From scientific upheavals in the Early Modern to world wars in the twentieth century, Humanities has responded to the crisis and also reinvented itself in terms of methodologies and fields of inquiry....
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 15 Nov 2021 Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
By Rajiv Mohabir
(Winner of the Restless Books Prize for Immigrant Writing, 2021)
2021; pp 352; $ 27.
ISBN: 9781632062802; eBook ISBN: 9781632062819
Restless Books, Bro...
by | On 07 Jun 2021 Institutional repositories(IRs), if established in various universities, would help bring out the contributions by Indian researchers on the world map, especially in the field of Arts, Humanities, and...
by Shubhada Nagarkar | On 19 Feb 2021 In January 2019, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) tasked Professors Nirmala Menon (IIT Indore) and Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) with the following: To identify 10 grand challen...
by | On 18 Jan 2021 Constitutions and founding principles, including our own, were drafted by those who studied Humanities and its cognate fields, which helped them see far into the future. The plan and vision remains, a...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 07 Jan 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 India has existed as a cultural entity from pre-historic times, but most people are not conversant with how and when the nation-state took shape.
by T.N. Ninan | On 28 Jun 2020 One of the distressingly overwhelming scenes which followed the sudden announcement of lockdown was mass reverse migration of lakhs of migrant workers from more industrialized and urbanized states and...
by | On 02 Jun 2020 Can use the COVID-19 time to slow down, take stock and develop fresh approaches for the social sciences and humanities?
by | On 22 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 The current global health crisis is unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering, and upending people’s lives. But this is much more...
by United Nations (UN) | On 24 Apr 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 This paper explores how these mechanisms - innovation, inclusion and efficiency – have been integral to microfinance operations in the past, and how innovations in digital technology may be yet anothe...
by Saon Ray | On 04 Feb 2019 There were intensive efforts at monetary cooperation in the interwar years to overcome the imbalances accumulated during the war years to reduce the rate of inflation, reduce the rate of unemployment...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 01 Feb 2019 This paper tries to understand the trends and the pattern of Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) by Indian firms and the factors that determine OFDI from India through Cross-Border Mergers and Ac...
by P.L. Beena | On 31 Jan 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 report sheds light on the various issues concerning migration and mobility. It gathers the fruit of two decades of research done at the CDS and examines migration dynamics from demographic, econom...
by S. Irudaya Rajan | On 31 Jan 2019 In various Asian countries, international trade has raised productivity, lowered mark ups through import competition (while increasing them through cheaper inputs that can be imported), raised wages,...
by Devashish Mitra | On 22 Jan 2019 This paper assesses the accuracy of Asian Development Outlook growth and inflation forecasts for 43 Asian economies from 2007 to 2016, against the benchmark of World Economic Outlook projections by th...
by Benno Ferrarini | On 22 Jan 2019 This paper analyzes the effects of the current trade conflict on developing Asia using the Asian Development Bank’s Multiregional Input–Output Table (MRIOT), allowing us to calculate the impact on ind...
by Abdul Abiad | On 21 Dec 2018 The paper presents the development of a methodology to estimate robust city-level vehicular mobility indices, and apply it to 154 Indian cities using 22 million counterfactual trips measured by a web...
by Prottoy A. Akbar | On 22 Nov 2018 The current global warming trends are extremely likely to be the result of human social and economic activity since the middle of the 20th century (NASA 2018). Evidence of rapid climate change varies...
by Kunmin Kim | On 21 Nov 2018 Aging can be harmful to an economy over the long run, as an increase in the share of the elderly population reduces both the labor force and output per adult, and increases the social security burden....
by Hiroko Uchimura-Shiroshi | On 10 Sep 2018 This paper attempts to determine the challenges and enablers of connecting small and medium businesses to global value chains. It uses data from a survey of SMEs in Metro Manila and a set of key infor...
by Jamil Paolo Francisco | On 30 Aug 2018 Innovation is the synergistic use of resources, technology, capital, and information to achieve growth at different levels of the economy. Many studies abroad have already supported the hypothesis tha...
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 27 Aug 2018 Asia is a hot spot for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, including those with pandemic potential. At the same time, the region is grappling with growing antimicrobial resistance and the hea...
by Megan Counahan | On 24 Aug 2018 The policy brief aims to mitigate the impact of natural disasters on food security, ASEAN established a rice reserve on 4 October 1979. The rice reserve was developed to alleviate poverty and to eradi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Aug 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 short paper has two main sections. The first section presents a more detailed picture and overview of the macroeconomic performance of the Philippines behind the Philippines’ remarkable growth. T...
by Maureen Ane D. Rosellon | On 06 Jul 2018 The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) exercise in...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 05 Jul 2018 This paper seeks to address this gap in the literature by examining migration intentions of individuals from a high-emigration rural village in the Philippines. The results provide evidence of a cultu...
by Aubrey D. Tabuga | On 29 Jun 2018 This study seeks to examine the structure of migration networks in a migrant-sending in the Philippines and to relate this to the diffusion of migration behavior in the village over time. Such socio-h...
by Aubrey D. Tabuga | On 29 Jun 2018 This paper therefore argues that using aggregate measures like migration incidence in an area wherein homogeneity is assumed and obtaining a significant and positive effect may erroneously amplify the...
by Aubrey D. Tabuga | On 28 Jun 2018 Pakistan-China relations date back to the Silk Route, but the formal ties began in 1950. Pakistan was the first Muslim country to recognize China as People's Republic and Pakistan International Airlin...
by Mahmood A. Khwaja | On 28 Jun 2018 This paper tests economic convergence across States in India by incorporating federal fiscal asymmetries and differentials in gross fixed capital formation at the state level. Using dynamic panel mode...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 15 Jun 2018 The paper identifies key features of International Monetary Fund (IMF)–supported programs following the 2008 global financial crisis. The statistical analysis of a large sample of countries that borro...
by Carlos De Resende | On 09 Jun 2018 This paper discusses the status of financial inclusion, education, and literacy in Azerbaijan as well as measures to foster the development of SMEs, which currently have inadequate access to financial...
by Gubad Ibadoghlu | On 07 Jun 2018 This paper is to studies how manufacturing plants in India adjusted to trade liberalization during the period 1998–99 to 2007–08. It estimates how the labor share changed due to tariff reduction. The...
by Prachi Gupta | On 05 Jun 2018 This paper first considers the challenges of urban mobility faced by developing cities, before
exploring the role for policy in improving connectivity. In Section 2, this paper looks at
options for...
by Paul Collier | On 30 May 2018 Review of Domestic Workers of the World Unite: A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights by Jennifer N. Fish; Sage Publications; Pp. 320, Rs. 995.
by Aparna Rayaprol | On 28 May 2018 Despite being key to theories of economic growth and the demographic transition, evidence on
how fertility responds to aggregate income change is mixed. We analyze economic growth and
fertility chan...
by | On 08 May 2018 The World Development Report 2018 (WDR 2018)—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the timing is excellent: education has long been critical to h...
by World Bank [WB] | On 04 May 2018 The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. The World Happiness Report 2018, ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, and 117 countries by the happiness of...
by | On 04 May 2018 How do import tariffs and R&D subsidies help domestic firms compete globally? How do these policies affect aggregate growth and economic welfare? To answer these questions, the paper builds a dynamic...
by Ufuk Akcigit | On 02 May 2018 The widespread reforms were expected to bring about significant transformations in the structure, operations, allocation of resources (including capital) and competitiveness of the businesses in India...
by Nupur Bang | On 27 Apr 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 This paper reviews recent evidence and research by ILO and others concerning
monetary, fiscal, exchange rate and capital account management policies, looking also at
issues...
by | On 20 Apr 2018 The report presents a rigorous statistical analysis across space and time, using the available
national data.
by National Planning (NPC) | On 13 Apr 2018 A decade ago, the Centre for Development Studies started
migration research based on large-scale field surveys covering the whole
of Kerala State as a one-time study. However, it soon develo...
by Zachariah KC | On 12 Apr 2018 Recently, a renewed interest in large-scale community health worker (CHW) programs has been
seen globally. This renewal provides an opportune moment to take stock of issues and
challenges such progr...
by Steve Hodgins | On 12 Apr 2018 This report examines the current state of Myanmar’s industrial sector, draws comparisons to
its neighboring countries, and discusses the potential impacts of SEZ policy on the economy. A key
finding...
by Amit K. Khandelwal | On 12 Apr 2018 This report recalls and builds on the recommendations made in EJF’s 2015 report Pirates and Slaves.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 10 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 The report says that investment in climate change adaptation and mitigation are listed as key ways of minimizing the drivers that force people from their country of origin – one of the GCM’s central o...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 09 Apr 2018 The report says that the Bunkar Samiti was establised to create a common platform for sustainable livelihoods.
by National Alliance Risk Reduction (NAADRR) | On 05 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 report says that the opportunities they have and the choices they make determine the course of human development—nowhere more so than in Asia-Pacific, home to half the world’s population.
by Thangavel Palanivel | On 03 Apr 2018 This study investigates empirically how human capital, measured by educational attainment,
is related to income distribution. The regressions, using a panel data set covering a broad
range of countr...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 The conventional theory of human capital developed by Becker (1962) and Mincer (1974) views education and training as the major sources of human capital accumulation that, in turn, have direct and pos...
by Zafar Mueen Nasir | On 29 Mar 2018 We examine the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in middle-income countries based
on cross-country panel data for the period 1975–2014. We find that TFP growth contributed signific...
by | 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 In contrast with historical precedent, urbanization across the Global South is associated with increasing levels
of urban poverty. These trends engender unique challenges for practitioners and schola...
by Emily Rains | On 21 Mar 2018 With a population nearing 60 million, half of which occupies the two major cities of Karachi and Hyderabad, Sindh is the only province with a rural population in the minority. Research conducted by PI...
by Salman Rashid | On 21 Mar 2018 The PILER 2015 Report on the Status of Labour Rights, fifth in the series, based on secondary research, aims to present an overview of the status of labour and the issues in the year impacting labour...
by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) | On 21 Mar 2018 The paper says that poverty alleviation is the most persistent challenge facing Pakistan since its inception.
by Rashida Haq | On 21 Mar 2018 People-to-People Partnership (PPP) is an important and inevitable mode of interactions in the sphere of international relations. In any kind of developmental, diplomatic and cultural interactions and...
by | On 15 Mar 2018 Knowledge spillovers are unintentional and costless transfers of knowledge from a leader
firm to a follower firm. They can occur via three pathways: Observation, imitation, and
managerial interactio...
by Bino Paul | On 14 Mar 2018 This paper seeks to draw lessons for developing countries based on a survey of the recent literature on financial globalization. First, while capital account openness holds promises (by potentially lo...
by Shang-Jin Wei | On 10 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 From IPod to I Pad, millions of electronics goods have rolled out of China, the global
manufacturing hub. India’s share of global electronic product market is less than 3%.
Taiwan had $72 billion of...
by A S Rao | On 07 Mar 2018 The study notes that continued appreciation of the rupee can weaken the competitive advantage of NRMs in the labour markets abroad. It can reinforce the already existing trend of decline in emigration...
by K.K. George | On 27 Feb 2018 The study concludes that the migrant labourers get much higher monetary wages than in their
native places.
by Surabhi K.S. | On 27 Feb 2018 Through these studies it has been shown how often the plight of women and the impact of war on their lives had been ignored.
by Sona Drahonovská | On 22 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 Prime Minister Narendra Modi seemed aware about the nuances that underpin India's cultural and political obligations in Asia. By making Bhutan as his first visit abroad followed by a visit to Nepal, h...
by | On 20 Feb 2018 The paper says that putting the matter differently, the price-system plays multiple roles: it acts as a signal for the use of available resources for producing at any particular point on the Productio...
by Prabhat Patnaik | On 19 Feb 2018 The paper says that despite high levels of literacy, near universal enrolment in elementary education, high levels of social and human development, why could Kerala not transform itself into a prosper...
by Jandhyala Tilak | On 14 Feb 2018 The paper says that the development experience of Kerala tucked away in the south-western corner of the Indian sub-continent has been rather unique.
by K.K. George | On 14 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 The paper says that the region is plagued with piracy and has also witnessed maritime terrorism related activities, drug smuggling, gun running and illegal migration.
by Vijay Sakhuja | On 09 Feb 2018 The report says that the fact that transnational spread of disease does pose a threat to national security, is well entrenched now.
by Animesh Roul | On 09 Feb 2018 FY2018 budget, the budget for final year of the intensive reform period set in the Fiscal Consolidation Plan,
continues to pursue both economic revitalization and fiscal consolidation.
by | On 09 Feb 2018 The report says that many democratic decentralization reforms are well-crafted.
by James Manor | On 07 Feb 2018 The report presents a comprehensive analysis of the budgetary provisions for important social sectors and the vulnerable
sections of the population. It also presents an overview of the fiscal indicat...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 05 Feb 2018 This paper seeks to bring out the need for addressing the fundamental weaknesses in the Sports Sector and in particular Olympic Sports. It also seeks to explore the possibilities of increased private...
by | On 01 Feb 2018 India continues to undertake and effectively implement a large number of actions relating to
energy, environment and climate, in particular, covering renewable energy, energy efficiency,
sustainable...
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2018 The report says that investment in human capital is a prerequisite for a healthy and productive population for nation building.
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 The paper ends with a discussion of the implications of possible shift in China's overseas development finance strategy since 2011.
by Oh Ah | On 31 Jan 2018 The tenth chapter of Economic Survey 2018 has sown that investments in social infrastructure and human development has paid off well. The policies and schemes have also been mentioned in detail. The g...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 31 Jan 2018 The paper says that the productivity growth of the service sector would foster economy-wide productivity and it can be achieved by the mitigation of misallocation of resources in service sectors.
by Choi Hyelin | On 26 Jan 2018 The paper also examines the Indian narrative on the Arctic and argues that it is important to monitor the evolving developments in the Arctic region.
by Vijay Sakhuja | On 24 Jan 2018 The brief says that invention of nuclear weapons, the ultimate among the three weapons of mass destruction, has given rise to completely novel conditions that have fundamentally affected the concept o...
by Animesh Roul | On 22 Jan 2018 The article discusses the devastating effect of Ebola outbreak and challenges in terms of combating this lethal disease.
by Anshu Joshi | On 18 Jan 2018 Linkages with the native place as well as integration within the city constitute backward and forward linkages of slum dwellers. Remittances are important part of these linkages.
The paper explores t...
by | On 18 Jan 2018 Budget analysis entails analysis and assessment of budget from the lens of marginalised sections
of population with the objective of prioritisation of public
expenditures and collection of revenues...
by Happy Pant | On 17 Jan 2018 A selective survey of recent papers in the area of technological change, automation and employment is presented. The objective is to convey analytical ideas and the empirical evidence that have inform...
by K. V. Ramaswamy | On 16 Jan 2018 This paper examines dimensions of inequality including labour market inequalities and discusses public policies needed for reduction in inequalities. It discusses both inequality of outcomes and inequ...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 16 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 ‘Lived place’ refers to the subject perception of place. It is concrete and based on experience. For the tribal communities staying or camping in the forest, it is their ‘lived place’ about which they...
by | On 12 Jan 2018 The paper narrates about the proceedings that were centered on a wide range of community level risk reduction efforts that are effectively reducing vulnerabilities as well as influencing development p...
by National Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction NADRR | On 10 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 Shukhrat Berdyev’s story (in Diary of a Gastarbeiter ) is a familiar one of a middle aged Uzbek school teacher who in the post-Soviet era is faced with the prospect of traveling to Moscow to work as a...
by | On 02 Jan 2018 This paper tries to lay bare the intertwined histories of rehabilitation of the refugees from East Pakistan and the development of the city of Calcutta in the initial decades after the partition of Br...
by | On 02 Jan 2018 Self-reliance is, by definition, about individualised responsibility for social wellbeing and economic security. This idea drives urban refugee livelihood programmes, in India and beyond, as aid organ...
by | On 22 Dec 2017 This paper investigates the causes and effects of the spatial distribution of immigrants across US cities. We document that: a) immigrants concentrate in large, high-wage, and expensive cities, b) the...
by | On 18 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 Tens of thousands of refugees attempt to meet their basic needs and make a meaningful life for themselves in Delhi, despite India not having a domestic or international legal framework codifying their...
by | On 14 Dec 2017 Fifty-five years after China and India fought a war over an ill-defined “colonial” border in 1962, war clouds have gathered again during this monsoon season on the contested Himalayan ridges and valle...
by Anirudh Deshpande | On 14 Dec 2017 Open educational resources (OERs), a disruptive technology, made their appearance in early 2002 as a promising tool for enhancing the quality of and access to education generally and higher education...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 14 Dec 2017 The paper narrates that the inclusive growth requires boosting incomes of workers currently in agriculture, either by shifting them to better-paying jobs outside agriculture or raising wages within ag...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 13 Dec 2017 Historically, extractive sector MNEs have been seen as an obstacle to sustainable development, because they operated in enclaves with limited local engagement. Import substitution policies aimed to in...
by | On 11 Dec 2017 By treating females as associational migrants, migration research in India undermines the significance of various factors, specifically the economic ones, which determine migration behaviour. However,...
by Sandhya Rani Mahapatro | On 07 Dec 2017 The results of this study indicate that climate change acts in combination with many other socioeconomic determinants of migration.
by Fahad Saeed | On 04 Dec 2017 Asia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world’s poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated war...
by Asian Bank | On 23 Nov 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 The large movements of workers between countries, both within Asia and between Asia and other regions, show no signs of abating. Indeed, six of the world’s top 10 countries of net emigration are in As...
by Asian Development Bank | On 22 Nov 2017 The study will use data from 1980-81 to 2015-16 in this regard and employ Johansen cointegration to investigate the long run relationship.
by Syed Ahmed | On 20 Nov 2017 This paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural a...
by | On 20 Nov 2017 The papers says that there is a need to invest in educational sector to maximize the human capital, which not only helps in economic growth but also contributes to economic development of the country.
by Syed Kazmi | On 17 Nov 2017 The study discusses the problems Pakistan may face in near future in the hands of Pakistani volunteers fighting in Syria.
by Rubab Syed | On 16 Nov 2017 There is mixed evidence for the impact of international capital flows on financial sector's stability. This paper investigates the relationship between components of gross capital flows and various fi...
by | On 10 Nov 2017 International space cooperation in the Asia Pacific region have entered a new stage. Today a lot of nations in this region have actively developed space capabilities, and have come to use them for a v...
by | On 09 Nov 2017 This study is part of a global research effort entitled Consultations with the Poor, designed to inform the World Development Report 2000/1 on Poverty and Development.
The research involved poor peop...
by | On 07 Nov 2017 The report says that current capacity of 4 million workers per annum is grossly inadequate.
by Shri Ranganath | On 03 Nov 2017 The EU grant project “Empowering Civil Society for the Protection of Migrants Children (ECPMC)” is implemented by World Vision Foundation of Thailand (WVFT) in collaboration with World Vision UK and F...
by | On 03 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 report says that there are well known explanations in contemporary economic
literature which explain this counterproductive impact of depreciation.
by . Atiq-ur-Rehman | On 26 Oct 2017 The report shows that the rationality arguments used to establish the existence of
subjective probabilities depend essentially on the identification of acting-as-ifyou-believe and actually believing.
by Asad Zaman | On 26 Oct 2017 This study examines farmers’ enthusiasm towards one of such technologies in four southwestern districts of Pakistan.
by Junaid Memon | On 25 Oct 2017 This paper constructs a dynamic macro model with new monetary policy rule to examine the implications of international reserve accumulation for macroeconomic outcomes such as economic growth and infla...
by Prakash Shrestha | On 18 Oct 2017 This informative note presents soil carbon sequestration as an option for offsetting this emissions through a market-based mechanism within the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 Oct 2017 The report says that conflicts, violence and natural disasters are among the root causes of migration and forced displacement.
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 Oct 2017 The report narrates that Karnataka has about 30,000 MW of officially estimated Renewable Energy (RE) potential, making it one of the country’s top five RE-rich states.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 13 Oct 2017 The report narrates that for societies, it spurs innovation, strengthens institutions, and fosters social cohesion.
by World Bank [WB] | On 04 Oct 2017 A chapter dedicated to migration in the Economic Survey 2016-17 signals the willingness on the part of Indian policymakers to address the linkages between migration, labour markets and economic develo...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 03 Oct 2017 This, according to researchers Sonny Domingo and Ma. Divina Olaguera from the state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), is the problem the government needs to address to re...
by Philippine Institute Studies (PIDS) | On 03 Oct 2017 In this paper, we use autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration developed by Pesaran et al. (1999) to estimate the elasticity and buoyancy coefficients of various revenue heads.
by Nepal Rastra Bank Research Department NRB | 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 This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets.
by Ravi Kanbur | On 27 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 study finds that a U-shaped relationship exists between farm size and farm / farmer's income. The results also show that both on-farm and
off-farm diversification have an inverted U-shape relatio...
by Varun Kumar Das | On 18 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 The paper discusses the nature and extent of non-farm activities in India using India Human Development Survey unit record data. An exercise carried out to understand the determinants of income from n...
by Meenakshi Rajeev | 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 Tamil Nadu is the eleventh largest state by area and the sixth most populous state in India with 75 million as per the 2011 census. The state was ranked sixth among the states in India according to th...
by S.Irudaya Rajan | On 06 Sep 2017 This has facilitated the growth of a (more) positive relationship between civil society and the local state reduced the governance gap and enhanced the legitimacy of the local state.
by Joakim Öjendal | On 01 Sep 2017 The objective of the study is to understand the ‘actual’ consumption patterns of fruits and vegetables in India and compare this to the World Health Organization (WHO) ‘recommended’ quantity for an ad...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 31 Aug 2017 The report shows that certain sociodemographic characteristics are more consistently associated with favourable or opposing attitudes to immigration.
by Neli Esipova | On 31 Aug 2017 This report narrates that it is a matter of record that migration was not included in the 2000 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework
by Gervais Appave | On 30 Aug 2017 It is widely accepted that people migrate to seek better living opportunities, and migration experiences affect life conditions considerably upon return. Research focused on gendered perspectives has...
by Özge Bilgili | On 28 Aug 2017 This paper aims to show that the level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections generating negative effects on economic growth. We expand the model presen...
by Bogang Jun | On 28 Aug 2017 This paper by Centad looks at the initiatives and their outcome through the construction of an Improvement Index and suggests a relook.
by S Jagadeesan | On 25 Aug 2017 The report says that a fresh wave of globalisation since the early 1990s has created both hope and despair.
by Sudarshan Iyengar | On 23 Aug 2017 The impacts of climate change on global temperatures profoundly affect people’s ability to sustain their livelihoods as well as their health; both of these dimensions in turn influence the migration o...
by International Organisation for Migration | On 18 Aug 2017 These surveys provide an indication of who is planning to migrate, which countries have the highest number of potential migrants, and which countries people would like to move to.
by International Organisation for Migration | On 18 Aug 2017 The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border security...
by Jan van Ours | On 17 Aug 2017 The yearly cap on H-1B visas became binding for the first time in 2004, making it harder for college-educated foreigners to work in the United States. However, academic institutions are exempt from th...
by Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes | On 17 Aug 2017 The Report explores who has been left out in the progress in human development and why.
by Selim Jahan | On 16 Aug 2017 Will women benefit from the rapid automation and digitisation that is set to change the world of work as we know it? How can we ensure that women’s economic interests are brought into focus, and that...
by Becky Faith | On 16 Aug 2017 This study’s framework could serve as an
alternative development paradigm for India and other developing countries.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 14 Aug 2017 The analysis, based on extensive fieldwork carried out over a three-year period, shows successful implementation of GRB in the region to be hindered not only by barriers such as lack of political comm...
by Andrea Spehar | On 11 Aug 2017 The report says that the practice of local democracy has so far mirrored the problems at the national level, with vote-buying, compromised primaries and allegations of vote-rigging in many gubernatori...
by Agnes Cornell | On 10 Aug 2017 The paper argues, in line with other recent studies that time has come to rethink concepts and practices used to promote local governance in African countries.
by Göran Hydén | On 10 Aug 2017 The present study is an attempt to examine the impact of international trade on manufacturing productivity in India. The literature on international trade suggests that the productivity of domestic ma...
by R Rijesh | On 09 Aug 2017 South Asia faces a wide array of social, political, and economic issues that already threaten security in the region. The region has a history of border disputes, sectarian violence, and government co...
by David Antos | On 09 Aug 2017 The key policy issues in this field pertain to detachment benefits, totalization procedure and ensuring greater coverage under these agreements.
by Atul Tiwari | On 09 Aug 2017 Forest and conservation policy in Southeast Asia is now at yet another crossroads. Despite decades of efforts, the challenges ahead remain formidable. These challenges include: (i) continued deforesta...
by Gary Bull | On 08 Aug 2017 Debashis Chakraborty visited Siliguri for the first time in 1952. After the final examinations of Class IV, this was his first trip to Siliguri to visit the part of his family that had relocated to th...
by Atig Ghosh | On 04 Aug 2017 With a focus on Northeast Indian experiences and a comparative look at Nepal, this project addresses the role of women in local governance and politics, particularly within the context of peace and se...
by Calcutta Group | On 04 Aug 2017 Discussions around the post-2015 development goals
and the proposed ‘leave no-one behind’ principle have
revived global interest in inequality and the role of social
protection in promoting social...
by | On 04 Aug 2017 The report narrates that the Accord provided a framework for a fair and reasonable degree of consistency in the application of capital standards in different countries, on a shared definition of capit...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 03 Aug 2017 Low carbon development has gained policy prominence and is a concern of both environment and development policy globally and in China
and India. This paper discusses the role of China and India as im...
by Shailly Kedia | On 03 Aug 2017 This paper examines the emerging strength of BRICS in hightechnology
trade. We reviewed trends in high-technology trade primarily in
BICS (excluding Russia). Given that China and India are leading e...
by | On 03 Aug 2017 Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to
minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question the basic Todaro-type
model of rural-urban migr...
by Luc Christiaensen | On 01 Aug 2017 This paper examines the implications of the establishment of the
New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement
(CRA) for the international financial system and for the BRICS coun...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 31 Jul 2017 The compendium details the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of the different technology options, and also describes the different types of systems formed as a combination of the technolog...
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 28 Jul 2017 Labour provisions have become more commonplace in trade agreements and increasingly comprehensive in their scope. The Handbook provides practical information in a format geared towards non-specialist...
by International Organisation | On 28 Jul 2017 This document provides a list of sanitation tools; organisation of the same based on their specific
features; and factsheets corresponding to every tool, which cover the objectives, descriptions,
ad...
by Shramana Dey | On 27 Jul 2017 The present paper is an attempt to conduct a valuation of the three most important exhaustible natural resources, viz., natural gas, coal and hard rock, via
the System of Environmental-Economic Accou...
by Mahfuz Kabir | On 27 Jul 2017 The nature and scale of humanitarian crises are changing. The world is becoming increasingly urbanised – currently, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban environments, which will rise t...
by | On 27 Jul 2017 This annual publication showcases the results of knowledge management initiatives of the East Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank in 2014.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 Jul 2017 The report discusses the most recent projections pertaining to climate change and climate change impacts in Asia and the Pacific, and the consequences of these changes to human systems, particularly f...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 The purpose of this note is to help development practitioners gather relevant information, conduct analysis, and present both in a standardized diagnostic framework. In addition to the guidance note i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity, tax exemptions, and subsidized credit; examines the potential economic, energy, and en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 The report says that Cambodia’s growth in the last 20 years has been remarkable and the lives of its people have improved substantially. But low-cost labor advantages on a narrow economic base have dr...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 Jun 2017 The report says Fiji’s economy has seen 5 years of positive growth since 2010 - one of its few episodes of sustained growth since 1970. Growth averaged 3.3% a year during 2010-2014, which is nearly fo...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 27 Jun 2017 The report narrates that the related technical assistance has focused on infrastructure management, financial and private sector development, preparations for regional economic integration, and region...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Jun 2017 The problem of balanced regional development received much greater attention in the Third Five Year Plan. The Plan took a more positive view of the possibility of reaching regional balance. It stated...
by MC Singhi | On 22 Jun 2017 The report narrates that early adoption of information and communication technology can allow developing countries in Asia and the Pacific to move from labor-intensive, natural resources-based to know...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 22 Jun 2017 The paper says that Sri Lanka has emerged in recent years as one of the most dynamic countries in South Asia. With a rich cultural heritage, an increasingly sophisticated work force, and a strategic l...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 19 Jun 2017 This report describes how applying community-driven development principles to managing the water resource can both expand livelihood opportunities available to beneficiaries at no additional cost to t...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Jun 2017 This report examines the challenges ASEAN member states face in achieving the goal of greater mobility for the highly skilled, including hurdles in recognizing professional qualifications, opening up...
by Demetrios G. Papademetriou | On 16 Jun 2017 This report reviews trade and transport procedures in Bangladesh, highlights the importance of monitoring trade and transport facilitation, and lays a foundation for future studies and establishment o...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jun 2017 Rural roads and rural transport services are fundamental to reducing rural poverty and enabling social and economic development. Evidence from Myanmar, and from around the world, makes it clear that a...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jun 2017 The paper uses a food systems approach to analyze the bidirectional relationships between climate change and food and nutrition along the entire food value chain. It then identifies adaptation and mit...
by Jessica Fanzo | On 30 May 2017 This study argues that some of the policies that allowed Bangladesh to prosper in the last few years will become less effective, and the economy will need to “switch gears” to consolidate the growth m...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 May 2017 The analysis and practical guidance provided in this report are based on surveys of revenue bodies conducted in 2014 and 2015, along with accompanying research of revenue bodies’ corporate documents,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 May 2017 This paper provides a micro-history of Sealdah Station as a halt of the refugee population coming from East Pakistan in the 1950s and ‘60s. The station as a site of refugee concentration was very diff...
by Anwesha Sengupta | On 19 May 2017 The report says India can save 64% of anticipated passenger road-based mobility-related energy demand and 37% of carbon emissions in 2030 by pursuing a shared, electric, and connected mobility future....
by Shikha Juyal | On 17 May 2017 The reports notes the regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in Asia and the Pacific continues to evolve, creating an important source for the region’s dynamic growth. This report assesses the RCI...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 This paper says that district cooling is feasible in the PRC and deserves further development because it can significantly improve the efficiency of energy use, as well as indoor climate, with energy...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 May 2017 The reports in this series draw on the insights of 387 regional and international experts and practitioners through their
participation in focus group discussions, meetings, and surveys. Contributors...
by Jeanne Batalova | On 08 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 In the report there has been progress primarily in two areas: (1) the creation of implementing offices and bodies at the regional and national levels as outlined in the MRAs; and (2) the incorporation...
by Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza | On 05 May 2017 This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected Indian cities by employing 57 indicators
in four dimensions to develop an overall city sustainability index. In recent years, its comp...
by B.Sudhakara Reddy | On 03 May 2017 Decent work, the core mandate of the ILO, is defined as productive work for women and men in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.Decent work involves opportunities for work that:...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 17 Apr 2017 This book addresses many of these prevalent policy issues and suggests
measures to address them from the varied perspectives of space commerce, space policy, space security, global governance, and in...
by | On 14 Apr 2017 Over the past two decades, significant progress has been made in reducing poverty in the majority of countries. In emerging and developing countries, taken as a whole, it is estimated that nearly 2 bi...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 14 Apr 2017 This new ILO Global Wage Report – the fifth in a series that now spans over a decade – contributes to this agenda by making comparative data and information on recent wage trends available to governme...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 14 Apr 2017 We measure the contribution of match quality to the wage growth experienced by job movers. We reject the exogenous mobility assumption needed to estimate a standard fixed-effects wage regression in th...
by | On 30 Mar 2017 Increasing water scarcity is expected to impact food production and the livelihoods of millions of farmers in semi arid developing countries over the next decades. Multiple studies project that this a...
by | On 22 Mar 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 Review of
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan,
Restless Books, New York,USA
224 pp;To be released: March 14, 2017.
