015 incorporates the amendments made by t...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 This Bill amends the principal Act passed in 2013. The Bill enables the government to exempt five categories of projects from the requirements of social impact assessment, restrictions on acquisition...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 This is a Bill to further amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the monsoon session between July 21 and August 13, 2015.
The legislative agenda includes 7 legislative Bills currently pending in Parliament for consideration...
by Kusum Malik | On 21 Jul 2015 The Alternative Report has been prepared by Save the Children UK (Pakistan office) and the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC). It reflects the views of a large number of civ...
by ECHO Save the Children (U.K) | On 17 Jul 2015 The links between climate change and disasters in South Asia, such as flooding in Pakistan or cyclones in Bangladesh, are increasingly evident.
However, there is little recognition of the potentially...
by | On 14 Jul 2015 Good health is an objective that is socially determined, and gender relations form a crucial aspect of good sexual health. This study on gender, masculinity and SRH in South Asia sets out to examine ‘...
by | On 14 Jul 2015 The objective of this paper is to understand the prospects of enhancing services trade, investment and co-operation between South and Southeast Asia, taking the example of India and Thailand, by focus...
by | On 13 Jul 2015 The study is an attempt to bring to the fore a Commons perspective of agriculture, livestock and rural livelihoods in the dryland and tribal areas of India. Would agriculture, livestock and rural live...
by Foundation for Ecological Security FES | On 07 Jul 2015 With only less than 10 million hectares of agricultural land that is threatened by a rapidly urbanizing economy, how would the Philippines be able to meet its growing demand for food, and continue pro...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 06 Jul 2015 The right to acquire/rent property anywhere in the nation is a fantasy fostered by the Constitution and the rhetoric of modernisation and urbanisation.
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 28 Jun 2015 The need for revision of the 1979 land legislation was being felt for a long time and hence the then Ministry of Agriculture started the work on it with the formation of a multi-sector committee in 20...
by Dasho Kinzang Dorji | On 26 Jun 2015 Standing Committee on Water Resources (2014-15) took up this subject for a detailed examination and report. It includes flood affected area and damaged scenario, causes of flood, role of Union and Sta...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 25 Jun 2015 Street vending and urban space for micro enterprises constitute an important policy theme that needs to be advanced further in development literature and policy. In many countries, urban space tends t...
by Kyoko Kusakabe | On 24 Jun 2015 he purpose of this paper is to provide a summary analysis of five case studies prepared for the 2013 World Development Report team that illustrate why and how the representative voice and economic rig...
by Martha Chen | On 24 Jun 2015 Despite rapid economic growth in South Asia, strong inequalities persist and children pay a heavy price. This publication examines latest trends and data on children in the eight countries of the regi...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 24 Jun 2015 The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 was enacted to give effect to the
Proclamation on the Full Participation and Equality of the...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 22 Jun 2015 Sexual violence is a significant cause of physical and psychological harm and suffering for The health concerns of survivors/victims of sexual violence, and their right to health is an issue of import...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 22 Jun 2015 India has 12.6 million child labourers in the age group of 5 to 14 years as per the National Census 2001. Our country is yet to commit itself towards elimination of child labour. espite the ratificati...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 22 Jun 2015 The recent identification of chromite deposits in two districts of Manipur, Ukhrul and Chandel, has led the government to grant mining clearances disregarding constitutional provisions. While environm...
by Franky Varah | On 21 Jun 2015 As the UN Human Rights Council holds its 29th session from 15th June 2015 to 3 July 2015, it ought to adopt a resolution on the deplorable human rights situation in Maldives as a consequence of the si...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 15 Jun 2015 Forest policy aims at ensuring environmental stability and maintaining the ecological balance, which help in sustenance of all life forms. One of the principal goals is to bring one-third of the land...
by | On 15 Jun 2015 This overview brings together major findings and crosscutting issues
in the “country situation reports” from Bangladesh, India, Nepal,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka respectively, which were commissioned
b...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 15 Jun 2015 This article utilises state-level data for 1961–2012 to examine the interlinkage between informal finance and monetary policy. The analysis suggests that in response to a monetary contraction, borrowi...
by Saibal Ghosh | On 15 Jun 2015 This paper presents a broad overview of the law, policy and legal institutions of child protection in India and examines the current legal issues in a rights-based perspective.It points out the poor e...
by Asha Bajpai | On 12 Jun 2015 Remittances that flow from low-skilled labor migration are critical to many developing countries, yet these economic benefits can come at a high price. Roughly half of all migrant workers are women, m...
by Brian Opeskin | On 12 Jun 2015 Compulsory education has a vital role to play in eradicating child labour. Getting children out of work and into school could provide an impetus for poverty reduction and the development of skills nee...
by Gordon Brown | On 12 Jun 2015 The second volume of the ILO World Report on Child Labour series highlights the close linkages between child labour and good youth employment outcomes, and the consequent need for common policy approa...
by | On 12 Jun 2015 Children constitute over a third of the country’s 1.21 billion population; yet children appear to be the most neglected segment in India, whose rights continue to be vastly ignored. Over 17% of the wo...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 12 Jun 2015 This report is a report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security. Water is key to food security and nutrition. However there are many c...
by Food and Nutrition Division FAO | On 10 Jun 2015 This paper is based on a critical literature review and looks into the implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) in India, with particular reference to the two states of Chhattisgarh and Gujarat....
by Madhusudan Bandi | On 09 Jun 2015 This research responds to the growing demand by mass organizations, for better documentation of women’s migration in India amid reports from activists of great increases in and new and more vulnerable...
by Indu Agnihotri | On 08 Jun 2015 Attempts have been made to arrive at a comprehensive settlement of the land boundary between India and Bangladesh (the erstwhile East Pakistan) since 1947. The Nehru-Noon agreement of 1958 and the agr...
by Ministry of External Affairs, GoI MEA | On 07 Jun 2015 The draft Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on September 7, 2011 is one of the most important legislations waiting for Parliamentary appr...
by Niranjan Sahoo | On 05 Jun 2015 The present study has been carried out in 10 states of India to assess the current situation and causes of child marriages and also to examine the implementation of Prohibition of Child Marriage Act....
by Pt. G.B. Pant Institute of Studies in Rural Develo Lucknow | On 02 Jun 2015 This report is based on interviews with more than 160 workers from 44 factories, most of them making garments for retail companies in North America, Europe, and Australia. Workers report violations in...
by Human Rights Watch | On 02 Jun 2015 This report comprises two assessments. The first is a theoretical analysis of the prevention and reduction of statelessness under international laws. By acceding to the ICCPR and the ICSCER conventio...
by Charlotte-Anne Malischewski | On 02 Jun 2015 This provides guidance on the draft action plan for better health to disable people. There are more than 1000 million people with disability worldwide, about 15% of the global population. The prevalen...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 01 Jun 2015 International experiences show significant opportunities in using GIS technologies and participatory methods to map community natural resource uses. In India, this has as far as is known only been don...
by Patrik Oskarsson | On 01 Jun 2015 This Advocates’ Guide has been developed based on the ecommendations made in the World Health Organization’s “Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services: Guidance...
by Renu Khanna | On 01 Jun 2015 Urban population growth and economic growth require cities to expand into the agricultural land on their periphery. How much land is required for this extension? How much planning and direct intervent...
by Alain Bertaud | On 01 Jun 2015 Transgender is also a part of the society and they have equal right to everything in the world that is available
to all other persons. The presence of such transgender is not new, but their presence...
by | On 28 May 2015 With the increasing emphasis on need for development, coupled with increasing urbanization, it is becoming apparent that the natural resources are to be used judiciously and sustainably. This report h...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 27 May 2015 The core concerns highlighted in this report of working group on child rights includes ensuring the right of all children to life, survival (especially in the context of gender-based sex selection) an...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 27 May 2015 The Executive Board held its 133rd session on 29 and 30 May 2013 and its 134th session from 20 to 25 January 2014. This report summarizes the main outcomes.
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 22 May 2015 Policy prescriptions for strengthening convergence of forestry, agriculture, watershed development programmes with pastures and grazing land management in forests, nonconventional forest areas, villag...
by Planning Commission | On 21 May 2015 The Rohingya are an ethno-religious minority group from the Rakhine region, which today is encompassed within the borders of Myanmar and is adjacent to Bangladesh. The majority of Rohingya in Myanmar...
by The Equal Rights Trust | On 14 May 2015 The report provides a strategy in the field of agriculture related issues on Dryland / Rainfed Farming System including Regeneration of Degraded / Waste Land, Watershed Development Programme.
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 13 May 2015 This paper takes into consideration of broad areas into consideration and the problems for youth employment should be viewed
as a larger macroeconomic issue of the state. Greater participation, invol...
by YouthNet Nagaland | On 12 May 2015 The January 2014 issue of YOJANA contains the following articles - Tribal and Marginalized Communities, Constitutional Provisions, Laws and Tribes, Actualising Adivasi Self-Rule, The Food Bill, Wild F...
by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting MIB | On 11 May 2015 The Committee are of the view that the disabled group in our country still remains an invisible group in the mind of policy makers.
A vast number of the disabled are excluded from the existing servic...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 11 May 2015 This report of government details on challenges in agriculture sector. There is a need to address these issues as India faces a greater challenge, since with only 2.3% share in world’s total land area...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 07 May 2015 It has been a decade since the outbreak of one of Asia’s most serious insurgencies, the conflict between Malay Muslims and the Thai state in Southern Thailand. Often ignored and unremarked upon by the...
by Duncan McCargo | On 30 Apr 2015 After a decade of separatist violence in Thailand’s Malay/Muslim-majority southern provinces, insurgent capabilities are outpacing state counter-measures that are mired in complacency and political co...
by International Crisis Group | On 30 Apr 2015 Displacement is by no means a new phenomenon in South Asia.
As they emerged as independent states, at least half of the South
Asian countries experienced mass displacement. In Bangladesh it
is esti...
by | On 28 Apr 2015 Since the revolution of 1932 that ended absolute monarchy, Thailand has experienced sporadic military interventions, with 19 coups and coup attempts over those decades. This article explains these mil...
by | On 27 Apr 2015 This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both static and dynamic....
by | On 24 Apr 2015 The report focuses on the critical question of advancing gender equality, as seen through the prism of women’s unequal power, voice, and rights. Despite the region’s many economic gains, the Report ch...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 24 Apr 2015 This paper discusses the problems with the much revised and much delayed Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, and how they may be addressed. A democratization of the land acquisitio...
by Prasenjit Bose | On 24 Apr 2015 This Five Year Plan document focuses on Social Sectors like Health, Education, Employment and Skill Development, Women’s Agency and Child Rights, Social Inclusion.
by Planning Commission | On 23 Apr 2015 ARTICLE 19 and Digital Rights Foundation Pakistan have serious concerns about measures contained in Pakistan’s proposed Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (‘PEC Bill’). The Bill contains a number of...
by Article 19 | On 22 Apr 2015 The National Agroforestry Policy, which deals with the practice of integrating trees, crops and livestock on the same plot of land, was launched February 10, the first day of the World Congress on Agr...
by | On 21 Apr 2015 An Act to provide for allocation of coal mines and vesting of the right, title and interest in and over the land and mine infrastructure together with mining leases to successful bidders and allottees...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 20 Apr 2015 In context of contemporary debates about censorship, net neutrality and the role of the state in today’s globalising world, it becomes vital to examine the stand taken by various Asian governments tow...
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 17 Apr 2015 This is an an ordinance further to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 17 Apr 2015 The network neutrality debate is the idea that all internet content irrespective of type or who created it, should be treated the same in transfer process. Because the medium of communication has dete...
by | On 15 Apr 2015 The aim of this paper is to provide policy-makers with a helpful overview of the technical and economic aspects of water use in agriculture, with particular emphasis on crop and livestock production....
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 15 Apr 2015 After 30 years of economic reforms, what is the comparative situation of men and women in the People’s Republic of China? How can we analyse the policies for promoting gender equality? Have inequaliti...
by | On 14 Apr 2015 Based on interviews with more than 50 rights defenders and their families, the 71-page document titled, "Their lives on the line: Women rights defenders under attack in Afghanistan," illustrates the r...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 14 Apr 2015 This report presents an overview of both legal frameworks that have institutionalised discrimination and fuelled religious intolerance and violence against women and a dysfunctional criminal justice s...
by International Crisis Group | On 13 Apr 2015 The paper provides an in-depth empirical analysis of Thai political history in an attempt to understand why democracy has failed to consolidate since the 1932 revolution that ended the absolute monarc...
by | On 08 Apr 2015 The paper assesses the current status of governance institutions in Myanmar, as well as their performance, in comparison to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and selected other countr...
by Cullen Hendrix | On 02 Apr 2015 This report is designed to contribute to the growing body of research on gender issues in Afghanistan with a specific focus on identifying gains and losses over the past decade at both the macro and m...
by | On 01 Apr 2015 The paper discusses several patent cases to argue that MNCs are aggressively asserting their patent rights not for getting genuine patents which they are entitled to but for preventing generic competi...
by Sudip Chaudhuri | On 30 Mar 2015 Despite rapid economic growth in South Asia, strong inequalities persist and children pay a heavy price. This publication examines latest trends and data on children in the eight countries of the regi...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 27 Mar 2015 This 48-page report documents harassment, intimidation, and attacks on journalists and the Afghan government’s failure to investigate and prosecute those responsible. The failure to protect journalist...
by Human Rights Watch | On 26 Mar 2015 An ordinance to amend the right to fair compensation and transparency in land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement (amendment) ordinance, 2014.