USD 17.99. ISBN: 9781632061423
by Kavya Murthy | On 07 Mar 2017 This Report, and the System Initiative on Economic Growth and Social Inclusion of which it is part, exemplify the World Economic Forum’s ambition to serve as a platform to enable closer cooperation be...
by | On 27 Feb 2017 Through a broad portrayal of character of its development, changing
urban patterns, nature of urban economic structure and contents of
urban development policies, this paper takes a political econom...
by Biswaroop Das | On 17 Feb 2017 It is now well-accepted among policy makers that the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene is a basic human right. Yet, millions of people lack access to basic toilet facilities, which anecdotal...
by | On 15 Feb 2017 This paper analyzes gender differences in reading and mathematics among Indian children ages 8-11 using data from the 2005 India Human Development Survey. Employing descriptive statistics and ordered...
by | On 15 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 In the context of social
sector and particularly for children, the Union Budgets have disappointed the marginalized
community and the Union Budget 2017-18 further pushed its children to the peripher...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 06 Feb 2017 Reveiw of ‘Population, Health and Environment’ Edited by Sayeed Unisa, T.V. Sekher, Chander Shekhar, Abhishek Singh, L.K.Dwivedi and M.R. Pradhan by Rawat Pubslishers.
by Manisha Karne | On 30 Jan 2017 Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally represen...
by | On 24 Jan 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 Review on ‘Internal Migration in Contemporary India’ (2016) (Edited by Deepak K. Mishra); Sage Publications, India, 343 pages.
by Aashish Khakha | On 16 Jan 2017 Rapid urbanisation with an increase in urban population from 28.3% (in 1950) to 50% (in 2010) is witnessed in megacities in India. Urbanisation is one of the demographic issues in the 21st century and...
by Bharath H. Aithal | On 16 Jan 2017 The following document contains a review for a research project on migration and chronic or non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It begins with an overview of the geographical scope; the review focuses s...
by | On 11 Jan 2017 The demographic structure of South Asian countries are rapidly transforming, which can greatly influence future rice production and consumption in the region. Literature on the impact of demographic t...
by | On 11 Jan 2017 The government of the United Arab Emirates requires all foreign migrant workers to reside on temporary visas. This affects transnational mobility patterns among the one class of residents whom we shou...
by | On 09 Jan 2017 The Global Wind Energy Council is pleased to present this 6th edition of the Global Wind Energy Outlook, looking at the future of our industry out to 2020, 2030 and ultimately to 2050. What happens in...
by | On 05 Jan 2017 Shortage of electricity prompted the countries to give a momentum to renewable energy resources. Renewable energy refers to energy resources that Aries naturally and repeatedly in the environment and...
by | On 04 Jan 2017 The contemporary discourse on migration and development is starting to consider the agency role of both diaspora communities and highly skilled returnees on equal terms, and we can observe how several...
by | On 19 Dec 2016 India is a major source of migrants, especially of highly-skilled and well-trained workers. This paper attempts to show that even with a high number of Indian talents abroad, India – as well as destin...
by | On 19 Dec 2016 Drawing attention to a high dropout rate in upper primary schools, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam today said schools are facing the “biggest crisis” in India.
Delivering the f...
by Tharman Shanmugaratnam | On 08 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 The State of Kerala in 2012 through a notification stopped issuing new permits
to inter-district buses in Kerala while exempting state run Kerala State
Transport Corporation. This was the beginning...
by Madhu Sivaraman | On 28 Nov 2016 This paper represents a holistic study of the multifaceted notion of stranded migrants, which gained renewed attention by international actors in the past decade, and especially in relation to the 201...
by | On 28 Nov 2016 The scope of this project was defined by the mandate of the ILO. It therefore focused on the employment relationship as it relates specifically to migrant and ethnic minority workers. The normative ba...
by | On 28 Nov 2016 Air pollution causes some of the most serious long-term impacts on human
health. Unlike other health problems, the diseases caused by air-pollution
are likely to affect everyone exposed to polluted...
by Amrita Ghatak | On 25 Nov 2016 Temporary labour migration is often touted as a triple-win: a win for destination countries that can support a level of economic activity that would be impossible without foreign labour; a win for cou...
by | On 24 Nov 2016 This paper aims to capture the current situation of nurse migration from an
Asian perspective. Asian countries are sources of nurses as well as hosts for
foreign nurses. They also provide opportunit...
by | On 24 Nov 2016 The increasing number of migrants moving to cities, especially from rural areas, has posed a new set of issues for the authorities. In the mid-1990s, it was estimated that China had a floating populat...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 This article focuses on Chinese female rural migrant workers. Based on the survey data collected in Anhui and Sichuan provinces of China, the article investigates gender aspects of Chinese rural-urban...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, the paper examines the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011). The paper finds mobility est...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 03 Nov 2016 Review on , Partha S. Ghosh’s book, ‘Migrants, Refugees and the Stateless in South-Asia’ ; Sage Publications India, 384 pages
by Aashish Khakha | On 03 Nov 2016 This issue is particularly crucial in the present climate of privatization associated with structural adjustment policies. The intellectual tradition behind these policies assumes that the withdrawal...
by Sonalde Desai | On 02 Nov 2016 The aim of this study
is to value, in monetary units, coastal and marine ecosystem services in India. The
reasons for doing so are two–fold: i) the destruction and degradation of coastal
ecosystems...
by K. S. Kavi Kumar | On 25 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 International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report notes that up to 2050, the main impact of climate change on health will be an increase in illness and deaths related to the env...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 13 Oct 2016 This brief outlines a particular iteration of a compact approach that incorporates critical components—such as shared outcomes for refugees, host country ownership and focus on longer-term transition,...
by Cindy Huang | On 10 Oct 2016 This paper suggests a reinterpretation of global growth—encompassing notions of unconditional convergence and the middle income trap—in the past 50 years through the lens of growth theory. Two modes o...
by Sutirtha Roy | On 10 Oct 2016 This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants’ countries of origin, looking both at the remittance-receiving and non-migrant households. Using data from the Soci...
by | On 05 Oct 2016 A skilled and educated workforce can support the competitiveness of enterprises of all sizes.
However, smaller firms may face greater challenges in developing human capital. We
explore differences b...
by Paul Vandenberg | On 04 Oct 2016 This research evaluates the performance of free trade agreements by
analyzing the determinants of trade flows of Asian economies for a panel
of thirty-one countries during 2007-2014 using a Gravity...
by Sunder Ramaswamy | On 29 Sep 2016 Migration is a complex issue which has been a subject of keen interest for many years to sociologists, anthropologists, demographers, economists and political scientists. The migrants who work out of...
by | On 29 Sep 2016 This Project Briefing explores the experiences of these people as they migrate, drawing on findings from a baseline study on their vulnerabilities, particularly to HIV and AIDS, as they move between t...
by | On 29 Sep 2016 This paper examines more than one million children whose parents won a state lottery to trace out the effect of additional household resources on college outcomes. The analysis draws on the universe o...
by George Bulman | On 28 Sep 2016 Review of Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance by Debarati Sanyal. ew York Fordham University Press, 2015.
Reviewed by Brenda D. Melendy (Texas A&M University-Kingsville)
...
by | On 27 Sep 2016 Review of Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space by Faith G. Nibbs, Caroline Brettell. Nashville Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. 240 pp.
Reviewed by Mar...
by | On 27 Sep 2016 This paper studies the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, it exploits variation due to regulatory and tech...
by Filipe Campante | On 21 Sep 2016 Rivers are life line of the human being. Indian rivers are worshiped as a mother, because she cares the humanity and makes the ways easy for the people and living organism. Without the water no one ca...
by | On 20 Sep 2016 Group inequality is a prominent feature of many modern democracies. The purpose of this paper is to take stock of what we know about the ways in which major democracies have viewed social groups and a...
by Rohini Somanathan | 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 The article review the issues related to climate change and its adverse impact on human health in India. Evidences shows that in India climate change has caused threat to public health from extreme we...
by Varsha Chorsiya | On 12 Sep 2016 Climate change has the potential to influence the earth’s biological systems, however, its effects on human health are not well defined. Developing nations with limited resources are expected to face...
by | On 12 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 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 attempts to examine the impact of government expenditure in social sector on economic growth at the state level for 15 major states. The study reveals that the share of social sector expend...
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 A randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program were conducted.
Overall, the program had no impact on students’ scores on a language skills test
administered after 16 months. The e...
by Evan Borkum | On 02 Sep 2016 Enhancing the ability of smallholders to connect with the knowledge, networks, and institutions necessary to improve their productivity, food security, and employment opportunities is a fundamental de...
by World Bank [WB] | On 01 Sep 2016 This study provided a brief discussion of the international migration, an age old common phenomenon is an emerging economic development issue and remittances growth. Approach: Each year Bangladesh exp...
by | On 31 Aug 2016 This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected Indian cities by employing 57 indicators
in four dimensions to develop an overall city sustainability index. In recent years, its comp...
by B.Sudhakara Reddy | On 29 Aug 2016 Migration as an engine of development has been accepted by economists across the world and a clear understanding of its details are very essential in order to reap the best benefits of it. The paper e...
by | On 29 Aug 2016 Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (referred to as “Ningxia”
below) is one of the most water stressed regions in China. In order to help governments and corporations gain a better understanding of water s...
by Lijin Zhong | On 29 Aug 2016 One of the wealthiest countries in the Middle East, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is also one of the largest exporters of oil, and as such, one of the most influential in the region. Despite this, more...
by | On 25 Aug 2016 Almost half of all households have at least one migrant abroad or a returnee. Estimates of the number of Nepali migrants abroad vary widely, but the most frequently cited estimate, including seasonal...
by World Bank [WB] | On 25 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 The concept of integration is quite a popular one, debated and discussed majorly in developed Nations. Integration is an imperative area of empirical apprehension and inquiry in refugee and immigrant...
by | On 23 Aug 2016 Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. S...
by | On 22 Aug 2016 In the era of globalisation, where opening of borders is being advocated all over the world, there is one issue over which no nation-state is ready to compromise with its territorial borders. The issu...
by | On 22 Aug 2016 ASEAN assumed different roles in responding to humanitarian crises in Cambodia (in the 1970s) and Myanmar (Cyclone Nargis in 2008). For the Cambodia situation, ASEAN was playing the role of ‘antagonis...
by | On 19 Aug 2016 The lead agency in India’s assistance strategy is the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The MEA is directly responsible for assistance to Bhutan, Nepal and Afghanistan, and advises the Department of...
by | On 19 Aug 2016 We study the evolution of trade liberalization’s effects on local labor markets, following
Brazil’s early 1990s trade liberalization. Regions that initially specialized in industries facing
larger t...
by Rafael Dix-Carneiro | On 16 Aug 2016 This research concentrates mainly on out-migration in an analysis of primary and secondary sources available with government agencies such as the Emigration Division, the Ministry of Labour (Union Gov...
by | On 12 Aug 2016 This paper examines the link between quality of governance, public expenditure and human development outcomes in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The role of governance is measured in five dimensions: Pol...
by N R Bhanumurthy | On 12 Aug 2016 Water resources have increasingly come under pressure of late due to competing
and ever increasing demands from different sectors. What is often said that
future wars will be fought for water, seems...
by P.K. Chatterjee | On 10 Aug 2016 This report considers migration in the context of environmental change over the next 50 years. The scope of this report is international: it examines global migration trends, but also internal migrati...
by | On 10 Aug 2016 Make in India is an international marketing strategy, conceptualized by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi on 25 September 2014 to attract investments from businesses around the world and make...
by | On 10 Aug 2016 The working paper attempts to describe the correlation between migration and child labour by reviewing secondary data of migrant children with or without their families, and children left-behind by th...
by | On 04 Aug 2016 The time is opportune to ensure the causes and consequences of this urgent issue are better addressed. Policy makers are pushing for concerted progress across humanitarian and sustainable development...
by | On 01 Aug 2016 Migration from one place to other place is common in India. Migration generally take place from developing state to developed state for education or in the search of employment but it also take place...
by | On 01 Aug 2016 Remittances to Asia plunged during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, but the drop was temporary as the flows were increasing once again after just 1 year. The current crisis, however, is fundamentally...
by | On 29 Jul 2016 This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by enhancing political and judiciary accountability. It does so in the context of Brazil’s anti-corr...
by Eric Avis | On 29 Jul 2016 In this paper, the author simulates the Dependency Ratio (DR) under various conditions and makes comparisons with the US. Japan has experienced a large increase in its DR because its fertility rate is...
by Claudia Goldin | On 28 Jul 2016 The impact of South-South migration on the income of migrants and natives is smaller than for South-North migration. However, even small increases in income can have substantial welfare implications f...
by | On 27 Jul 2016 Labor migration presents both challenges and opportunities in today’s global world. As the scale, scope, and complexity of the phenomenon have grown, states and other stakeholders have become aware of...
by Sridhar K. Khatri | On 27 Jul 2016 This paper reports existing and fresh evidence on some of the direct and indirect linkages between trust and subjective well-being. This paper first uses data from three large international surveys –...
by John Helliwell | On 26 Jul 2016 Drawing on data from the 2006 China General Social Survey, propensity score matching was used to investigate the impact of rural-to-urban migration on family and gender values in China at distinct sta...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 The identification of gendered ramifications of migratory processes has meant greater attention has been paid by policymakers and scholars alike than has been done previously. There are a number of re...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 Female migrants face different challenges and opportunities than men as they integrate into their host communities and become development agents for both their countries of destination and origin. And...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 This is the second in IOM´s series of global reports on missing migrants. The first report was published in 2014 – Fatal Journeys: Tracking Lives Lost during Migration. This second report has two main...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 Migration research commonly assumes that youth migrate as dependent family members or are motivated by current labor opportunities and immediate financial returns. These perspectives ignore how migrat...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 This briefing presents an overview of how international migration can have an impact on the sustainable development goal for health and wellbeing. It describes the health needs and health service deli...
by Claire Melamed | On 25 Jul 2016 The rapid growth and high levels of internationalization by Chinese firms, raise a natural interest in the study of the factors which have led the notable international presence of Chinese firms. In t...
by Zhao Chen | On 19 Jul 2016 The paper examines vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and ea...
by Ira N. Gang | On 19 Jul 2016 This brief presents an overview and analysis of the opportunities, risks and vulnerabilities for women migrants and refugees. It describes the realities of women migrating around the world, and specif...
by | On 19 Jul 2016 This paper discusses India’s demographic dynamics and argues that policymakers have the widest window of opportunity with that segment of population which is poised to enter the workforce between 2030...
by Ali Mehdi | On 14 Jul 2016 The South China Sea disputes involve the interests of the United States, particularly with regard to freedom of navigation, international norms and law, relations with important partners and allies, a...
by | On 13 Jul 2016 This paper makes use of the most recent social pension reform in rural China to examine whether receipt of the pension payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression di...
by Xi Chen | On 11 Jul 2016 This paper engages the concept of reproductive mobilities to explore the nexus between the migration of female domestic workers and the adoption of their birth children by infertile couples who remain...
by | On 08 Jul 2016 This new era has created challenges and opportunities for societies throughout the world. It also has served to underscore the clear linkage between migration and development, as well as the opportuni...
by United Nations (UN) | On 07 Jul 2016 This paper broadly deals with the concerns of the multinationals in the area of taxation environment. Section two of this paper deals with the genesis of the recent crisis in this area and issues invo...
by R Singh | On 07 Jul 2016 The synthesis report prepared by Professors Lowell and Findlay addresses the issues of the impact of high skilled emigration on developing countries, and the policy mixes and options available to both...
by | On 06 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 This paper attempts to study the cyclical behaviour of social sector spending including that on education and health for the 17 non-special category states covering the period 2000-01 to 2012-13. It f...
by | On 30 Jun 2016 This report builds and expands upon the analyses of Report Card No. 6 which considered relative income poverty affecting children and policies to mitigate it. This report provides a pioneering, compre...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 30 Jun 2016 This paper is an attempt to look at the industry level factors that determine the inward and outward FDI in an industry. The findings of the paper suggest that capital intensity of the industry has a...
by Chitra Singla | 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 This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development b...
by James J. Heckman | On 28 Jun 2016 This paper models an opposition group’s choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predict...
by Michael Jetter | 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 This paper studies how the directors play an important role in influencing board’s action and its effectiveness. This paper attempts to contribute to the existing literature. In this paper, propositio...
by Chitra Singla | On 27 Jun 2016 A persistent multi-year drought in Central and Southwest Asia has affected close to 60 million people as of November 2001. Chronic political instability in many parts of this region and the recent mil...
by | On 24 Jun 2016 The water crisis already looming large will therefore quite probably trigger significant shortfalls in cereal production and, as a result, a massive global food crisis. But before that the dearth of p...
by | On 24 Jun 2016 This study has explored the implementation of talent management process in pharmaceutical industry in India through a case study approach. Data was collected from top management and senior managers in...
by Kirti Sharda | On 24 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 Labor migration from and within Asia is a key and growing component of international migration flows, and the joint roundtable by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), the International Labour...
by OECD Development Centre’s Social Cohesion Uni Social Cohesion Unit | 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 The comprehensive research found significant impediments preventing victims of trafficking from using the courts: from the lack of specialised legal assistance, to the absence of protection for those...
by The Thomson Reuters Foundation | On 17 Jun 2016 This paper assesses the proclivity towards refugee-related violence in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, using an original dataset. I show that the host’s attitude towards refugees depend on local fact...
by | On 17 Jun 2016 This paper describes the results of a survey of informal-sector firms in Pakistan. Firms belong to the
informal sector mainly because of scarce financial resources. There are significant differences...
by M. Ali Choudhary | On 16 Jun 2016 The paper analyses income mobility across different social groups in India using data from the
Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) collected in 2004–05 and 2011–12. Indices
signifying different n...
by Thiagu Ranganathan | On 16 Jun 2016 According to the World Bank’s Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016, more than 250 million people, or 3.4 percent of the world population, live outside their countries of birth (Figure 1). The volum...
by | On 14 Jun 2016 There is wide concern that migration flows may undermine the financial viability of generous welfare arrangements. The discussion focuses on welfare arrangements as attractors of migrants, suggesting...
by | On 14 Jun 2016 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Haseeb A. Drabu, presented the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir
for financial year 2016-17 on May 30, 2016.
by Hasseeb A. Drabu | 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 Throughout the conference it became clear that there are two emerging trends in humanitarian action across the Asia–Pacific. The first is the increasing activity of selected Asia-Pacific states engage...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 According to a report from the Mckinsey Global Institute, India is set to witness a leap in urban population by almost 25 crore over the next 20 years. That translates to roughly 35,000 more people in...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 It is observed that even in a stagnant region with limited opportunities
income mobility is occurring,to a limited extent though.Agrarian contract forces households to look for better avenues. With i...
by Arup Mitra | 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 Global commodity prices surge of 2007-08 sent an inflationary shock across the countries. 2014 global prices descend
resulted in significant disinflation in many countries and...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 06 Jun 2016 Umi Daniel is currently working as Head Migration Thematic unit at Aide et Action South Asia. His areas of interests are tribal empowerment, people’s right to food, micro level planning, rights and en...
by Umi Daniel | On 03 Jun 2016 The international humanitarian system—the vast UN-led network in which Oxfam and other international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, and others play key rol...
by Oxfam India | On 02 Jun 2016 The Global Slavery Index (‘the Index’) provides an estimate of the number of people in modern slavery, the factors that make individuals vulnerable to this crime, and an assessment of government actio...
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 Climate variability and climate change pose an enormous pressure on population, infrastructure, livelihood, and socio-economic conditions. Evidences of climate change are already visible on many secto...
by Vimal Mishra | On 30 May 2016 This paper describes the status, challenges and scope for strengthening surveillance of chronic disease risk factors, morbidities and mortality in India. Surveillance experience of four selected Stat...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 30 May 2016 The aim of the IT policy is:
1.To position Uttar Pradesh as the preferred IT/ITES investment destination in India
2. To leverage IT as an engine of growth for UP
3.To transform physical communit...
by Uttar Pradesh Government UP | On 27 May 2016 This report examines the international community’s assistance to Afghanistan, with particular focus on U.S. efforts. It
assesses the impact of the U.S.-devised counter-insurgency strategy on Afghans’...
by International Crisis Group | On 26 May 2016 This report assesses the status of women in present-day Afghanistan, including the gains achieved with international support after the U.S.-led intervention in 2001. It examines gaps and challenges to...
by International Crisis Group | On 26 May 2016 Political repression is reaching new highs in Bangladesh. The government’s abuse of rule of law institutions for political ends has created an atmosphere of injustice that is increasingly exploited by...
by International Crisis Group | On 26 May 2016 Emerging powers are re-shaping the norms and practices of international development. As the Indian economy continues to grow and the country bids for a seat at the great power table, the ambitions of...
by Tanoubi Ngangom | 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 This report explores the role of forests in a green economy transformation in Africa. Its aim is to present policymakers with a strong rationale for linking forests and REDD+ planning with green econo...
by | On 25 May 2016 This Act shall apply to Domestic arbitration and international commercial arbitration and negotiated settlements conducted within the Kingdom of Bhutan; Recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards...
by National Assembly of Bhutan | On 25 May 2016 Governments in South Asia are progressively acknowledging that child stunting is both a marker and a maker of poor development. UNICEF regional and country offices in South Asia work with regional
bo...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | 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 In an era of unprecedented human mobility, migration from and within the Asia-Pacific region has assumed gendered dimensions, with implications for migration flows, trends and patterns. Gender roles,...
by | On 19 May 2016 Climate refugees are basically poor, helpless people forced to migrate from their homes because of climatic changes. Even as migration stands to be the most time-tested coping mechanism of the people,...
by | On 19 May 2016 This document is a message by the Secretary General of United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, on the International Day on Biological Diversity.
by Ban Moon | On 18 May 2016 The NBAP draws from the principle that National Enviroment Policy (NEP) that human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development and they are entitled to a healthy and productive li...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 18 May 2016 This publication highlights the link between rainwater harvesting, ecosystems and human wellbeing and draws the attention of readers to both the negative and positive aspects of using this technology...
by | On 18 May 2016 "Modern energy access” is finally on the international agenda, but the current common definition of 100 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per capita per year is far too low.
To reflect likely demand and historica...
by Todd Moss | On 18 May 2016 An Act to provide for conservation of biological diversity, sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the use of biological resources, knowledge a...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | 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 Ten countries from the Pacific have gathered in Nadi, Fiji, for a regional consultation on the region’s biodiversity for food and agriculture. The consultation, on the State of Biodiversity for Food a...
by Nadi Fiji | On 17 May 2016 The challenges faced by biodiversity and the relation between biodiversity and economics are shown.
by Prakash Nelliyat | 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 As a background paper to the International Expert Working Group on a New Development Paradigm, this document seeks to synthesise for busy readers how the IEWG might explain and defend well-being and h...
by | On 11 May 2016 The mortality due to air pollution is shown in the presentation. The different types and sources of air pollution are explained. The condition of the respiratory system after breathing polluted air is...
by T K Joshi | On 11 May 2016 The air pollution in Delhi is shown and how the air quality index is calculated and the health impacts are shown here.
by J.K. Bassin | On 11 May 2016 Mumbai has the potential to become one of the world’s ideal cities in terms of sustainable water management. With abundant natural and perennial water sources around it, the megacity is currently one...
by Dhaval D Desai | On 10 May 2016 In the past two decades through a process called “Enumeration” through which the members collect at city level data about slums, Slum Dwellers International have created a mechanism which serves to cr...
by Sheela Patel | On 06 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 Given the fact that education of young adults plays crucial role from both economic and social point of view, the objective of the study is to analyse the pattern of improvements in their education an...
by Runu Bhakta | On 02 May 2016 With 53 percent of India's labour force still engaged in agriculture it is apparent that India has not witnessed a reduction in the share of population working in agriculture, primarily due to a dear...
by | On 02 May 2016 Since the mid-1990s, migration of workforces from rural to urban areas has accelerated in south India accompanied by remarkable urban-based economic development. To investigate the nature of such rura...
by Keiko Sato | On 29 Apr 2016 A comparative study of representative slums across three largest metro cities in India through primary surveys. It is found that certain characteristics, such as large average household size, poor hou...
by Sugata Bag | On 28 Apr 2016 The Census of India is a very large administrative exercise, possibly the largest such operation in the entire world. In addition to bringing out the population figures, it is the most credible source...
by Census India | On 27 Apr 2016 The Indian Patents Act, 1970 provides patent protection in India. The same is in accordance with the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement. The recent conferment of “product patent” along with the “proces...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 27 Apr 2016 Population ageing has profound social, economic and political implications
for a country. The increasing number of older persons put a strain on health care
and social care systems in the country. O...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 25 Apr 2016 The report ‘God’s Own Country, Moving Towards Universal Health Coverage in Kerala, Piloting in the Districts of Malappuram and Palakkad’, 2016 provides details and in-depth understanding of the Univer...
by Sunil Nandraj | On 21 Apr 2016 This paper, which focuses on the issues particular to those leaving India in the search of work, is authored by Dr. Bernard D’Sami, who heads the National Forum of Migrant Workers’ Rights, and also th...
by | On 15 Apr 2016 Worldwide it is recognized that copyright piracy is a serious crime which not only adversely affects the creative potential of the society by denying the creators their legitimate dues, it also causes...
by Ministry of Human Resource Development, GOI | On 12 Apr 2016 As the international community transitions from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the challenges ahead of Member States is to build on the
substanti...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 12 Apr 2016 Empirical findings across a swathe of countries, advanced and emerging, confirm that the composition of government expenditure can have perceptible growth implications.
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 12 Apr 2016 Using the NSSO Employment and Unemployment Survey Rounds as the basis, this paper
examines questions of unemployment, employment and human capital formation among Indian
youth belonging to various s...
by Rajendra P. Mamgain | On 05 Apr 2016 The study compiled information from academic papers, government and non-government reports on the subject of domestic migration, with a specific emphasis on their political inclusion. In order to cond...
by | On 05 Apr 2016 The Global report on urban health: equitable, healthier cities for sustainable development, 2016 presents new data on the health of urban residents from nearly 100 countries, updating the first joint...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 04 Apr 2016 Telangana emerged as the 29th state of the Indian Union from undivided Andhra Pradesh
after a prolonged struggle for statehood for nearly six decades. The social structure in Telangana is uniquely sk...
by Center for Economic and Social Studies CESS | On 31 Mar 2016 Kerala Migration Survey (KMS) 2014 is the sixth in the series of
studies on international and internal migration from Kerala undertaken
by the Centre for Development Studies as an ongoing project si...
by K.C. Zachariah | On 28 Mar 2016 This Working Paper gives the results of the 2007 round of the Migration Monitoring Studies (MMS) being conducted periodically by the Centre for Development Studies. It covers three areas: migration, r...
by | On 21 Mar 2016 The paper focuses on the constructive role that China can play in enhancing security in South Asia. The potential contribution that China can make to enhancing non-traditional security in the region i...
by Ramandeep Kaur | On 21 Mar 2016 This working paper outlines a set of indicators at the outcome and impact level for the agriculture and rural development sector. It does not focus on implementation (e.g. output level indicators such...
by European union | On 20 Mar 2016 This review and compendium of our country’s environmental laws, policies, and regulations aims to enhance the accessibility to information by judges, lawyers, government officials, and stakeholders in...
by Antonia Gawel | On 18 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 This paper theoretically examines the impact of R & D outsourcing from an economy which is in the innovation-only regime to an economy which is in the imitation-innovation regime. It shows that depend...
by Sujata Basu | On 15 Mar 2016 This paper empirically examines human capital’s contribution to economy-wide technological progress and also on technical efficiency gain depending on its distance to frontier in a panel of 75 countri...
by Sujata Basu | On 15 Mar 2016 The focus of this study is to analyze the relation between intergenerational mobility (upward and downward mobility) and wage inequality (between skilled and unskilled workers) in a dynamic endogenous...
by Sujata Basu | 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 This report aims to support the national carbon emission reduction plan in railway station buildings; to learn and make use of the advanced technologies in international building management; and to en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Poverty alleviation is the cornerstone and mission of the development community. Yet perhaps the community’s focus on low-income countries (LICs) has skewed a healthy and accurate evaluation of the ef...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 In June, North Korean authorities announced agricultural reforms called the “6.28 policy,” which promises to recalculate the ratio of distributed planned products (70 percent to the country, 30 percen...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 The DOST, chiefly through Sectoral Councils and R&D performers, has been successfully undertaking or supporting a considerable share of R&D activities in the country, while noting limited resources av...
by Jose Ramon G. Albert | On 14 Mar 2016 The goal in this article is to articulate the methodology used in this book to bring out the several dimensions on which it differs from current approaches to social science. Among the key differences...
by Asad Zaman | On 14 Mar 2016 With last week’s WTO ruling against India on a complaint by the US in early 2013 that India’s Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) for some solar power projects violating WTO prohibitions, it is incumbe...
by D Raghunandan | On 14 Mar 2016 Arsenic contamination in water supplies continues to increase in many countries, especially in developing nations, thereby creating both environmental and health hazard. Its sources and effects are mu...
by Zareena Begum Irfan | On 13 Mar 2016 Minerals, such as rare earth metals, are increasingly becoming an important commodity in a resource-constrained world economy. As a result new frontiers both onshore and offshore, to the depths of the...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 For more than a decade fears have been voiced by the international community at the prospect of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists or other non-state actors. The author ar...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 While having witnessed three so-called epidemics in its postwar history, the prevalence of drug abuse in Japan is in fact remarkably low compared to most other countries and constitutes a relatively u...
by | On 12 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 Recreation is an important ecosystem service in coastal and marine ecosystems. The methodology for valuing recreational services is well developed in the literature. To the best of our knowledge, this...
by Pranab Mukhopadhyay | On 10 Mar 2016 The EU has played an instrumental role in negotiating the interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. OzanSerdaroglu argues that while the prospective lifting of sanctions under a final deal brings w...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 North Korea’s recent nuclear test and satellite launch throw into sharp relief the dilemma of how the international community should respond to Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions. While immediate reaction...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper develops a three-sector theoretical growth model to capture the role of consumers’ acceptance towards the second generation of genetically modified (GM) crops in the long run growth process...
by Arpita Ghose | On 10 Mar 2016 Given the importance of health in overall living standard of people, the present study has attempted to probe into the role of migration in affecting health status and outcomes of population. The heal...
by Shujaat Farooq | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper empirically tests the role of search frictions in driving qualification mismatches in the labor market. Using new data from several low-income economies in urban Asia we find that overeduca...
by Kenn Chua | On 10 Mar 2016 In this paper, the ongoing G20 process of improving the regulation of international finance is put into a historically informed perspective. To understand the driving forces behind and obstacles to in...
by | On 09 Mar 2016 How does the transfer of advanced technology spur innovation in developing countries? This paper exploits the large-scale introduction of high-speed railway (HSR) technology into China in 2004 as a na...
by Yatang Lin | On 09 Mar 2016 The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income sha...
by Richard V. Burkhauser | On 09 Mar 2016 The allocation of scarce budgetary resources away from ‘alternative’ channels of social security underscores interlocking concerns: a) the financial drain that marriages of girls pose to families and...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 09 Mar 2016 The debate on common property resource centres on issues of a particular strategy for managing it in order to cater to the growing demand for communities that depend on it and the economy at large tha...
by Jharna Pathak | On 09 Mar 2016 Financial inclusion has rapidly ascended global development policy agendas. Between 2 billion and 2.5 billion adults worldwide do not use formal financial services, which a multifaceted coalition of a...
by Philip Mader | On 08 Mar 2016 Against the backdrop of the changing global demographic trends, this edition highlights issues which mitigate migration as a viable strategy to cope with threats to human welfare and dignity. It does...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 Current studies on pandemics explore the links between population mobility and health. These studies usually focus on regular population movement such as those of tourists and legal immigrants. Howeve...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 Based on the recent Group of Eight (G8) Summit held in Italy, this issue of the Alert will examine international deliberations on food security with a focus on the efforts and challenges facing the G8...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 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 With less than 11 weeks to the UNFCCC meeting in Copenhagen, the United Nations Climate Summit was held on 22 September 2009, in a bid to rally international support and action against climate change....
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 The recent cyber attacks on South Korea and the United States, as well as those on Georgia in 2008 and Estonia in 2007 have awakened a certain consciousness in the minds of the international community...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 In the final quarter of 2009, Southeast Asia witnessed a number of disaster that affected sevevral countries in the region, attesting to the levels of national preparedness in dealing with disasters....
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 The upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup scheduled to take place in South Africa between 11 June and 11 July 2010 has once again raised concerns over the possibility of human trafficking. A study by the Human...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 This Alert is the second in a series investigating the situation of women’s and children’s protection concerns in ASEAN. It aims to examine the domestic efforts that Indonesia and the Philippines have...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 Transnational organised crime is considered one of the major threats to human security, impeding the social, economic, political and cultural development of societies. Much attention has been given...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 Human trafficking and illicit drug trafficking are arguably the most intractable of all transnational crimes. They are an issue of both domestic and foreign policy concern and a subject of longstandin...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 On 26 July 2010, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) delivered its first verdict against a former official of the Khmer Rouge regime, KaingGuekEav (also known as ‘Duch’). The E...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 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 Although weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) are considered to pose the gravest threat to international peace and security, in practice, small arms and light weapons (SALWs) kill more people than WMDs....
by Pau Hangzo | On 04 Mar 2016 In the first issue of this month’s NTS Alert, the importance of a robust human rights framework to complement international humanitarian law, and address its shortcomings in protecting civilians caugh...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 As with previous annual meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), outcomes of the recently concluded 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) have implications for...
by J. Ewing | On 03 Mar 2016 Human trafficking is commonly seen as a heinous crime affecting millions of migrants from all parts of the globe. The struggle against this phenomenon is perceived as noble, moral and necessary. Howev...
by | On 03 Mar 2016 The Jakarta Post recently reported experts as saying that ‘[e]xtreme weather caused by climate change has given people another reason to migrate’. The comment was made in reference to a soon-to-be rel...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 This is the first of a two-part NTS Alert series that will explore the intersection between food security and health issues in the Asia-Pacific. This NTS Alert focuses on health problems stemming from...
by J. Ewing | On 03 Mar 2016 Harmful non-indigenous species (NIS) impose great economic and environmental impacts globally, but little is known about
their impacts in Southeast Asia. Lack of knowledge of the magnitude of the pro...
by Le T. P Nghiem | On 03 Mar 2016 This NTS Alert discusses the protection gaps in national anti-human trafficking policies perpetuated by the dominant influence of the US Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Reports. Using Malaysia as a case...
by Manpavan Kaur | On 02 Mar 2016 Amidst heightened expectations regarding ASEAN’s contribution to international order, particularly in the context of a trend towards multilevel security governance, ASEAN is attempting to transform it...
by Holly Haywood | On 02 Mar 2016 This paper examines the possibilities of using economic instruments, especially pollution taxes and bargaining approaches resulting in people’s participation for environmental management in India. It...
by M.N. Murty | On 02 Mar 2016 For a long time, sending countries have been the focus of efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). However, in recent years, destination countries such as Singapore have also stepped up their e...
by Pau Hangzo | On 01 Mar 2016 Rio+20, set for June 2012, offers an opportunity to review the current state of global environmental summitry. What can be expected of this latest round of global dialogue on sustainable development?...
by J. Ewing | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper examines the fiscal instruments available to different levels of government and their interactions to enhance the effectiveness of public policies for the poorest and hungry groups. Address...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper joins the growing scholarship on the ontological security needs of states in international relations (IR) literature and explores its relevance to India-China relations. Ontological securit...
by | 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 Climate-induced migration is not a new phenomenon but is slowly becoming the new found focus as researchers have begun taking up a range of studies. A lot of literature has already been out there as a...
by Sarabjit Kaur | On 01 Mar 2016 How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new light on these questions, I collect archival data from colonial India and use it to...
by Dave Donaldson | On 29 Feb 2016 This living document is a result of an extensive process led by the Social Movements for an Alternative Asia (SMAA), GerakLawan, La ViaCampesina and the supporters of the EndWTO Campaign.
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 29 Feb 2016 In Southeast Asia, the rise in agricultural investments takes place against the backdrop of a fast-evolving regional context. In this ‘Asian Century’, trade and investment flows are flourishing across...
by Shalmali Guttal | On 29 Feb 2016 Empirical evidence suggests that the emergence of international production networks in East Asia results from market-driven forces such as vertical specialization and higher production costs in the ho...
by Kornkarun Cheewatrakoolpong | On 29 Feb 2016 This study provides a conceptual framework to explain what kinds of difficulties a late-follower will suffer from when it tries to join pre-existing International Production Networks (IPNs). We consid...
by Jeongmeen Suh | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on the pricing behavior of Japanese and United States firms selling their identical products in New York City, Chicago, Osaka, and Tokyo. The authors utilize some simple models of i...
by K.C. Fung | On 29 Feb 2016 The paper highlights a number of issues that countries need to explore in assessing the feasibility of a CCT program: a country needs to assess the current level of specific human capital outcomes and...
by Hyun H. Son | On 29 Feb 2016 The Report assesses the development impacts of migrants in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region and provides guidance on the steps countries, regional organizations, civil society actors and other...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 29 Feb 2016 Humans have ridden bicycles for over 200 years, yet there are no continuous measures of how skill differs between novice and expert. To address this knowledge gap, the dynamics of human bicycle riding...
by | On 29 Feb 2016 In this paper, a review of the literature on the global efficiency consequences of migration and assess a new strand of that literature. This is the new economic case for migration restrictions, which...
by Michael Clemens | On 27 Feb 2016 Is the new Green Climate Fund (GCF) set to be yet another unwieldy addition to the climate finance web? While the form of the GCF, and its functions, has yet to be fully determined, it has been framed...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 27 Feb 2016 Reactions to December’s UN climate change talks in Doha have been defined largely by frustration with the pace, scope and ambition of the process. Exasperated and often derisive voices lament the va...
by Gianna Gayle Amul | On 27 Feb 2016 A recent cover of the Economist magazine asked: ‘Has the Arab Spring failed?’ More questions along this line will certainly come as the international community follows closely the political developm...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 27 Feb 2016 The latter part of the 21st century witnessed a shift in the understanding of international security. As tensions between countries eased with the end of the Cold War, new and significant security c...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 This year is the 20th anniversary of the release of the 1994 United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Report, which defined the concept of human security and brought it to int...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 This year is the 20th anniversary of the release of the 1994 United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Report, which defined the concept of human security and brought it to int...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 This year is the 20th anniversary of the release of the 1994 United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Report, which defined the concept of human security and brought it to int...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Security used to be defined in military terms with the state as the referent of security. From this state-centric lens, political security means the stability of the state’s political regime and socia...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Today, millions of people experience insecurity as a result of new and complex issues threatening human welfare and dignity, such as climate change and the contested or inefficient use of energy and w...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 2015 is a critical year for global and regional institutions, and for the international community as a whole, as it represents a milestone in the big push for achieving global goals of peace, human se...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 2015 marks the end of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) 10-year Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), an international disaster risk reduction plan that aimed to en...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995. While the world takes stock of how far we have come in terms of acknowledging women’s righ...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Labour migration is a growing trend in the ASEAN region as workers seek better-paid jobs and employers endeavor to meet employment gaps. Migrant labour forms an increasing source of construction, serv...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 From the ‘migrant crisis’ to transboundary haze pollution and the Avian Influenza virus, Asian countries continue to face multiple new security threats which require international cooperation. These n...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Year 2015 ended with scenes of congratulatory jubilation in Paris. The world had for once come together to deliver what is now referred to as the Paris Agreement at the end of the 21st United Nations...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Continuous rise in food prices has been posing a serious policy challenge in India. Milk is a major contributor to the food price rise due to its high growth in demand in the domestic and internationa...
by S. Rajeshwaran | On 27 Feb 2016 This paper introduces a model of gender inequality and economic growth that focuses on the determination of women’s time allocation among market production, home production, child rearing, and child e...
by Jinyoung Kim | On 27 Feb 2016 The forces of globalization, in tandem with realities of domestic natural resources, economics and politics, and the influence of international institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO),...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 A series of recent humanitarian crises in Southeast Asia have signalled a new impetus to re- think the nature of security cooperation in the region. The outbreak of pandemics, the devastating impact o...
by Melly Caballero-Anthony | On 26 Feb 2016 Against the recent conflicts and crises facing the region, the spotlight is once again directed at ASEAN’s plans for an ASEAN Security Community (ASC). What is significant in this slew of crises that...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 26 Feb 2016 The stateless Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar have been discriminated and excluded by consecutive governments since the 1960s, causing an exodus to Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia and other count...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 Southeast Asian officials and analysts have complained about the waning US interest in the region due to the US preference for a bilateral approach to Southeast Asia. This US approach is out of sync w...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 26 Feb 2016 Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, which made headline news across the globe, triggered denunciations of the military regime in delaying the international humanitarian relief efforts. The cyclone-struck count...
by | 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 Differences in political ideology might lead to different views about the role of the state in the provision of public services across countries, or even in the same country over time.2 At the same ti...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 The Human Development Index (HDI) is calculated using normalized indicators from three dimensions- health, education, and standard of living (or income). This paper evaluates three aggregation methods...
by Srijit Mishra | On 26 Feb 2016 Given that public investment requirements far exceed available resources in most developing countries, there is a need to both channel public resources wisely and also best leverage the opportunities...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subject...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 This study marks the culmination of a long process, first initiated in 2000 when the Ministry of Tourism Commissioned National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) to undertake a feasibility s...
by Dr. Rajesh Shukla | On 25 Feb 2016 The International Criminal Court’s unprecedented ruling to arrest the Sudanese president for crimes against humanity is a step further in advancing the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)....
by | On 25 Feb 2016 National security in Myanmar has always been equated with state security by the ruling military junta. However, the drive to protect the state has led to insecurities for its people. This paper argues...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 As the current global economic crisis deepens, labour migrants have begun to experience the consequences of both political and economic insecurity. How effective are legal frameworks in protecting the...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 Emerging security challenges in Asia are compelling the international community to take a hard look at their causes and implications on state and human security. Given the growing complexity of these...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 25 Feb 2016 The international community is now faced with an influenza pandemic and the rhetoric of global health security has become more urgent. Whilst our preparedness for such an emerging infectious disease i...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 Speech of Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu introducing the Railway
Budget for 2016-17.
by Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu | On 25 Feb 2016 This paper is an integration of the studies commissioned under the DFA-PIDS memorandum of agreement to explore the priority areas during the Philippines' APEC hosting in 2015 under the theme: "Buildin...
by Erlinda M. Medalla | On 25 Feb 2016 A framework is proposed for understanding the potential value-added of massive open online courses (MOOCs) along the lines of curation, credentialling, and cost. MOOCs are likely to appeal differently...
by Emmanuel S. de Dios | 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 There is a growing emphasis on the role of trade in health services (telehealth, health tourism and retirement, investments and deployment of medical professionals) in easing fiscal constraints, gener...
by Maria Cherry Rodolfo | On 25 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Mustafizur Rahman | On 24 Feb 2016 Despite some recovery in recent years, Central Asian Republics (CARs) remain in difficult economic situation and they present a serious challenge to Asia. It is in the mutual interest of both CARs and...
by Ramgopal Agarwala | On 24 Feb 2016 Who would have thought thirty years ago China could become one of the world’s most influential trading nations? At that time the Chinese government was reluctant to open up its door for foreigners and...
by Alice Wang | On 24 Feb 2016 The recent riots and attacks in China’s western province of Xinjiang have brought to the forefront the long simmering tensions between the Han Chinese and Uyghur communities. What have often been capt...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Uttam Kumar Deb | On 24 Feb 2016 Debates about climate change as a threat to international peace have focused on conflict, civil unrest, and the consequences for states. Human security offers an alternative, people-centred approach t...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 24 Feb 2016 At the recent United Nations general debate, US President Barack Obama outlined his vision for US foreign policy, making a clear break with the previous administration. The shift has significant impli...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 On 23 October 2009, ASEAN formally launched the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights at the 15th ASEAN Summit in Thailand. The ASEAN leaders also announced the ‘Cha-am Hua Hin Declaratio...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 The latest natural disaster in Chile, like the one in Haiti, comes as yet another test of Southeast Asia’s readiness in global humanitarian relief — five years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. How...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 South Asian organizations in countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are trying to professionalize management practices in recent years. Inspite of such efforts, employees indiscipli...
by Zafar Qureshi | On 24 Feb 2016 Five years have passed since the signing of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, when United Nations (UN) member states agreed to the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP). Contained in paragraph 138 of...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 24 Feb 2016 This paper offers a review of a broad set of issues that are recurrent in international discussions about interconnectedness of energy and security in China’s international relations. The primary purp...
by Zha Daojiong | On 24 Feb 2016 Efforts to understand the connection between climate change and national, regional and international security have fuelled something of a climate security industry, evidenced in a range of reports fro...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 24 Feb 2016 The emerging doctrine of Responsibility to Protect may have been endorsed by world leaders. But the primary challenge remains how to get it implemented. RtoP may mean different things to different sta...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 Southeast Asia as a region has a unique history, and the evolving relationships between its communities, states, regional organisations and the international community reflect this. Given this context...
by Alistair Cook | 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 This paper describes the methodology, data and key assumptions used for the power sector supply-side module of the India Low Carbon Growth study and presents preliminary results. The module is used to...
by World Bank | 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 If ASEAN intends to meaningfully enhance its energy security, take greater steps to protect itself from instabilities in the international energy market, and effectively underpin its continued develop...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 Much literature on East Asia’s energy security has focused on the dynamics of competition over resources and how potential conflicts could arise from this. While this analytical perspective identifies...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 23 Feb 2016 This policy brief provides the main findings of the Food Security Expert Group Meeting which was convened by the RSIS Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies in Singapore on 4-5 August 2010....
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The Pakistani government and the international community’s response to the recent floods has been heavily criticised for being woefully inadequate. While a national disaster management framework is in...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The trend of rising food prices has made this basic human need inaccessible to an increasing number of people. The impact on vulnerable groups, especially the poor, is immense. Food price rise has imp...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The recent monsoon-related floods have wreaked havoc in Pakistan. Decades of development outcomes have been wiped out and critical human security challenges have been precipitated. It is critical to b...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The next President of the Philippines faces many challenges to his incoming administration. A crucial one is ensuring the country’s energy security. Addressing this will strengthen the Philippine econ...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The prospective entry of generic dominated Indian pharmaceutical sector in the ambit of new technologies is likely to give filip to emergence of strong biopharmaceutical sector.It is pertinent in this...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 23 Feb 2016 Adequate supplies of natural resources have always been preconditions for economic growth. The requirements for energy and metallic mineral resources have been larger and more obvious with the modern...
by Dominic Meagher | On 23 Feb 2016 There is a burgeoning literature on the (re)emergence of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – as significant actors in international development. To date, however, mos...
by Adele Poskitt | On 23 Feb 2016 Gaddafi’s engagement of “mercenaries” to fight in his domestic civil war is problematic. The current hostilities between Libyan protesters and migrant Sub Saharan Africans manifest the weak internatio...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 Existing work on energy security tends to over-emphasise the prospect of competition and conflict over resources while under-exploring the promise of cooperation. This policy brief provides a framewor...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper seeks to explore and assess the implications of climate insecurities for the armed forces of the Asia-Pacific region, and in particular Southeast Asia. It identifies key issues and trends r...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 The Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), organised a study-group meeting to address the topic of ‘Climate Change, Migration an...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 22 Feb 2016 In this paper we attempt to explain the China Puzzle: coexistence of accelerating economic growth and worsening growth outlook. The root cause lies in China’s unique liberalization approach, i.e., the...
by Huang Yiping | 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 One oft-neglected strategy to improve food availability is the simple act of reducing waste. Inefficiencies across the entire food supply chain – from ‘farm to fork’ – result in significant food losse...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 This document is the culmination of a process that unfolded over two years in Bangladesh, which benefitted from contributions from individuals and organisations too numerous to mention by name here. H...
by Erin Roberts | On 21 Feb 2016 The rise of regional monetary arrangements poses a challenge for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s global surveillance efforts. This paper reviews how the IMF has responded to earlier regional i...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 21 Feb 2016 Financial safety nets in Asia have come a long way since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of 1997–98. Not wanting to rely solely on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) again, the Chiang Mai Initiati...
by Hal Hill | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper discusses Japan’s strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy challenges when promoting intraregional exchange rate stability. First, there must b...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 21 Feb 2016 Migration and displacement are among the range of pressures on people and their communities likely to arise from the economic, social and environmental consequences of climate change. Despite fragment...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 20 Feb 2016 It is over six years since the 2005 UN World Summit endorsed the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP), thus recognising an individual state’s responsibility to protect its citizens from four mass atrociti...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 In 2010, it was proposed that Singapore consider hosting an international rice futures market, with cited benefits being enhanced price discovery and price stabilisation. The RSIS Centre for Non-Tradi...
by Sally Trethewie | On 20 Feb 2016 As the crisis in Syria edges towards civil war, the international community is locked in a stalemate over whether and how to intervene to stop the carnage. There is an urgent need for a middle ground...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 The proposition that migration as a result of climate change has consequences for regional and global security has become prominent in public discourse over the last few years. Yet much of that debate...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 This report presents the proceedings of a Policy Roundtable on Asian Non-Traditional Security held in Beijing on 30-31 July 2012. Attended by academics and policymakers from across the region, the Rou...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 19 Feb 2016 The suffering of the Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine state is putting pressure on ASEAN to intervene. Coming just before their 21st Summit, the wisdom and stewardship of ASEAN leaders will be tested onc...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 This NTS Working Paper examines the prospects for the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) launched in July 2012. It looks at whether the APTERR can overcome the limitations of past rice r...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 In this lecture, Stefan Schurig (World Future Council) talks about the vision of regenerative cities as the greening of the urban environment and the protection of nature from urban expansion, and abo...
by Stefan Schurig | On 19 Feb 2016 We estimate intergenerational poverty persistence in Indonesia using a panel dataset. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such study looking at the issue in the Indonesian context. Differe...
by Yus Pakpahan | On 19 Feb 2016 Mohamed Halfani (UN-Habitat) outlines the notion of prosperity as it relates to the work of UN-Habitat. This introduction to the theme of urban prosperity highlights the disjuncture between current de...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 Informal builders provide the bulk of affordable housing and define large areas of our cities. Originally created for those long considered as poor and unable to house themselves, over time the result...
by Dr. Reinhard Goethert | On 19 Feb 2016 Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector emplo...
by Rupa Chanda | On 19 Feb 2016 This lecture proposes a fundamental shift in addressing the problems of slums, and suggests an approach that focuses on streets as the engine for urban transformation. The strategy brought forward by...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 The author calls for renewed focus on the idea of ‘soft borders’ between India and Pakistan, with particular reference to Jammu and Kashmir, in the light of a theory of ‘enlightened sovereignty’ that...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 Michael Cohen in this lecture illustrates data about economic growth that demonstrate how cities act as engines of national economic development. In 2008, for the first time in human history, half the...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 China’s first attempt to establish a multilateral financial institution was met with some suspicion and caution in the west. According to one interpretation, China is frustrated with the United States...
by Mike Callaghan | 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 Asia’s rapid change across socio-economic and political spheres, amid population growth and rising demand for food, feed and energy supplies, is unprecedented. To strike a balance between economic gro...
by Research Consultative Group on International Agricultural | On 18 Feb 2016 In Southeast Asia, rising population and technological advances mean that unfortunately human traffickers have a growing target base online and are making greater use of technology. Nevertheless, crea...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 This paper looks into the demographic dividend available to Pakistan and its implications for the country, mainly through three mechanisms: labour supply, savings, and human capital. For economic bene...
by Durr-e- Nayab | On 17 Feb 2016 This book is a review of 49 white papers which were selected through e-Swabhimani 2014, Best e-Content and Application award of Sri Lanka. White papers are normally used in two main spheres, governm...
by org eldis. | On 17 Feb 2016 To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We stu...
by Mikael Lindahl | On 17 Feb 2016 Poor air quality has been shown to harm the health and development of children. Research on these relationships has focused almost exclusively on the effects of human-made pollutants, and has not full...
by Dave Marcotte | On 17 Feb 2016 Low emissions development strategies (LEDS) are national economic and social development plans that promote sustainable development while reducing GHG emissions. While LEDS programs have helped to mai...
by Sonja Vermeulen | On 17 Feb 2016 Climate change demands new approaches to agriculture: farmers’ practices will need to change in order to adapt to and mitigate changing conditions. Gender is central to this change. Agriculture is a f...
by Sophia Huyer | On 17 Feb 2016 Despite clear aspirations by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to create an effective framework to facilitate movements among skilled professionals within the ASEAN Economic Community...
by Demetrios G. Papademetriou | On 16 Feb 2016 While the United Nations takes stock of how far women have come in getting women’s rights acknowledged as human rights, Indonesia wants to stop sending women out of the country as foreign domestic wor...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 Recent diplomatic engagements between North Korea and Russia have raised the prospect of resuming denuclearisation talks between Pyongyang and the international community. What is the prospect of Nort...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 Transboundary haze pollution is posing significant multiple risks to the well-being and security of people in ASEAN. Beyond looking at it as an environmental issue, it is a severe threat to human secu...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 The Paris Agreement on Climate Change hailed as the first truly universal and unanimous agreement on climate was celebrated as progress in humanity’s collective fight against climate change. But what...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on understanding the role of state and region governments in relation to Myanmar's public finances. This has been done to take stock of existing research, better understand the comp...
by The Asia Foundation | On 16 Feb 2016 (Public Sector Reforms) PSR must be based on the recognition that people are at the heart of public service. As a result, managing human resources must be at the centre of any effort. The people who...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper attempts to assess the position of Pakistan in the International Competitiveness. As a survey paper, the concept, definition and the measurement of competitiveness have been analysed furthe...
by Uzma Zia | On 16 Feb 2016 Water and Sanitation is the neglected sector in Pakistan. Most of the households in Pakistan do not have access to safe drinking water and lack toilets and adequate sanitation systems. These poor peop...
by Faheem Jehangir Khan | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper considers emerging commercial policy challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region in light of the impasse reached at the Eighth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meeting in December 2...
by Michael Plummer | On 16 Feb 2016 Driven by the increasingly important role of supply chains in global production, this paper studies empirical association between global credit-market shocks and firm behavior towards liquidity needs...
by Yothin Jinjarak | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper evaluates the prospects for the renminbi’s role as an international currency and the implications for global financial markets. Although the People’s Republic of China (PRC) does not have e...
by Eswar Prasad | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper develops a multilateral currency system where national currencies are used for trade settlement in East Asia, comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries,...
by ll Houng Lee | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper examines the road and railway links in Myanmar connecting northeast India on the one side with the rest of Southeast Asia on the other. It also discusses the importance of new deep-sea port...
by Hector Florento | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper makes the case for the need to “upgrade” current analytical tools used for trade policy analysis and complement them with more detailed firm-level data. Such an upgrade should be based on t...
by Lucian Cernat | On 16 Feb 2016 The Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project in Bangladesh became the first initiative to successfully incorporate beneficiary participation into all aspects of managi...
by Asian Bank | On 15 Feb 2016 The corporate governance mechanisms are market, institution and legal settings that protect outside investors from opportunistic behavior of managers or controlling shareholders. In the absence of suc...
by M. Bakhtear Uddin Talukdar | On 15 Feb 2016 Is household income enough for human development or should government direct resources towards the provision of social services to improve capabilities of individuals? The former is emphasised by the...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 14 Feb 2016 The following is a Campaign 2012 policy brief by Bruce Riedel and Michael O’Hanlon proposing ideas for the next president on America’s foreign policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan. Vanda Felbab-Brow...
by Bruce Riedel | On 14 Feb 2016 For Campaign 2012, Bruce Riedel and Michael O’Hanlon wrote a policy brief proposing ideas for the next president on America’s foreign policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan. The following paper is a r...
by Elizabeth Ferris | On 14 Feb 2016 The water crisis, exacerbated by corruption, is exacting a high human toll on the lives of the poor and vulnerable. Corruption makes water undrinkable, inaccessible and unaffordable. In developing cou...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 Current conceptions and models of fragile statehood in conflict-affected contexts can serve the purposes of international donor governments over and above reconstruction and statebuilding. First, desp...
by Sultan Barakat | On 14 Feb 2016 The hostility between India and Pakistan lies at the heart of the current war in Afghanistan. Most observers in the West view the Afghanistan conflict as a battle between the U.S. and the NATO-led Int...
by William Dalrymple | On 14 Feb 2016 Summer 2013 brought one of the most violent fighting seasons in Afghanistan since the US military and state-building effort began in 2001. On the cusp of the momentous 2014 presidential elections and...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 The continued withdrawal of ISAF forces and the handover of responsibilities to Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) along with a strong Taliban military push dominated the security realm. The ANSF...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 Afghanistan is the largest refugee repatriation operation in the world. More than 5.7 million people have returned in the last ten years, representing nearly a quarter of the current population of 28...
by Aidan O'Leary | On 14 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 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 The theories of institutional evolution put forth by Douglas North, Darron Acemoglu and Dani Rodrik and the historical experiences of different countries in the context of development (or non-developm...
by M. Idrees Khawaja | On 14 Feb 2016 This study estimates a small simultaneous equation model using panel data from sixty-four countries for the years 1996 and 2004. The model is estimated by various techniques—OLS, TSLS, dummy variable...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 14 Feb 2016 India has the second largest population of elderly people after China. The living arrangement of the elderly is seen as a parameter of great importance in understanding their plight in developing coun...
by Mitali Sen | 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 This paper examines the impact of husbands’ migration on the lives of women left behind. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2005, we focus on two dimensions of women’s lives: women’s a...
by Sonalde Desai | On 14 Feb 2016 The paper attempts to analyze the role of public policy adjustments in facilitating the medical tourism sector in Asian countries in response to recent global economic events. While falling incomes ma...
by Vinay Singh | On 13 Feb 2016 The now-frequent use of decision-making questions in household surveys has greatly enhanced our understanding of intra-household power relations. While much of the research interest in these questions...
by Mitali Sen | On 13 Feb 2016 There is great regional variation on utilization of maternal health care services across India. While regional differences have long been established, why women in some states are more likely to utili...
by Sonalde Desai | On 12 Feb 2016 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) build on previous international development promises and represent an unprecedented, comprehensive framework for combating poverty, reaching universal education...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Financing efforts by countries to adapt to climate change will require enormous amounts of resources and investments, both from the public and private sectors. How climate financing is generated, gove...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 This Report focuses on the productive abilities of the regions, households and
individuals. The report also reinforces the fact that there are inequalities between and within regions, as well as soci...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 12 Feb 2016 Human trafficking is thought to affect more than 12 million victims around the world. Corruption is seen as facilitating this flow of people and feeding the impunity that prevents the prosecution of t...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Globalization has made the free flow of goods and ideas an integral part of modern life. The world has benefited greatly from the accelerated exchange of products, services, news, music, research and...
by | 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 In recent years, innovation has topped the agenda of policymakers worldwide as they seek to promote green growth and advance sustainable development. As a result, several countries - including Austral...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 This article unravels the migrants’ incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows. Mismatch is the situation in which workers have jobs for which lower skill levels a...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Composed of 192 member states, the United Nations (UN) is the largest and most comprehensive international organization as well as the most important international platform for multilateral diplomacy....
by | On 09 Feb 2016 Southeast Asia's international perspective has been changing sharply in the twenty-first century. A multipolar structure has emerged, in which China, the U.S. and Japan work together with ASEAN to mai...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 An emerging sea power is usually considered as a critical variable to international power politics. China’s growing sea power in the 21st century is such an example. It has become increasingly importa...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 This paper highlights the perception of each and everyone involved in the course of cross-border migration from Myanmar in each step they, internationally or unintentionally, maintain the status of il...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 For Chinese researchers of international relations, to see a security challenge through the lens of conflict prevention and management represents a relatively fresh exploration that has begun to recei...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 In India an official definition of the term urban by Census is: over 5000 population; a population density of over 400 persons per sq km; over 75% of male workforce in non-primary activities. This art...
by Organising Team (MFC) | On 09 Feb 2016 This article offers observations to Gopal Guru’s article which highlights the endemic caste discrimination in places of higher learning in India in the wake of the Rohith Vemula suicide in Hyderabad....
by Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies | On 09 Feb 2016 Can we create awareness among the urban poor and create documents for them? What are the steps to be followed for that?
by K.R. Antony | On 09 Feb 2016 In spite of his continuous victimization, Rohith Vemula did live a life of the mind that militated against the caste of the mind.
by Gopal Guru | On 09 Feb 2016 China’s rising military power and its implications is of significant concern that has been widely discussed in the international community and among political elites across the globe. This paper explo...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 China’s increased openness, accelerating economic development, and the emergence of new security challenges and relationships in the post-Cold War world have cast the Chinese military and its role in...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 The North Korean nuclear issue has become increasingly intractable. The Six Party Talks have stalled since December 2008, while North Korea’s nuclear program has continued apace. On the one hand, the...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This paper aims to provide a framework for those making and influencing policies to better understand and analyse how key trade policy issues and tools in fisheries relate to and impact on their susta...