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 26 Mar 2015 This paper examines the history of the creation of the Japanese Constition, the legislative system and the rights granted to Japanese citizens. It then analyses the options before the Japanese people...
by | On 24 Mar 2015 The report concludes with key recommendations to address the situation where there is currently a concerning lack of social protection for migrants within the ASEAN region from which MFA, FES, Parliam...
by | On 20 Mar 2015 Workers in Cambodia’s garment factories—frequently producing name brand clothing sold mainly in the United States, the European Union, and Canada—often experience discriminatory and exploitative labor...
by Human Rights Watch | On 20 Mar 2015 The present policy initiative by the Government of India may be seen in the light of IP concerns and complaints have been hurled at India by
key intellectual property exporters, given pro-consumer ve...
by | On 18 Mar 2015 This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2012. Amnesty International records figures on the use of the death penalty based on the best available info...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 13 Mar 2015 United Nation in its Millennium Summit in 2000 declared ‘Gender Equality and Women Empowerment’ as one among the
eight ‘Millennium Development Goal’ to be achieved by the year 2015. However these goa...
by | On 11 Mar 2015 The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement
(Amendment) Bill, 2015 was introduced in Lok Sabha on February 24, 2015 to replace an Ordinance. T...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 11 Mar 2015 The Act aims to ensure a humane, participative, informed and transparent process for Land acquisition, industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities and urbanisation with leas...
by | On 09 Mar 2015 Ahead of the Union Budget, Civil Society Organizations ask for policy strategies to support drinking water and sanitation for vulnerable sections. Civil society budget groups, collectively as a networ...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 The ruling government’s Land Acquisition Ordinance is viewed with suspicion by most politically active groups, as well as the industry. Consent, compensation, relief and rehabilitation are some of the...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 25 Feb 2015 This special issue on mental health was put together for the Annual Meet of the Medico Friend Circle at Pune. Contents - Power to Label: the Social Construction of Madness by Prateeksha Sharma (1); T...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 18 Feb 2015 This working paper explores key issues in the new Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Bill’s attempt at ‘balance’ within the larger political context of land acquisition in India....
by Amlanjyoti Goswami | On 09 Feb 2015 A look at Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and the amendments to it from the perspective to those who live close to the land.
by Usha Ramanathan | On 02 Feb 2015 This paper focuses on historical aspects of land resources, land evolution and management.
Moreover, it describes land issues before and after the Ice age 5000 B.C. Pre-Vedic literature on
origin of...
by M S Umesh Babu | On 21 Jan 2015 Since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, Vietnam has undergone monumental economic changes. Although, like any country, Vietnam still has a lot of room to grow and improve, overall Vietnam is an econ...
by | On 21 Jan 2015 This issue brief outlines a roadmap for human progress over the next 15 years. Known as the Sustainable Development Goals, these new global targets will drive investment and action in virtually every...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 20 Jan 2015 North Korea’s public distribution system has been maintained somewhat perfunctorily since its severe economic hardship in the 1990s. However in reality, rationing to the working class has been suspend...
by | On 20 Jan 2015 Jashodhara Bagchi was a leading Indian feminist critic and a prodigious professor in her field. She was a scholar who voiced women's cause and worked for their empowerment. She also was chairman of...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 19 Jan 2015 Afghanistan is a landlocked country with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, China, Iran and Pakistan as its neighbours. It is a small country in the benign protection of the Hindu Kush and the great Himalayas...
by | On 19 Jan 2015 This paper attempts to study the factors holding back the growth of output and employment in this manufacturing sector. The creation of a large number of industrial jobs made possible by the rapid gro...
by Radhicka Kapoor | On 15 Jan 2015 Savarkar’s chief claim from the outset is that the Revolution was the manifestation of deep underlying principles. Indeed this sense of the underlying principles can alone justify such massive loss of...
by Nikhil Govind | On 27 Dec 2014 An international response to North Korea’s egregious human rights
record has begun to take shape. Building on the work of NGOs and
UN human rights experts, the United Nations Human Rights Council
i...
by Roberta Cohen | On 26 Dec 2014 Savarkar was not only a revolutionary, but also one who could reflect on the revolutionary life. The earlier generation of 1857 perhaps lacked the ability or at the very least, the opportunity to refl...
by Nikhil Govind | On 26 Dec 2014 On 21 March 2013, at its 22nd session, the United Nations Human Rights Council established the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Resolution A/...
by | On 26 Dec 2014 The state of Punjab, earlier regarded as an agriculturally developed region of India, has been passing through a severe economic crisis. The capital-intensive mode of production, propagated by the gre...
by | On 24 Dec 2014 The situation of persistent human rights violations across the country presents manifold challenges. A number of
progressive legal and policy initiatives have been taken by GOI. This paper highlights...
by Working Groups on Human Rights | On 12 Dec 2014 Violence against women and girls is an unacceptable violation of basic human rights. It also is so widespread that ending it must be a global public health priority. An estimated one in three women is...
by UNAIDS . | On 01 Dec 2014 Child marriage is one of the most prevalent and serious violations of human rights. The issue needs urgent
attention in South Asia, where 46 per cent of children are married formally or in informal u...
by Ravi Verma | On 27 Nov 2014 K.G.KANNABIRAN MEMORIAL LECTURE.
by Justice C.V. WIGNESWARAN | On 20 Nov 2014 The Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) is pleased to present Promoting and
Protecting the Rights of Migrant Workers: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions.
Nati...
by Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions | On 17 Nov 2014 The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Sama Resource Group for Women and Health, Commonhealth and National Alliance for Maternal Health and Human Rights are shocked at the death of 11 women and the critical condit...
by Nivedita Menon | On 13 Nov 2014 Millions of farmers in remote rural areas of India struggle to feed themselves and their families, while the resources on which they depend are deteriorating daily. This book shows how sustainable agr...
by Sustainable Agriculture Information Network | On 06 Nov 2014 This Human Rights Watch report documents how the UAE’s visa sponsorship system, known as kafala, and the lack of labour law protections leave migrant domestic workers exposed to abuse. Domestic worker...
by Human Rights Watch | On 24 Oct 2014 Most conventional accounts of India’s recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the liberalisation of 1991. This paper demonstrates that the transition to high growth o...
by Dani Rodrik | On 21 Oct 2014 This book originates from a conference of the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils and contains writings and research reports on Youth in Transition in the Asia and Pacific region. Th...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 16 Oct 2014 Despite recent advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and women, pervasive challenges remain. These challenges reflect widespread deprivations and constraints and include epidemic levels...
by Jeni Klugman | On 14 Oct 2014 The present speech analyses the significant role which can be played by the financial sector in spurring growth and expanding financial inclusion in NER. [CII Banking Collagium in Kolkata].
by P. Vijaya Bhaskar | On 13 Oct 2014 Dryland regions of the country, poorly endowed as they are with natural
resources including water are likely to be disadvantaged in terms of access to
credit. Within the dryland areas too inter-pers...
by Satyasai K J S | On 08 Oct 2014 These Notes are mainly about three interconnected themes; i) the international and Indian
‘take’ on control over land (and water); ii) the distinction between an agricultural crisis and
an agrarian...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 01 Oct 2014 Using the case study of Indonesian women migrating as domestic workers to Singapore, this paper draws on a quantitative survey and qualitative in-depth interviews to examine the migration trajectories...
by Maria Platt | On 24 Sep 2014 This book offers a careful summary of the rights and practices of work in the Indian labour market. In specific, it deals with rights deficiency of workers in different sectors especially on agricultu...
by V.V. Giri Labour Institute | On 19 Sep 2014 ‘India: Third and Fourth Combined Periodic Report on the Convention on the Rights of the Child’ is a product of extensive consultations with all stakeholders. The Report has been prepared after consul...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 15 Sep 2014 Cultural traditions and a lack of legal protections are driving tens of millions of girls around the world into early marriage, subjecting them to violence, poverty and mistreatment. Equality Now, in...
by Equality Now | On 12 Sep 2014 The mechanism adopted to keep the rise in property prices under check until 2000 was the active participation of the public sector in keeping supply ahead of demand. This seems to have worked well in...
by Jatinder S. Bedi | On 08 Sep 2014 Two people are sentenced to death every day in India, but it has not proved to be a deterrent to crime, says the latest report by NGO Asian Centre for Human Rights. Analysing government data for 12 ye...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 02 Sep 2014 The report focuses on the critical question of advancing gender equality, as seen through the prism of women’s unequal power, voice, and rights. Despite the region’s many economic gains, the report ch...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 25 Aug 2014 This paper presents the findings of a study concerning educational policies related to science education and diversity in India which is a geographically and socio-politically diverse country. If the...
by Sugra Chunawala | On 28 Jul 2014 Sixty people died in a building collapse in Chennai last fortnight. There is much more than the municipal incompetence that needs to be fixed to avoid such tragic incidents. This building was located...
by Sunita Narain | On 24 Jul 2014 Wetlands are rarely recorded under municipal land laws, so nobody knows about them. Planners see only land, not water and greedy builders take over. It is due to this oversight that buildings are plan...
by Sunita Narain | On 24 Jul 2014 This paper will highlight the myths that surround the question of mass conversion to Islam and the so called temple destructions by the Muslims during the formative years of the Sultanate and the Mugh...
by Amit K Suman | On 24 Jul 2014 Governments’ budgets are fundamentally about people’s human rights. Budgets are the central means by which governments can help realize their people’s access to quality education, decent health care s...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 10 Jul 2014 This brochure describes, advocates and defenders of women’s and girls’ safety and rights, as well as international agencies, national policymakers and donors, need to understand the nature and magnitu...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 07 Jul 2014 Irrefutable is the fact that trafficking of women and children is a grave violation of Human Rights and one of the most serious organized crimes of the day, transcending cultures, geography and time....
by P.M Nair | On 18 Jun 2014 Most of the trade between South Asia and Southeast Asia is by sea. However, with improved infrastructure and easier border crossing procedures, land traffic could grow to boost trade in goods, service...
by Jean-Francois Gautrin Gautrin | On 02 Jun 2014 This article discusses domestic and international responses to the issue of abuse of female domestic workers in the Middle East, and concludes that a standard working contract, such as that in use in...
by Gwenann S. Manseau | On 26 May 2014 This report presents data and analysis to better understand the factors driving the expansion in undergraduate and graduate education across Asia. By looking at the system as a whole, the authors eval...
by David W. Chapman | On 16 May 2014 In the hopes of earning money for a better life, and with few other alternatives, millions migrate to big cities or across borders to work as live-in nannies, caretakers for the elderly, and house-cle...
by Nisha Varia | On 08 May 2014 The report investigates migration in the context of demographic changes and trends in both growth and inequality. It also presents more detailed and nuanced individual, family and village experiences,...
by Jeni Klugman | On 06 May 2014 This comprehensive paper explains why and when soil degradation should be of particular concern to policymakers interested in assuring food security. The inferences in this paper are based on research...
by Sara J. Scherr | On 05 May 2014 India’s status as a preferred refugee haven is confirmed by the steady flow of refugees from many of its subcontinental neighbours as also from elsewhere. India continues to receive them despite its o...
by Arjun Nair | On 17 Apr 2014 The article highlights of the SC judgment on Transgender Rights and why it will go down in history as one of the most rights enhancing decisions in the Court’s history.
by Siddharth Narrain | On 16 Apr 2014 This report presents an assessment of the human rights record of President Hamid Karzai’s administration, following the ousting of the Taliban. Amnesty International has evaluated overall trends of pr...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 11 Apr 2014 The present paper seeks to
analyse the actual process of implementation at different institutional levels and the
factors that constrain its proper implementation, and to understand its livelihood i...
by Tapas Kumar Sarangi | On 03 Apr 2014 In India, over 70% of the population resides in rural areas with majority depending on land based activities for their livelihood. Studies have shown that owners of productive plots of land tend to be...
by Sita Devi | On 31 Mar 2014 The study seeks to understand women’s land rights by documenting how women acquire land, their feelings about tenure security to that land, exploring their knowledge of their land rights, and the exte...
by UN Women | On 14 Mar 2014 This study assessed the sources and levels of infrastructure financing in the Philippines for the
last five years (2008-2012). [PIDS Discussion Paper No. 2014-01].
by Adoracion M. Navarro | On 12 Mar 2014 Is there sufficient allocation for children in the budgets? [HAQ CRC].
by Enakshi Ganguly Thukral | On 05 Mar 2014 Vasudha Dhagamwar, legal activist and academician, passed away on February 10, in Pune.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 21 Feb 2014 Secure land rights are a critical, but often overlooked, factor in achieving household food security and improved nutritional status in rural areas of developing countries. This study evaluates the im...
by Florence Santos | On 17 Feb 2014 This paper focuses on the fishing hamlet of Adimalathura located
on the coast of the Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala, which has
been identified as an area of extreme developmental disadvantage...
by J. Devika | On 11 Feb 2014 While Asia continues to set pace as the world’s fastest growing region, some Asian middle-income countries (MICs) are showing signs of economic slowdown and face stiff competition from lower-cost econ...
by ASIA FOUNDATION | On 10 Feb 2014 This paper is a limited attempt at sketching the history of a
prominent slum in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, using mainly the
memories of residents collected as oral narratives. [CDS Working pape...
by J Devika | On 07 Feb 2014 Bound together by fraternal ties, the RSS and the various members of the Parivar share all pervasive ideas of ‘female virtue’ and the ideal of ‘Hindu family’ that serves to push aside a more comprehe...