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 08 Feb 2016 Forests and trees enhance and protect landscapes, ecosystems and production systems. They provide goods and services which are essential to the survival and well-being of all humanity. Forest genetic...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | 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 The probability of being depressed increases dramatically during adolescence and is linked to a range of adverse outcomes. Many studies show a correlation between religiosity and mental health, yet th...
by Jane Cooley Fruehwirth | On 07 Feb 2016 This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in Chi...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 07 Feb 2016 The migrant selection literature concentrates primarily on spatial patterns. This paper illustrates the implications of migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of th...
by Joyce Chen | On 07 Feb 2016 Natural resources can bring considerable amounts of wealth to a country. But transparency must be present for these riches to benefit citizens. Strong disclosure policies on the part of companies help...
by Transparency International TI | On 07 Feb 2016 The Global Corruption Report is the first comprehensive publication of its kind to explore the corruption risks related to tackling climate change. From international policy-making to national level m...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 The objectives of climate change mitigation projects are undermined when they do not meet sustainable development criteria and transparency standards. In such cases, international mitigation mechanism...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 When we talk about corruption in terms of statistics, it’s easy to forget the human cost of abused power. Behind every fact or figure are real people, forced to live without the services, opportunitie...
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 How can trade policy respond to the needs and concerns of more than a billion people in the developing world that lack access to energy for fulfilling their daily needs such as cooking and lighting? A...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 The growing body of WTO jurisprudence can help facilitate rules-based negotiations as a way of avoiding formal litigation more than ever before, and developing countries are now in a position to reap...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 Transparency International has long held that the most directly damaging impact of corruption is the diversion of basic resources from poor people. Corruption in humanitarian aid is most egregious for...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Achieving the sustainable development goals and countering climate change will require considerably more resources than what public finances alone can afford. By curbing illicit financial flows and re...
by Transparency International | On 05 Feb 2016 The assessment of Bhutan's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) represents the first time Transparency International has conducted an independent assessment of this sort. The tool will be applied to other...
by Transparency International | On 03 Feb 2016 The study discusses the European position toward the peace process since the Oslo Accords in 1993, up to the Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip in 2009. The aim is to elucidate the European role...
by | On 03 Feb 2016 The World Bank was founded to correct failures in international capital markets. That role has shifted over the past 70 years. Modern analyses should proceed from the premise that the Bank’s central g...
by Michael Clemens | On 03 Feb 2016 Attempts to explain why ending hunger has been so hard, so here the focus is on four main themes: the complex role of markets, the importance of government policies, the historical process of structur...
by C. Peter Timmer | On 03 Feb 2016 The issue of imperfect competition in economic theory has been
repeatedly discussed given its importance in the distribution of economic resources. In this study, market power measured by price over...
by Salman Ahmad | On 03 Feb 2016 The paper discusses the North-South context for biopiracy, explains the process by which RiceTec acquired its patent, ascertains why it amounted to biopiracy and examines its implications for southern...
by Uzma Jamil | On 02 Feb 2016 This paper offers a novel perspective on the concept of freedom of conscience in Islam and the rules of apostasy in which the author, YehyaJad revises the notion of the death penalty for the apostate....
by | On 02 Feb 2016 The structure of the international system affects the manner in which its sub-units manage international crises, due to its influence on the tools and outcomes of crisis management. Conversely, the ma...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 Syrian-Turkish relations represent a regional and international phenomenon that has attracted a considerable amount of political and media attention; however, research on the dynamics and wagers invol...
by Aqil Mahfoudh | On 02 Feb 2016 ‘Armed conflict’ is defined in this report as the use of armed violence to resolve local, national and/or international disputes between individuals and groups that have a political, economic, cultura...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 Remittances – money sent home by migrants – can help families survive conflicts or natural disasters. However, humanitarian agencies often fail to consider remittances when planning interventions. Thi...
by Paul Harvey | On 01 Feb 2016 Non-government organisations (NGOs) have become increasingly involved in the international response to armed conflict, some aiming to mitigate the effects of war and others to help end the violence. B...
by Jonathan Goodhand | On 01 Feb 2016 Sri Lanka has about 120,000 engineered rural waterway crossings (such as bridges) and another 250,000 non-engineered crossings built and maintained by communities. Because of a lack of financial and h...
by Granie Jayalath | On 01 Feb 2016 The National Alliance of Disaster Risk Reduction (NADRR) was launched at a two-day workshop held in New Delhi on November 3rd and 4th, 2007. The workshop brought together over 150 participants represe...
by National Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction NADRR | On 01 Feb 2016 This report is a compilation of examples of the budget work undertaken by nongovernmental
organizations from around the world. Although many of these organizations are
new to budget analysis, they h...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 01 Feb 2016 This study combines rigorous analysis with clear, easy-to-understand presentation of empirical results. It does not advocate any particular kind of pension system or type of reform. The goal is to inf...
by OECD Development Centre | On 31 Jan 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 The international negotiations on climate change actions, including mechanisms for the efficient and equitable transfer of technologies for mitigation and adaptation, are currently being deliberated u...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The introduction and diffusion of new technologies is crucial in meeting the challenges of climate change and fostering a rapid transition to a low-carbon economy. Such technologies are expected to in...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | 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 The issue of climate change currently holds the attention of the international community. Worsening emissions predictions and a perception that impacts are occurring more rapidly than anticipated have...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 There is a renewed consensus on the need to re-regulate international capital movements. But there is a collective action problem, which puts developing countries at a particular disadvantage. Countri...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Over the past decade, international donors increased financing for health in developing countries substantively. Much of the additional support has come from the rapid expansion of so-called vertical...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Official development assistance declined in real terms in 2011 as a result, in part, of fiscal austerity in many donor countries. Traditional forms of funding have fallen well short of needs to financ...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Accelerating progress to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will serve to advance human development and also to lay a solid foundation for the pursuance of sustainable development goals a...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to gain from agricultural trade liberalization. This paper assesses the evidence fo...
by Timothy A. Wise | On 31 Jan 2016 This paper critically examines the recent global initiatives to improve various elements of the international governance of food security and the institutional context of policymaking on trade and foo...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 An increasing concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere is believed to be contributing to global warming. Agriculture is a significant contributor to GHG emissions through crop and an...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Giving Youth a Voice, the first ever nationwide survey on youth, was started in 2011. The main findings of the report were released to the media in mid August, prior to the International Youth Day. Th...
by Syeda Aziz | On 30 Jan 2016 This report provides some reflections and insights on the level of awareness, practices, and organizational and institutional issues being faced by countries as they adapt to climate change, based on...
by Catherine Ragasa | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper explores how these perceptions and narratives around women’s empowerment have evolved in Bangladesh from 2000 to date. It studies the concepts of women’s empowerment in public discourse and...
by Sohela Nazneen | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper tries to understand precisely how the food safety regulations applied by the industrialized countries have an effect on India’s export of processed food to these markets. It also examines th...
by Rajesh Mehta | On 30 Jan 2016 The human capital and growth relationship has been subject to a lot of debate in economic literature. The empirical growth models are beset with problems ranging from theoretical frameworks and statis...
by Verda Salman | On 30 Jan 2016 Owing to a dearth of government data and research studies on the urban existence of Pardhis, one of the principal aims of this study was to render visibility to the issue.
by Paankhi Agrawal | On 30 Jan 2016 Is leadership diversified in Asian corporate boardrooms? How is gender diversity in corporate leadership associated with financial performance? What is the magnitude of potential gain by allocating hu...
by Meijun Qian | On 30 Jan 2016 In the Arab world, there has been increased awareness on the instrumentality of education in fostering human and economic development and a realization that quality education contributes to the econom...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 The use of subsidy instruments, broadly defined to include fiscal measures and investment incentives, has been a constant feature of government policy in both high-income and emerging economies. This...
by | On 29 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 Mountain communities in the developing world are often marginalised from political influence and economic opportunities and generally face high levels of poverty. The ecosystems they dwell in are amon...
by Mirjam Macchi | On 28 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 In the light of growing globalization and the significant increase in the number of investor-state disputes that has taken place over recent years, this paper proposes that it is time to establish an...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 The adoption of the ambitious post-2015 agenda centring on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations (UN) in New York in September marks an opportune moment to suggest development...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 New thinking and practical approaches are needed to address the threats to human security that climate change combined with social vulnerability pose for current and future patterns of loss and damage...
by Koko Warner | On 28 Jan 2016 International investment needs are tremendous. This requires that the international investment regime constitutes a framework for increased flows of sustainable foreign direct investment for sustainab...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper documents the extent of inequality of educational opportunity in India spanning the period 1983-2004 using National Sample Survey (NSS) data. We build on recent developments in the literatu...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This policy note aims to achieve a coherent and mutually beneficial labor
migration system. It argues that migrant workers may importantly
contribute to economic growth and development both in sen...
by Robert Holzmann | On 28 Jan 2016 The last decade has witnessed remarkable developments in the digital economy, creating new opportunities for cross-border trade and investment and the ongoing emergence of novel and disruptive busines...
by | 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 An overview is provided of the state of knowledge on internal migration in developing economies, with particular emphasis on recent contributions to the literature. The overview is divided into five s...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Rapid urbanisation in India, driven by a globalised economy and its accelerated growth, will increasingly demand attention of policy makers. The objective of this policy note is to throw light on heal...
by Rajeev Ahuja | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper is an attempt to study plausible causal relationship of women’s physiology and behaviour components with fertility in more or less non-industrial rural populations in Orissa, an Eastern Ind...
by Satyajeet Nanda | On 28 Jan 2016 While recognizing that education contributes to economic growth, investments in human capital contributed to high economic growth and also to better income distribution in East Asia; and human capital...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 The global economic downturn is impacting on unemployment. One young person in eight across the world is looking for work. Youth populations are large and growing. The wellbeing and prosperity of youn...
by United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization | 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 The research study highlights the financial inclusion needs of cycle rickshaw pullers in India. These include access to service sectors; improvement of asset base; employment of their women; increase...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 New challenges are facing the global food and agriculture trading system in the 21st century. The present paper identifies options for how policies and international trade rules can respond to this ne...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinationa...
by Penn Stat | On 27 Jan 2016 We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on the extensive margins of trade. Using OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators – which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bal...
by Robert Teh | On 27 Jan 2016 In most countries international migration has received more attention than internal agriculture labour migration. Even though internal agriculture labour migration has become an important livelihood...
by | 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 Understanding and managing urbanisation in developing countries is one of the major global policy challenges for the first half of the 21st century. Rapidly growing towns and cities are increasingly r...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 The proposed SDGs constitute a comprehensive, universal and interactive agenda of structural transformations as the pathway to sustainable development, leaving no-one behind while creating green econo...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both...
by Robert Anderson | On 26 Jan 2016 The paper, nonetheless, acknowledges that delivering these benefits would involve significant practical and political challenges. It concludes that if the challenges can be overcome and the mutual ben...
by Kodjo Osei-Lah | On 26 Jan 2016 While conditions in trade finance markets returned to normality in the main routes of trade, the structural difficulties of poor countries in accessing trade finance have not disappeared – and might h...
by Marc Auboin | On 26 Jan 2016 Early childhood stunting or linear growth retardation predicts poor human capital. While stunting rates in India are unacceptably high, the decline in stunting over the past decades demonstrates that...
by Harshpal Singh Sachdev | On 26 Jan 2016 Globalization has led to large scale outsourcing of production activities to developing countries manifesting in global commodity chains.The study shows that given a choice, enterprises and workers pr...
by Jeemol Unni | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper gives an overview of international migration from the state of Gujarat, the state with a long history of international migration and significantly large migrant population abroad. Even as s...
by Biplab Dhak | On 26 Jan 2016 The relationship between women’s access to credit and their empowerment is a theme that seems to have lost much of its sheen and sharpness during the phase of commercialization of microfinance in Indi...
by Tara Nair | On 26 Jan 2016 Siddha system of medicine (SSM) focuses on addressing the root cause of the disease rather than treating the disease symptoms, and combinations of herbs, medicinal plants, animal and marine resources...
by N. Lalitha | On 25 Jan 2016 This paper uses the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) to estimate change in total factor productivity (TFP) and its constituent components for software companies in India during 1999–2008. On average...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 24 Jan 2016 This study examines the relationship if any among economic growth (output), private sector credit and inflation in Bangladesh. In many developed and developing countries, private sector credit has pla...
by Sayera Younus | On 23 Jan 2016 This note provides estimates of inflation rate of import-concentrated commodities and their contribution to overall inflation in Bangladesh. The results suggest that the Bangladesh economy has been ex...
by M. G. Mortaza | On 23 Jan 2016 As the Himalayan ecosystem is susceptible to natural disasters due to the global climatechange patterns, the earthquake that struck Nepal recently might not be the last or the deadliest. An important...
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 It may be time to look at the market forecasts that pundits had made earlier.
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Jan 2016 The paper examines the output elasticity of infrastructure for four South Asian countries viz., India,Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka using Pedroni’s panel cointegration technique for the period 19...
by Ranjan Kumar Dash | On 23 Jan 2016 Research suggests that development interventions that do not take mountain specificities into account may threaten rather than facilitate development for the inhabitants in a sustainable mountain envi...
by Brigitte Hoermann | On 23 Jan 2016 The jute manufacturing sector of Bangladesh has recently started to revitalise with the rise in global demand for jute goods, thanks to the environment-friendly nature of jute, and the price hike of p...
by Khondaker Moazzem | On 23 Jan 2016 A recent project under the CMI-CPD institutional collaboration agreement has looked at the effect of corruption on investment in the energy sector. A distinction is made between the extraction of ener...
by Arne Wiig | On 23 Jan 2016 In many states of India, there are several evidences that indicate a widespread practice of using female birth intervention. As a result, an alarmingly lowest ever sex ratio in the age group 0-6 has b...
by R. S. Bora | On 23 Jan 2016 This note examines the current methodology of setting the requirements and availability of food grains used by FPMU and identifies areas where efforts are needed to rationalize demand and supply estim...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 In Maharashtra, state-sponsored programmes that support school dropouts and young offenders in finding employment and integrating into society are severely limited by a lack of resources and capacity....
by Jaideep Gupte | On 23 Jan 2016 Rising powers such as Brazil, India and China have been criticised for being obstructive in the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda. The start of the United Nations (UN) negotiations saw...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 Following the recent United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on Sri Lanka, the Sirisena Government has embarked on a process of establishing a ‘domestic mechanism’. It is imperative to...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 The present study tries to examine the behaviour of various Indian interest rates such as call money rate, and yields on secondary market securities with maturity periods of 15 to 91 days, 1-year, 5-y...
by B B Bhattacharya | On 22 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 is the second collective effort from the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies to address global issues that are largely unfamiliar to the Greek international affairs community. Last year we dealt wit...
by Stamatis Zachariadis | On 21 Jan 2016 The experience of working together on the original paper, which was published in 2008,6 was highly positive. This motivated Cesar Victora, on behalf of the principal investigators, to apply for a rese...
by Linda Richter | On 21 Jan 2016 Household surveys are an important source of information about education systems. International survey programs such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and the Multiple Indicator Clusters Sur...
by Education Policy and Data Center EPDC | On 21 Jan 2016 Very recent years India has witnessed wide-ranging economic reforms in her policies governing international trade and FDI flows. As per the findings of the paper, some of the important determinants of...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 21 Jan 2016 This discussion paper seeks to understand the nature of the ongoing demographic transition in South Asia and the challenges faced by the countries of the region to augment their future supply of skill...
by Biswajit Dhar | On 21 Jan 2016 In 2009, the European Union (EU) proposed to use border carbon measures, which could take the form of a direct or indirect “carbon tax”, against imports from its partner countries that were not follow...
by Biswajit Dhar | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper presents five versions of an international bilateral migration stock database for 226 by 226 countries. The first four versions each consist of two matrices, the first containing migrants d...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 The debate on the ‘brain drain’, or the emigration of skilled workers, is not new but it has taken on greater urgency in the context of a globalizing economy and ageing societies. Today, the developed...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 This paper attempts to locate ‘migration’ within a social protection framework both theoretically and empirically. We add to the dominant theoretical discourse around social protection by introducing...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 The aim of this literature review is to examine the links between poverty and migration. Specifically, the paper investigates poverty and vulnerability as determinants of migration. Until recent years...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 Accepting that virtually any policy can have some impact on the movement of people, one can also recognize that a series of policies exist that have been developed specifically to deal with migration...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 This paper arises out of the findings from a set of research projects carried out under the aegis of the Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty (Migration DRC) at the Univ...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for internatio...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 Migration has acquired increasing importance globally in recent years. However, there has remained a paucity of adequate data on the numbers and characteristics of migrants. Indeed, it has been widely...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 The World Public Sector Report 2008, People Matter, Civic Engagement in Public Governance presents a picture of the evolution of current governance challenges, especially from the point of view of the...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 20 Jan 2016 Indian children are very short, on average, compared with children living in other countries. Because height reflects early life health and net nutrition, and because good early life health also helps...
by Alessandro Tarozzi | On 20 Jan 2016 This book collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades....
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 20 Jan 2016 The Standing Committee on Human Resource Development is currently examining the subject 'Role
of Private Sector in Higher Education'. In this context, an analysis of the role of the
private sector...
by Apoorva Shankar | On 20 Jan 2016 Social transfers, a non-contributory form of social protection, present a great potential to tackle poverty and inequality, and support inclusive socioeconomic development. Yet, they also represent a...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 The issue of Bangladeshi migration in India has become a major concern
for policy makers in recent years. Indeed, India’s eastern border is
facing major illegal activities viz. the influx of illegal...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 The Indian Diaspora has a powerful influence on the global community where Indians constitute a diverse and a heterogeneous group that shares Indian origin and intrinsic values. Earlier migration was...
by | 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 Migration flows exhibit both long-term shifts and short-term fluctuations in terms of volume and pattern. The root causes of these shifts and fluctuations can most generally be linked to the term ‘dev...
by Ronald Skeldon | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set acros...
by Rita Almeida | 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 This paper develops a theory on how voters form and change political preferences in democratic developing world contexts. In the developing world, where state institutions are often weak, voters tend...
by Neelanjan Sircar | On 18 Jan 2016 Two phenomena have been recently utilised to explain conflict onset among rational choice analysts: greed and grievance. The former reflects elite competition over valuable natural resource rents. The...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 Given the fact that education of young adults plays crucial role from both economic and social point
of view, the objective of the study is to analyse the pattern of improvements in their education a...
by Runu Bhatka | On 18 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 Global Risks Report 2016 features perspectives from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 29 prevalent global risks over a 10-year timeframe. The risks are divided into five...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 18 Jan 2016 The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade dipl...
by | On 15 Jan 2016 We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration a...
by | On 15 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 This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia’s immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants’ probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter en...
by Stéphane Mahuteau | On 15 Jan 2016 This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, includ...
by Maurice Schiff | On 15 Jan 2016 Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – interna...
by Myeong Su Yun | On 14 Jan 2016 Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, parti...
by David McKenzie | On 14 Jan 2016 This article consists in three parts. The first part deals with theory. We evaluate the pros and cons of government involvement in urban housing and of renting versus ownership. In the second part, we...
by Yves Zenou | On 14 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 This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of t...
by Frédéric Docquier | On 14 Jan 2016 It lies at the intersection of two major challenges: disaster, experienced by many of the rural poor as drought, flood and storms; and the continuing issue of gender imbalances in many aspects of soci...
by Janet Robinson | On 14 Jan 2016 For years, civil society organisations and researchers have highlighted that, as weather patterns become increasingly unpredictable and extreme events such as floods, heatwaves or storms become more c...
by A Otzelberger | On 13 Jan 2016 Millions of job seekers in South Asia, including many tribals, are forced by lack of local employment opportunities to migrate towards urban areas. This fieldwork-based study aims to understand specif...
by Rajib Dhar | On 13 Jan 2016 In this paper, an attempt has been made to understand the general, reproductive, and mental health status of migrant women from Kerala who stay in the working women’s hostels. The present study is bas...
by R. S. Reshmi | On 13 Jan 2016 Mental health is an important component of the total positive health and is interwoven closelywith the physical and physiological dynamics of the human body. Migrant population, being a non-native pop...
by Reshmi R S | On 13 Jan 2016 The study of international organizations inevitably leads to consideration of the role of several that have been at the heart of international efforts to promote development after World War II, primar...
by David Malone | 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 assesses the effects of combining fiscal austerity with flexibilization policies aimed at reducing labour costs and increasing competitiveness. Core to our analysis is a global perspective...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The international community has advanced in reforming the international aid system. Such reform comes at a time when there is a renewed skepticism about aid effectiveness and when the crisis sheds new...
by José Alonso | On 11 Jan 2016 Demographic dynamics have strong repercussions for development and need to be addressed in the definition of the global development strategy for post 2015. Despite divergent trends across countries, i...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 Analyses of redistributive policies often focus on income flows to examine the nexus between redistribution and economic growth. With strengthening signs of growing economic inequality in many countri...
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 This paper aims to test the validity of the hypothesis that climate change in the coming years is likely to induce massive migration to and from South Asia, both within and across the borders. This pa...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 Developing countries are experiencing unprecedented levels of urbanization. Although most of these movements are motivated by economic reasons, they could affect the human capital accumulation of
the...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The vision of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)
will be to ensure access to some means of protective irrigation to all agricultural farms in the country, to produce ‘per drop more crop’,...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 11 Jan 2016 Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects, in part, borrowing constraints that inhibit private investment in human capital by...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 Least developed countries are achieving record rates of economic expansion, but growth is failing to trickle down into significantly improved well-being for the majority of their population. The Least...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 UNCTAD, in past LDC Reports, has taken the view that the key to sustained economic growth and poverty reduction in LDCs is the development of productive capacities and related creation of productive e...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The least developed countries (LDCs) are a group of countries that have been classified by the United Nations as least developed in terms of their low gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, weak hum...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report 2010 focuses on the need to make employment creation a priority in economic policy. Unemployment is the most pressing social and economic problem of our time, not leas...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report (TDR) 2012 reviews recent trends in the global economy and explores the links between income distribution, growth and development. Global output growth is slowing down...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper emphasises the fact that the fastest growth in India’s urban population is occurring in its smaller cities and towns. They have glaringly inadequate sewerage and public sanitation infrastruc...
by Shubhagato Dasgupta | On 09 Jan 2016 Five years after the onset of the global financial crisis the world economy remains in a state of disarray, with global output growing at around 2 per cent and global trade growth virtually grounding...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 This Review addresses this concern by tackling trade and environment issues from a development perspective. It also attempts to provide developing countries´ Governments and civil society with a forum...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 India and China, viewing themselves as key players within the BRICS which they see in a worldwide perspective, had in fact made two different global commitments on the eve of this Brisbane G20 summit....
by P S Suryanarayana | On 09 Jan 2016 In the 1970s, the oil-producing and exporting countries of the Middle East delivered a shock to the global economic system that had many unexpected consequences. The then-quadrupling of the price of o...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 09 Jan 2016 In this paper, the aim is to survey the findings of village studies that have been accomplished over the last two decades the era of economic liberalisation in India together with those of larger-scal...
by J. Jeyaranjan | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper focuses on India’s approach to collaboration on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief with major powers and within various regional initiatives. This paper begins with a brief review o...
by C. Raja Mohan | On 09 Jan 2016 Afghanistan has long been used as a battleground for strategic wars by larger external powers. This is in part due to its geographic position between the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia. Acco...
by Riaz Hassan | On 09 Jan 2016 Migration is an important social and historical reality in South Asia. In the past decade, migration from one country to another and internal migration (i.e. migration within a particular country) hav...
by Sanjay Barbora | On 08 Jan 2016 The system of participatory (or joint) forest management was commenced in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan in 1996 through Asian Development Bank's funded project. These forest refo...
by Tanvir Ali | 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 Contrary to widespread belief, the collapse of ‘government’ does not automatically entail the collapse of ‘governance’. In a setting of ‘unstable’ livelihoods, households’ coping strategies, coupled w...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 This brief suggests that those seeking an in-depth understanding of the social and political world need to apply a feminist curiosity – that is, a curiosity about the roles gender plays at all levels...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. It is found that on average men and women from remittance-receiving households are less...
by Olga Shemyakina | On 07 Jan 2016 International trade is redefined today in terms of trade in value added and global value chains. Most countries trade both in finished goods as well as intermediates. India, a less talked about countr...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 The report herein provide in-depth analysis of the state of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Nepal.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper analyzes the current status of fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia and international trade. Analysis concludes that a policy of sustainable management for both capture fisheries and...
by Masayuki Komatsu | On 07 Jan 2016 This chapter examines the key developments and challenges of internal (domestic) and external (international) migration in Southeast Asia by looking at their main features and key drivers. Internal mi...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 The Asian financial crisis (1997-1998) and the global financial crisis (2007-2009) highlighted the potential value of financial regionalism, i.e., regional-level cooperation in financial policy. This...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper covers threes issues: first, defining and measuring inclusive growth; second, the relationship between international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and in...
by Juzhong Zhuang | On 07 Jan 2016 Limited statistics on internal migration, international migration, and remittances worldwide prohibit understanding of migration’s role in the agricultural transformation process. Insights from the qu...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 The migrant selection literature concentrates primarily on spatial patterns. We integrate two workhorses of the labor literature, the Roy and search models, to illustrate the implications of migration...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 The evidence that antibiotic use in agriculture creates a pool of resistant bacteria in farm animals is not in dispute. The key questions relate to the magnitude of the risk to human health, and the p...
by | On 06 Jan 2016 In this paper, patterns of selection into temporary and permanent migration are described.