by Namrata Ganneri | On 25 Jan 2014 Thailand’s economy is heavily reliant on labour-intensive industries. However, growing economic prosperity since the late 1980s has seen a decline in the available Thai workforce needed to meet the la...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 24 Jan 2014 This report analyses India’s Role For Promotion of Human Rights in Third Countries Through Universal Periodic Review. Under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, the United Nations Human Righ...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 23 Jan 2014 The POSCO project in India is a story all too familiar. This is a story about attempts to forcibly evict thousands of families from their homes, their fields, and their forests to make way for a massi...
by Smita Narula | On 22 Jan 2014 The rapid economic growth in the region consisting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India has begun to change the strategic landscape of...
by C. Raja Mohan | On 21 Jan 2014 The paper discusses the key health challenges in the post 2015 development agenda for Asia and the Pacific, a highly populated, diverse region of countries with different health needs and priorities....
by Yanzhong Huang | On 20 Jan 2014 This article systematically compares maritime territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas. It draws on the bargaining model of war and hegemonic stability theory to track the record of confl...
by Andy Yee | On 02 Jan 2014 This working paper provides an overview of migration policy analysis in academic and policy (‘grey’) literature for Southeast Asia, as well as a brief outline of the current migration policy environme...
by Maureen Hickey | On 27 Nov 2013 This work examines
the status of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW) in the
informal economy in India and locates the gaps and challenges in ratifying
the ILO Conventions 87, 98, 138 a...
by Dhanya M.B | On 19 Nov 2013 The UN estimates that there are 214 million migrants globally (IOM, 2010), making up 3% of the world’s total population. Increasing rapidly, the number of migrants globally could exceed 400 million by...
by FREDRICH STIFTUNG | On 15 Nov 2013 As Nepal prepares to hold the Constituent Assembly
(CA) elections on 19th November 2013, there already
seems to be one positive lesson: those “convicted of a criminal offence involving moral turpitu...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 11 Nov 2013 This paper deals with the philanthropic between Indian migrants and the local community in
Gujarat from a homeland perspective. It is based on research in rural central Gujarat, one of the regions
i...
by Natascha Dekkers | On 05 Nov 2013 This paper focusses on two Indian laws that seek to guarantee socioeconomic rights: the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), an important example of India’s
recent history of legislation...
by Reetika Khera | On 25 Oct 2013 Widows from West Bengal, the northeastern states and Bangladesh still make their way to the ashrams of Vrindavan, Mathura and Varanasi, in the hope that in the holy cities, god will not allow anyone t...
by Hutokshi Doctor | On 15 Oct 2013 The present study attempts to analyse the effect of capital gains and inheritance taxes on individual decisions to migrate. [NIPFP WP no. 81].
by Martin David | On 11 Oct 2013 The paper analyses the changing leadership in Computer and
Information Services (CIS). Leadership is measured in terms of export
shares. The leadership appears to have changed from United States of
...
by Sunil Mani | On 10 Oct 2013 This paper explores migration from Bihar, one of the most underdeveloped states in India, by paying particular attention to social class (caste) and landholdings. After
describing details of individu...
by Yuko Tsujita | On 27 Sep 2013 At the UN Human Rights Council’s (HRC) 22nd session in Geneva India quietly registered its dismay at the lack of progress made by Sri Lanka since its commitments at the Council in 2009. While urging...
by Raghu Menon | On 14 Sep 2013 Sri Lanka’s top UN Human Rights award winner Sunila Abeysekara died at a private hospital in Colombo on Monday afternoon after a long battle with cancer. A founder of Sri Lanka’s feminist movement, Ms...
by Lionel Bopage | On 12 Sep 2013 The Monsoon Session ended with the passage of Bills on food security, land acquisition, companies, and pension. During the session, significant time was lost due to frequent disruptions over issues su...
by Kusum Malik | On 12 Sep 2013 Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to
test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal
migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to...
by Ingrid Dallmann | On 06 Sep 2013 The Hedonic property value method is used to estimate how a dismenity, bad odor from an open sewer system, affects housing prices in the city of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. An estimate of the benefits of...
by Mohammad Irfan | On 05 Sep 2013 I Have a Dream Speech: Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.
"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from...
by Martin Luther King | On 31 Aug 2013 For agricultural subsidies to be efficient in improving farmers’ incomes and eradicating hunger, holistic policy intervention is required. Complementary policies such as increased access to credit and...
by Maria C.S. Morales | On 30 Aug 2013 The gains made since ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) are plenty, but the reality of children’s situation is disturbing on many counts calling for urgent and serious att...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 26 Aug 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 5...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 19 Aug 2013 The findings of the present study are being documented with an aim for invoking a paradigm shift in the attitudes and perceptions about natural hazards; this shift should make the state and the
peopl...
by Tuhin Ghosh | On 12 Aug 2013 An act to provide for the prohibition of employment as manual scavengers and their families and for matters connected there with.
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Aug 2013 This policy outlines a very clear strategy of creating a large pool of land so that every family's right to land is fully honoured. The policy proceeds to suggest a just and equitable method of allott...
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 06 Aug 2013 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 d...
by Ram Fishman | On 30 Jul 2013 With only a total land area of 30 million hectares and a population of 92.3 million growing at an average rate of 2.12 percent, how should the Philippines allocate a very scarce and important resource...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 24 Jul 2013 The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post-TRIPs, with reference to manufacturing industry in India is studied. The fact that...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 12 Jul 2013 Migration literature has always considered environmental constraints as one of the prime movers of populations, especially from dry regions, where water rather than land is the primary limiting factor...
by Amita Shah | On 28 Jun 2013 This paper seeks to map out the historical trajectory leading to a series of migrations in and from the erstwhile princely state of Travancore during 1900-70 in order to acquire and bring land under c...
by V. J. Varghese | On 26 Jun 2013 As reports of severe harassment of Maruti workers and their families trickled in
in late July 2012, Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) undertook a fact
finding investigation into the inciden...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 07 Jun 2013 This paper analyses the complementarities between land productivity
and conservation investments in the context of river embankment
maintenance in the Indian Sundarbans.[SANDEE]. URL:[http://www.san...
by Prasenjit Sarkhel | On 06 Jun 2013 Land acquisition, which refers to the process of a government forcibly acquiring private property for public purpose, has been the cause of over a third of the legal conflicts in India in the past dec...
by iGovernment. in | On 19 Apr 2013 Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go to cities to find work
because they cannot survive on what they can earn in thei...
by Naomi Jacob | On 17 Apr 2013 This paper records the findings of a small investigation into a fragment of experiences of people living on streets and into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, b...
by Harsh Mander | On 10 Apr 2013 Unit-level data from the registered manufacturing segment of the Third and Fourth rounds of the Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) census data for 2001-2 and 2006-7 is used to understan...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 08 Apr 2013 The study aimed to explore the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of households with and without child domestic workers (CDW), and explore the causes and process of becoming CDWs in Banglad...
by Shuburna Chodhuary | On 22 Feb 2013 Nagaland’s population decreased during 2001–11 after growing at abnormally high
rates during the past few decades. This is the first time since independence that a state
in India has witnessed an ab...
by Ankush Agrawal | On 21 Feb 2013 The proposed legislation marks a paradigm shift in addressing the problem of food security – from the current welfare approach to a right based approach. About two thirds of the population will be ent...
by MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DIST GOI | On 15 Feb 2013 In the megacities of developing Southeast Asia, the informal sector plays an important role in supporting economic development.
Yet, in discussions of the ramifications of climaterelated
natural haz...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 13 Feb 2013 Special issue
Background Papers for Work, Health and Rights
Annual Meet February 2013
by Medico Friend Circle | On 07 Feb 2013 Review of the book 'Child and Adolescent Mental Health' edited by Usha Nayar, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children; February 2013; pp 363; Rs 115...
by Aarti Salve | On 07 Feb 2013 In the world, there are three models that inspire administration of juvenile justice:
• The Welfare Model
• The Justice Model or Control model - Retributive
• The Restorative Model
The age of c...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 06 Feb 2013 This paper analyses the property tax system in India, examines the reasons for its low revenue productivity, reviews the recent reform initiatives and identifies further reform areas. [NIPFP Working P...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 06 Feb 2013 This paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasi...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 22 Jan 2013 An attempt has been made to understand the paradoxes of Kerala's development like the state's per capita consumer expenditure is more than
the per capita state domestic product. But the nutritional i...
by K.K. George | On 18 Dec 2012 A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led t...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 15 Nov 2012 To declare the institution known as the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, to be an institution of National importance and to provide for its incorporation and for matters connected...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 05 Oct 2012 The Lok Sabha (the Lower House of the Parliament) has, on 3 September 2012, passed the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2012. The Bill now remains...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment MoL&E | On 01 Oct 2012 This paper examines whether an individual-level transfer of property rights increases
the individual's bargaining power within the household. The question is analyzed in
the context of a housing ref...
by Shing-Yi Wang | On 18 Sep 2012 This paper covers recent trends in a series of broad indicators of the financial health of the Government of Kerala with its developmental policy as the backdrop. It examines fiscal balances in Kerala...
by Tapas K. Sen | On 30 Aug 2012 The devolution of environment and natural resource functions to local government units was a bold move in the history of environmental Management in the Philippines. However, the implementation of the...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 28 Aug 2012 Spot fire disputes have sparked across Asia, with the winds of nationalism spurring them on. If one
flares up it could ignite a region. Escalating tensions should have mediators vigilant and with pai...
by Elliot Brennan | On 24 Aug 2012 The Asian Centre for Human Rights has alleged that the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) is communalizing the riots in Assam. [ACHR]. URL:[http://www.achrweb.org/reports/india/NCM-2012.pdf].
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 24 Aug 2012 What is the relationship
between social conflict and poverty in the context of Manipur? There is a need to recognize togetherness of the imperatives of
economic well being, socio-cultural identity a...
by Anand Kumar | On 22 Aug 2012 Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs are positively correlated with rising incomes, ageing, urbanization, and a shift f...
by Azad Singh Bali | On 20 Aug 2012 A bill to provide protection against sexual harassment of women at workplace and for the
prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment and for
matters connected therewith or incidental...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 17 Aug 2012 Mangoes from Andhra Pradesh reach everywhere in India. This has caused the conversion of large tracts of paddy fields into mango farms in Andhra. It affects the rural employment. Use of chemicals to r...
by Alex George | On 14 Aug 2012 A bill to provide for the establishment and incorporation of Universities for Research and
Innovation and for enabling them to emerge as centres for ecosystems to develop as
hubs of education, resea...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Aug 2012 What is ‘good’ governance?
Can the quality of governance be measured? And how do state
governments in India measure up by such a measure?
[Working Paper no. 104]. URL:[http://www.nipfp.org.in/neww...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 02 Aug 2012 Is there an impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India.
Using state level variation in legal changes to women's property rights, it is shown that better property
righ...
by Siwan Anderson | On 02 Aug 2012 To affirm the Government’s commitment to the rights based approach in
addressing the continuing and emerging challenges in the situation of children, the
Government of India adopted this Resolution...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 30 Jul 2012 Obituary: Mrinal Gore (1928-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 23 Jul 2012 This paper discusses the evolution of Model Concession Agreement for National Highways, the vital framework on which the success of Public Private Partnership lies. The key learnings of this study wou...
by Ramakrishnan T S | On 18 Jul 2012 F rom its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau to its estuary in Burma, the Salween River
supports over ten million people. For many decades, it was the longest free-flowing
river in Southeast Asia. It...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 17 Jul 2012 What are the implications
of a green economy for the poor and hungry? How can the poor benefit
from and thrive under a green economy? What role can agriculture
play? What are the possible trade-off...
by Shenggen Fan | On 17 Jul 2012 Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflec...
by Stephen Howes | On 16 Jul 2012 Estimates of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in India vary greatly depending on the source. The 2001 census found 21.91 million disabled persons (2.13 % of the population), but there are serious cons...
by National Advisory Council NAC | On 11 Jul 2012 This Act ensures a prompt and just legal remedy for the victims of domestic violence; facilitate
access to remedies for immediate and effective assistance, shelter homes and protection to the victims...
by National Assembly of Bhutan | On 11 Jul 2012 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are under scrutiny for their engagement in production networks following recent emphasis on increasing intra-reg...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 06 Jul 2012 This study examines the reliability of the Census of Nagaland between 1981 and
2011 by testing the internal consistency of Census population estimates. It also tries to
validate the Census estimates...
by Ankush Agrawal | On 06 Jul 2012 Review of the book From Individual to Community: Issues in Development Studies--Essays in Memory of Malcolm Adiseshiah by Nandan Nawn.
by Nandan Nawn | On 05 Jul 2012 The concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is relatively new to many Southeast Asians, who have traditionally relied on the state for security and therefore faced a sense of hopelessness when such...
by Pavin Chachavalpongpun | On 27 Jun 2012 This paper focuses on development missions carried out by the armed forces of the Philippines and Thailand in and out of conflict zones, and provides an analysis of the causes behind the re-emergence...
by Aries A Arugay | On 20 Jun 2012 The ecosystem of the Eastern Himalayas are vulnerable to climate change as a result of their ecological fragility and economic marginality. The conservation policies at national and regional levels ar...
by Karma Tse-ring | On 28 May 2012 Crimes against the historically marginalized Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) by the upper castes in India represent an extreme form of prejudice and discrimination. In this paper, the ef...
by Smriti Sharma | On 16 May 2012 The objective of the study was to review media coverage (print ) related to HIV/AIDS in three states (Gujarat, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh) in order to determine the gaps in reporting. [CCMG Working Pa...
by Biswajit Das | On 10 May 2012 The paper undertakes an examination of the experience of developing countries with dispute settlement vis-à-vis developed countries during the 17 years since the entry into force of the WTO Agreement....
by Anwarul Hoda | On 08 May 2012 Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions
worldwide and threatens the world.s most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal
forest extraction in the tropi...
by Robin Burgess | On 08 May 2012 A broad overview of the current state of pension systems in the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam is provided. An anal...
by Donghyun Park | On 30 Apr 2012 India's trans-boundary riparian policies affect four countries - Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh - on three river systems - the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra-Mehgna. China's riparian pol...
by Gopal Siwakoti Chintan | On 25 Apr 2012 The Philippine domestic
economy shrunk to
3.7 percent in 2011, after a growth of 7.6 per cent in 2010. Outlook for 2012 is
relatively sanguine with
the government hinging
its optimism on robust
...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 20 Apr 2012 The paper examines the implications of Myanmar's reforms for its neighbours- China, India, Thailand and Bangladesh. Issues of major concern to the four countries include energy, humanitarian consequen...
by Lina Gong | On 20 Apr 2012 The type, volume, and mode of transfer of remittances in Uttarakhand is analysed.