The simultaneity of migration, education, and other investment decisions creates a stark trade-off
between...
by Joyce J Chen | On 06 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 paper discusses the tensions between the feminisation of migration and the domestic roles women typically assume, including unpaid care work. It then examines issues related to health of migrants,...
by | On 06 Jan 2016 This article explores the relationship between internal migration and economic growth and development in Asia, concentrating on four countries: China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Levels of internal...
by | On 05 Jan 2016 This report reflects efforts to capture the trends in labour migration from Nepal, identify the structural gaps and suggests ways to move forward for the Government and stakeholders. Although various...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 This regional study commissioned by The Asia Foundation entitled "Labour Migration: Trends and Patterns" examines the patterns and process of labour migration by Nepali and Bangladeshi migrant workers...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 Based on the Asia Foundation’s , "Afghanistan in 2006: A Survey of the Afghan People." , the papers in this volume analyze survey data on the opinions and perceptions of Afghans towards government, pu...
by | On 02 Jan 2016 Indonesia has made significant progress in promoting gender equality. Gender gaps in the youth literacy rate have been eliminated. Near parity in enrollment rates in elementary up to tertiary levels h...
by Uzma Hoque | On 01 Jan 2016 Indonesia is a net importer of grains, horticulture and livestock produce. The instability of food prices since 2008 has led to a renewed emphasis on food security. Despite increasing food crop produc...
by Victor Pontines | 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 With many environmental assets, and industrial pressure only beginning to develop, Myanmar could effectively form policies and regulations that ensure sustainable growth and conservation of key natura...
by Sakiko Tanaka | On 01 Jan 2016 Switzerland changed its migration policy in the 1990s from a “non-qualified only” policy to one of almost free movement of labor. To analyze the impact of this policy change on the schooling outcomes...
by Maria Cattaneo | On 01 Jan 2016 We study urban, private sector Chinese employers’ preferences between workers with and without a local permanent residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board. We find...
by | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor f...
by Delia Furtado | On 30 Dec 2015 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 This paper argues that calls for a New Bretton Woods system in the aftermath of the global economic crisis — similar to the remarkable 1944 Bretton Woods conference that led to the establishment of va...
by Pradumna Rana | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper focuses on the relevance to emerging economies of three major financial reforms following the global financial crisis of 2007–2009: the improved capital requirements intended to reduce the...
by Duncan Alford | On 30 Dec 2015 The failures of water management have been extensively studied and reviewed and the shortcomings are listed.
by Ravi Chopra | On 29 Dec 2015 We build a general equilibrium model in which both illegal immigration and the size of the informal sector are endogenously determined. In this framework, we show that indirect policy measures such as...
by Carmen Camacho | On 29 Dec 2015 Is ability drain (AD) economically significant? That immigrants or their children founded over 40% of theFortune 500 US companies suggests it is. Moreover, brain drain (BD) induces a brain gain (BG)....
by Maurice Schiff | On 29 Dec 2015 We examine the labour supply effect of remittances in the Republic of Haiti, the prime international remittances recipient country in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region relative to its GDP....
by Evans Jadotte | On 29 Dec 2015 The fall of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe restored ordinary citizens' rights and freedoms and ended their political and social isolation. While the freedom of movement was quickly embraced,...
by Milena Nikolova | On 29 Dec 2015 This Discussion Paper examines the relevance of social capital theories in explaining the migration-development nexus. The author uses three case studies to investigate this relationship, namely devel...
by | On 29 Dec 2015 Self-employment constitutes a vital part of the economy since entrepreneurs can provide not only employment for themselves but also for others. The link between self-employment and immigration is, how...
by Ken Clark | On 29 Dec 2015 Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selectio...
by Simone Bertoli | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper reviews the two-way relationship between migration and development. The author emphasizes that migration can be a tool for development and that development can affect migration patterns. He...
by | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper aims to provide a non-technical explanation of the concept of trade in value added, with particular reference to East Asia. The trade in value added approach allows us to redefine the relat...
by Satoshi Inomata | On 29 Dec 2015 In this publication UN Women highlights the commitments made on gender equality, and explores women's contributions to sustainable development and policy around the world. Focusing on priority areas—s...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 Women’s access to, use of and control over land and other productive resources are essential to ensuring their right to equality and to an adequate standard of living. Throughout the world, gender ine...
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 It is only very recently that out-migration of natives of the North East Region to other localities in India became a problem of apprehension. Though the natives of the North East Region are tradition...
by Babu Remesh | On 26 Dec 2015 Global regulatory standard setting is one of the most lucrative battlefields of the international political economy. Asymmetric influence and regulatory capture in setting such standards can undermine...
by Roman Goldbach | On 23 Dec 2015 This paper examines the domestic sources of the internationalization of national oil companies (NOCs) in China and India. It argues that – counter to notions of state-led internationalization – the go...
by Jonas Mecklinga | On 23 Dec 2015 Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require high levels of productive private and public sector investment, which in turn requires a suitable investment climate. This paper provide...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper seeks to identify the strategic and economic variables involved in India’s decision about whether or not to pursue a proposed natural gas pipeline from Iran. There is a lot of misinformatio...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 It is recognized that there are close links between sport and politics, and in particular between sport and national consciousness. The Olympic Games and the football, rugby and cricket World Cups hav...
by | On 22 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 This paper will reexamine the role of the Sikh Diaspora in the Sikh separatist movement, commencing in the 1980s, that loomed over
the political, security, social, and humanitarian makeup of the Indi...
by | 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 This paper first describes Mizoram’s Burmese population and its integration in Mizo society. It then examines border trade and its implications, with a particular focus on Aizawl’s central market, Bar...
by Julien Levesque | On 22 Dec 2015 The paper argues that second demographic transition (SDT) might have to be redefined for a developing country in context to India. India currently has the lowest fertility rate (TFR 1.2). This could b...
by Saswata Ghosh | On 22 Dec 2015 The 2015 edition of Information Economy Report examines electronic commerce, and shows in detail how information and communications technologies can be harnessed to support economic growth and sustain...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UN | On 22 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 According to present indications, most of the growth in the older age groups will take place in developing countries and over half of it will be in Asia, especially in the two major population giants...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 It is vital for countries to identify climate risks, reduce these risks through mitigation, and adapt to these risks—thereby increasing resilience and reducing vulnerability. This study informs decisi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Dec 2015 Preparing and implementing a K–12 transition absorbs considerable financial and human resources. It follows that the reasons for restructuring must be compelling. It follows that the reasons for restr...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 The World Trade Organization (WTO) is in trouble. Its negotiating mechanism has mostly seized up, as reflected in the failure to conclude the long-running Doha Round. No obvious solution to this conun...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 The Global Information Technology Report provides a comprehensive assessment of networked readiness, or how prepared an economy is to apply the benefits of information and communications technologies...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 Countries like South Africa and India are putting new mental health policies in place. There is now a clear agenda of “what to deliver” to make this deplorable reality better, and indeed a nascent adv...
by Victoria Menil | On 19 Dec 2015 Public investment financed by the government's own or borrowed resources do not provide an adequate answer to the problem of relatively low investment.
by T.N. Ninan | On 18 Dec 2015 Social exclusion of certain groups on the basis of race, creed, colour and caste has been practised in most societies. This paper explores the sources and implications of such exclusion, especially as...
by T.S. Papola | On 18 Dec 2015 It is most likely that the current reserve currencies will retain their status in the near future, given the persistence in the composition of reserve holdings. However, since we do not have complete...
by Menzie D. Chinna | On 18 Dec 2015 Despite a number of developments in policy and practice aimed at integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment into humanitarian action, what remains missing is a strong evidence base that demon...
by UN Women | On 17 Dec 2015 Rural-urban migration continues to attract much interest, but also growing concern. Migrants are often blamed for increasing urban poverty, but not all migrants are poor. In many cities, however, migr...
by David Satterthwaite | On 17 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 This paper looks at possible alternatives to UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions with a view to establishing if there are organizations or other interested parties, which may be more effective...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 Compared with other demographic processes, remarkably little attention has been given to the way internal migration varies between countries around the world. We set out the rationale for such compari...
by Elin Charles-Edwards | On 17 Dec 2015 This research paper is divided into two parts to provide a more complete view of how both countries think in term of their ambitions and the methods they deem important to achieve them. This paper arg...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 This policy brief recommends that these include commitments to: ending extreme poverty and inequality, with a special focus on gender equity and women’s rights; aligning with environmental and social...
by Oxfam International | On 17 Dec 2015 This essay examines India’s position in international negotiations on climate change and domestic mitigation actions, based on scientific evidence and equity. It is argued that India’s stance has larg...
by D Raghunandan | On 17 Dec 2015 Food security and nutrition is a major global challenge. SDC’s Global Programme Food Security(GPFS) represents an innovative initiative of Switzerland in addressing food security and nutrition challen...
by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC | On 17 Dec 2015 This paper examines how parental migration affects children’s health and education outcomes. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China data we are able to measure the share of children’s lifetim...
by Xin Meng | On 17 Dec 2015 In recent months tax has climbed up the political agenda in ways that would have been unthinkable only a couple of years ago.
Creating a fairer international tax system was a central ambition of both...
by Mick Moore | On 16 Dec 2015 The agenda for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development suggests there will be less focus on aid, and more on how developing countries can generate their own financial resources...
by Mick Moore | On 16 Dec 2015 Although there is increased awareness of the need for effective migration governance in order to safeguard the basic rights and safety of migrant workers in destination countries, little research has...
by | On 16 Dec 2015 Back in 2004, when I ran the Chinadesk at the International Monetary Fund, my team some written questions to Beijing ahead of our meetings with Chinese officials. China’s central bank had claimed that...
by Eswar Prasad | On 16 Dec 2015 Research around the world has demonstrated the important role that education plays in the empowerment of girls and women. Providing girls with a quality education can help prevent early marriage, prev...
by Musammat Badrunnesha | 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 The key challenge is to develop a policy that facilitates the adaptive capacity of migration rather than inhibiting it. Such an endeavour and subsequent shift in policy where it is sub-optimal is impe...
by Richard Black | 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 From a human development perspective, work, rather than jobs oremployment is the relevant concept. A job is a narrow concept with a set of pre-determined time-bound assigned tasks or activities, in an...
by United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] | 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 This paper discusses India’s demographic dynamics and
argues that policymakers have the widest window of opportunity with that segment of population which is poised to enter the workforce between 203...
by Ali Mehdi | On 09 Dec 2015 This report is the third in a series of papers from the Center for American Progress that examines the implications of the climate change, migration, and security nexus. Our analysis highlights the ov...
by | 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 We use a natural experiment in Indonesia to provide causal evidence on the role of location-specific human capital and skill transferability in shaping the spatial distribution of productivity. From 1...
by Samuel Bazzi | On 08 Dec 2015 Seasonal and circular migration is an important livelihood strategy for workers in developing countries and the construction industry is one of the largest recipients of such labour. The impact of lab...
by RPC Migrating out of Poverty | On 08 Dec 2015 With a view to undertake the exercise the of health assessment of Ganga River River during Kumbh 2013 a water quality monitoring was done during Kumbh 2013. The present report is based on the socio-cu...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 08 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 If the global commitment to eradicate inequality for all people is truly unequivocal, as leaders claim it to be, the implementation of these Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) needs to take into acc...
by | On 03 Dec 2015 Expectations are high for a good and fair new climate change agreement at the
much anticipated on-going climate change summit in Paris. Such expectations are elusive if the negotiations fail to face...
by Raman Letchumanan | On 03 Dec 2015 The global number of forced migrants is currently the highest since the Second World War.
This is a major concern to public health: lack of access to safe water, food, sanitation, and inadequate shel...
by Peter Heudtlass | On 30 Nov 2015 This paper surveys the voluminous literature on migration affecting trade and the somewhat less developed literature linking aid flows to migration. It aims to guide the reader through the two literat...
by | On 27 Nov 2015 This paper examines youth vulnerabilities, with a particular emphasis on low- and middle-income countries. It touches on the challenges confronted by young people exposed to extreme, life threatening...
by | On 26 Nov 2015 In Arab countries, a widespread lack of human security undermines human development, according to the Arab Human Development Report 2009: Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries. This repor...
by | On 26 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 This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction between community gender norms and relative supply of madrasas (i.e. Islamic schools)....
by Zaki Wahhaj | On 16 Nov 2015 The paper examines the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare programs in the world, on human capital investment. Since NREGS increases labor...
by | On 16 Nov 2015 While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are
a number of challenges ahead. The paper discusses three sets of problems: (i) how to allow for
social...
by Martin Ravallion | On 16 Nov 2015 This paper provides a much needed analysis of how Theories of Change are used in the day-to-day practice of an international development organisation, The Asia Foundation. The Foundation uses the appr...
by | On 16 Nov 2015 The report maps the workforce participation and aspirations of young women and girls from low income groups in and around four metropolitan cities of India and determines the barriers they face in rea...
by | On 13 Nov 2015 The vast majority of the world’s displaced people are hosted in the global South, in the poorest countries in the world. This is also a space with the highest numbers of disabled people, many of who l...
by | On 13 Nov 2015 This paper reviews the migration and development debate and the current state of knowledge about flows of migrant resources to India, pointing to gaps and shortcomings in the literature. It argues tha...
by | On 13 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 Agriculture and food security should be viewed in the context of the broader economic transformation in Asia and the Pacific. In particular, the adoption of food security policies that address both im...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Nov 2015 This paper explores the relationship between determinants of migration which are often deeply embedded in the economic, social, political, cultural and environmental context, and more immediate factor...
by | On 06 Nov 2015 The aim of this review is to assess the ways in which Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) address the issue of internal migration, and to evaluate the extent to which this discussion is related to...
by | On 06 Nov 2015 In this paper provides an overview of the research on nonstandard work with a view to answering the following questions: (i) why do organizations use nonstandard workers, (ii) how has the practice of...
by | On 03 Nov 2015 This paper reports some initial findings of a study of how migrants in India and Bangladesh and the household members that stay behind reduce the insecurities they face (including hunger, debt, ill-he...
by | On 02 Nov 2015 Drawing on data from population censuses and recent household surveys for India and Ghana, this paper demonstrates the importance of internal migration in comparison to international migration, showin...
by | On 02 Nov 2015 Ending Malnutrition offers key insights from the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) to catalyze follow-up actions across the world. It reviews current evidence on the prevalence of ma...
by Vikas Rawal | On 23 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 interview is with D Raghunandan of Delhi Science Forum on India’s pledge regarding climate changes negotiations in Paris. The pledge was recently revealed in the documents presented by Prakash J...
by D Raghunandan | On 20 Oct 2015 This report provides an overview on the main issues debated during the development and passage of the India’s National Food Security Act (2013), which legally binds national and state governments to e...
by Harsh Mander | 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 paper documents the pervasiveness of women’s lack of income security in old age across a large number of countries, but also points to a number of important policy measures that can be taken to a...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 This paper reviews the literature on migration in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, East Africa and West Africa in order to highlight the complexity of migration patterns and impacts. It is...
by Tasneem Siddiqui | On 19 Oct 2015 Globalized production networks, or global value chains, provide an opportunity for small and medium enterprises to upscale their business models and to grow across borders, though with global opportun...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Oct 2015 Using a theoretical framework that
combines the essence of Ramsay’s growth model and the New-Keynesian macrodynamics,
and applying the Kalman filter estimation technique, this paper finds that
Indi...
by Harendra Behera | 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 Review of Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 304 pp. Rs 6424 (Hardcover)
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 14 Oct 2015 This paper deals with issues related to employment and income (decent work) that arise through the integration of Indian production into global value chains. The sectors looked into are labour-intensi...
by | On 12 Oct 2015 The 2015-16 Global Monitoring Report, produced jointly by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, details the progress the world has made towards global development goals and examines the impa...
by International Monetary Fund [IMF] | On 09 Oct 2015 This paper explores the role of social networks in the migration process in Bangladesh. Migration can be costly and can also involve considerable risks around finding adequate housing and employment....
by | On 08 Oct 2015 This brief highlights a central problem the living and working conditions of migrants in the Gulf States. Finding work is what motivates nine out of every ten migrants worldwide. In the Middle East, 2...
by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC | On 07 Oct 2015 This ILO flagship report provides a global overview of the organization of social protection systems, their coverage and benefits, as well as public expenditures on social protection. The report follo...
by Internaional Labour Organization [ILO] | On 07 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 report explores a recently created data set on youth employment with a specific focusing on the topic of informal employment. Recent evidence shows that informal labour markets are growing and oc...
by | On 07 Oct 2015 This paper evaluates the attempt to create public goods via microfinance loans. Microfinance loans in the production of goods with public goods characteristics signify an emergent micro-privatisation....
by Philip Mader | On 06 Oct 2015 This synthesis paper informs the development community about the effects of climate change on migration patterns within and out of developing countries, concentrating on the economic aspects of migrat...
by | On 29 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 Social capital is often extolled as a benevolent resource, but resources can be applied to any number of ends. Using new data from the India Human Development Survey (N=41,544), the author examined so...
by Lester Andrist | On 28 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 Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility argues that the development of sustainable urban transport systems requires a conceptual leap. The purpose 'transportation' and 'mobility' is to gain...
by UN-HABITAT | On 25 Sep 2015 Despite the fact that the number of internal migrants globally is at least 740 million, nearly four times the number of international migrants, there is hardly any discussion on internal remittances a...
by | On 25 Sep 2015 The Global Nutrition Report 2015 is a report card on the world’s nutrition globally, regionally, and country by country and on efforts to improve it. It assesses countries’ progress in meeting global...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 24 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 Manufacturing has historically offered the fastest path out of poverty, but there is mounting evidence that this path may be all but closed to developing countries today. Some have suggested that ser...
by Amrit Amirapu | On 23 Sep 2015 This report from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geo-economics maps out the challenges that current geo-economic trends pose for globalisation. Findings show that the rise in strat...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 Although India’s plans for market reforms and opening up agriculture with earnest optimism and anticipation, every step on the way was laced with caution and deliberation and every action was weighed...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 21 Sep 2015 The rising incidence of suicides, and mental health problems in India, especially among youth, cannot be wished away. There is a critical need to recognise the malevolent neglect of the state of ment...
by Nikhil Govind | On 20 Sep 2015 This paper reviews the literature on the performance of commonly found social safety net programs in developing countries. The evidence suggests that universal food subsidies have very limited potenti...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 The Global Innovation Index (GII) aims to capture the multi-dimensional facets of innovation and provide the tools that can assist in tailoring policies to promote long-term output growth, improved pr...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 The paper addresses the issue of growth and development by looking at evidence from six country case studies to assess how to enhance the employment impact of social protection programmes by improving...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 16 Sep 2015 This paper compares, in historical perspective, the conditions for democracy, economic development and well-being in India and Scandinavia. Within India, it compares the states of Kerala and West Beng...
by | On 16 Sep 2015 Limited statistics on internal migration, international migration, and remittances worldwide prohibit understanding of migration’s role in the agricultural transformation process. Insights from the qu...
by Valerie Mueller | On 16 Sep 2015 This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a cor...
by Michael Clemens | On 16 Sep 2015 Despite the substantial benefits generated by the migration flow between India-GCC migration flow, many challenges remain to ensure a fairer distribution of the profits. Much has been written on the a...
by | On 15 Sep 2015 This paper encompasses two major themes - local governance and citizens' participation in five neighbouring countries in South Asia, their trials, achievements and failures. Whether their experiences...
by | 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 Domestic work remains one of the key occupations for many female migrants in Southeast Asia. As a low skilled, low-wage job with often inadequate legal protection, domestic work is an occupation that...
by | On 14 Sep 2015 Open and participatory budget making is imperative for good
governance; yet by international standards India fares badly
on this count. This article analyses the process of budget
preparation and...
by Vinod Bhanu | On 11 Sep 2015 The Human Capital Index released by the World Economic Forum measures countries’ ability to maximize and leverage their human capital endowment. The index assesses Learning and Employment outcomes ac...
by | On 11 Sep 2015 This report details the vision for 12th Five Year Plan on Nutrition which is to move towards Nutrition Security- especially the more vulnerable infants and young children, adolescent, girls and women,...
by Planning Commission | On 10 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 Human trafficking is a large and growing problem, and sex trafficking is a particularly egregious form of contemporary enslavement of the most vulnerable: women and children. Yet a decade of anti-traf...
by Aditee Maskey | 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 More than half of Rural Maharashtra defecates in the open. The main issue to understand is the nexus between the access to water and adoption of sanitation practices. It is also interesting to underst...
by Parliamentarian's Group for Children PGC | On 09 Sep 2015 Cross-border population movement, an indispensible feature of the current phase of globalisation, has led to significant changes in the migration landscape. Factors like temporisation of labour flows,...
by | On 09 Sep 2015 The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority group in Arakan State, Burma, are among the most vulnerable and persecuted populations across the globe. Despite their significant historical presence in the cou...
by Cresa L. Pugh | On 08 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 Critically analysing assumptions is a much needed endeavour in international development policy and practice: existing management tools rarely encourage critical thinking and there are considerable po...
by | 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 The benefits of strengthening physical connectivity in a geographically contiguous region are increasingly being recognised. These links are expected to increase economic activity and people-to-people...
by Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury | On 07 Sep 2015 In any health system, the health worker determines the nature and quality of services provided. Data demonstrate that most health systems across the globe face nursing shortages, varying across region...
by | On 07 Sep 2015 In India, research on human development has received considerable importance from both the academic and policy point of view. However, all the previous studies on human development mainly focused on t...
by Swati Dutta | On 04 Sep 2015 The Kerala Perspective Plan 2030 (KPP) is a Government of Kerala initiative that will serve as the basis for implementation of a series of initiatives aimed at fostering sustainable and inclusive grow...
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 04 Sep 2015 The article begins with a discussion of definitional issues regarding human trafficking and modern slavery and then briefly critiques some popular claims regarding each problem. Examples of macro-leve...
by Ronald Weitzer Weitzer | On 03 Sep 2015 This paper explores why migrants at their destination fare better than nonmigrants, across different socio-economic classes in India, while the general perception of migrants is that they are less end...
by Vamsi Vakulabharanam | On 03 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 This paper examines the links between gender equality and rural employment for poverty reduction by constructing a gender analytical framework to interpret differentiated patterns and conditions of wo...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 02 Sep 2015 This paper provides a brief history of feminist contributions to the analysis of gender, poverty, and inequality in the field of international development. It draws out the continuous threads running...
by Naila Kabeer | On 01 Sep 2015 Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resou...
by Tony Addison | On 01 Sep 2015 This paper discusses migration trends and issues concerning young people in Asia - a region hosting more than 60 per cent of world’s youth population and one third of the global number of young migran...
by | On 01 Sep 2015 Over the last decade, the landscape of Bangladesh has changed remarkably. Persistent mobility of people questions existing development strategies, which are largely based on sectoral approaches
that...
by Rita Afsar | On 31 Aug 2015 This paper highlights a strategic framework to eradicate rural poverty by 2015 with the rural household as the central unit. It is based on the premise that the livelihoods of rural households depend...
by Ministry of Rural Development Government of India | 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 This study aims to shed light on the industry that profits from the recruitment of women from South Asian countries into domestic work employment in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Banglad...
by Katharine Jones | On 27 Aug 2015 Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a trade-off between the quality and quantity of children. Evaluating this hypothesis e...
by Susan Averett | On 26 Aug 2015 The aim of the paper is to review trends in developments of bilateral agreements (BAs) and MOUs focussing on low-skilled migration based on a global mapping exercise and and highlight agreements which...
by Piyasiri Wickramasekara | On 26 Aug 2015 This article unravels the migrants’ incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows. Mismatch is the situation in which workers have jobs for which lower skill levels a...
by | On 26 Aug 2015 The labour market structure plays a vital role in chalking out the development and growth path of a country. The labour market polices, institutions, and patterns of employment in turn determine the s...
by Biju Varkkey | On 26 Aug 2015 The present study on evaluation of the NREGA Scheme is intended to assess the impact of this scheme on the status of child care services at worksites of the NREGA, status of facilities available to wo...
by Madhuri Karak | On 25 Aug 2015 The report takes into account present scenario of urban poverty in India. Incidence of urban poverty can be attributed to lack of development as also to the nature and pattern of development. Importa...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 This note provides background data and analysis on what has been happening to aid flows and the resulting change in aid architecture. It is based on data taken from the OECD/DAC and on a review of the...
by Homi Kharas | On 25 Aug 2015 Development assistance contributes significantly to the development process of Cambodia. After the first General Election in 1993, there have been at least 35 official donors and hundreds of civil soc...
by Ek Chanboreth | On 25 Aug 2015 Since 2008, an average of 26.4 million people have been displaced from their homes each year by disasters brought on by natural hazards- equivalent to one person displaced every second.
Policy make...
by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre | On 24 Aug 2015 This study aims to help identify how a future multilateral agreement on agricultural trade can provide a secure framework within which developing countries can pursue effective policies to ensure thei...
by Stephen Devereux | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper analyses an overview of china human development in Time and Space. The paper covers themes like regional inequality in China Since 1952 and Urban-Rural Inequality, 1980-2000. The paper is a...
by | On 21 Aug 2015 The research draws on interviews with rural-urban migrant construction workers in Kathmandu as well as with families of construction workers, other migrant labourers and non-migrants in two contrastin...
by | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper compares the experience of poverty reduction in China and India. It finds that more than economic growth per se, what has mattered crucially is the nature of the growth: whether it is assoc...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 21 Aug 2015 One of the well-known barriers to development is persistence of disadvantage among communities. The lack of occupational and therefore upward social mobility continues to restrain households from achi...
by | On 20 Aug 2015 This paper provides an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development th...
by | On 20 Aug 2015 It is essential to better understand the nature, shortcomings and potential of South-South development cooperation in order to inform and strengthen CSO advocacy for greater development effectiveness...
by The Reality of Aid Network | On 20 Aug 2015 Cross-border migration for the purpose of marriage is on the rise, and at present it constitutes one of the most common forms of long-term international mobility in East Asia. The articles included he...
by | On 20 Aug 2015 This paper deals with the interface between science and economics in environmental policy making in India. It explains Nehru‘s concept of scientific temper and its influence in the formulation of scie...
by U. Sankar | On 19 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 This ILO paper highlights the relationship between inadequate mechanisms of recruitment and forced labour in its third Global Report on Forced Labour in 2009, stating that “there is growing awareness...
by Peter Swiniarski | On 12 Aug 2015 India’s urban transition has the potential to shift the country’s social, environmental, political and economic trajectory. Urbanisation will interact with the country’s ongoing demographic evolution...
by Indian Institute for Human Settlements | On 12 Aug 2015 This working paper records the findings of the project and discusses the key principles that underpin the Danish and Finnish welfare states. The paper reflects on the critical issues that must be cons...
by Valerie Koh | On 11 Aug 2015 The health conditions and mobility patterns of female migrant workers are subjects that sit at the crossroads of multiple pressing issues, best understood in the context of social, economic and politi...
by Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women (GAATW) | On 11 Aug 2015 This working paper embodies the results of trade and transport facilitation audit which was carried out in the Bangladesh context, as part of a South Asian regional study.The study documents the major...
by Naimul Saif | On 11 Aug 2015 The need to reduce ‘demand’ for trafficked persons is widely mentioned in the anti-trafficking sector but few have looked at ‘demand’ critically or substantively. Some ‘demand’-based approaches have b...
by Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women (GAATW) | On 10 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 paper presents an economic model of human trafficking that encompasses all known economic factors that affect human trafficking both across and within national borders. The authors envision human...
by Elizabeth M. Wheaton | On 05 Aug 2015 This set of three papers explores new urban spaces and accumulation under post-colonial capitalism, through the themes of infrastructure and the new urban political subject, migrant labour, and commun...
by Mithilesh Kumar | On 04 Aug 2015 Social Sector performs an effective function in human resource development and hence it is very important to study how the
economic reforms are influencing social sector expenditures. Any economic re...
by Runa Paul | On 03 Aug 2015 Education is a basic human right and considered by many as a key tool for national development. However, this tenet has been challenged by several economists, especially Pritchett (1996). His empirica...
by Gazi Mahabubul Alam | On 03 Aug 2015 This report is by the National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India is part of the series on household consumer expenditure on utilisation of...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 31 Jul 2015 Review of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 512 pp. Rs. 3.775/- (Hardcover), ISBN 978-0-231-16340-8.
by Mark Bray | On 31 Jul 2015 This paper takes on an older debate that the agriculture transformation in
the regional economy of Kerala has been mainly driven by ‘peasant
rationality’. It argues that the agrarian transformation...
by Viswanathan P K | On 31 Jul 2015 In this Briefing paper the focus has been exclusively on one half of the inequality equation - ending extreme poverty. Inequality and the extreme wealth that contributes to it were seen as either not
...
by Oxfam International | On 30 Jul 2015 The youth constitutes the largest segment of the Indian population. Being the primary productive human resource, the socio-economic development of the Indian youth is directly linked to the developmen...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 Poverty and environmental factors are interlinked and hold crucial importance for economic development. The poor depend so much on their natural resource base and primary production sources that the d...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 This paper examines, in particular, the effects on educational mobility of a well-known maternal and child health and family planning program in Matlab Bangladesh. Results suggest that the program res...
by Andrew Foster | On 29 Jul 2015 This volume contains three research papers, entitled “Heat of the Barbed Wire: Engendered lives along the borderlands of West Garo Hills” by Anjuman ara Begum; “Sanitized Societies and Dangerous Inter...
by Anjuman Ara Begum | On 24 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 The article tells us about what are the positive aspects of Juvenile Justice bill what it is lacking.
by Bharti Ali | On 23 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 Economic mobility is a significant consequence of income inequality and growth. In this paper, authors have used a unique ARIS/ REDS surveys data set for rural India spanning three decades to determin...
by Kailash Chandra Pradhan | On 21 Jul 2015 This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. It shows that a reform that untied access to housing i...
by Lakshmi Iyer | On 20 Jul 2015 Social protection policies play a critical role in realizing the human right to social security for all, reducing poverty and inequality, and supporting inclusive growth – by boosting human capital an...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 17 Jul 2015 This study explores the three-way linkage between weather variability, agricultural performance and internal migration in India. It estimates a two-equation model, which examines variations in weather...
by | On 17 Jul 2015 Amidst calls for reform of international financial institutions and failure of existing development banks to satisfy the development financing needs of developing countries in general, and BRICS in pa...
by | On 16 Jul 2015 After following inward oriented economic policies for nearly four decades, India opened up to international trade in the early 1990s. Since then, the trade integration of the Indian economy in general...
by Pankaj Vashisht | On 16 Jul 2015 Review of Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014. 496 pp. Rs. 2268/- Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-8131-4564-8.
by J. Simon Rofe | On 15 Jul 2015 Given that mental health and other non-communicable diseases were conspicuously omitted from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and have only been weakly mentioned in draft Sustainable Developme...
by Alexander C. Tsai | On 09 Jul 2015 This working paper examines the migration drivers into the two low-paid and insecure occupations of domestic work and construction work from rural areas in Indonesia. While the ideas of migration exis...
by Khoo Choon Yen | On 06 Jul 2015 If the entry of foreign banks results in a concentrated banking sector, as has been the case in several Central and Eastern European countries, then the goals of achieving financial inclusion are adve...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 05 Jul 2015 The paper discusses how gaps in both the data on migration and the understanding of the role of migration in livelihood strategies and economic growth in India, have led to inaccurate policy prescript...
by Priya Deshingkar | On 03 Jul 2015 The concept of economic development has undergone a major change over the past few decades. The authors explain the conceptual and
methodological framework based on which one may be able to assess so...
by Dipankor Coondoo | On 02 Jul 2015 This paper assesses the case for promoting financial education in Asia. It argues that the benefits of investing in financial education can be substantial. Data are limited, but indicate low financial...
by | On 29 Jun 2015 The school education system needs a desperate overhaul. The human resource development minister in New Delhi be focusing on it too, in the middle of her other pressing concerns.