The impact of remittances, in terms of both financial flows and transfer of new skills and the perceptions in
relat...
by Anmol Jain | On 18 Apr 2012 The protests against the Pak Mun Dam are amongst the longest running in the world. The dam is also one of the
most studied, in part because it had all the features of a failed development policy: no...
by Katie Jenkins | On 18 Apr 2012 Thailand has made significant progresses toward green and low-carbon development; however, there is a need to further address the issue. The country has to focus on the implementation of no-regret pol...
by Qwanruedee Chotichanathawewong | On 16 Apr 2012 The situation of juveniles in conflict with law and children in need of care and protection across India is precarious. Nothing underlines this more than the situation in Karnataka. While the State Hu...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 05 Apr 2012 Review of
The Saffron Condition, Politics of Repression and Exclusion in Neo Liberal India By Subhash Gatade; Three Essays Collective, New Delhi; Pp. 475, Rs 500.
by Ram Puniyani | On 04 Apr 2012 India started exporting a small amount of honey in 1991-1992 and has now established itself as an important honey exporter to the world market. The quantity exported has increased substantially, and t...
by Harish K Sharma | On 02 Apr 2012 Major credit rating agencies give out the sovereign credit rating of each nation as an absolute grade. How other nations fare over the period under consideration does not matter in a particular nation...
by Kaushik Basu | On 02 Apr 2012 Budget Speech
of
PU H.LIANSAILOVA
HON’BLE FINANCE MINISTER. [Government of Mizoram]. URL:[http://mizoram.nic.in/budget/Interim%20Budget%20Speech%2012-13.pdf].
by Finance Minister Mizoram | On 29 Mar 2012 Budget for the year 2012-13. [Government of Maharashtra]. URL:[http://maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/english_speech_part_I.pdf].
by Maharashtra Government | On 27 Mar 2012 A
bill
further to amend the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and the Special Marriage Act, 1954. [PRS]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Marriage%20Laws/Marriage%20Laws%20Bill%202010.pdf].
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 26 Mar 2012 To greatly develop trade in services and realize the transition from a big trade country to a strong trade country, the 12th Five Year Plan is formulated based on Outline of the 12th Five Year Plan f...
by Ministry of Commerce China | On 15 Mar 2012 There is in urgent need for modernization and generational
Change need to be done in the Indian railways to assure safety, improve productivity, take advantage of advanced technology, respond to ever...
by Ministry of Railways | On 14 Mar 2012 The report reviews the status and performance of agriculture, especially
during the last two decades, and also presents what could be the way forward, given
our objectives of accelerated growth, inc...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 14 Mar 2012 Budget speech 2011-12 by Finance minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/11_12/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 14 Mar 2012 The developing economies of Asia are confronted by serious environmental problems that threaten to undermine future growth, food security, and regional stability. This study considers four major envir...
by Stephen Howes | On 06 Mar 2012 Discussion on the human rights violation of under trial prisoners.
by Ranesh Chandra Majumdar | On 06 Mar 2012 A Working Group on Child Rights was constituted by the Planning Commission to recommend priorities and strategies for children in the 12th Five year Plan 2012-17. Five Sub Groups of the Working group...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 06 Mar 2012 The implications of the rule of Chiang
Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo in Taiwan (1950–1988) for the Taiwan
Strait Crises is examined, especially the third one af??ter the Cold War and potenti...
by Lu Jinghua | On 05 Mar 2012 This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic
outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses
the problem of the endogenous pl...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 02 Mar 2012 The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a
billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of eviden...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 01 Mar 2012 Five years age, International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM), concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be
used to encourage c...
by Barbara Haya | On 01 Mar 2012 Outward-oriented economies seem to grow faster than inward-looking ones. Does the literature on convergence have anything to say on this? In the dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model, with factor-pr...
by Partha Sen | On 28 Feb 2012 In India, as in many developing countries, wastewater is often used to
irrigate crops. This undoubtedly helps to recycle useful nutrients through
the food chain, but, as there can be toxic chemicals...
by Vivekananda Mukherjee | On 27 Feb 2012 The main objective of the study is to investigate whether there is any evidence to support the
view that the disbursement of micro finance to women reduces the incidence of domestic
violence, and if...
by Institute of Social Studies Trust ISST | On 23 Feb 2012 Review of the book 'Riots and After in Mumbai: Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliation' Meena Menon, Sage Publications India, 2011, Pp 267 + xcii, Rs. 595/-
by Irfan Engineer | On 17 Feb 2012 A prototype incentive system is developed for promoting rapid reduction of forest clearing in tropical countries. The proposed Tropical Forest Protection Fund (TFPF) is a cash-on-delivery system that...
by David Wheeler | On 09 Feb 2012 This paper looks at some key entry points for agriculture to influence nutrition and suggests policies for
nutrition-sensitive agricultural development, within the current policy framework. In additi...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 07 Feb 2012 The paper discusses some of the main human
rights areas of concern within Malaysia,
over the years. [Working Paper Series No. 12]. URL:[http://www.ieas.unimas.my/images/stories/hirmanritom.pdf].
by Mohammad Hirman Ritom Abdullah | On 07 Feb 2012 Wetlands, which include tropical mangroves and boreal
peatlands, are among the most valuable ecosystems in the
world because they provide critical ecosystem goods and
services, such as carbon stora...
by David Moreno Mateos | On 01 Feb 2012 This report investigates how more and
better jobs can be created in South
Asia. It does so for two reasons. First,
this region will contribute nearly 40 percent
of the growth in the world’s workin...
by Reema Nayar | On 30 Jan 2012 For the last half-century, the Tibetan people have endured the brunt of some of the Chinese governments most brutal policies. In the 1990's, an international activist movement, which attracted a small...
by Anthony Lappe | On 25 Jan 2012 The short term and long term stock price volatility changes around bonus
and rights issue announcements have been examined using historical
volatility estimation and time varying volatility approach...
by Madhuri Malhotra | On 24 Jan 2012 The Draft Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill and Rules 2010, is the latest draft of following the incorporation of additions and modifications to the Draft Bill 2008. The new Draft was expected to...
by SAMA .. | On 21 Jan 2012 The paper has the objective of viewing the condition of women in terms of freedom of choice, freedom and expression and right of privacy. Also it views violence against women.
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 20 Jan 2012 The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process of the Human Rights Council which involves a review of the human rights records of all 192 UN Member States once every four years. The reviews are cond...
by Ministry of External Affairs, GoI MEA | On 19 Jan 2012 This paper focuses on two issues: the problems with the compulsory acquisition of land, and the regulatory and institutional impediments that obstruct voluntary land transactions. It is argued that an...
by Ram Singh | On 19 Jan 2012 The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between the quality of the budget process and human development outcomes. It looks in particular at at the relationship between the OBI and human d...
by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | On 17 Jan 2012 In Nepal an innovative form of forestry management, known as the
Leasehold Forestry (LHF) Programme, is being introduced to protect forest
land and help it regenerate. A new SANDEE study analyzes th...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 10 Jan 2012 The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill (LARR) is considered to be a flawed piece of legislation. An alternative method based on auction based pricing mechanism is suggested here.
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 05 Jan 2012 Review of the book Post-Hindu India: A Discourse on Dalit-Bahujan, Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution, Kancha Ilaiah
SAGE India, New Delhi
2009, Rs 295/-, pp 340.
by Vaijayanta Anand | On 03 Jan 2012 Poor quality essential medicines, both substandard and counterfeit, are serious
but neglected public health problems. Anti-infective medicines are particularly
afflicted.
Unfortunately, attempts...
by Paul N Newton | On 03 Jan 2012 The Reserve Bank has stepped up its efforts in recent years to enhance the penetration of the formal financial sector and promote financial inclusion with a view to improving the well-being of our soc...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 26 Dec 2011 This paper proposes to redefine food security in terms of protecting vulnerable populations from the structural violence of involuntary hunger. [NTS-Asia Research Paper No.6]. URL:[http://www.rsis.edu...
by Ben Shepherd | On 23 Dec 2011 Women who come into the stream of domestic workers are poorly educated and do not know their rights. It is necessary that these women know about their rights. Even after reading the policies some ques...
by Anwesha Sen | On 19 Dec 2011 The study analyzes the role of the leasehold forestry (LHF) program in improving household welfare in Nepal. Both the time saved in biomass collection and the addition to income through increases in b...
by Bishnu Prasad Sharma | On 15 Dec 2011 The paper reports the results of an empirical study on the profitability
of rice cultivation in the East Calcutta Wetlands region where untreated
sewage water from the city of Calcutta, India, is us...
by Vivekananda Mukherjee | On 13 Dec 2011 India's development challenges. The India growth story was thrown off track by the global financial crisis which engulfed virtually every country in the world. We recovered from the crisis sooner than...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 30 Nov 2011 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the making of markets. The paper identifies two
ideal-typical processes in which markets are made – organized making and spontaneous
making – which are often...
by Patrik Aspers | On 29 Nov 2011 This policy brief takes a preliminary look at portability of social
security in ASEAN, particularly old-age, retirement, and
survivor benefits. The next section discusses the growth of
intra-ASEAN...
by Gloria O. Pasadilla | On 28 Nov 2011 P roponents of large dams, hoping to capitalize on concern for climate change, are promoting a major expansion of large dams in developing countries. Yet large dams are highly vulnerable to climate ch...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 24 Nov 2011 Torture in India series have been instrumental for bringing national and international spotlight on torture in india. The Government of India regrettably has been reluctant to address torture. It draf...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 21 Nov 2011 The study tries to better understand three fields which seems
to be essential with respect to the problem of a facilitated
access to medicines :
1. the ambiguous position of intellectual property...
by Bastein Briand | On 17 Nov 2011 While the arrests of dozens of juveniles during the mass uprising in the Kashmir valley from June to September 2010 brought the abuse of the Public Safety Act against the children in conflict with the...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 16 Nov 2011 This paper examines the socio-economic condition of women in India. The paper begins by delving into different forms of violence faced by women in India,
giving special attention to the work sphere a...
by Susana Barria | On 09 Nov 2011 Sarvarkar’s case for Unity is at best a cumulative network of agile concepts that are open-ended, and can be used by future sympathetic thinkers. To not grasp this agility is to fundamentally misunder...
by Nikhil Govind | On 03 Nov 2011 This paper analyzes the impacts of the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, which were amplified by a failure of coordination across the plant, corporate...
by Masahiko Aoki | On 03 Nov 2011 This brief presents a review of the potential opportunities
and challenges of using nanotech applications for agriculture, food, and
water in developing countries. [IFPRI Policy Brief 19]. URL:[http...
by Guillaume Gruère | On 01 Nov 2011 Review of the book 'Population, Gender and Reproductive Health'.
F Ram, Sayeed Unisa and T V Sekher (eds.), Rawat publications, 2011, 416 pp, Rs 925
by K.S. James | On 20 Oct 2011 With a review of the historic role of India as a supplier of Antiretrovirals (ARV) medicines the paper outlines some of the key rulings in Indian courts as the interpretation of the new patent laws ar...
by Cassandra Sweet | On 19 Oct 2011 This paper investigates the relationship between returns to cultivation per hectare and size-class of land cultivated in India, using unit level data from the 59th round National Sample Survey, 2003....
by Sarthak Gaurav | On 18 Oct 2011 This study estimates the transaction costs entailed in maintaining Farmer
Managed Irrigation Systems (FMIS) in Nepal based on a case study of
60 irrigation systems in the Kathmandu valley. It analyz...
by Ram Chandra Bhattarai | On 18 Oct 2011 In response to the Second Micro Finance Crisis in Andhra Pradesh, which took place in October 2010,
the Ministry of Finance has pro- posed a new Micro Finance Institutions (Development & Regulation)
...
by Shubho Roy | On 17 Oct 2011 This research is about multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their subsidiaries abroad.
The specific focus of the research is on the foreign subsidiaries? local embeddedness, global
integration and m...
by Filip De Beule | On 10 Oct 2011 Through the use of secondary data, field visits and focus group discussions, this study explores the dynamics of the evolution of the economic life in Greater Faridpur over the last 100d years (1910-2...
by Selim Raihan | On 04 Oct 2011 The
automobile industry in the ASEAN countries has expanded rapidly
over the last few years. The growth potential of the ASEAN auto
market and its now very major absolute importance for the industr...
by Eric Heymann | On 03 Oct 2011 This paper starts by examining some of the variables that have been considered important
determinants of openness and how views of these have changed over the last twenty
years. It then considers th...
by Kenneth E Jackson | On 29 Sep 2011 The Optional Protocol (OP) on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of
Children in Armed Conflict was ratified by India on November 30, 2005, and is
in effect since December 30, 2005. This is t...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 29 Sep 2011 The growth of East Asia’s intra-regional trade is driven largely by increased component
trade within global electronics production networks. Data on both electronics trade and
production elucidate a...
by Byron Gangnes | On 29 Sep 2011 This paper seeks to understand whether decentralized
management of forests can reduce forest loss in developing
countries. [SANDEE Working Paper, No 59 - 11]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/upload...
by Priya Shyamsundar | On 28 Sep 2011 This study applies
a single-site truncated count data travel cost model in order to
estimate the value visitors place on recreation in Keenjhar.
The recreational use value associated with Keenjhar...
by Ali Dehlavi | On 27 Sep 2011 This paper is undertaken to examine various aspects of farm level adoption of Bt cotton in Gujarat as well as explore issues relating to environment and non-tariff barriers affecting the cotton trade...
by N. Lalitha | On 27 Sep 2011 The paper examines the farm level performance of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of paddy cultivation as against the traditional method. The role of NGOs in raising awareness among farmers...
by Jharna Pathak | On 22 Sep 2011 We are astonishingly ignorant about how
many species are alive on earth today, and even more
ignorant about how many we can lose yet still maintain
ecosystem services that humanity ultimately depen...
by Robert M May | On 19 Sep 2011 The Optional Protocol (OP) to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography was ratified
by India on September 16, 2005. This is t...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 16 Sep 2011 This background paper seeks to brief readers on the extent of the development, production and
consumption of agrofuels, particularly liquid fuels for transport, in the Mekong region. The area of focu...
by Rebeca Leonard | On 12 Sep 2011 The new Bill on land acquisition recently tabled in Parliament is well intentioned but seriously flawed. Its principal defect is that it attaches an arbitrary mark-up to the historical market price to...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 12 Sep 2011 A
bill
to ensure a humane, participatory, informed consultative and transparent process for land
acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities
and urbanisa...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Sep 2011 The project aimed to
find the reasons for bottlenecks in the present system that deprive the
tribal community of the benefit of schemes. Five villages from each block have been selected to
make tot...
by Maharana Pratap Adhyayan Evam Jan Kalyan Sansthan Jaipur | On 02 Sep 2011 Poverty and food security in the context of Bangladesh has become a major concern
over time. While efforts have been intensified to increase crop yield through increased
land use, using inorganic fe...
by Shyamal C Ghosh | On 30 Aug 2011 The paper paper reviews the 'model' central and state government bills, pertaining to groundwater, through a conceptual framework and discusses the Andhra Pradesh experience in the developing governme...
by G.Ananda Vadivelu | On 30 Aug 2011 The present study discusses factors responsible for agricultural diversification at
different levels: country (India), state (Haryana) and farms of Kurukshetra district in
Haryana. The study regress...
by Brajesh Jha | On 29 Aug 2011 Whether viewed as “land grabs” or as agricultural investment
for development, large-scale land deals by investors
in developing countries are generating considerable
attention. However, investors,...
by Julia Behrman | On 29 Aug 2011 There is a need to
focus more on the economic well-being
of the farmers, rather than just on
production. Socio-economic well-being
must be a prime consideration of
agricultural policy, besides pr...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 19 Aug 2011 This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the costs of attaining the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It anal...
by Anil Markandya | On 19 Aug 2011 This article looks into the role of land reform in comparison to concentric ef fort
to augment agricultural GDP. Redistribut ive land reform policy aims to improve
land endowments of poor, though va...
by Debdatta Pal | On 18 Aug 2011 This study attempts to identity the major determinants of bond market development in Asian economies, through examining its relationship with selected key financial and economic factors, and to provid...
by Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay | On 10 Aug 2011 The draft Bill puts in place a new institutional mechanism to ensure that the Rehabilition and Resettlement (R&R) provisions are implemented effectively as an integral part of land acquisition.
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 10 Aug 2011 Review of
Lost Years of the RSS
by Sanjeev Kelkar;
Sage India, New Delhi
2011, pp. 392, Rs 350.
by Nikhil Govind | On 05 Aug 2011 Review of
McDonaldisation, McGospel and Om Economics
By Jonathan D. James;
Sage, Delhi;
2010, Pp. xxvii + 232, Rs. 596, hb.
by Rudolf C. Heredia | On 05 Aug 2011 This paper is a review of the different coping mechanisms adopted by the households in
different dryland area of India. The primary focus of the present paper is to understand
the coping mechanisms...
by Nikhil Govind | On 05 Aug 2011 Health care systems are
necessary in all countries, the importance
of strong health care systems to fragile
nations, and the damage done to these
systems during conflict, receive less attention
t...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 29 Jul 2011 Land acquisition and involuntary displacement continue to result in great distress and resistance – and often violence – in many parts of the country. NAC-I had reflected carefully on these issues, an...
by National Advisory Council NAC | On 26 Jul 2011 There is a burgeoning academic literature on happiness polls that has used a range of different
measures and approaches across countries rich and poor alike to answer the question, “what makes
peopl...
by Charles Kenny | On 21 Jul 2011 This paper
focuses on the Don Sahong Dam (DSD’s) potential impacts on fish and fisheries, and particularly the project’s
regional implications in relation to fisheries, including its possible impact...
by Ian Bird | On 08 Jul 2011 In order to tackle the issues of desertification, land degradation and droughts, 22 major
programmes are being implemented in the country, including, the “Mission for Green India”,
one of the Missio...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 21 Jun 2011 This landmark essay proposes a new paradigm for combating AIDS and a new objective around which international donors and recipient governments can coordinate their efforts. CGD senior fellow Mead Over...
by Mead Over | On 20 Jun 2011 In a television interview not so long ago when the interviewer painfully and persistently asked Husain yet again, why he had chosen Qatar over Hindustan, he said laughing, playfully invoking and twis...
by Shuddhabrata Sengupta | On 15 Jun 2011 Easily the most iconic artist of modern India, Maqbool Fida Husain passed away in London on June 9, 2011. Already, his life and work are beginning to serve as an allegory for the changing modalities o...
by Sohail Hashmi | On 15 Jun 2011 This paper uses data from a household survey to estimate changes in land distribution in
rural West Bengal between 1967-2004 and decompose these into contributions of
different factors. There was a...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 09 Jun 2011 This policy brief reports the main findings of the study on changes in within-country income inequality over the last two decades and on the links between poverty, inequality, and growth. It focuses o...
by Giovanni Andrea Cornia | On 08 Jun 2011 In this report, the widespread use of the Sumangali Scheme in Tamil Nadu is illustrated by four case
studies of such vertically integrated enterprises of which the European and US buyers were identif...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 08 Jun 2011 Review of
The Lives of Sri Aurobindo Peter Heehs. Columbia University Press, New York 2008. xiv + 496 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-14098-0. [ https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=32846...
by Hanna H. Kim | On 05 Jun 2011 The present paper is a study of the impact of salinity ingress on the rural households in the coastal regions of Gujarat. The paper throws up some important insights which appear policy relevant.
by Jyothis Sathyapalan | On 02 Jun 2011 This toolkit is designed to train individuals and civil society on how to conduct a child centered budget analysis to support their advocacy work and to hold state accoutable for the fulfilment of chi...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 02 Jun 2011 In the last decade, far reaching policy reforms in Nepal have allowed local communities to regain control over the management of vast tracts of lands. Community forestry is widely believed to be a maj...
by Bhim Adhikari | On 01 Jun 2011 Thailand’s development strategy has been strongly market-oriented and open to trade
and investment flows with the rest of the world. Since the late 1950s, its growth
performance has been outstanding...
by Peter Warr | On 31 May 2011 One of the most critical aspects of information about non-forest wastelands pertains to ownership. Not all
may be owned by Government. In addition to uncultivated lands which were historically part...
by Planning Commission | On 27 May 2011 This report provides an overview of the Women and Livelihoods events held by PWESCR in collaboration with organisations involved in the Gender Equality Coalition of the Human Dignity and Human Rights...
by PCESC R | On 20 May 2011 This study reveals the importance of tank irrigation in the lives of poor households and suggests that the poor may bear the bulk of the burden from tank deterioration. Tank-based agricultural income...
by South Asian Network for Development and Environmen Economics | On 19 May 2011 The objective of this study is to show how the demand for a rentable
house can be quantitatively expressed. The data set is obtained by a primary (sample) survey of 209
households randomly selecte...
by S.K. Mishra | On 18 May 2011 Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India Kalyani Devaki Menon;
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia; 224 pp. $49.95(cloth).
[H-Net Reviews.https://www.h-net.org/reviews/s...
by Sunila S. Kale | On 17 May 2011 The paper is part of a broader study of the human rights of women who migrate or are
trafficked to Hong Kong for the purposes of working in the commercial sex industry.
The study is being conduct...
by Robyn Emerton | On 12 May 2011 Lakes are an important feature of the Earth’s landscape. They are not only a significant
source of precious water, but often provide valuable habitats to plants and animals, moderate
the hydrologica...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests | On 11 May 2011 The trafficking of women for the purposes of prostitution into certain parts of Asia, in particular into Thailand, India and Japan, is now relatively well-documented. However, there is very little in...
by Robyn Emerton | On 11 May 2011 Meghalaya is one of the prosperous states in the North Eastern region of India.
Before Meghalaya was separated from Assam in the early 1970’s, its leading city, Shillong, was
the capital of the er...
by S.K. Mishra | On 10 May 2011 Essay on the subject. In Gujarati
[Gyansadhana 2009-10]
by Falguni B. Vahanwala | On 09 May 2011 This paper presents the condition of minority in India in the year 2009. URL: [http://www.southasianrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Minority-Right-Situation-in-India.pdf]
by South Asians for Human Rights | On 09 May 2011 In May 2009, the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR)
warned of growing threats to sustainable peace in Nepal.
Since that time, Nepal’s politics have continued to polarize.
Nepal still has two ar...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights | On 04 May 2011 This particular field study is concerned with Van Panchayats, which can be seen as a variant of Common Property Resources. A comparison of the efficacy of this specific CPR across three villages in U...
by Chandana Anusha | On 27 Apr 2011 The paper presents some empirical data from the Pradhan Tribe of Andhra
Pradesh which highlights the community's indigenous agricultural knowledge and the
changes over time. These custodians of indi...
by Anil Kumar K | On 25 Apr 2011 After careful consideration of the inputs received from a variety of stakeholders,
the following framework guidelines are suggested for managing the humanleopard
conflict situations in areas where l...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 22 Apr 2011 The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill, 2011
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 08 Apr 2011 Nine legislative Bills were introduced during the session. Five Bills were passed and one Bill was withdrawn during the session. Several hours were lost due to interruptions on the issues of appointme...
by Kusum Malik | On 28 Mar 2011 The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a watershed bill to protect children below the age of 16 against sexual offences, aimed at speedy trail through special courts and having a legal regime at par w...
by Chetan Chauhan | On 26 Mar 2011 Growing evidences demonstrate that the mountainous societies in South and
Southeast Asian countries are underway of dynamic agrarian transition in the
context of market integration leading to emerge...
by P.K. Viswanathan | On 25 Mar 2011 The report reflects on a wealth of impressions from the emerging continent. Political and economic developments from the Hindukush to Japan are assessed and put into a global context. The issues addre...
by Norbert Walter | On 22 Mar 2011 Hundreds of people are locked up on spurious grounds under the Public Safety Act in Jammu and Kashmir every year. This report exposes a catalogue of human rights violations associated with the use of...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 21 Mar 2011 The briefing kit highlights key examples
of policies, regulations and laws that reflect these WCD
recommendations and references specific projects that
demonstrate them in action. [IRN brief]. URL:...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 17 Mar 2011 World hunger is prevalent yet receives relatively less attention compared to poverty. The MDGs have taken a step to address this with the resolution of halving the number of starving people in the wor...
by Basudeb Guha Khasnobis | On 16 Mar 2011 The paper delineates
the situation of the Scheduled Tribes in the background of various policies of the state
during the successive plan periods and its impact on their socio-economic mobility.