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 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 There are an estimated 750 million internal migrants in the world, yet the effects of access to internal migration for rural households are not well understood. Internal migrants may provide wealth tr...
by Cynthia Kinnan | On 25 Jun 2015 This paper attempts to capture how India embraced the world
economy against the backdrop of the evolving domestic and international economic policy environment. It began with a brief overview of the...
by | On 24 Jun 2015 This technical paper provides evidence-based estimates of the likelihood of disaster-induced displacement in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It att...
by Justin Ginnetti | On 24 Jun 2015 As India has embarked upon economic reforms during the 1990s, published data from the 2001 Census provides an opportunity to study the country's urbanization process with reference to regional inequal...
by R. B. Bhagat | On 23 Jun 2015 This review of the published academic literature on internal and regional migration for domestic work shows a dearth of studies on internal migration for domestic work in South Asia. The existing lite...
by Priya Deshingkar | On 23 Jun 2015 On a hot summer’s day in 1982, while walking through a jungle path in
Bankura, West Bengal, anthropologist Narayan Banerjee asked an old
Santhal woman who was accompanying him to narrate her experie...
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 19 Jun 2015 Global forced displacement has seen accelerated growth in 2014, once again reaching unprecedented levels. The year saw the highest displacement on record. By end-2014, 59.5 million individuals were fo...
by United Nations Human Rights Commission | On 19 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 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 The Himachal Pradesh HDR attempts to assess and explain the status of human development in the State and articulate policy implications. In the light of the definition of human development itself, iss...
by Himachal Pradesh Government of India | On 09 Jun 2015 Health worker migration theories have tended to focus on labour market conditions as principal push or pull factors. The role of education systems in producing internationally oriented health workers...
by | 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 This paper examines changes in the gender wage gap in India between the years 1999-2000 and 2009-2010, and analyses its determinants. Results of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition reveal that in the las...
by Nayni Gupta | On 05 Jun 2015 On 12 February 2015, hundreds of workers of garment factories at Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon, came out on the streets and pelted stones at some of the garment factory buildings in response to the rumour of t...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 05 Jun 2015 India and China, two of the world's oldest civilisations, have had little historically relevant interactions with one other. Separated by the world's highest mountain range, the Himalayas, neither of...
by Himanil Raina | On 04 Jun 2015 This paper examines a number of questions that have a bearing on women’s employment in South Asia. The characteristic features of the region such as the predominantly rural, agrarian economy; patriarc...
by | On 04 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 report mainly focuses on agricultural research and education so as to make the system demand-driven, enhance technology flow to farmers and bring transformational changes in Indian agriculture. T...
by Planning Commission | 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 present report is an attempt to focus on how our national policies and programmes can be better appreciated and reflected in the country’s obligations and commitments to the various international...
by Planning Commission | On 25 May 2015 Strengthening of Drugs Regulatory Mechanisms is one of the major public health interventions. This ensures that safe, efficacious and quality drugs are made available to the people. Keeping in view th...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 21 May 2015 International reporting of the large-scale migration of those leaving Burma in search of work abroad has highlighted the perils for migrant during travel and in host countries. However, there has been...
by | On 18 May 2015 Indonesia has one of the highest rates of workers seeking employment abroad, with the majority of these workers being females employed in domestic service. Due to the nature of recruitment, the proces...
by | On 15 May 2015 This report is a summary of the major policy issues raised at discussions among experts and practitioners from various international organizations and several Asian countries at the Third Roundtable o...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 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 Child labour is a complex problem basically rooted in poverty. The Government of India has formulated policies since the economic reforms of the early 1990s. Children under fourteen comprise 3.6 per c...
by Mita Bhattacharya | On 14 May 2015 This year the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will formally establish the ASEAN Community, which is set to enhance regional community building among its member states. Ramses Amer makes...
by | On 13 May 2015 The main focus of this paper is to examine the performance, outcomes and impact of MGNREGA Scheme on beneficiary households. This article is based on a field survey carried out in 2010 in three villag...
by Vijay Korra | On 13 May 2015 Policy emphasis in Indian economic development planning has always been on ‘economic growth with income redistribution’. Such a strategy seeks to exploit the potential of development programmes for po...
by Suryanarayana M H | On 11 May 2015 This Report of the Standing Committee on Water Resources deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations / observations contained in their Eleventh Report on Water Resources (2008...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 11 May 2015 The April 2015 issue of IMI Konnect contains the following articles - “A Grand Design”, by Rajat Kathuria; “Budget 2015-16 and India's “Vishva Guru”; Dream”, by Vighneswara Swamy; “Micro Vs Macro Impa...
by IMI Konnect | On 08 May 2015 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 which is a rights-based flagship scheme of the Government of India with effect from 2 February, 2006, guarantees at least 100...
by | On 06 May 2015 The report explores how communities in the most devastated areas of the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima got their information. It identifies which communications channels were used before,...
by Lois Appleby | On 04 May 2015 This Report examines: human development index and profile for India and its states; economic attainment of the population, especially in terms of the two major sources of income-employment and assets;...
by | On 27 Apr 2015 This reports reflects development in the fields of population, Human development index, labour and houses, employment, prices, agriculture, industry.
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 24 Apr 2015 Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration and an aging population. We present a general migration model which captures the id...
by Kailing Shen | On 22 Apr 2015 This joint study of the Asian Development Bank and the International Labour Organization examines the impact of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) on labor. It highlights the challenges and opportunit...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Apr 2015 In context of contemporary debates about the government’s plan to rehabilitate Kashmiri Pandits, this paper presents perspectives on the creation of separate townships, grounding these in the historic...
by Sheetal Munshi | On 21 Apr 2015 The report documents compendium of state policies from perspective of climate change mitigation with findings such as many states endowed with rich natural resources are naturally very environment fri...
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 This issue of Global Media Journal - Canadian Edition spotlights international perspectives on network neutrality focusing on the politics, policies and practices of network management. Contents - Int...
by | On 15 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 Globally, the number of adults and children who are trafficked for forced labour, bonded labour or commercial sexual exploitation is estimated to be about 12 million. Though India has made several com...
by K G Santhya | On 10 Apr 2015 Internally displaced persons operation was one of the first against armed anti-state fighters in the tribal belt, and marked the beginning of operations across the seven tribal agencies of the Federal...
by International Crisis Group | On 06 Apr 2015 The paper empirically maps the annual distribution commitment (61.43 MMTs) of the government with the procurement pattern of rice and wheat, for each quarter, to estimate the quarterly operational sto...
by Shweta Saini | On 01 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 Millions of footloose and impoverished men, women and children in India, migrate from the countryside each year to cities – in crowded trains, buses, trucks and sometimes on foot – their modest belong...
by Harsh Mander | On 30 Mar 2015 A comprehensive overview of a few empirical studies is presented that have explored the issue of Trilemma in the Indian context. Based on these studies an analysis is done on how have Indian policy ma...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 30 Mar 2015 ASEAN is in a unique position to push for heightened global awareness and action for the vulnerable Pacific populations facing the possibility of relocation. Yet, it is strangely silent on the issue....
by | 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 Migration has been a common phenomenon in South Asia for hundreds of years, especially between bordering countries. Apart from intraregional migration, the Gulf oil boom sparked a different type of la...
by | On 25 Mar 2015 The March 2015 issue of IMI Konnect contains the following articles - “Perceptions on Financial Inclusion”, by Basabi Bhattacharya; “Does Innovation Lie in the Eyes of the Beholder?”, by Devjani Chatt...
by IMI Konnect | On 23 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 This FAQ is intended to be a ready reckoner for trade and industry including their associations and bodies; students of international trade, academicians, trade researchers etc for understanding the s...
by | On 16 Mar 2015 The World Water Development Report is produced by the World Water Assessment Programme, a programme of UN-Water hosted by UNESCO, and is the result of the joint efforts of the UN agencies and entities...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 13 Mar 2015 This paper argues that that per capita income in all states in India increased in the past four decades but in fact no sign of convergence could be visible as it was expected in the context of liberal...
by | On 13 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 Review of Shifting Ground: People, Animals and Mobility in India's Environmental History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 308 pp. Rs. 818 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-809895-9.
by | On 13 Mar 2015 This report explores how gender equality can contribute to food security. Its focus is on Asia and the Pacific, though developments in other regions are also referenced. The report describes the relat...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Mar 2015 The paper intends to revisit this argument, particularly in the light of the change in deficits and surpluses in the world economy. The paper tries to trace the genesis of BWII to the debates which or...
by Krishnakumar S | On 10 Mar 2015 Despite significant progress since the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, women continue to experience widespread discrimination and inequality in the workplace. Twenty years later the...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 09 Mar 2015 2014 has brought India’s environmental movement to a crossroad. On the one hand, there is a greater acceptance of our concerns, but on the other hand, there is also growing resistance against the requ...
by Sunita Narain | On 26 Feb 2015 Efficient water management has emerged as a critical challenge of environmental protection and human security in the twenty-first century. Lack of water management affects the hydrological cycle of th...
by | On 24 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 An outcome report of IMF-World Bank meetings held in October 2014, this report highlights the stark inequalities in human development in South Asia. Based on parameters such as monetary indicators, he...
by Martin Rama | On 17 Feb 2015 A preliminary analysis of the spatial determinants of firms’ export activities by Indian states has been undertaken in this study. Thus, the present study attempts to fill the gap by focusing on issue...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 06 Feb 2015 This paper outlines the trends and patterns of migrants . It also discusses the impact and socioeconomic characteristics of migration in Delhi.
by | On 05 Feb 2015 The Delhi Human Development Report, 2013, has been structured around the theme ‘Improving Lives, Promoting Inclusion’. This theme encompasses all the fundamental concerns of human development that is,...
by | On 05 Feb 2015 The study has been conducted to collect first hand information about population settled in Delhi in JJ clusters and unauthorised colonies. The major objectives of the study are to assess the migration...
by Urban & Regional Planning | On 04 Feb 2015 The paper mainly discusses the issues and policies relating to inequality in Southeast Asia. Policies to reduce inequality include more efficient fiscal policies, improve infrastructure and generating...
by Josef Yap | On 29 Jan 2015 The paper distinguishes between the stock of income generating assets such as human capital and wealth and deriving income flows in order to clarify the differences between growth-equity trade off deb...
by Pierre Kohler | On 28 Jan 2015 Formerly entitled Global Employment Trends, the World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2015 includes a forecast of global unemployment levels and explains the factors behind this trend, includin...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 22 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 A better understanding of the socio-economic root causes and a new assessment of the profits of forced labour are important to bringing about long-term change. This report highlights how forced labour...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 19 Jan 2015 The paper examines the policies of the central as well as state governments with respect to the agricultural market, specifically in rice and wheat markets, analyses their shortcomings and argues for...
by Anandi Subramanian | On 16 Jan 2015 This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to dif...
by Niels-Hugo Blunch | On 29 Dec 2014 This brief discusses China's political, economic, territorial, and security relations with North Korea. It suggests that although China remains North Korea's most important ally as well as its biggest...
by | On 26 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 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 In the Indian context, the challenge to reducing undernutrition is twofold. Firsty, the
evidence on the prevalence of undernutrition as well as its trend over the years varies by
indicators and by r...
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 23 Dec 2014 This paper reviews migration policy frameworks in South Asia and their implications for governance of migration, protection of migrant workers and maximizing development benefits of migration. The pap...
by Piyasiri Wickramasekara | On 19 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 Migration from rural areas of India contributes to urbanisation and lifestyle change, and dietary changes may increase the risk of obesity and chronic diseases. It tests the hypothesis that rural-to-u...
by Shah Ebrahim | On 02 Dec 2014 In India, efforts of the National AIDS Control Programme have been successful in reducing overall HIV incidence in the country by 50 percent with focused interventions with female sex workers (FSWs),...
by Population Council | On 01 Dec 2014 The student parties on campus are essentially student wings of larger national parties, which
command huge amounts of resources that are used during elections, often instigating conflict and
violenc...
by Soumyanetra Munshi | On 01 Dec 2014 This study has used India Human Development Survey, 2005 to study
the factors influencing the Body Mass Index (BMI) of women between 20
to 40 years of age in India. BMI captures both undernutrition...
by Shikha Dahiya | On 28 Nov 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 Historically, urbanization has been a great force of economic transformation, modernization and social change in the developed world. On the flip side, migration has been blamed for the woes of modern...
by Ram Bhagat | On 21 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 Using rich longitudinal survey data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS), evidence is
presented on the relationship between three measures of health- and education-related human capital
of c...
by Daniel LaFave | On 17 Nov 2014 Migration and urbanization are direct manifestations of the process of economic development in space, particularly in the contemporary phase of globalization. Understanding the causes and consequences...
by Amitabh Kundu | On 11 Nov 2014 Urbanisation in India is neither unique nor exclusive but is similar to a world-wide phenomenon. Indian urbanisation has proceeded as it has elsewhere in the world as a part and product of economic ch...
by K.C. Sivaramakrishnan | On 11 Nov 2014 Youth unemployment and the difficulty of transiting from school to work has been a persistent and significant problem not just in the Philippines, but throughout the Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Th...
by Mark Canlas | On 04 Nov 2014 During the last decade, Bangladesh maintained a stable growth rate of around 6 per cent, and gross domestic product (GDP) doubled in the period 2000–12. Unfortunately, economic growth has not translat...
by Kazi Ali Toufique | On 31 Oct 2014 The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region has an international emigrant population of more than 21 million people who remitted US$112 billion to their home countries in 2013. The region also hosts more t...
by Ahmad Ahsan | On 31 Oct 2014 Robust plans need to be developed for rapidly evacuating victims from a nuclear disaster site. Although nuclear plants are constructed with multiple redundant safety features, the chances of a leak ca...
by Debjit Roy | On 30 Oct 2014 Social and economic challenges facing young people today must be understood in terms of the
complex interaction between unique demographic trends and specific economic contexts. There
has been an...
by Ragui Assaad | On 27 Oct 2014 The tension between trade and climate change has arisen in part because of the assumption that climate change action (e.g., carbon price increases) can be taken as a given. The question that many pape...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 20 Oct 2014 The current perspective on the flow of people is almost exclusively focused on permanent migration from poorer to richer countries and on immigration policies in industrial countries. This perspective...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 20 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 Increasing unemployment of youth and a poor quality of youth employment are among the key problems of the modern labour market. According to the ILO, the number of unemployed youth aged 15 to 24 has b...
by Marina Baskakova | On 16 Oct 2014 This paper examines the labour market characteristics for adults and the entire population. Then it analyses challenges and opportunities in labour market for youth. Next, the paper discusses the exis...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 15 Oct 2014 Despite economic growth, government latrine construction, and increasing recognition among policymakers that open defecation constitutes a health and human capital crisis, it remains stubbornly widesp...
by Diane Coffey | On 07 Oct 2014 Rapid human development progress in India, Bangladesh and other South Asian nations is helping drive a historic shift in global dynamics, with hundreds of millions of people rising from poverty and bi...
by Rameshwar Jat | On 26 Sep 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 Internal migrant construction workers in Bangladesh face unduly harsh conditions of work. This brief identifies a number of problems that all construction workers face, but they are particularly perti...
by C R Abrar | On 24 Sep 2014 Research conducted by the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium in Nepal on the impact of such migration, demonstrated that migration has a positive role in helping households of migr...
by Jagannath Adhikar | On 24 Sep 2014 India’s recent development cooperation activities with the South have provoked global curiosity. Two factors shape this interest. First, the strong growth of some countries like India, China and Brazi...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 18 Sep 2014 This report presents the results of the School-to-work transition surveys (SWTS) implemented in five countries in the Asia-Pacific region – Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Samoa and Viet Nam – in 2012 or...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 18 Sep 2014 In developing countries, a large part of the livelihood derives services of natural resources and ecosystem and these are critical for sustainable livelihoods. It has been universally acknowledged tha...
by Dharmendra Chandurkar | On 17 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 Migration is a process that gets intensified with the process of economic development. Population mobility from rural to urban areas is a common feature in India. Interestingly, this rural-urban migra...
by Debasis Chakraborty | On 11 Sep 2014 The India Skills Report 2014 report jointly prepared by CII, PeopleStrong and Wheebox details an overall picture depicting how students rank in terms of skills that are imperative to judge their emplo...
by Confederation of Indian Industry | On 11 Sep 2014 The WHO-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) for Water and Sanitation, which tracks progress towards the water and sanitation targets of the Millennium Development Goals, estimates that 36% of the wo...
by Clarissa Brocklehurst | On 10 Sep 2014 Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. I...
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 06 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 Given the phenomenal scale of internal migration in China, migrant health has become a prominent policy issue. Various policy actors are now involved in the development of migrant health policy. Howev...
by Yapeng Zhu | On 23 Aug 2014 The 2014 Report highlights the need for both promoting people's choices and protecting human development achievements. It takes the view that vulnerability threatens human development, and unless it i...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 20 Aug 2014 THE WORLD YOUTH REPORT explores the situation of young migrants from the perspective of young migrants themselves. The report highlights some of the concerns, challenges and successes experienced by y...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 12 Aug 2014 This paper studies how changes in climatic variables such as temperature and rainfall impact migration through agriculture. Bangladesh is recognized as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate...
by Paritosh Roy | On 31 Jul 2014 The present report focuses on science education, human resources in science & technology and public understanding of science. A custom-designed survey, the India Science Survey 2004, funded by INSA, w...
by Rajesh Shukla | 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 In the American animated television series, Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA), a visually Asian-influenced world of humans, animals and spirits plays out a history of violence, trauma and resistance....
by Gayatri Viswanath | On 24 Jul 2014 India’s health policy has focused on primary health centers and hospitals. The numbers of hospital beds, doctors, and nurses per 1000 persons have often been treated less as inputs and more as measure...
by Aarti Salve | On 14 Jul 2014 This
paper draws upon a selection of narratives from interviews with over
150 less skilled emigrant and returnee women workers from Trivandrum
district to argue that the conditions that structure i...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 14 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 This study examines the impact of India's Public Distribution System (PDS) on poor households in terms of income gains, reductions in the incidence and severity of poverty, as well as nutritional impr...
by R. Radhakrishna | On 07 Jul 2014 The importance of strengthening the human development (HD) achievements in a country to augment its growth potential is well known in development literature. Several initiatives to enhance the HD leve...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 24 Jun 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 Since the 1970s in particular, the countries of Western Asia and those of the Asia-Pacific region have been closely linked to each other through highly extensive movements of people. Opportunities cre...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 17 Jun 2014 To study the various definitions of a child as highlighted under the Constitution as well as under various other legislations and compare the various objectives which led to the differential criteria...
by Mubashshir Sarshar | On 09 Jun 2014 This report documents how hundreds of thousands of girls in Indonesia, some as young as 11, are employed as domestic workers in other people’s households, performing tasks such as cooking, cleaning, l...
by Human Rights Watch | On 09 Jun 2014 Tribal community practices and cultures, particularly the lack of traditional restrictions on women’s work and labour, have indeed been a significant factor in
bringing larger proportions of tribal w...
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 02 Jun 2014 With an urbanization level of 31.16 percent in 2011, India is the least urbanized country among the top
10 economies of the world. In addition, unlike other countries, the transition of workforce out...
by Ajay Sharma | On 26 May 2014 The term is feminisation of migration is misleading insofar as it suggests an absolute increase in the proportion of women migrants, when in fact by 1960 women already made up nearly 47 per cent of al...
by United Nations UN | On 26 May 2014 This report focuses on women in Qatar's domestic work sector. Amnesty International interviewed 52 women working as domestic workers in Qatar during research visits to the country. The bulk of the int...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 26 May 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 One of the key challenges confronting organizations is to improve the talent pipeline of women in the organization. Anecdotal evidence from the IT industry in India appears to suggest that a number of...
by Vasanthi Srinivasan | On 23 May 2014 This paper examines the issues related to just,
adequate and effective compensation in cases of medical negligence and provides certain
suggestions. [IIMA W.P. No.2014-03-27].
by Anurag K Agarwal | On 22 May 2014 The Report highlights the unique aspects of youth development in various regions but emphasizes that young people the world over are ultimately constrained in their efforts to contribute to their own...
by United Nations UN | On 16 May 2014 The report closely examines four areas of increasing concern that of particular importance when addressing the issue of employment: jobless growth, global informalisation of the labour market, economi...
by United Nations UN | On 16 May 2014 This document represents the first action plan on climate change adopted by Government of Karnataka. Assessments and conclusions presented are based on published research and data. The present knowled...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 12 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 Report surveys critical aspects of human development, from political freedoms and empowerment to sustainability and human security, and outlines a broader agenda for research and policies to resp...
by Jeni Klugman | On 06 May 2014 The Human Development Report 2011 explores the integral links between environmental sustainability and equity and shows that these are critical to expanding human freedoms for people today and in gene...
by Jeni Klugman | On 06 May 2014 The 2013 Human Development Report, The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World looks at the evolving geopolitics of our times, examining emerging issues and trends and also the new actors...
by Khalid Malik | On 06 May 2014 This report highlights the way in which poverty and a?uence intersect with age-old divisions of regional inequalities, gender, caste, and religion that have long structured human development in India....
by Sonalde Desai | 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 In India, public policies for human development are politically contested for many reasons like
diverse political interests, commitment to specific social bases by political regimes etc. They have
r...
by Shyam Singh | On 10 Apr 2014 This study uses micro data and an OLG model to show that general equi-
librium forces are critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate
fertility and household savings. [BREAD WP No....
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 03 Apr 2014 PUCL
through this statement, wishes to bring to the attention of the people of India, the serious
threat to democracy itself and the human rights challenges posed by the electoral alliances
and cal...
by People's Union of Civil Liberties PUCL | On 03 Apr 2014 In 2007-08, short-term migrants constituted 4.35 per cent of the rural workforce. A total of 9.25 million
households in rural India had short-term migrants.Using a nationally representative data for...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Mar 2014 Using the India Human Development Survey data for 2004-05,
two methodologies are used to estimate the earnings structure
of household nonfarm businesses owned by Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs)...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 20 Mar 2014 In this paper, an attempt is made to study the phenomenon of seasonal migration in India and its determinants by using the recent (2007-08) National Sample Survey (NSS) data.
by Jajati Keshari Parida | On 12 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 In this paper, an attempt is made to study the phenomenon of seasonal migration in India and its determinants by using the recent (2007-08) National Sample Survey (NSS) data.
It was found that prese...
by Jajati Keshari Parida | On 11 Mar 2014 The role of caste and community in class mobility and the impact of modernisation on such processes has long been a subject of local ethnographic research. This study, by using sample data from 1996 N...
by Anthony Heath | On 04 Mar 2014 Rather than place of origin (rural vs urban) or economic background, two educated parents most commonly characterise newly recruited software professionals in Bangalore. A survey of three software fir...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 04 Mar 2014 Inequality is rising in India alongside rapid economic growth, reinforcing the need to investigate social mobility. Are children from less well-off sections also able to rise to higher-paying position...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 04 Mar 2014 Rising inequality alongside rapid economic growth reinforces the need to examine patterns of social mobility in India. Are children from less well-off sections also able to rise to higher-paying posit...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 04 Mar 2014 This article analyses the possible links between economic growth, poverty and health, using panel data for the Indian states. The findings indicate that, though growth tends to reduce poverty, signifi...
by Indrani Gupta | On 04 Mar 2014 The report studies the extent and evolution of this lack of mobility by contrasting the inter-generational mobility rates of the historically disadvantaged scheduled castes and tribes in India with th...
by Viktoria Hnatkovska | On 28 Feb 2014 Explains how the social difference between the caste system and different tribes was contained even through the caste system was officially abolished. Presents a general model of social mobility based...
by Panizza Philipp | On 28 Feb 2014 This study was undertaken to assess the trends in HDI, human poverty index (HPI) and incidence of poverty among Indian states, the socio-economic, health, and diet and nutritional indicators which det...
by G.M. Antony | On 28 Feb 2014 The Government of India recently enacted the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act(NREGA) 2005.1 The NREGA guarantees onehundred days of wage employment every year to every rural household whose adu...
by G.M. Antony | On 28 Feb 2014 In 2006 Sachar Committee prepared a report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community in India. The Indian Constitution is committed to the equality of citizens and the res...
by Ministry of Human Resource Development, GOI | On 20 Feb 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 paper sheds light on the issue of internal migration for education and employment among the
youth. i.e those aged 15-32 years. The paper is a first step towards addressing the issue of whether
...
by Ajay Sharma | 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 fate and future of Pakistan has been an issue of considerable concern and anxiety not only inside Pakistan but in the world at large and South Asia in particular. The Fund for Peace project on the...
by S.D. Muni | On 22 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 This report first briefly delves into the historical context within which India's development cooperation must be seen and the role, objectives and the functioning of the DPA is explained. The report...
by Vivan Sharan | On 21 Jan 2014 Over the years, sanctions have emerged as a preferred foreign-policy tool for many States, especially in the West. Sanctions serve a number of purposes, including the application of economic and polit...
by Rishika Chauhan | On 21 Jan 2014 In many ways, India is kindred with its two neighbors, Bangladesh and Nepal. Whether it is in geography I or demographics, infrastructure or economic issues, or poverty and human development, these th...
by Jayshree Sengupta | On 21 Jan 2014 Gender equity is one of the five drivers of change in the Asian Development Bank(ADB) Strategy 2020. ADB recognizes that without harnessing the talents, human capital and economics potential of women,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 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 The relationship between governance and economic development is one of the most important areas of research in international development. Much of the
previous literature has focused on whether better...
by Kunal Sen | On 20 Jan 2014 The effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages are analysed over the course of the agricultural production cycle. It is shown theoretically that a forecast o...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 13 Jan 2014 This manual is a step by step guide to district planning which will assist
planners at the local, district and State levels. District planning, by taking into
account resources locally available, in...
by Planning Commission | On 07 Jan 2014 There are great opportunities for Open Access publications to advance human health, provided the medical research and publishing communities can rise to the challenges that come with them. There are m...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 06 Jan 2014 The aim of this paper is to analyse the different generations
of migration theory and remittances from the development economics perspective, examining in particular
the dichotomy between economic a...
by Puja Guha | On 02 Jan 2014 There are great opportunities for Open Access
publications to advance human health,
provided the medical research and publishing
communities can rise to the challenges
that come with them. There a...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 02 Jan 2014 This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of
their leadership. A database is constructed on the personal background of 932
politicians who were at...
by Marion Mercier | On 20 Dec 2013 This study examines time use data for 1244 children in the age-group 6-12 years in 274
villages in eight states in rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent
in school, time sp...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 02 Dec 2013 The paper addresses the migration-development debate by developing a framework for understanding
who are the migrants, what they are sending back, and how these transfers are being utilised in the lo...
by Puja Guha | On 28 Nov 2013 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 A Panel Discussion which forms a part of a nine-day program of certificate course in 'Labour Protection and Migration Services', a collaborative effort of Aajeevika Bureau and Tata Institute of Social...
by Tata Institue of Social Sciences TISS | On 20 Nov 2013 Qatar’s population is growing at a truly staggering rate. Between August 2012 and August 2013 it grew by 10.5 per cent.
This growth is driven primarily by the recruitment of low-paid migrant workers...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 19 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 This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. A simple illustrative model based on Dustmann (2003) is presented that incorporates economic
and non-economic motive...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 13 Nov 2013 Labor migration to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has massive effects on the GCC, the
countries migrants come from, and the migrants themselves and their families. Yet existing research on
...
by Michael Clemens | On 12 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 The major objective of the paper is to examine the economic conditions of the in-migrant
workers in Kerala. This has been done by analysing their savings, income and consumption
pattern and nature o...
by Dilip Saikia | On 11 Nov 2013 This paper introduces habit formation into an otherwise standard model of international
trade. The liberalization of internal agriculture trade in India will generate short-run caloric losses unless...
by David Atkin | On 23 Oct 2013 Modern slavery includes slavery, slavery-like practices (such as debt bondage, forced marriage, and sale or exploitation of children), human trafficking and forced labour.
This is the first year of...
by Walk Free Foundation | On 18 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 article shows how it is possible to achieve economic growth and equitable income distribution using human development approach through empirical evidence from the state of Kerala.
by Ankush Agrawal | On 14 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 gendered division of household labour, stigma attached to paid labour and status production
has precipitated withdrawal from paid work as a strategy to reduce the double burden of women. Upward s...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 09 Oct 2013 The State of the Urban Youth India 2013: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills is an attempt to pull together a data and knowledge base on and of youth in urban India. The focus of the Report is youth emplo...
by IRIS Knowledge Foundation IKF | On 08 Oct 2013 The Human Capital Index explores the contributors
and inhibitors to the development and deployment of a
healthy, educated and productive labour force, and has
generated the information contained in...
by World Economic Forum WEF | On 04 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 India is the top remittance receiving nation in the world. The international remittance receipts in India have grown at an impressive rate of 300 per cent during the past decade. Understanding the tru...
by Puja Guha | On 13 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 Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. The 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey is used to exa...
by Valerie Mueller | On 06 Sep 2013 The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term...
by Amita Shah | On 03 Sep 2013 A large-scale randomized experiment was conducted in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. [BREAD Working Paper No. 396].
by Emily Beam | On 03 Sep 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 The paper examines how the state and other agencies in the host state (Kerala) responded to reduce the vulnerability of inter-state
migrant workers. The paper also makes an assessment of a pioneering...
by N. Ajith Kumar | On 26 Aug 2013 After a long and gruelling campaign by ANS for the past eight years to enact a Law against
Superstition which harm the citizens, the Maharashtra State Government under the leadership
of the new Chie...
by Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmoolan Samiti MANS | On 22 Aug 2013 This paper argues that attempts at state-building in Afghanistan have led to institutions that are
not robust. The state institutions and organizations continue to be highly dependent on external
re...
by Frauke de Weijer | On 20 Aug 2013 Resolution and conclusions of the 101st Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 2012. [ILO].