Pol...
by M. Gopinath Reddy | On 16 Mar 2011 This Policy Brief focuses on links between the developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s spectacular...
by Amelia U. Santos Paulino | On 11 Mar 2011 Review of: Margins of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India, Edited by Rowena Robinson & Joseph Marianus Kunjur;
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2010, 295 pages, Rs.695/
by Hemali Sanghavi | On 09 Mar 2011 The Chin State of Burma (also known as Myanmar) is an isolated ethnic minority area with poor health
outcomes and reports of food insecurity and human rights violations. A report on a population-base...
by Richard Sollom | On 09 Mar 2011 Industrial disposal of effluents on land and subsequent pollution of groundwater and soil of surrounding farmlands – is a relatively new area of research. Environmental and socio-economic aspects of i...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 08 Mar 2011 Rajesh Komath gives a description the conflicts between his socio-material position as a Teyyam performer, and persona/personality as a student of economics.
by Smriti Vohra | On 26 Feb 2011 Ten years have passed since the Asian financial crisis that
devastated not only the currency values and the financial
systems of Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, and
Thailand, but also t...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 16 Feb 2011 The presentation outlines the 22 years of Brazilian experience in of evolving a comprehensive health care strategy
by Armando De Negri Filho | On 10 Feb 2011 The Commonwealth Games have been an eye opener in several ways. Behind the glitz of fancy stadiums, hotels, and apartments, lies the murky and sensitive death knell of a large majority of people whose...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 10 Feb 2011 Wetlands which face several anthropogenic and other threats are complex ecosystems
providing substantial benefits to human society. This paper is an attempt to understand
the ecological and economic...
by Jeena T Srinivasan | On 09 Feb 2011 The effects of climate change have been and will be worse in poor countries and small-island states, those least able to adapt to the climate-related disasters. In this paper, senior fellow David Whee...
by David Wheeler | On 01 Feb 2011 In the face of persistent rural poverty, an incomplete agrarian transition, the
predominance of small and marginal farms and an emerging feminization of
agriculture, this paper argues for a new in...
by Bina Agarwal | On 28 Jan 2011 It is in the early 1990s that we come across studies on some Third World cities that have begun to address the question of land affordability for housing purposes in greater details than what have bee...
by ., Amitabh | On 28 Jan 2011 The Diyawanna Oya wetland ecosystem has proven to be an important recreational site in the greater Colombo area in the face of the growing demand for urban recreational amenities. It provides a wide s...
by Thusita Dilhani Marawila | On 06 Jan 2011 BRAC’s Advocacy and Human Rights Unit (BAHRU) has developed a social
communications programme that goes beyond traditional approaches of marketing
communications. The goal of the programme is long-t...
by Jeneviève Mann ell | On 03 Jan 2011 Land ceilings, occupational criteria and asset valuations are commonly used for targeting purposes by
credit agencies aiming to direct resources to the rural poor. However a mixture of demand and sup...
by Hassan Zaman | On 28 Dec 2010 On 9th June 2010 the mandate of the UN human rights field
mission to Nepal, the Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights Nepal (OHCHR-Nepal), expires. The Prime
Minister MK Nepal has said t...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 22 Dec 2010 This paper proposes that aid flowing to smaller (less populous) countries has a negative
impact on the quality of institutions in terms of performance and policy as opposed to
that flowing to larg...
by Chakriya Bowman | On 20 Dec 2010 The Convention on the Rights of the Child (henceforth
referred to as ‘the Convention’) was adopted by the UN
General Assembly on 20 November 1989 and entered into
force on 2 September 1990. It is t...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2010 BRAC Human Rights and Legal Services Programme (HRLS) has initiated to form
ward-based Legal Rights Implementation Committee (LRIC) comprised of 19
members to ensure justice for the vulnerable women...
by Debasish Kumar Kundu | On 14 Dec 2010 This paper puts forward the case for Thailand’s commercial banks to move towards more
sustainable banking practices that proactively contribute towards socially and
environmentally sustainable and j...
by Carl Middleton | On 25 Nov 2010 Colonial judges and jurists interpreted matrilineal customs in
terms of a theory of matrilineal law, which they shaped in the process of
interpretation, rather than on the basis of existing practice...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 18 Nov 2010 The present exercise is primarily exploratory in nature; it does not attempt to provide a comprehensive explanation of the dynamics of land distribution. The conclusions drawn are primary and tentativ...
by K.N. Nair | On 16 Nov 2010 This paper investigates the effects of safe drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal diseases among children in rural Orissa. [Working Paer No. 278]
by Pradeep Kumar Panda | On 12 Nov 2010 The PLoS Medicine Editors argue that drug companies should be held much more accountable for their human rights responsibilities
by PLoS Medicine | On 20 Oct 2010 The Mekong is under threat. The governments of Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand
are considering plans to build eleven big hydropower dams on the Mekong River’s
lower mainstream. If built, these dams wou...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 19 Oct 2010 The construction of Tipaimukh dam by India on the international Barak river has raises a number of questions in relation to successful implementation of World Commission on Dams (WCD) recommendation o...
by Zakir Kibria | On 19 Oct 2010 This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order
which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the
economy and leaves th...
by Rehman Sobhan | On 13 Oct 2010 The ILO was founded for social justice, a mandate expressed today in terms of decent work
as a global goal, for all who work, whether in formal or informal contexts. In June 2002, the
delegates to...
by Anne Trebilcock | On 08 Oct 2010 After house price bubbles burst in many OECD countries, investors are keeping a very watchful eye for price developments on asset markets that signal a bubble.
by Steffen Dyck | On 08 Oct 2010 This paper is the product of an international research project of the
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, USA and the Centre for Science and
Environme...
by John Kurien | On 07 Oct 2010 The global economic and financial landscape has been transformed over the past decade by the growing economic size and financial power of emerging economies. The new G20 summit process, which includes...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 05 Oct 2010 On 14 December 2008, a worker died in an accident at the same site. What followed was unprecedented: workers at the site struck work and demanded that his body be released and shown to, them. They als...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 01 Oct 2010 For the last few years , a massive amount of construction work has been going on in various parts of Delhi for the Commonwealth Games (CWG) to be held in October this year. PUDR tried to conduct a fac...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 01 Oct 2010 The present article examines the Babri Mazjid-Ram Janambhumi dispute. It analyzes background of the dispute, its perceptions and the path to peace and reconciliation in the future.
by Ram Puniyani | On 15 Sep 2010 The report discusses the problems posed by one of the most archaic forensic procedures still in use: the finger test. [CEHAT].
by Human Rights Watch | On 15 Sep 2010 In this paper, the influence of stronger intellectual property protection on technology transfer into developing countries via licensing is analyzed. Using panel data for the post-TRIPs period 1995-20...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 09 Sep 2010 The research reported here was guided by three questions: (1) What are the current and potential patterns of mobile phone, landline, PC, and Internet café use among urban microentrepreneurs? (2) Are m...
by Vigneswara Ilavarasan | On 06 Sep 2010
This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives
of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs): poverty reduction and financial viability. Using an
unbalanced pan...
by Thankom Arun | On 06 Sep 2010 This paper analyze the colonial institutions set up by the British to collect land revenue in India, and show that differences in historical property rights institutions lead to sustained differences...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 03 Sep 2010 The paper aims at bringing out and explaining the problems faced by tribals. The paper also analyzes various laws made for protecting the tribals and giving them justice.
by Ketan Mukhija | On 03 Sep 2010 Natural resources perform multiple functions as a driver, maintainer, potential exit route, and also an effective escape mechanism in the context of poverty dynamics, especially in a predominantly agr...
by Amita Shah | On 17 Aug 2010 The world changed on July 2, 1997 when Thailand floated the baht.
Explanations abound on the origins of the crisis - indeed it is a growth industry.
This study is part of that explosion. It has seve...
by Surjit S. Bhalla | On 10 Aug 2010 The question of protecting intellectual property rights by academic inventors was never seriously contemplated until the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universiti...
by Amit Shovon Ray | On 30 Jul 2010 Drug consumption in Thailand is high in comparison with other countries. A key factor
influencing this over consumption is advertising. Radio is the media that can easily reach a
lot of people, in...
by Tanattha Kittisopee | On 23 Jul 2010 Health economists have traditionally quantified the burden of vector-borne diseases (such as chikungunya and dengue) as the sum of the cost of illness and the cost of intervention programmes. The obje...
by Dileep V. Mavalankar | On 21 Jul 2010 An important and vigorous policy debate ongoing in Asia concerns the impact of
the economic rise of the PRC on the rest of the region. This paper examines the relative
performances of the PRC, selec...
by Sadhana Srivastava | On 20 Jul 2010 This paper presents an overview of school education in Delhi. [Working Paper No. 0068]
by Soumya Gupta | On 13 Jul 2010 Macro vulnerability of the small island developing states (SIDS) as well as of least
developed countries (LDCs) has been an increasing concern for the international
community. This concern has led...
by Patrick Guillaumont | On 30 Jun 2010 In this paper an
analytical critique of the law and restrictions as also of the framework of urban
planning and a justification for why major change is required in the approach
to land markets, lan...
by Sebastian Morris | On 29 Jun 2010 Patents and patent applications are important indicators of innovative activity in industrial R
& D, especially in areas such as Information Technology (IT), where technology growth is
rapid. Within...
by Biju Paul Abraham | On 22 Jun 2010 Since its emergence before the Cancun Ministerial in September 2003, the Group of 20 developing countries (which includes South Africa, India, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Pakistan) has become an im...
by Prabhash Ranjan | On 21 Jun 2010 Almost all existing studies on the causes, consequences and policy
implications of the economic and financial crisis faced by East Asia have provided
only a cursory discussion of broad data at best,...
by Ramkishen Rajan | On 18 Jun 2010 The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) conducted a factfinding
visit from 17th to 19th December 2007, to Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) and
Khammam (Andhra Pradesh), in order t...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 18 Jun 2010 This paper shows that the realization of
Singapore’s vision of “active citizenship” and “state-society partnership”, to a significant
extent, depends on how social capital is being created and renew...
by Tan Tay Keong | On 09 Jun 2010 This paper addresses the question of affordability to finance poverty reduction programs in a dynamic context. In doing so, it stresses the need for approaching the problem from a human rights perspec...
by Omar Haider Chowdhury | On 04 Jun 2010 Over 330 million people live in India’s cities; 35 cities have a population of over a
million and three (Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata) of the 10 largest metropolises in the world
are in India. India’s...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 21 May 2010 The discussion focusses on women in poverty their
concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational approach for their mobilization
and empowerment. Maximum emphasis has been placed on...
by Narayana K Banerjee | On 17 May 2010 Report from the 11th Media Dialogue ’North East: Fallen off the Media Map? or Why Does the Media Give so Lettle Space to this Vast Region?
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 07 Apr 2010 The main issues surrounding this concern and provides a range of policy,
regulatory, and institutional measures that could help strengthen the impact of transport infrastructure on poverty reduction...
by Sununtar Setboonsarng | On 10 Feb 2010 This paper estimates
the storm protection benefits due to mangroves during the super cyclone of 1999 in Orissa.
By combining GIS data with census information, the paper examines the mangrove mediate...
by Saudamini Das | On 25 Jan 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
...
by Vasanthi Raman | On 21 Jan 2010 Market-based approaches to environmental management, such as payment for
environmental services (PES), have attracted unprecedented attention during the past
decade. PES policies, in particular, hav...
by Bhim Adhikari | On 20 Jan 2010 The study presents an initial assessment of the situation and to raise the main
issues in terms of farmers’ and workers’ rights. It is part of a long term process involving farmer movements, trade un...
by Isabelle Delforge | On 15 Dec 2009 This paper uses firm level panel data to investigate empirically the effects of
direct foreign investment (DFI) on the productivity performance of domestic firms in
three emerging economies of Centr...
by Jozef Konings | On 11 Dec 2009 This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for
rural Sindh, Pakistan. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) d...
by Hari Ram Lohano | On 10 Dec 2009 This paper is an attempt to explore the meaning and significance of political
participation within (a) the conceptual framework of democratic citizenship and
(b) debates surrounding representative d...
by Anupama Roy | On 10 Dec 2009 This paper examines these difficulties of regulation in the context of spread of unapproved
transgenic Bt cotton seeds in India. This paper also examines the impact of the cultivation of approved and...
by Bharat Ramaswami | On 08 Dec 2009 This document is at the behest of KMVS and is an effort to hold up a mirror to their journey. It is a documentation of their history, context, evolution, and experiences since its emergence in 1989. A...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 01 Dec 2009 This manual is provided as a reference tool to assist Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereafter referred to as the Convention) (Annex I Parties) in the implementa...
by UN Framwork Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC | On 20 Nov 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 quic...
by Sabiha Hussain | On 05 Nov 2009 This paper distinguishes the Intellectual Property Rights relevant to agriculture and
explain these rights. The international intellectual property law for
these rights will be described. India's in...
by Jayashree Watal | On 03 Nov 2009 The focus of this paper is to examine the ways in which regulatory framework affect the pharmaeutical innovations in developing countries using member countries of the Association of South-east Asian...
by Sauwakon Ratanawijitrasin | On 16 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.
by Ranjit Devraj | On 08 Oct 2009 This new report discusses the experience with environmental standards and how it can be useful for new financiers. It contains ten papers written by experts from civil society, financial institutions...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 01 Oct 2009 This handbook on child protection will help Panchayat Raj members to understand the actions they can take to protect children resulting in better convergence of programmes and increased allocation of...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 16 Sep 2009 This paper estimates respective roles of private investments in irrigation and local
government programs (land reforms, extension services, and infrastructure investments)
in the growth of farm prod...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 14 Sep 2009 This paper assesses the condition and outlook of the financial sectors—in particular, the banking sector—in the East Asia region in the aftermath of the current global financial crisis. The risks in t...
by Michael Pomerleano | On 07 Sep 2009 The report attempts to contextualize the exploitation of those who are aafected by the one of the worst communal riots in history and document
how dominant interests have used this situation of chron...
by People's Union of Civil Liberties PUCL | On 31 Aug 2009 The swine flu has come to India also. What measures have been taken by the government to fight against the pandemic?
by Rajeev Mavani | On 12 Aug 2009 This paper applies Carter and Barrett’s theory of assets poverty traps to a unique longitudinal survey from rural Bangladesh. Non-parametric and parametric methods are used to examine the shape of the...
by Agnes Quisumbing | On 06 Aug 2009 The authors shows the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and also notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pra...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 06 Aug 2009 The article describes the constitution and functions of Village Development Boards (VDBs) in NAGALAND where VDBs are considered as “Financial Intermediaries” or “Non-Banking Financial Intermediaries”....
by Karmakar K G | On 06 Aug 2009 A report on violation of people's rights during the Salwa Judum campaign in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh.
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 23 Jul 2009 Money for Education, Health, Child Protection not enough for 400 million children’s basic rights
by Juhi H | On 17 Jul 2009 Owning a house has become very costly now. If more land were thrown into the market, home ownership will not be a deam for the majority.