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 16 Aug 2013 Using data on sibling pairs drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of
Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of having been breastfed on high school
graduation, high school grades, and coll...
by Denizhan Duran | On 08 Aug 2013 The role of the lactation consultant is to provide care, problem-solving, education, and counseling to
breastfeeding mothers and their families. These clinical
services, however, make up just one pa...
by International lactation Consultant Association | On 07 Aug 2013 This paper is an attempt to understand the emerging migration patterns in India and issues underlying it. With globalisation, urbanisation and accompanying changes in socio-economic conditions, migran...
by Sandhya Rani Mahapatro | On 07 Aug 2013 The present paper makes an attempt to analyse the progress of India in three important ‘basic human needs’ essential for a human life. These are access to latrine facility, safe drinking water and ele...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 01 Aug 2013 Obituary: Veena Mazumdar (1927-2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 31 Jul 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 The international trade in Afghan drugs is one of the most significant transnational threats emanating from Central Asia.
Exacerbated by weak border management, corruption, and lack of income-generat...
by Lars-Erik Lundin | On 26 Jul 2013 This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existenc...
by Kaivan Munshi | On 22 Jul 2013 Background: Poor nutritional status during adolescence is an important determinant of health outcome. The adolescents have different needs and have diverse problems. This study was conducted to asses...
by Dey I | On 15 Jul 2013 This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and incre...
by Samik Chowdhury | On 28 Jun 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 This study explores the three way linkage between weather variability,
agricultural performance and internal migration in India at state and
district level using Indian Census data.[MSE].
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 06 Jun 2013 The present study attempts
to, (a) analyse the broad patterns of temporary and permanent migration
in India; and (b) explore the determinants of temporary and permanent
migration with special focus...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 06 Jun 2013 Recently, it has been argued that political competition may have similar effects on economic performance as market competition. This study empirically examines this proposition by linking political co...
by Bharatee Bhushan Dash | On 05 Jun 2013 Panelists discuss the issues arising out of interstate migrations and its impact on the overall economy. [youtube].
by NDTV NDTV Profit | On 04 Jun 2013 Motivated by the concern that the recent surge in inflation could retard growth, the paper revisits the nexus between inflation and growth from the perspective of an emerging economy, India. Examining...
by Saumitra N Bhaduri | On 23 May 2013 This paper deals with the interface between science and economics in environmental policy making in India. It explains Nehru‘s concept of scientific temper and its influence in the formulation of scie...
by U. Sankar | On 23 May 2013 The study takes a comparative approach by examining household livelihood mobility within two very different villages, in the same district administration of Madhya Pradesh (MP), India. [ODI Working Pa...
by Caroline Wilson | On 26 Apr 2013 The question that is increasingly being posed is whether Kerala's education can continue to play a major role in the future without keeping up with the vast changes taking place in all disciplines. It...
by K.K. George | On 25 Apr 2013 This brief explores circular migration in India and the policy response, and impact of this
policy response, on the welfare of migrants and more broadly, on regional inequality. [ODI Policy Brief No....
by Kate Bird | On 24 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 The present study is concerned with the migrant who has changed his/her place of
residence from a state other than Punjab and is working in brick-kiln industry as worker. [Repec]. URL:[http://mpra.ub...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 15 Apr 2013 The India Migration Bibliography covers over 3,000 books, research articles and reports written on the subject of internal migration, international migration and diaspora, related to India. The biblio...
by Chinmay Tumbe | On 15 Apr 2013 The State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills developed and produced by IRIS Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai on a commission from the UN-HABITAT Global Urban Youth Research Net...
by Padma Prakash | On 14 Apr 2013 H.E Finance Minister’s Speech
for Mishrano Jirga. [Ministry of Finance, Afghanistan]. URL:[http://mof.gov.af/Content/files/HE%20Minister%20Speech%20to%20Mishranow%20Jirga-%20English%20after%20review....
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 10 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 There is lack of clarity and concepts in the Economic Survey. The Survey has not covered many topics which it was expected to cover.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 02 Mar 2013 Speech of Sh. Pawan Kumar Bansal. URL:[http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/finance_budget/Budget_2013-14/English_Speech_2013-14.pdf].
by Sh. Pawan Kumar Bansal | On 26 Feb 2013 Reviving economic growth is the priority of the government. [http://presidentofindia.nic.in/sp210213.html].
by Pranab Mukherjee | 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 This paper surveys 160 cases where biometric identification has been used for economic, political, and social purposes
in developing countries. About half of these cases have been supported by donors...
by Alan Gelb | On 15 Feb 2013 Indian Railways have to be investor friendly. The railway budget will have to deal with core issues such as mobilizing resources, controlling costs and offering competitive freight structure with an e...
by Sachin Bhanushali | On 14 Feb 2013 Recognizing that the domestic violence is a serious social evil; that there is incidence of domestic violence within
Bhutanese Society; that victims of domestic violence are the most vulnerable membe...
by National Assembly of Bhutan | On 11 Feb 2013 Journalism in South Asia is facing many challenges with physical security being a major issue in most of the region. Several countries may have improved relatively due to decisions to reduce the risks...
by International Federation of Journalists IFJ | On 04 Feb 2013 A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountain...
by Jean-Marie Baland | On 28 Jan 2013 The provision
by Tribeni Gogoi | On 18 Jan 2013 Legal mechanisms to achieve justice should factor in the challenges and roadblocks of its implementation, structural or otherwise, right from the stage of planning and framing the law. Law can be expe...
by D Manjit | On 08 Jan 2013 Review of the book Food Security in Asia, by Amitava Mukherjee Sage Publications India 2011
pp. xix+392, Rs 895/-.
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 04 Jan 2013 Review of the book 'Migration of Women Workers from South Asia to the Gulf' By Rakkee Thimothy, S.K. Sasikumar, UN Women, 2012
by R. S. Reshmi | On 24 Dec 2012 Review of the book 'Peace is Everybody's Business: Strategy for Conflict Prevention' by Arjun Ray. Number of pages: 264, Price Rs. 495/-.
by Irfan Engineer | On 03 Dec 2012 Review of the book 'Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific: How Can Countries Adapt?' Venkatachalam Anbumozhi; Meinhard Breiling; Selvarajah Pathmarajah; Vangimalla R. Reddy (Eds)
SA...
by Sunil Nautiyal | On 21 Nov 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 While a wide range of factors influence rural-rural and rural-urban migration in developing countries, there is significant interest in analyzing the role of agricultural distress and growing inter-re...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 05 Nov 2012 This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is show...
by E J Wilson | On 05 Nov 2012 Food wastage is prevalent in Southeast Asia and has significant implications for the region’s food, environmental and economic security. It is likely that the region wastes approximately 33 per cent o...
by Paul S Teng | On 08 Oct 2012 Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries?
A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked
to h...
by Prashant Bharadwaj | On 04 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 study aims at analyzing
the differentials across rich and poor states and across rich and poorer
strata and rural urban segments of 19 major Indian states. The study
indicates that besides ind...
by Brijesh C Purohit | On 28 Sep 2012 This paper identifies key knowledge gaps on the issue of migration and commuting workers in India. [WP-2012-023]. URL:[http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publication/WP-2012-023.pdf].
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Sep 2012 Although the urban health issue has been of long-standing interest to public health researchers, majority of
the studies have looked upon the urban poor and migrants as distinct subgroups. Another co...
by Prashant Kumar Singh | On 24 Sep 2012 This paper analyses the contribution of teachers in a public education system and
its implication for growth. Focus is given exclusively on two teacher-specfi?c inputs (teacher
quality and teacher q...
by Mausumi Das | On 21 Sep 2012 The results of the Kerala Migration
Survey (KMS) 2011. It is the fifth in the series of comprehensive studies
on international and internal migration from Kerala being undertaken
by the Centre for...
by K. C. Zachariah | On 20 Sep 2012 To provide for development of sports in India, coordination of national teams for participation in international events, fair and transparent functioning of autonomous sports bodies and welfare measur...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 12 Sep 2012 The earlier National Youth Policy was formulated in 1988. The socio-economic conditions in the country have since undergone a significant change and have been shaped by wide-ranging technological adva...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 12 Sep 2012 The policy processes of the policy on ‘Nurse practitioners in midwifery’ (NPM) are described. The policy aims to educate and create a new cadre of competent midwives in the government hospitals as an...
by Sharma Bharati | On 03 Sep 2012 Even though the economic and social benefits of thriving entrepreneurship and innovation are evident, it is critical to recognize that these benefits will only accrue if the key gaps in the ecosystem...
by Planning Commission | On 31 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 As sex ratio imbalances have become a problem in an increasing number of countries, it is important to understand their consequences. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one mi...
by Simon Chang | On 28 Aug 2012 This paper discusses the scope of the many challenges and sets out a long-term strategy for overcoming them and putting the Japanese economy on a stable growth path. [Working Paper No. 376]. URL:[http...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 24 Aug 2012 The objective of this report is to share a market level overview of the early stage progress of (Mobile Financial Services) MFS in Bangladesh up through the first quarter of 2012. A series of short s...
by Bangladesh Bank BB | On 23 Aug 2012 Review of the book Challenges for Development in 21st Century by Ruby Ojha, B.R. Publications, 2011.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 14 Aug 2012 Environmental change is regarded by many geopolitical experts as one of the biggest threats to international security in the coming
years. In Southern Asia, its impact on rivers, and thus water secur...
by Dhanasree Jayaram | On 07 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 Obituary: Mrinal Gore (1928-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 23 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 Using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005, intergenerational
occupational mobility in India is examined, an issue on which very few systematic and rigorous studies exist. Individ...
by Sripad Motiram | On 12 Jul 2012 On 24th May 2012, the United Nations Human Right Council reviewed India’s
human rights record during the 13th session of the Universal Periodic Review
(UPR) in Geneva, Switzerland. This was India’s...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 12 Jul 2012 The Philippines has often been cited as the global model in managing international
labor migration. Despite the complexity of our management infrastructure, however,
some gaps still remain. This pap...
by Julyn S Ambito | On 12 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 This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment
in primary schools among children in the 6–10 age group. A household-level
longitudinal survey is also done coveri...
by Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay | On 10 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 Biometric procedures are already accepted by millions of people every day on a variety of (social) internet platforms. Biometric identification procedures and their potential applications in everyday...
by Thomas F Dapp | On 05 Jul 2012 Budget of Bhutan 2012-13. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bt/downloads/BudgetReport2012.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Bhutan | On 04 Jul 2012 The United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development (Rio+20) takes
place in Rio de Janeiro on 20–22 June
2012. Twenty years after the 1992 Earth
Summit that led to the establishment of
two m...
by Georgina M Mace | On 02 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 An outline of what would be ideally needed for a comprehensive set of national accounts is given.
National governments and international agencies ought ideally to go even beyond green national accoun...
by Partha Dasgupta | On 22 Jun 2012 The paper examines the Chinese Economy on the basis of four factors namely, human development, education, growth and inequality.
[IZA DP No. 6550]
URL: [http://ftp.iza.org/dp6550.pdf]
by James J Heckman | On 01 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 This
paper employs a novel strategy to create a unique father-son matched data that is
representative of the entire adult male population in India. Using this father-son matched
data, the paper stu...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 28 May 2012 For a long time, sending countries have been the focus of efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). However, in recent years, destination countries such as Singapore have also stepped up their e...
by Pau Khan Khup Hangzo | On 23 May 2012 The objective of this paper is to place in the public domain various facets and dimensions of black money
and its complex relationship with the policy and administrative regime in the country. The pa...
by Ministry of Finance | On 22 May 2012 In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be done about it.
Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human deve...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 21 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 Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and
can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of pover...
by Kate McQueston | On 15 May 2012 This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children’s
well-being. Using data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, an investigation of the...
by Michele Binci | On 11 May 2012 The Pendang parliamentary and Anak Bukit by-elections for the Kedah state legislative assembly
were among the most contentious of by-elections in recent Malaysian politics. Held
simultaneously on 18...
by K Ramanathan | On 10 May 2012 Efforts to strengthen capacity in health research have, so far, concentrated on
countries where there is existing capacity rather than those where it is almost
completely lacking.
Judged by absolut...
by Martin McKee | On 10 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 recent International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers (Domestic Workers
Convention 2011) offers an opportunity to finally address the longstanding...
by Pau Khan Khup Hangzo | On 09 May 2012 This brief reviews recent evidence, examines main research challenges in identifying migration–climate links and discusses the policy options for formalizing migration as an adaptation mechanism to cl...
by Jean-François Maystadt | On 09 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 It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries thro...
by Rema Hanna | On 03 May 2012 Enrolments in engineering in Kerala increased from about 2800 in 1991 to about 28,000 in 2008. The study analyses whether this increase in potential supply of engineers has resulted in actual supply o...
by Sunil Mani | On 25 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 National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy reaffirms the commitment of the Government of India to provide integrated services for holistic development of all children, along the con...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 20 Apr 2012 The audiovisual sector is a significant component of the economy in terms of wealth creation and employment and audiovisual industries also play an important cultural role. This study reviews the main...
by Gillian Doyle | 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 Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to
developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s,
but foreign brides...
by Daiji Kawaguchi | On 16 Apr 2012 The paper gives an analysis and description of the quantity and quality of the Iban population of Sarawak. The information about the pattern and trends of change of the population over time is also sh...
by Lam Chee Kheung | On 09 Apr 2012 The link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes are analyzed using a
newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the
distribution of income a...
by Norman Loayza | On 09 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 Labour market insecurity, recognised as pervasive in rural India, is
multi-faceted. This study attempts to fill a gap in the research on
key dimensions of labour market insecurity by using the Natio...
by Padmini Desikachar | On 02 Apr 2012 Since the elections of 2010, Myanmar’s political landscape has changed significantly;
the old military junta has officially been dissolved and a new
civilian government, led by President Thein Sein,...
by Christopher O’Hara | 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 In many developing countries plastic bags are a significant environmental
problem. This is particularly true in the city of Delhi, which faces rapid
development with un-matched and inadequate waste...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 20 Mar 2012 The current century has witnessed every country locked in a hot race
to increase its national power through peaceful development, which made
Koreans ever more desirous of peace. But why has the Kore...
by Ho Hak Rim | On 20 Mar 2012 Over the last two decades, community-based forest management has
graduated from being an experimental strategy to becoming a much more
mainstream approach. In developing countries, an estimated 22 p...
by Priya Shyamsundar | On 19 Mar 2012 Using government data, this brief
reports on NRHM expenditures along
the following parameters:
a) Overall trends in fund allocation
and expenditure: GOI and States,
b) Allocation and expenditure...
by Accountability Initiative | On 19 Mar 2012 Rural people are deprived even of the basic facilities of medical care. Is this ethical? [6th K R Memorial lecture].
by Yogesh Jain | On 16 Mar 2012 This paper analyses the impact of transmission of international oil prices and domestic oil price pass-through policy on major macroeconomic variables in India with the help of a macroeconomic policy...
by N R Bhanumurthy | On 16 Mar 2012 The Minister of Railways, Dinesh Trivedi, presented the
Railways Budget 2012 to Parliament on 14th March. In
his address, he commented on the performance of
Railways in 2011-12 and laid out his bud...
by Rohit Kumar | On 16 Mar 2012 Welfare Economics is fortunate that there are two Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics. Positive Economics on the other hand is seemingly endowed with none. One of the fundamental results of Posi...
by Anjan Mukherji | 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 Time is an important economic resource that can be spent in a variety of
ways. Diverse demands on a person’s time may reach a point where the
individual may be categorized as time poor. Time poverty...
by Najam us Saqib | On 09 Mar 2012 This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they
complete their education and enter the labor market is related to the family’s socioeconomic
circumstances. W...
by Deborah Cobb clark | On 07 Mar 2012 The changing nature of tax policy in developing countries over the last 30 years is reviewed and studied the factors determining the level and structure of tax revenues in such countries and how such...
by Roy Bahl | On 07 Mar 2012 Discussion on the human rights violation of under trial prisoners.
by Ranesh Chandra Majumdar | On 06 Mar 2012 The vital status of 12,373 people aged 65 years and over was determined 3–5 years after baseline survey in
sites in Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reporte...
by Cleusa P Ferri | On 05 Mar 2012 In the last ten years, economic issues related to currency policy have become the major ongoing
dispute between China and the U.S. Especially the U.S. Congress is stridently demanding
a tougher poli...
by Nicola Nymalm | On 01 Mar 2012 Livestock sector is an integral part of India’s agriculture and an important part of the whole economy with reference to employment, income and earning of foreign exchange for the country. The growth...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 01 Mar 2012 The general objective of the paper is to review the different macroeconomic models and
microeconomic valuation methods applied in the analysis of the natural resource and enviromnent
sector which ar...
by Danilo C Israel | On 27 Feb 2012 What have the MDGs achieved? And what might their achievements mean for any second
generation of MDGs or MDGs 2.0? We argue that the MDGs may have played a role in increasing
aid and that developmen...
by Charles Kenny | On 24 Feb 2012 The paper aims at understanding the reasons which influence migration and mobility choices, ways by which vulnerabilities can be managed and the role that local, national and regional policy responses...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 24 Feb 2012 This paper explores the key reasons behind the movements in the terms of trade and the real net
gain and loss from trade in the long run. Like some selected Asian countries (Vietnam, China and
South...
by Mohammad Masuduzzaman | On 23 Feb 2012 The increasing occurrence of national, regional, and global financial crises, together with their rising costs and complexity, have increased calls for greater regional and global monetary cooperation...
by Mario Lamberte | On 21 Feb 2012 This paper reviews and discusses available empirical research on the impact of violent conflict
on the level and access to education of civilian and combatant populations affected by violence. Three
...
by Patricia Justino | On 15 Feb 2012 In this paper the issue of high dropout rates in India is examined which has adverse implications for
human capital formation, and hence for the country’s long term growth potential. Using the 2004-0...
by Manisha Chakrabarty | On 14 Feb 2012 Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved
understanding of the role of economic development in affecting gender differences in the
trends in, levels of, and retur...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 13 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 examines the effect of U.S. food aid on conflict in recipient countries (these include Asian countries like Afghanistan, Sri Lanka). To establish a causal relationship, time variation in fo...
by Nathan Nunn | On 08 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 The international business literature has yet to adequately explore international
competitive strategy choices made by firms in developing countries. This study aims
to address this gap by investiga...
by Ping Lv | On 02 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 Much of the socioeconomic mobility achieved by U.S. immigrant families takes place across
rather than within generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is
therefore impo...
by Brian Duncan | On 31 Jan 2012 This paper explains the gaps between official objectives and the actual accomplishments of the Aquino government, with an emphasis on the implementation record of agricultural-based strategies. Summar...
by V. Bruce J Tolentino | On 30 Jan 2012 The study examines the intention to work abroad based on a representative sample of young Singaporeans residing in the city-state. Two thousand and thirteen Singaporeans between the age of 19 to 30 ye...
by Leong Chan Hoong | On 27 Jan 2012 Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, independent entrepreneurial migrants
from China have been increasingly flocking to Africa in search of “greener pastures.” This
paper scrutinizes the...
by Laurence Marfaing | On 25 Jan 2012 This paper has tried to address some key research
questions like will India and Andhra Pradesh achieve the Millennium Development
Goal of Sanitation ? Are the TSC targets realistic? What is coverage...
by M Snehalatha | On 25 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 Prominent researcher in Goan migration, Dr Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, did some of the first detailed academic research (infact, her PhD) on Goan migration. She was down in Goa recently, and she spoke t...
by Frederick Noronha | On 24 Jan 2012 This paper analyses gender dimensions in rural to urban migration (age
10 years and above) in Pakistan. The study is based on Labour Force Surveys
1996-2006. The findings of the study show that over...
by Shahnaz Hamid | On 20 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 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 The current global financial crisis has reopened an old debate on the international monetary system by baring weaknesses and flaws that have long been known. The debate is centred on both stability an...
by Alok Sheel | On 10 Jan 2012 The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to
the welfare of migrant workers, particularly to their working conditions and pay. This paper
uses data from...
by Jason Gagnon | On 06 Jan 2012 The analysis seeks to look at inflation as a political economic phenomenon, based on a framework devised by Jonathan Nitzan and christened differential accumulation. The theory of differential accumul...
by Syed Ozair Ali | On 05 Jan 2012 Water is arguably the most
important natural resource
and because it is scarce, its
optimal usage and proper
management must be
ensured.
Water governance in the
Philippines, however, has
becom...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 03 Jan 2012 The year in Parliament was characterised by frequent disruptions and protests over a host of issues.
The issue of the establishment of a Lokpal prompted both disruption as well as intense debate.
A...
by Rohit Kumar | On 02 Jan 2012 This paper uses a large panel database to investigate the determinants of forest clearing in
Indonesian kabupatens since 2005. The study incorporates short-run changes in prices and demand
for palm...
by David Wheeler | On 28 Dec 2011 The report is a rich source with qualitative and quantitative data on the status of children in India from authentic and established sources. [HAQCRC report]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 28 Dec 2011 This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s governme...
by Kaushik Basu | On 27 Dec 2011 The paper reviews selected initiatives taken by Asian countries to comply with emerging global sustainability standards, reporting, and management systems, and tracks the response of Asian businesses...
by Venkatachalam Anbumozhi | On 26 Dec 2011 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 Human decisions are based on accumulating evidence over time for different options. Here a simple question is asked: How is the accumulation of evidence affected by the level of awareness of the infor...
by Floris P de Lange | On 23 Dec 2011 The paper attempts to empirically test a naïve version of what is rather
stylistically termed as “feminisation of poverty”, using the sub-sample of
female -headed households (FHHs) from two househol...
by Umer Khalid | On 21 Dec 2011 Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive...
by Gharad Bryan | On 20 Dec 2011 Possible scenarios for China and the world economy until
2015 is looked at. In all of them, China will continue to accumulate FX reserves, so that
reserve assets will remain the largest component of...
by Catherine Shu Ling Tan | On 08 Dec 2011 A series of common-pool-resource field experiments were conducted
in eight indigenous communities in India that have very long traditions of
shared norms and mutual trust. Two experimental designs a...
by Rucha Ghate | On 02 Dec 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 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 outward FDI from emerging economies to developed countries is of great interest to
international business researchers and policy makers, also with regard to their location and sectoral
patterns....
by Haiyan Zhang | 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 It is widely agreed by economists and political scientists that the middle class is vital to progress
because of its many virtues. But it is difficult to define a middle class by income in a manner t...
by Charles Kenny | On 16 Nov 2011 India has embarked upon an economic model driven by the free market incorporating processes of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. Our children today live, in what some describe as “Brand...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 10 Nov 2011 The paper scrutinizes the functioning of the G20 and its role in increasing coordination. and cooperation between Asian countries. It highlights divergent
agendas amongst the A6 as regards the future...
by Hugo Dobson | On 09 Nov 2011 This paper attempts to explain why internationalization processes to China are growing
despite the significant difficulties that foreign direct investments into China encounter.
The answer to this q...
by Geny Piotti | On 04 Nov 2011 Goa is celebrating the Golden Jubilee Year of its Liberation. The recent economic achievements of the state are highlighted. The economic and financial structure of the state as well as the various fi...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 04 Nov 2011 In most universities, sharp disciplinary and departmental divisions continue to this day and have regrettably translated into the life sciences being taught with scarce attention to their historical a...
by Giovanni Frazzetto | On 31 Oct 2011 Restrictions imposed by the Government of India on the
emigration of women in ‘unskilled’ categories such as domestic work
are framed as measures intended to protect women from exploitation.
Specia...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 24 Oct 2011 Book review 'The Green pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia' by
Keya Acharya and Frederick Noronha (eds)
Sage, 2010, page 312, Rs 395.
by Vrijendra | On 19 Oct 2011 This study contributes to the literature by estimating discount rate for
environmental health benefits and value of statistical life of workers in
India. The discount rate is imputed from wage-risk...
by K. R. Shanmugam | On 19 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 Women workers In India constitute one third of the total workforce. Majority of these
women are engaged in the un-organized sectors such as agriculture, construction,
domestic services etc. The over...
by Bharat Jyoti BJ | On 18 Oct 2011 A bill to provide for development of sports in India, coordination of
national teams for participation in international events, fair
and transparent functioning of autonomous sports bodies and
welf...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 17 Oct 2011 This article reviews beer production, consumption and the industrial organization of breweries throughout history. Monasteries were the centers of the beer economy in the early Middle Ages. Innovation...
by Eline Poelmans | On 14 Oct 2011 Review of Nandanar’s Children: The Paraiyans’ Tryst with Destiny Tamil Nadu 1850—1956, Raj Sekhar Basu,
Sage India, New Delhi,
2011, 492 pp, Rs 895
by Rajesh Komath | On 11 Oct 2011 The paper discusses the issues relating to the provisions, practices and curricular concerns for
children with Special Educational Needs (SEN). Though SEN may result from a number of
factors, in thi...
by National Council of Educational Research &Training NCERT | On 29 Sep 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 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 Over the last decade, the profile of central banks has gone up. First, we had the Great Moderation - a period of extraordinary benign macroeconomic environment globally, characterized by steady growth...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 27 Sep 2011 Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food
security and climate change. Agriculture plays a significant role in
both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing
...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 26 Sep 2011 A review of the various issues related to gender and poverty and examine the relationships between gender and various indices, including the human development index (HDI), the gender inequality index...
by Midori Aoyagi | 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 This paper, examines the possibility of adopting Oil- to- Cash scheme in Iraq. Here, a new opportunity is identified which aims for direct distribution of Iraqi oil rents in the planned production exp...
by Johnny West | On 19 Sep 2011 This paper maps out a strategy for banking sector reforms over the next decade. It is formulated by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and is centered on reforms involving the SBP. But the Banking Secto...
by State Bank of Pakistan SBP | On 15 Sep 2011 A
Bill
to provide for food and nutritional security, in human life cycle approach, by
ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices, for people to
live a life with dign...
by Department of Food and Public Distribution Fcamin | On 14 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 Substantial international aid is spent reducing the cost of contraception in
developing countries, as part of a larger effort to reduce global fertility and
increase investment per child worldwide....
by Christopher McKelvey | On 09 Sep 2011 This paper investigates the effects of plants' dynamics on productivity growth in the Indian pharmaceutical industry across five regions: north, north-west, west, south and the rest of India, during t...
by Atsuko Kamiike | On 06 Sep 2011 This paper assesses the global economic implications of the proposed strict documentation requirements on traded shipments of potentially genetically modified (GM) commodities under the Cartagena Prot...
by Antoine Bouët | On 31 Aug 2011 This paper deals with migration into India from adjoining neighbours and its impact on security and other issues of national interest. Unlike other studies on migration, it focuses on the ethnic ident...
by Subhakanta Behera | On 26 Aug 2011 The Research Unit on International Migration at the Centre for
Development Studies undertook this study on the request of Department
of Non-Resident Keralite Affairs (NORKA), Government of Kerala.
...
by K. C. Zachariah | On 24 Aug 2011 Some services directly produce outputs that are important for human development, such as basic human services. Many other services are important inputs into the production and distribution of goods th...
by Ben Shepherd | On 24 Aug 2011 A key queestion is:
which groups should receive priority in a situation of constrained
resources? Ideally the twin dangers of leaving out malnourished
groups from the purview of the policy, and cov...
by Gopalakrishna Kumar | On 17 Aug 2011 The objective of this paper is to identify climate change related threats and vulnerabilities associated
with agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, a...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 17 Aug 2011 The paper attempts to explore the technology spillover effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian manufacturing industries across different selected clusters in India. To measure the spillov...
by Pami Dua | On 12 Aug 2011 Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements
go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of
poverty...
by Nora Lustig | On 11 Aug 2011 Evolutionary Psychology
(EP) views the human mind as
organized into many modules, each
underpinned by psychological adaptations
designed to solve problems
faced by our Pleistocene
ancestors. It...
by Johan J Bolhuis | On 09 Aug 2011 Food quality has become an important determinant of success in global food trade and growers for international markets have to continuously adjust to buyers’ requirements. It is however not clear to w...
by Anneleen Vandeplas | On 03 Aug 2011 The paper begins with an overview of fertiliser consumption trends and then identifies important determinants of fertiliser demand and develops projects demand scenarios for fertilisers in India in 20...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 29 Jul 2011 The importance of academia- industry linkages for development of an economy is well
recognized. With a view to make the higher technical education relevant, by forging and
catalyzing functional link...
by Jancy Ayyaswamy | On 26 Jul 2011 The ever-growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is a prominent feature of international trade. The World Trade Report 2011 describes the historical development of PTAs and the current...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 22 Jul 2011 Return migration and health has received
little attention in policy and research.
This article will focus on the risk
factors and social determinants of health
during all phases of migration that...
by Anita A Davies | On 20 Jul 2011 A documentation of different aspects of human deprivation in the old age other than the
measurement of income poverty is done. Aspects of economic, health and social aspects of
deprivation and how i...
by Syam Prasad | On 14 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 This paper examines challenges associated with early stages of decentralizing the
administration and management of forest resources. It is based on review of literature
on forest, decentralization a...
by Aruna Kumar Monditoka | On 07 Jul 2011 This study was not alone in demonstrating that a deal on the Doha Round
could be of huge benefit to the global economy. Assuming plausible
enhancements in the course of further negotiations, the big...
by Klaus Deutsch | On 06 Jul 2011 A new framework for understanding
migration as a series of phases,
defining categories of people affected by
migration and suggesting estimates of the
likely size and importance of each group is g...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 04 Jul 2011 National Integration Council member and Secretary General of All India Christian Council, Dr. John Dayal appeals Indian National Congress President Mrs Sonia Gandhi to intervene Manipur government’s t...
by All India Christian Council | On 04 Jul 2011 The global record on HIV prevention is bleak. The $8 billion spent each recent year on international AIDS assistance has been split about evenly between AIDS treatment and prevention. But while treatm...
by Mead Over | On 29 Jun 2011 This Working Paper is about the unemployment situation in Kerala.