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Jun 2009 It is critical to emphasize that intergovernmental fiscal relations must be thought of as a system and that all the pieces in the system must fit together if decentralization is to work properly. Vari...
by Richard.M. Bird | On 16 Jun 2009 Many NGOs occupy a space between public and private sector organisations, and the papers in this special issue demonstrate that the mechanisms required for effective accountability by these NGOs are u...
by Kalpana C Satija | On 06 Jun 2009 The paper broadly examines the core trade interests of the EU and India, the content of the negotiations and outlines some key concerns of a potential deal for India in the areas of goods, services an...
by Shefali Sharma | On 05 Jun 2009 End stage organ failure is very distressing condition. Initially, there was only palliativetreatment for end stage organ failure such as hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. Later on, the advancement...
by Viroj Tangcharoensathien | On 04 Jun 2009 While in the era of globalization, millions of women got paid employment in labour-intensive industries in developing countries, they still face precarious working conditions. Women rights violations...
by Franziska Humbert | On 01 Jun 2009 Indigenous and local communities justly cherish traditional knowledge (TK) as a part of their very cultural identities. Maintaining the distinct knowledge systems that give rise to TK can be vital for...
by WIPO WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION. | On 31 May 2009 This background paper focuses on the implications of investment liberalization on ASEAN nations.
[FGS OP NO 5]
by Ignacio Jose Minambres | On 31 May 2009 India’s patent reforms represent a shift in India’s policy from one of enormous opposition to revising patent laws according to the WTO, to one of compliance with many aspects of TRIPs (Trade Related...
by Anitha Ramanna | On 26 May 2009 This paper investigates whether, in what direction, and to what extent one mode of technology transfer – namely, overseas R&D – is influenced by the strength of intellectual property protection that h...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 15 May 2009 To understand how gender, women’s rights and citizenship intersect with innovation in SouthAsia, one must begin by considering some of the main features of life for South Asian women, about a half of...
by Sujata Byravan | On 06 May 2009 This paper discusses if the Olymipic Games presented a change- not change along the lines of South Koreas leap towards democracy after the Seol Olympics, but some small shift- and how the nature of it...
by Jane Macartney | On 05 May 2009 Agriculture sector, world over, has experienced a phenomenal growth since the mid-twentieth century. The growth, driven by Green Revolution technology, has made a significant dent on aggregate supply...
by Amita Shah | On 02 May 2009 The Study aims at reviewing legal, policy and institutional provisions for the management of natural resources-water and forest in the State of Uttaranchal with a special focus on how the laws actuall...
by Videh Upadhyay | On 27 Apr 2009 Communal riots have become an annual feature
of Indian life, although their number varies from year to year. A situation has come to pacs where maddening communal
violence, arbitrary actions of exe...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 16 Apr 2009 The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic
farming practices leads to better health. As a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of or...
by Sunantar Setboonsarng | On 22 Jan 2009 The relationship between military spending and human rights is one of the most
prominent issues in political economy. Yet, the linkage between the two is empirically
underdeveloped. Seeking to fulfi...
by Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati | On 08 Jan 2009 This is a continuation of an earlier paper (2005) by the author which dealt with policy implications based on the work done by CPRC in India. There is no map of chronic poverty in India, but have an a...
by N C B Nath | On 16 Dec 2008 This paper identifies the idealistic images driving the watershed programmes as a major stumbling block in sustainable natural resource management. It calls for building on the existing governance ins...
by Saravanan S | On 02 Dec 2008 The report highlights the following aspects:
1. the inability of the legal system to recognise the unique unequal ,
2. position of women;
3. the perception of women as peripheral to economic develo...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 01 Dec 2008 A case study in Goa is used to examine whether tenure security and asset re-distribution can lead to environmentally sustainable outcomes.
by Pranab Mukhopadhyay | On 28 Nov 2008 The implications of removing some of the restrictive assumptions of a model of semi-feudalism formulated by A.Bhaduri are examined. [WP no. 16].
by N. Krishnaji | On 10 Nov 2008 It is attempted to understand the implications of equality in water distribution on social welfare with a simple abstract analysis using Leontief-type fixed production function.
by Sashi Sivramakrishna | On 16 Oct 2008 The system of justice in Bangladesh is derived from the common law system. The judiciary tends to be conservative in its application of international law. While in many cases the judiciary has cited i...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 07 Oct 2008 The paper carries the reader across and over great spans of space and time, with an Indian feminist woman academic journeying back to seventeenth-century ancien regime France, to 1770s Scotland, to 17...
by Bagchi B | On 01 Oct 2008 The study tries to focus on the violation of human rights that occur in prostitution. It holds that it is the responsibility of the state to protect these human rights and address the fundamental stru...
by Nina Srivastava | On 30 Sep 2008 The paper discuses the effects free trade with United States of America will have on New Zealand, and its economy.
by Bill Rosenberg | On 29 Sep 2008 Neplal's maoists initiated the process of crippling the institution of parliamentary dempcracy by giving primacy to military meanse over the political. Mainstream parties, unable to resist petty polit...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 29 Sep 2008 The approach of the PUCL to civil liberties issues underlines a crucial understanding: an understanding which has as its base the recognition of the fundamental truth that civil liberties is not a mat...
by Z.M. Yacoob | On 18 Sep 2008 The present paper is a study of how specific institutions affect innovation in a specific country. In the paper uses data for patents granted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a...
by Wilfred Dolfsma | On 16 Sep 2008 This study has the objective to: 1) examine the extend to which the flexibilities contained in the WTO agreement on TRIPS have been incorporated into the legislation of developing countries and the ex...
by Sisule F. Musungu | On 16 Sep 2008 Is there not a worse situation today than during the Emergency? There was no colonization of the country by the foreign powers, with agriculture, industry, education, defense, health and trade being a...
by P.B. Sawant | On 05 Sep 2008 It was left to human rights defenders to inform the UN Committees on the situation of human rights by submitting shadow reports, to investigate violations, and to campaign for an end to impunity for l...
by Hameeda Hossain | On 05 Sep 2008 The government of Nepal took an illegal measure to try the cases under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Ordinance. Under the amendments, all anti-terrorist cases will be heard in-c...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 27 Aug 2008 Much existing literature champions renewables implementation on India’s Sagar Island as an unqualified rural electrification success story. Photovoltaic (PV) and wind systems put in place by the West...
by Sam Shrank | On 25 Aug 2008 This study examines the contribution of tourism towards improving the livelihoods of local people in a remote island village of the Indian Sundarbans.
by Indrila Guha | On 18 Aug 2008 Chhattisgarh continues to be the epicenter of the Naxalite conflict as a direct consequence of the counter-insurgency Salwa Judum campaign. There have been credible reports of serious human rights vio...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 18 Aug 2008 One sixth of the population of Bhutan is displaced in Nepal and India. The prolonged exile of Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal and India is a major human
rights deficit in the South Asian region, a...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 12 Aug 2008 Ratification imposes specific obligations on a state to incorporate human rights into
national laws, to amend legislation, to promote, protect and fulfill human rights and
prevent violations of huma...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 31 Jul 2008 This study evaluates the economic feasibility of replacing shifting cultivation (Jhum) with settled agriculture and new soil conservation technology based on an assessment of the farmers’ risk and cor...
by M. A. Monayem Miah | On 29 Jul 2008 This occasional paper addresses three questions revolving around the IMF policy. The questions are: What are the underlying factors shaking the very foundation of one of the pillars of the
internatio...
by Marc Saxer | On 29 Jul 2008 This paper exploited five different data sets of the national household survey in pre- (years 2000 and 2001) and post- (years 2002 and 2004) universal health care coverage (UC) periods to analyse tren...
by Supon Limwattananon | On 26 Jul 2008 Although unilateral ceasefire declared by the Maoists on 3 September 2005 brought down the level of violence, the security forces sought to provoke the Maoists. The security forces and the Maoists hav...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 21 Jul 2008 For a better part of the year 2007 the state of Pakistan was only half alive. That naturally reduced its capacity, never rated high, to guarantee the people's human rights. Thus, from
the point of vi...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 18 Jul 2008 The development of drugs for maternal health cannot be constrained by market-driven needs. What is needed is a political will.
by PLoS Medicine | On 16 Jul 2008 This paper examines the proposition that "poverty is a violation of human rights". The author disuses the possibility of this proposition to be implementable in real case senarios and in polcies,
by Arjun Sengupta | On 26 Jun 2008 On 8th March, United Nations agencies, governments and non-governmental organisations across the world celebrated “International Women’s Day”. But in the United Nations Human Rights Council there was...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 18 Jun 2008 Debolina Dutta and Oishik Sircar: From Sex Worker to Entertainment Worker: Strategic
Politics of DMSC
Madhurima Mukhopadhyay: Virginity Lost and Regained: Hymenoplastic Honour in Urban India
Nandit...
by SEPHIS | On 15 Jun 2008 The paper reviews the impact of Globalization on developing economies workers in informal economy and gender implications on the process. Globalization created some insecurity for the workers in infor...
by Jeemol Unni | On 05 Jun 2008 With the liberalization of trade Viet Nam became the 150th member of World Trade Organization in January 2007. The country became an example to the world on how trade can spur the economic and social...
by David Kinley | On 03 Jun 2008 In this Issue: Amar Jesani writes about the problems and process affecting health in Nicaragua; Malini Karkal discusses the population policy in China and Padma Prakash draws attention to the changes...
by Radical Journal of Health RJH | On 01 Jun 2008 Many developing countries assert a claim to the privilege of managing world order on a shared basis but exhibit a strong reluctance to accept the responsibility flowing from such privilege, for exampl...
by Ramesh Thakur | On 14 May 2008 This paper looks at the effects on livestock of silvi-pasture development on common lands in relation to (a) ruminant systems and (b) livestock numbers and ownership patterns in Rajasthan, India. [SDC...
by Czech Conroy | On 14 May 2008 This report on the state of displaced persons in the North and East of Sri Lanka analyses the security condition and concerns of those who live in makeshifts and camps in conflict affected areas. It p...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 11 Apr 2008 On 10th July, 1979, India - by ratifying the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) - became a State party to this treaty body. Reporting guidelines of the Covenant re...
by Peoples Collective PCESCR | On 10 Apr 2008 Budget presented by Goa finance minister for the year 2008-09.
by Goa Government | On 01 Apr 2008 The problematic areas in child feedoing, particularly the poor infrastructure for the Anganwadis was highlighted. The consensus was that despite all these shortcomings there must be an expansion of A...
by Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute SSMI | On 13 Mar 2008 Report of the committee of concerned citizens formed by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Gujarat to enquire into the facts related to the police firing on the Adivasis demonstration on t...
by Ghanshyam Shah | On 02 Mar 2008 Speech of Lalu Prasad
by Lalu Prasad | On 27 Feb 2008 The paper examines fertility differentials among the three religion groups, Hindu, Muslim and Christian, and trends in these based on data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-1). [WP No. 167]...
by Manoj Alagarajan | On 26 Feb 2008 A bill to provide for the rehabilitation and resettlement of persons affected by the acquisition of land for projects of public purpose or involuntary displacement due to any other reason, and for mat...
by Lok Sabha | On 07 Feb 2008 This manual is intended to help local governments to uphold the human rights of women, by involving them in identifying their needs and with their participation, to find possible solutions and move to...
by Aleyamma Vijayan | On 04 Feb 2008 Review of The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction" by Hal R. Varian, Joseph Farrell, Carl Shapiro, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, pages 102, Price Rs. 795 RBI Occasional...
by Brijesh Pazhayathodi | On 22 Jan 2008 Three important aspects of the Canadian pharmaceutical industry-viz. compulsory licence, price control on patented drugs and the R&D scenario. Unlike other developed countries, which have adopted the...
by Lalitha N | On 18 Jan 2008 Under certain conditions it is optimal for the noninnovating south to give patent protection for a longer time period than the innovating north. A cooperative patent agreement involves a larger protec...
by Swapnendu Banerjee | On 03 Jan 2008 The promotion of ‘inclusive citizenship’, through which the disadvantaged engage in
collective struggles for justice and recognition, has been attracting growing attention as a
solution to chronic p...
by Katsuhiko Masaki | On 19 Dec 2007 Two years later Delhi will have an airport that can handle 40-50 million passengers-making it one of the 10 largest in the world. And it will have been built in barely half the time that it took Singa...
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Dec 2007 The important determinants that have influence on travellers to choosing a particular airline are analysed. Data from primary and secondary sources have been used for this paper. A field survey was co...
by Ershad Ali | On 12 Dec 2007 Recognising the growing activity in the non deliverable forward (NDF) market in the recent years, the paper attempts to present a detailed analysis of the NDF market with special focus on Indian rupee...
by Sangita Misra | On 22 Oct 2007 The rapid growth in banking indicators in the North Eastern region of India following nationalisation of 14 major banks in 1969 and another six in 1980 based on social banking was sustained or not are...
by Amarendra Sahoo | On 16 Oct 2007 Majuli was once the largest river islands and the cultural home of the Asomiya community. Today, repeated floods of the Brahmaputra have ensured that the community has lost home and hearth to erosion...
by Apurba K. Baruah | On 07 Oct 2007 During the period 1972-73 to 2004-05 in rural India, the total number of workers expanded more in the non-farm sector than the farm sector with the rise in male workers being sharper than that of fema...
by Sharad Ranjan | On 30 Sep 2007 Paving the Way for BJP-NDA Comeback?
BJP’s CD: Fascist Stereotypes
Judicial Legitimacy for Hindutva Myths
and other articles
by Liberation | On 20 Sep 2007 Growing inequality in the neo-liberal heartland
George Irvin ................................................................................. 2
- Science, ideology and development: Is there a ‘Sust...
by PAER Post Autistic Economic Review | On 16 Sep 2007 As Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights have been extended to agriculture, member countries are forced to provide intellectual property protection to plant varieties. As a member coun...
by Lalitha N | On 28 Aug 2007 This report is located in the twin contexts of the global movement for recognition of sexuality minority rights and the increasing assertiveness of sexuality minority voices at the local level. It exa...
by PUCL Karnataka | On 27 Aug 2007 Prevalance of HIV/AIDS, HIV in India: Current and Future Trends, Gender Analysis of HIV/AIDS, Recommendations for the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Programs [WOHTRAC Report Series No. 7].
by Renu Khanna | On 14 Aug 2007 There seems to be no place for the stateless Rohingya people fleeing discrimination and persecution in their own country, Myanmar. They run away from a country that does not recognize them as citizens...
by Médecins Sans Frontières MSF | On 11 Aug 2007 On 14 August 2007, the United Nations Committee on the International Convention Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) is tentatively scheduled to examine the situation of...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 11 Aug 2007 The recent arrest of Binayak Sen of the PUCL-Chattisgarh has brought to the fore the important question as to what democracy means when it is practised under the ever present shadow of state repressio...
by Hasan Mansur | On 08 Aug 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...
by Siwan Anderson | On 31 Jul 2007 This report analyzes the ITRIPS agreement. It discuses the problems and stakes, and consequences of this agreement. The report also provides case studies related to the topic and finally gives a sugge...
by Andrea Onori | On 21 Jul 2007 The report of a two member team of Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) consisting of Advocate Nitesh Kumar Singh and Advocate Rajesh Pandey on the death in custody of Rohtas Singh, owner of a ready-m...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 13 Jul 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 06 Jul 2007 A law to prevent sex determination tests was passed in Maharashtra known as Maharashtra Regulation of Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1988. In 1994 the the Parliament enacted the Pre-Natal Diagn...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 05 Jul 2007 This draft chapter of a reader on Health Care Case Laws in India addresses the following issues: Have reproductive rights been recognized in India? What has been the approach of the courts towards rep...
by Vijay Hiremat | On 04 Jul 2007 - What would post-autistic trade policy be?
Alan Goodacre (UK)
On the need for a heterodox health economics : Robert McMaster (University of Aberdeen, UK)
- True cost environment...
by PAER Post Autistic Economic Review | On 17 Apr 2007 The government’s recent decision of putting a ceiling limit for Special Economic Zones (SEZs) may well result in defining a ceiling on equitable economic growth harming not just industrial development...
by Savita Kulkarni | On 17 Apr 2007 This study investigates the role of common property resources as a source of sustainable income in the context of opportunities created by economic development. Commercialization of the common can inc...
by Purnamita Dasgupta | On 27 Mar 2007 Review of Susantha Goonatilake's 'Recolonisation: Foreign Funded NGOs in Sri Lanka' .
Takes up case studies of some leading development and human rights NGOs in Sri Lanka, arguing that NGOs are neith...
by Mohan Rao | On 21 Mar 2007 Indian agriculture is under policy reforms for some time now. One of the issues it faces is that of lack of viability of smallholdings and lack of international competitiveness of its produce. In this...
by Sukhpal Singh | On 07 Mar 2007 Multilateral agencies and economists with much influence have been urging laissez-faire in agriculture. While success with the rich countries has been minimal despite the commitments under the WTO, ma...
by Sebastian Morris | On 07 Mar 2007 The paper disuses and analyzes the condition of cotton farmers of Andra Pradesh and the reasons for their committing suicides.
by Reji K Joseph | On 05 Mar 2007 Poverty, property rights and distributional implications of community-based resource management have become major topics of discussion and debate in recent years. This study tries to examine the contr...
by Bhim Adhikari | On 17 Feb 2007 This keynote address of the conference on Natural Resource Conservation Use and Sustainability in Drylands, focuses mainly on some new concepts of resource assessments in dry areas, some recent debate...
by Yoginder Alagh | On 30 Jan 2007 As developing countries build allopathic medical systems, what should their bioethics be? In this essay, we explore possible answers to this question, ultimately arguing that Western bioethics is insu...
by Scott Stonington | On 03 Jan 2007 The effect of randomized reservations of Pradhan (chief executive) positions in West Bengal local governments (panchayats) for women and members of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) following t...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 27 Dec 2006 It is often assumed that poverty reduction would lead to gender equality. Research however, points to the opposite, namely, that increasing prosperity can have perverse gender effects . It is therefor...
by Nitya Rao | On 26 Dec 2006 This report brings out again sharply the perennial question, which the poor in the country are asking – Development for Whom? A big business company has been allotted land disproportionate to the requ...
by People's Union of Civil Liberties PUCL | On 26 Dec 2006 This paper is an engagament with the nuances of institutions contained within the edifice of the State, in particular institutions that have played a role in the construction of property rights in Ind...
by Jaivir Singh | On 20 Dec 2006 This study is an attempt to broaden the discussion about the prevention of domestic violence against women, informed by a rights based strategy. The study discusses the critical elements of a human ri...
by Pradeep Kumar Panda | On 19 Dec 2006 Historically, Bangalore’s growth and physical spread had been dictated by the
location decisions of certain important industrial, institutional and residential activities, rather than as an outcome...
by G.S. Sastry | On 04 Dec 2006 Ironically the poverty situation, as reflected in the official statistics, depicts a
rather contrary scenario with dryland regions having lower incidence of poverty
despite their adverse agro-climat...
by Amita Shah | On 29 Nov 2006 Singapore’s Founding Myths vs. Freedomby Garry Rodan
The Charade of Meritocracyby Michael D. Barr
Financial Center Pipedreamsby Hugo Restall
Thailand:Bangkok’s Elitist Coupby Michael H. Nelson
Put...
by FEER | On 03 Nov 2006 A comprehensive inventory of bilateral FTAs on a global scale, with sections on Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. It highlights the key points of e...
by Bilaterals.org | On 03 Nov 2006 Globalization, or integration with the world economy via WTO membership, was expected to increase foriegn investment and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although forei...
by Anita Chan | On 26 Oct 2006 Various policies and programmes implemented avowedly for the benefits of the tribal people have resulted in alienation and degradation of tribesfolk. This detailed study of Kerala's Irular tribal comm...
by Mariamma J. Kalathil | On 20 Oct 2006 This paper synthesises the different explanations and presents an overview of the development and characteristics of the Chinese rural enterprises (REs). The rural industrialization history of the Chi...
by Justin Yifu Lin | On 18 Oct 2006 This book attempts to address how the tribes in India have perceived the State and its law. The tribes stand apart from the general population, and are made to stand outside the law, characterises the...
by Mayur Suresh | On 16 Oct 2006 The Seeds Bill, 2004 aims to regulate the quality of seeds sold,
and replaces the Seeds Act, 1966. The proposed Act would replace the Seeds Act, 1966. The Bill seeks to update the existing Act in or...
by M. R. Madhavan | On 01 Oct 2006 The purpose of the paper is to ask how family law texts, as regards rural divorce, have obtained there own particular structure and form. The author concentrates on the rural divorce cases.The purpose...
by Malcolm Voyce | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper will map the developments that led to the integration of
gender into the international human rights law discourse and examine
how the language of ‘violence’ and ‘respectable victimhood’ (...
by Oishik Sarcar | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper will begin by reviewing the political assumptions of the nature of
citizenship underlying T.H. Marshall’s argument for ‘social rights’; it will
provide a critique of human rights discours...
by Michael Neocosmos | On 29 Aug 2006 The upward harmonization through TRIPS, the TRIPS Plus provision in
various bilateral and free trade agreements is resulting in the global
spread of the enclosure with nation states acting as guaran...
by Krishna Ravi Srinivas | On 29 Aug 2006 Intersectional analysis is required if the approach to women’s equality
in Northern Ireland/ the North of Ireland is to benefit the most
marginalized women and thereby improve the prospects of build...
by Eilish Rooney | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper engages with the literature on intellectual property rights by adopting an evolutionary economist’s approach to the study of technologies.
by Dwijen Rangnekar | On 29 Aug 2006 Rather paradoxically the promotion of intellectual property rights, aimed at solving the incentive problem, might actually hinder innovation. This paper engages with this literature by adopting an evo...
by Dwijen Rangnekar | On 17 Aug 2006 In the light of the observations of the Supreme Court in its order dated 17th
April 2006, the Prime Minister constituted the Sardar Sarovar Project Relief &
Rehabilitation Oversight Group. The manda...
by V.K. Shunglu | On 28 Jul 2006 Utilizing the critical theory of Drucilla Cornell and Costas
Douzinas, and looking back to the utopianism of Ernst Bloch, the paperI offers an
argument that acknowledges the limits of the law and th...
by Narnia Bohler-Muller | On 28 Jul 2006 As society develops, it is important to keep ethical problems under continuing scrutiny and debate. It should also be recognized that a productive balance is between society’s need for knowledge and i...
by Pradip Kumar Bose | On 19 Jul 2006 The collection of papers demonstrates that the human right to development in essence brings together several distinct but not mutually inconsistent streams of philosophical, political, economic and so...
by Vijay Kumar Nagaraj | On 15 Jul 2006 Women's Equality in Transition: Intersectionality in Northern Ireland's/ North of Ireland's Equality Legislation
Women have been invisible in mainstream analyses of the Northern
Irish conflict. The...
by | On 23 May 2006 The main aim of this study is to develop an accounting framework that
reflects the real contribution of agricultural land and pastureland to
society. The more specific objectives are to: 1 estimate...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 23 May 2006 On April 3, 2006, an independent commission on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), innovation and public health presented its report to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The report was commissioned...
by | On 14 Apr 2006 Changes in the practices and norms of research have changed the dynamics of creation of knowledge. Issues of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and proprietary information and knowledge have begun to...
by Sambit Mallick | On 29 Mar 2006 Agriculture
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 The main objective of the paper is to explore the role of Japan in the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral and Technical Cooperation (BIMSTEC). The analysis suggests that BIMSTEC-Japan cooper...
by Mukul Asher | On 26 Feb 2006 Central Ethics Committee on Human Research (CECHR) was
constituted under the chairmanship of Honourable Justice Shri M.N.
Venkatachaliah by the then Director General, Dr. G.V. Satyavati to consider
...
by Indian Council of Medical Research | On 08 Feb 2006 Contents
Why we do not need to give Hepatitis B Vaccine for all newborns 1
Cost and Quality Issue in Hospital Care - Anant Phadke 4
Local Production of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu): Options - D. G. Shah 6...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 20 Jan 2006 It is puzzling how much the discourse of development has backed
away from the seemingly central question of rural poverty: land.
Elaborate rules concerning its distribution, rights, regulation, prot...
by Ronald Herring | On 12 Jan 2006 It is also imperative to improve the present delivery system of elementary
education by, inter alia, greater decentralization of its management, and making it
sensitive to the needs of children, esp...
by Department of Education DoE | On 12 Jan 2006 This paper looks at the effects of WTO/TRIPS and pharmaceuticals on women. The focus is on the poor and women. The first part of the paper tries to show the linkages between the idea of intellectual p...
by S Srinivasan | On 27 Nov 2005 On October 13-14, 2005 Mau in Uttar Pradesh, India experienced widespread violence and communal tension. Mau has a long history of communal tensions. It is largely rural district with a minority of...
by Rooprekha Verma | On 16 Nov 2005 Minimum Employment at less than Minimum Wages
Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Dancing with the US Devil
Nanavati Report: Getting Away with Murder
Bihar: EC order on NBWs
Bombay Floods
West Bengal Land Refo...
by CPI (ML) | On 16 Sep 2005 The draft tribal policy (hereinafter referred as draft or DTP) prepared by the Ministry of Tribal affairs appears to be a mere reiteration of the existing policies and programmes. The paper suggests t...
by Naresh C. Saxena | On 12 Sep 2005 During the last few years, there has been a devastating wave of forced evictions of tribal communities from forest land around the country, which needs to be stopped as soon as possible. Unfortunately...
by Jean Dreze | On 10 Sep 2005 Editorial:Minimum Employment at Less than Minimum Wages
commentary: Dancing with the US Devil.
Nanavati Commission Report: Getting Away With Murder
EC Must Deter Criminals, and not Disenfranchise...
by CPI (ML) | On 03 Sep 2005 The Ethics Code is intended to provide standards of professional conduct that can be applied by the APA and by other bodies that choose to adopt them. Whether or not a psychologist has violated the Et...
by American Psychological Association | On 01 Sep 2005 The National Common Minimum Programme of the Government, among other things, seeks to give complete legal equality for women in all spheres, by enacting a new legislation that gives equal rights of ow...
by Lok Sabha | On 31 Aug 2005 The recommendations contained in the Report are aimed at suggesting changes in the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 so that women get an equal share in the ancestral property. With a view to giving effect...
by Law Commission India | On 31 Aug 2005 The earliest legislation bringing females into the scheme of inheritance is the Hindu Law of Inheritance Act, 1929. Subsequently, the Hindu Women's Right to Property Act, 1937 brought significant chan...
by Parliamentary Standing Committee Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice | On 31 Aug 2005 Introduced in the Rajya Sabha Monsoon Session, 2005. Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 deals with devolution of interest of a male Hindu in coparcenary property and recognises the rule of d...
by Minister Law and Justice | On 31 Aug 2005 This note takes stock of relevant gender aspects of contemporary personal laws and land legislation in Kerala, sums up the shift to marriage as the dominant site of property relations for women; and i...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 31 Aug 2005 The importance of IPR in the Indian economy will have to be understood properly. Tomorrow’s wars will be fought not by conventional weapons, guns, missiles and so on, but in the knowledge markets with...
by R A Mashelkar | On 08 Aug 2005 |