It is based on the findings of the two Gulf Migration Studies, Kerala
Migration Study (KMS) and South Asia Migration Study (SMS),
c...
by K. C. Zachariah | On 27 Jun 2011 In this CGD essay, Mead Over argues that international donor community cannot afford to continue its business-as-usual AIDS policy. It must focus more on preventing HIV to decrease the number of peopl...
by Mead Over | On 27 Jun 2011 Mathematical formulations of Frank D. Graham’s theory of multicountry
multicommodity trade have not provided numerical methods for finding the
world trade equilibrium. Graham was in possession of su...
by Rajas Parchure | On 27 Jun 2011 The interface between environment and poverty is a complex phenomenon. Poverty reduction needs will be enabled if the poor are allowed access to natural capital, such as land, water, forest and minera...
by Amita Shah | On 23 Jun 2011 One year into the global economic crisis, it has become clear that the paradigm for international development has changed irrevocably. With leadership, moral authority and the capacity of the West in...
by Wim Naudé | On 22 Jun 2011 The Jubilee 2000 movement, which called for the cancellation of the foreign debts of the poorest nations, reached its zenith in the late 1990s and 2000—and then, by design, shut down. In the space of...
by David Roodman | On 22 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 The Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment
(JSSA) is a study of the interaction
between humans and terrestrial–aquatic
ecosystems (satoyama) and marine–
coastal ecosystems (satoumi) in Japan.
The stud...
by Anantha Kumar Duraiappah | On 17 Jun 2011 Over the last 25 years, the international community has pursued a series of measures to address unsustainable debt burdens in low-income countries. Early actions focused on debt relief for official bi...
by Ben Leo | On 15 Jun 2011 This WIDER Policy Brief examins issues such as liberalizing migration policies; protecting refugees in regions of origin; addressing the root causes of migration and refugee flows; influencing percept...
by Christina Boswell | On 14 Jun 2011 The June issue of World Rivers Review is overflowing with ideas on on how to maintain healthy flows in rivers, for their health and our own. If a river's flow is its heartbeat, then we humans have bec...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 13 Jun 2011 The development and growth of a nation greatly depends upon proper utilization of its
human resources. To utilize these resources, there is a need to convert human beings into human
resources. Since...
by P. Nayak | On 13 Jun 2011 Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply side or a demand side
issue? This paper examines school attendance and total human capital investment time (time in sc...
by Sripad Motiram | On 13 Jun 2011 Though the decade-long decentralization in Kerala has made
remarkable achievements in terms of consistent devolution of
financial resources, and improvement in the implementation of
poverty eradica...
by Centre for Womens Development Studies | On 10 Jun 2011 It lays out a migratory process framework that highlights the multistaged and cumulative nature of the health risks and intervention opportunities that can occur throughout the migration process, and
...
by Cathy Zimmerman | On 10 Jun 2011 The G20 has assumed a leading role in responding to the current financial crisis and reforming the international financial system. The G20 has emerged as the premier forum for the discussion of these...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 08 Jun 2011 This paper provides an update of the changes that Bangladesh has undergone in terms of its
poverty and social indicators over the last one and a half decades. Several key social and
human developmen...
by Zulfiqar Ali | On 07 Jun 2011 Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply
side or a demand side issue? School attendance and total human capital
investment time (time in school plus travel ti...
by Sripad Motiram | On 01 Jun 2011 This policy brief discusses the fact that social assistance is critical to counter the insecurity and vulnerability experienced by chronically poor people. Evidence shows that as well as preventing pe...
by Andrew Shepherd | On 30 May 2011 Almost two decades after ratifying the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), India came up for review by the UN
Committee on Economic, Social and Cult...
by PCESC R | On 24 May 2011 The mainstream economics has
characteristically been myopic in visualizing the relationship between human beings and the ecosphere,
the surrounding in which they live, work and prosper. Man though...
by SK Mishra | On 23 May 2011 As a country progressively engages in international trade, its factors of production
will increasingly enter into the export sector, where their return is higher, compared
to the import competing...
by Dibyendu Maiti | On 23 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 broad objectives of this study refer to analysing the impact of introducing comprehensive
goods and services tax (GST) on economic growth and international trade; changes in rewards to
the fac...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 19 May 2011 This paper argues four theses and outlines an action plan.
1. The Global Financial Collapse has created a climate among the intelligentsia -
that strongly supports fundamental changes in economi...
by Edward Fullbrook | On 17 May 2011 Mobility is one of the important aspects of human nature, which is often guided by socio-economic, political as well as environmental factors. The nature, pattern and direction of
population mobili...
by Jajati Keshari Parida | On 16 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 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 this study the DAPCHDI
with the data given by Sarker et al. in their paper is re-computed to compare the composite index with
theirs. The HDR-2005 or the HDR-2006 adds little to the HDR-2004 da...
by S.K. Mishra | On 06 May 2011 The rise of China in the world economy and in international trade has raised the
possibility of a rise of the Yuan as an international currency, particularly after the
Chinese authorities have under...
by Vimal Balasubramaniam | On 05 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 council special report analyzes the shortcomings of the nonproliferation regime and proposes a comprehensive agenda to shore it up.
by Paul Lettow | On 03 May 2011 This paper analyzes some of the elements that cause the apparent perception in the realm of social
policy, and in particular in the case of poverty alleviation and education policies in developing
...
by Miguel Székely | On 02 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 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 There have been significant developments in the global economy since we met in the fall of 2010. The IMF too has moved on several fronts under its mandate which has strengthened its position in a chan...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 20 Apr 2011 This paper tries to
focus on the method to assess the magnitude of short/seasonal migration
based on its broad characteristics. It attempts to analyse the contrasting
characteristics of short durat...
by Vijay Korra | On 18 Apr 2011 A discussion about the declining sex ratio in India is given. The various reasons for declining sex ratio are outlined.
by Anwesha Sen | On 09 Apr 2011 An
attempt has been made in this paper to analyse the financing pattern of
Indian corporate sector during 1990-2009. This paper further seeks to
identify the pattern of resource mobilisation of Ind...
by P L Beena | On 08 Apr 2011 With 11 large hydropower dams proposed to block the Lower Mekong River’s mainstream, the future of
the river lies at a crossroads. To inform decision-making, in October 2010, the Mekong River Commiss...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 29 Mar 2011 The Hong Kong government continues to invoke the 1976 reservation to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) entered by the United Kingdom government in relation to Hong Kong....
by Seren S.T. Tang | On 29 Mar 2011 From the early 1990s, the principal economic, social and political problems experienced by
the mass of Indian women have, in one way or another, become inextricably linked with the
processes and pol...
by Centre for Women's Development Studies | On 28 Mar 2011 The World Malaria Report 2010 summarizes information received
from 106 malaria-endemic countries/areas and other partners and
it updates the analyses presented in the 2009 Report. It highlights
con...
by World Health Organisation | On 25 Mar 2011 The International Atomic Energy Agency addresses global issues related to nuclear technology, in accordance with its Statute. In carrying out this mandate, the agency has sought to provide independent...
by International Atomic Energy Agency | On 25 Mar 2011 In recent decades, international peacebuilding and reconstruction after civil wars have managed to promote stability and contain conflict in many regions around the world, ending violence and enabling...
by Madoka Futamura | On 24 Mar 2011 MNEs are increasingly seeking to augment, as well as exploit, their global competitive
advantage. Foreign direct investments are being directed to augmenting the competitive
ownership specific...
by De Beule Filip | On 23 Mar 2011 In simple language and with numerous concrete examples, this policy brief analyses the impact - among others - of key ex-ante factors such as acute 'horizontal inequality' between social groups in the...
by Jeni Klugman | 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 objective of the paper is to test the empirical regularity that exporters are more productive than non-exporters in India. TFP is calculated from the Cobb-Douglas Production
function using a fixe...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 21 Mar 2011 Some services directly produce outputs that are important for human development, such as basic human services. Many other services are important inputs into the production and distribution of goods th...
by Ben Shepherd | On 21 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 Economic growth does not necessarily ensure environmental
sustainability for a country. The relationship between the two is far more
complicated for developing countries like India, given the depend...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 16 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 Comments can be sent to animalwelfareact2011@gmail.com by March 20, 2011.
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 07 Mar 2011 The problems of failed states, including the repeated return to power of former warlords are examined. It is argued that this causes institutions to become weaker and people to get poorer. It is argue...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 04 Mar 2011 Despite some commendable efforts and achievements of the Indian state, it is an explicit fact that the majority of children in India are suffering, deprived of basic resources and needs for an average...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 01 Mar 2011 Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 01 Mar 2011 Dynamic human resources are one of the dominant factors for developing
countries (DMCs) to achieve sustainable economic growth. Donors, including
the ADB, are eager to help teach DMC policymakers ho...
by Toshiki Kanamori | On 21 Feb 2011 There is widespread concern over the efficiency of public sector health services in developing
countries. To some the main problem is allocative efficiency: the distribution of resources between
dif...
by Anne Mills | On 17 Feb 2011 This paper examines the strategy for obtaining adequate resources for the
Indian State, where the goals of the State comprise the provision of public
goods (which, by defi nition, benefi t everyone)...
by Vijay Kelkar | On 17 Feb 2011 The present report aims to generate greater
awareness and environmental consciousness amongst
our citizens. The objective of the report, therefore,
is to generate a national debate among various
s...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 16 Feb 2011 The study analyzes the inter-district variations in levels of income and human development in Tamal Nadu in recent years. It also tries to analyze the causes of the relatively low levels of income of...
by R. J. Chelliah | On 15 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 International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has for many years stressed innovation, knowledge and scaling up as essential ingredients of its strategy to combat rural poverty in developi...
by Johannes F. Linn | On 10 Feb 2011 Based on the recent experience of several Asian developing countries and interviews in Vietnam, Indonesia and Laos with aid practitioners from donor institutions and Non Government Organizations (NGOs...
by Caroline Brassard | On 10 Feb 2011 The economic downturn and recession, which spread across the globe following the US sub-prime mortgage crisis in September 2008, has become the dominant news topic of the past year. One year into the...
by Wim Naudé | On 09 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 In this paper they the study market inefficiencies and policy remedies when agents choose their occupations, and entrepreneurial talent is subject to private information. Un-talented entrepreneurs dep...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 04 Feb 2011 The current consensus objective of development aid in the international community is to
reduce poverty in general and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in
particular. In addition,...
by Sakiko Fukuda- Parr | On 21 Jan 2011 Information on vegetation is important for the planning of regional natural resources management carbon cycling studies, terrestrial primary productivity modeling of hydrology, energy and climate. In...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 17 Jan 2011 ICDDR,B is an international health research institution. It is equipped with necessary research
facilities including excellent field study areas. The field areas are specifically designed for
resear...
by Abbas Bhuiya | On 14 Jan 2011 The paper analyzes the changing INR trends over the reform period, in the context of fundamental
determinants of exchange rates. [WP-2010-024].
by Ashima Goyal | On 13 Jan 2011 The
impact of the global crisis on the (Gulf Corporation Council) GCC economies is first analyzed in
terms of the sectors of the economy affected, the changes in GDP growth
and employment of expatr...
by S. Irudaya Rajan | On 08 Jan 2011 This Policy Brief discusses the impacts of
the 2007/08 food price inflation on
nutrition and on school attendance. It
draws on the results of studies
commissioned by the UK Department for
Interna...
by Imran Matin | On 07 Jan 2011 Endemic poverty is the stark reality that one confronts immediately about rural Bangladesh. Almost
50% of the rural households are now bereft of any visible resources, which could enable them to eke
...
by Monirul Islam Khan | On 06 Jan 2011 This paper aims to analyse urban mobility patterns and consequent impacts on energy and environment
in India. We investigate the quantity of energy use in 23 metropolitan regions for the period 1981–...
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 03 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 In 1992, BRAC extended its comprehensive Rural Development Programme (RDP) to 100 villages of
Matlab thana (sub-district) where the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
(...
by Marty Chen | On 30 Dec 2010 The speech is mainly about the "two cultures” (modern society—the cultures
of the science and that of the humanities) syndrome—the apparent gap between those espousing the case for faster
economic g...
by Jairam Ramesh | On 23 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 The purpose of this article is to explore whether Tibet can be said to have a right to self-determination under international law. [CCPL Occasional Paper No. 18]
by Paul Harris | On 21 Dec 2010 The objective here is to understand how the mobility of technical talent might be
changing the structural relationship between rich and poor countries. This paper
examines the under-researched relat...
by Anthony P. D'Costa | On 15 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 Through its pioneering surveys in recent years, the Transparency International (TI) has tried to gauge the extent of corruption in different countries, identify Government departments where corruption...
by Prof. Subhash Bhatnagar | On 06 Dec 2010 This paper discusses the concerns on the digital divide and illustrates, through case studies, how the recent developments in the Information and Communication Technology can be gainfully employed in...
by T.P. Rama Rao | On 03 Dec 2010 This paper surveys the various composite well-being indices that have been inter-country
assessments over the last 40 or soy ears, including the well known Human Development Index
(HDI). A number of...
by Mark McGillivray | On 03 Dec 2010 The present system of making Census has many advantages such as, taking stock of Indian situation with detailed data regarding the wide diversity of our people and the finding of conditions of life ha...
by Rajesh Komath | On 01 Dec 2010 The report provides an assessment of impact of climate change in 2030s on four key sectors in four climate sensitive regions of India.
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 01 Dec 2010 This is a ready reference for organizations, youth policy practitioners and young people to the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY), its 15 priority areas and their corresponding proposals for...
by United Nations UN | On 29 Nov 2010 The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization,
within and across nations. It reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global
inequality and argues,...
by Kaushik Basu | On 29 Nov 2010 International Development Association (IDA) donors and others operating a country performance-based allocation system face two difficult problems: how to strengthen incentives to produce and document...
by Alan Gelb | On 29 Nov 2010 Peoples’ Science Institute (PSI), Dehradun and Winrock International India (WII), Gurgaon jointly initiated participatory hydrological studies in two micro-catchments that is, the Bhodi-Suan and Kuhan...
by Rajesh Gupta | On 26 Nov 2010 The political economy of civil wars has acquired unprecedented scholarly and policy
attention. Among others, the International Peace Academy’s programme on Economic
Agendas in Civil Wars (EACW) ha...
by David M Malone | On 26 Nov 2010 In India, migration from rural areas is an important issue that is
gaining more significance year after year. Moreover, the extent, nature,
characteristics and pattern of migration have been evolvin...
by Vijay Korra | On 17 Nov 2010 In recent years, China has dramatically expanded its financing and foreign direct investment to Africa. This
expansion has served the political and economic interests of China while providing Africa...
by Benedicte Vibe Christensen | On 15 Nov 2010 This paper attempts to construct a time series estimation of
remittances from abroad to the Kerala economy for the period 1972 to
2000. It is now widely acknowledged that foreign remittances in the
...
by K. P. Kannan | On 04 Nov 2010 Asia faces very large infrastructure funding demands, estimated at around US$750 billion per year for energy, transport, telecommunications, water, and sanitation during 2010–2020 (ADB/ADBI 2009). Asi...
by Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay | On 03 Nov 2010 This paper analyses the importance of human capital in determining the inter-state differences in
labour productivity and its growth in India. The paper also examines the impact of human capital
d...
by Savita Bhat | On 01 Nov 2010 This paper discusses the factors that promote clusters and the role of clusters in the
generation and spread of human capital The analysis in the paper is based on a comparative study of software fir...
by V. N. Balasubramanyam | On 29 Oct 2010 We examine why it is important to consider seemingly autonomous but more
embedded socio-political-economic aspects in assessing the impact of changes in
Science and Technology (S&T) on human capital...
by Bino Paul G.D | On 29 Oct 2010 International trade has played an essential role in Asia’s remarkable growth, development,
and integration in recent decades. Infrastructure, both hard and soft, has played an integral
part in facil...
by Douglas H. Brooks | On 28 Oct 2010 Human talent is a key economic resource and a source of creative power in science,
technology, business, arts and culture and other activities. Talent has a large economic
value and its mobility...
by Andrés Solimano | On 21 Oct 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 This paper attempts to analyse the economic implications of the rise of China, India,
Brazil and South Africa, for developing countries situated in the wider context of the
world economy. It exami...
by Deepak Nayyar | On 15 Oct 2010 There is an urgent need to study the social compulsions/ factors that lead parents to marry off their daughters to NRIs who ruin their lives completely. It is also to be examined whether any safeguard...
by M.K. Jabbi | On 13 Oct 2010 In this paper I review the use of precautionary measures aimed at mitigating emerging markets’ exposure to fragility associated with financial integration. The discussion draws possible lessons from t...
by Joshua Aizenman | On 13 Oct 2010 Economic growth and poverty reduction require for a country to establish efficient rules
for economic and political transactions. Poor countries suffer from inadequate, inefficient
transaction rules...
by Ke-young Chu | On 12 Oct 2010 The paper examines the recent European crisis management programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to see how the lessons of Asia were applied. Compared to the Asian programs of 1997, the Euro...
by Shinji Takagi | On 11 Oct 2010 An important requirement for the analysis of trade flows in relation
to domestic industrial structure is the availability of a database covering
information on trade flows, industry and firm charact...
by C. Veeramani | On 07 Oct 2010 The record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid
effectiveness. Rich countries can justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and
self-interest. But, wit...
by Stephen Browne | On 06 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 Poverty remains to be the most important development issue facing India with an estimated 301.72 million Indians (27.5 percent) living below the poverty line in 2004-2005. In 1975, Ralegan Siddhi was...
by Aasha Kapur Mehta | On 04 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 In the next two decades, India is likely to become an
economically prosperous nation and move significantly
towards being a far more inclusive society, with the bulk of
its population gaining acces...
by Science Advisory Council to PM SAC to PM | On 01 Oct 2010 Kerela is a region that is deeply integrated with the Indian and the world economy through various ways such as commodity flows, financial movements, labour migration and operations of national and in...
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 01 Oct 2010 India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. It is widely believed that there are...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 26 Sep 2010 Nineteen per cent of world’s children live in India. India is home to more than one billion
people, of which 42 per cent are children, defined as persons under 18 years of age. In
international co...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 17 Sep 2010 This study undertakes impact analysis of remittances on poverty in developing countries at two levels. Firstly, it estimates the impact of remittances on poverty in 77 developing countries; Secondly,...
by Rashmi Banga | On 17 Sep 2010 The functioning of healthcare sector could be substantially influenced by the design and
implementation of regulatory policies that govern the behaviour of various stakeholders. The
empirical challe...
by Vangal R Muraleedharan | On 16 Sep 2010
This paper reviews (critically and selectively) the literature on the link between
economic development, the environment and international trade (and capital
flows). In particular, how stricter...
by Partha Sen | On 16 Sep 2010 This paper examines various measures of synchronization of recessions, including clustering
of the onset of recession across economies, proportion of economies in expansion and the
diffusion index...
by Pami Dua | On 16 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 Science and technology have continuously enlarged the frontiers of human knowledge, growth
and development. The issue which keeps surfacing time and again and needs to be addressed
while planning ou...
by Kumud Sharma | On 15 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 This paper investigates potential measurement error biases in estimated poverty
transition matrices. Transition matrices based on survey expenditure data has been compared
to transition matrices bas...
by Nayoung Lee | On 30 Aug 2010 Review of 'Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia'; S. Ahmed, S. Kalegama and E. Ghani (Editors). Published by Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2010
by Sandhya S . Iyer | On 17 Aug 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 Sports retail is a small but fast growing segment of modern retail in India. Recently, the
country has been hosting many international sports and this has given a boost to this
sector. Many foreign...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 13 Aug 2010 In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning
human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone’s
income ca...
by Gilles Saint Paul | On 13 Aug 2010 The differential multiple tax regime across sectors of production leads to distortions in
allocation of resources thus introducing inefficiencies in the sectors of domestic production.
With regard t...
by Rajesh Chadha | On 12 Aug 2010 Using uncertainty about the future returns to migration, the option value theory of migration
can explain low migration rates in spite of huge wage differences. This paper presents the
theory in a...
by Lilo Locher | On 12 Aug 2010 This lecture series is about the new vistas in Global Comunication for Science and Education.
by Gregory S. Cole | On 09 Aug 2010 This paper explains importance of human capital skilling, the relation between the FDI and Human Capital development besides the experiences of these two in different regions of the world i.e., Asian...
by P. Srinivas Subbarao | On 04 Aug 2010 The paper is a study of the relationship between poverty and environment by using a purpose-collected survey data from 535 households in 60 different villages of the Jhabua district of India. The meth...
by Shreekant Gupta | On 26 Jul 2010 The turmoil that has characterised the global financial markets
since the 1990s, and particularly the crisis in East Asia, has generated
a great deal of support for proposals to add some frictions t...
by Ramkishen Rajan | On 21 Jul 2010 International Outsourcing has been traditionally looked upon as a low end cost effective servicing option to take advantage of the cost arbitrage that exists across countries. Of late, many outsourcin...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 15 Jul 2010 This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in
Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare
expenditures and immigra...
by Jörgen Hansen | On 09 Jul 2010 The development business has become much more complex in the past decade, with actors proliferating and
collaboration fragmenting. This trend is characteristic of the change from collective action t...
by Jean-Michel Severino | On 08 Jul 2010 We show that the ‘skill-bias’ of a country’s tariff structure is
positively correlated with long-term per capita GDP growth. Testing for
causal mechanisms, we find evidence consistent with the exist...
by Nathan Nunn | On 28 Jun 2010 It has been more than a decade since the debate on the feasibility of plastics started at the
international level. The environmentalists and the plastics industry have slugged it out on whether
plas...
by | On 24 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 In this paper there is an attempt to bring in some theoretical analysis on the development process and women's roles in it as seen and advocated by the women's movements and later on by the State and...
by Aleyamma Vijayan | On 22 Jun 2010 Vietnam's (re) discovery in recent years by the international investor community gives the country a second chance to become and Asia tiger. The article looks into the economic, social, political, per...
by Tamara Trinh | On 16 Jun 2010 The paper excavates how the advent of commercial audiography, through 'Recording Expeditions' between 1902 and 1907, shaped configurations of the nascent business in, and culture around, 'music on rec...
by Vibodh Parthasarathi | On 16 Jun 2010 This paper looks at the overall performance of the CFPR/TUP programme using the 2002 baseline survey and 2005 repeat survey. All the topics covered in this study could be analysed more deeply, but tha...
by Mehnaz Rabbani | On 15 Jun 2010 The fact that statelessness as a concept is
largely absent from the medical literature has been on e of the central motivatin factor for this essay which aims for a discussion,
primarily to illustr...
by Lindsey N. Kingston | On 15 Jun 2010 The present study shows that informal barriers/para-tariff in India-Bangladesh trade are already high and further trade liberalisation without improving the infrastructure and reducing corruption woul...
by Samantak Das | On 14 Jun 2010 Agricultural development can contribute significantly to peace by raising incomes and
employment, thereby reducing the social frustrations that give rise to violence.
Agricultural growth also gene...
by Tony Addison | On 10 Jun 2010
The paper looks at the growth and commercialization of microfinance in India. It starts out be looking at how the commercial microfinance has evolved internationally by discussing two specific ex...
by M S Sriram | On 08 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 The present study emphasizes on independent variable analysis in assessing gender development at the disaggregated district level to
account for problems such as the major contradiction facing this c...
by Preet Rustagi | On 03 Jun 2010 This paper discusses the case of Indian nurses who take up their
profession as part of a family strategy, where planning for education and
migration are intrinsic to the whole process. In effect, th...
by Sreelekha Nair | On 03 Jun 2010 Review of Women Work and Health: Current Concerns,
Amita Sahaya and Sunita Kaistha (Editors).
Published by The Women Press, New Delhi-110007 in association with
Women Work and health Initiatives (...
by Ruby Ojha | On 03 Jun 2010 Without a better
understanding of the interactions between international players, households and public sector, it will be difficult for climate negotiators and donor institutions to
determine the...
by Brian Blankespoor | On 01 Jun 2010 This article talks about the rampant trade unionism which is on the verge of fading with reference to the recent short lived strike by Air India employees and many such cases.
by T.N. Ninan | On 31 May 2010 This paper provides empirical evidence of the long- and short-term effects of political violence
exposure on human capital accumulation. Using a novel data set that registers all the violent acts
an...
by Gianmarco Leon | On 27 May 2010 It is argue that the so-called cultural‘ (and spatial‘) turn that has remodelled so many other areas of the humanities and social sciences over the last two decades might help answer Armstrong‘s plea...
by Colin Divall | On 21 May 2010 Analysis of developing country cities indicates that neither policy frameworks nor infrastructural investments have kept up with urban growth, that the wrong choices with long-term consequences are be...
by Homi Kharas | On 20 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 The principal constraint to raising living standards in this
century will come neither from scarce resources nor limited technologies. Rather it will come from our
limited capacity to discover and i...
by Paul Romer | On 12 Apr 2010 The purpose of this study to help shed light on the entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and enterprise growth in
Wenzhou. The study is done by relying on a probabilistic firm survey that we carried out i...
by John Strauss | On 08 Apr 2010 This study attempts
to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and
suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic poli...
by Roopam Singh | On 08 Apr 2010 This paper examines the basis upon which rural and urban areas are classified as such. It looks into various criteria for the above all over the world and re-iterates the Indian definition of an ‘urba...
by V.K. Dhar | On 22 Mar 2010 This paper examines migrants choice of destination conditional on migration. To this
end, an empirical strategy is designed which remedies both migration selection and unobserved
heterogeneity probl...
by Marcel Fafchamps | On 18 Mar 2010 Budget speech by finance minister of Karnataka
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 05 Mar 2010 Budget speech 2010-2011 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 26 Feb 2010 The implications of sea-level rise and storm surges for 84 developing countries and 577 of their cyclone-vulnerable coastal cities with populations greater than 100,000 are explored. Combining the mos...
by Susmita Dasgupta | On 25 Feb 2010 This report is a comprehensive and analytical compilation of health care development of Assam bringing together all available information and data on health and health care.
by Indranee Dutta | On 09 Feb 2010 The study attempts to examine why there is staff shortage of health care professionals especially the nurses in India and the impact of such migration on services like emergency preparedness, quality...
by Ann Issac | On 04 Feb 2010 The purpose of this study was to explore the role and importance of human resources for the
scaling up of health services in low income countries. In the case studies, the following have been analyze...
by Christoph Kurowski | On 28 Jan 2010 This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level
detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some
households h...
by Naila Kabeer | On 28 Jan 2010 Most standard indicators suggest that India’s reserve stock is more than adequate. The rapid stockpiling of foreign exchange reserves implies that the RBI has been leaning-against-the-wind to keep dow...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 25 Jan 2010 A concise overview of the energy related aspects of sustainable development programmes and declarations, followed by a short summary of events and documents explicitly devoted to energy matters are gi...
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 25 Jan 2010 Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status,
and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper
proposes a novel mechanism li...
by Shankha Chakraborty | On 19 Jan 2010 The purpose of the paper is first to quantify the extent of high
skilled migration from India and then to distil out two of its economic
implications to her home economy. [WP 416].
by Sunil Mani | On 17 Dec 2009 Climate change is one of the most important issues of the next
decades and has the potential to severely impact societies,
economies and human wellbeing.
by Caio Koch-Weser | On 16 Dec 2009 This brief seeks to address questions on how the funds are collected, dsitributes at the international level, mechanisms to ensure that the recipient countries are managing the funds in a transparent...
by Athena Ballesteros | On 15 Dec 2009 Declaration made at the end of two days national seminar on Food security and Sustainability in India held on November 7-8, 2009 organized by GAD Institute of Development Studies, PO Naushera, Amritsa...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 14 Dec 2009 The objective of the study is to undertake watershed based planning for integrated community management of natural resources for livelihood security. Separate studies were done in Nepal and in Uttarak...
by Debashish Sen | On 04 Dec 2009 Composite Report on the Pilot Visit to Severely Affected Areas of
Mahbubnagar District of Andhra Pradesh
by Samrat Sinha | On 02 Dec 2009 Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates
how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each
individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher...
by Vidya Atal | On 01 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 paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and explores policy options for strengthening their livelihoods through a combinatio...
by Amita Shah | On 27 Nov 2009 This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-villa...
by Manuela Angelucci | On 23 Nov 2009 This paper is aganist the popular assertion regarding the links between innovation and clustering and it is found that the main sources of knowledge transfer and innovation among key firms in Bangalor...
by Aya Okada | On 23 Nov 2009 This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focu...
by Tony Addison | On 23 Nov 2009 The dominance of the mainstream paradigm of growth is being increasingly superseded by the Sustainable Human Development approach. No Concept of development, however, can be complete unless and until...
by Ritu Dewan | On 20 Nov 2009 Migration decisions to urban areas that are backed by economic rationale
and attempts to understand gains accruing to individuals from migration,
in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analy...
by William Joe | On 16 Nov 2009 This brief summarizes a study evaluating the potential economic effects of introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the presence of trad...
by Guillaume Gruère | On 11 Nov 2009 Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) developed by UNDP need to be recast to realistically capture the gender gaps in development
and empowerment in the Third Wo...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 10 Nov 2009 The government simply has to find a way to deliver the basics. That is what will defeat the Maoists and hold off China.
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Oct 2009 The paper analyzes and enumerates the various causes for accidents in Delhi and also suggests possible solution solution to counter the problem and bring down accident rates.
by Arjun Bhattacharya | On 21 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of climate change to the environment of China and most especially to the livelihood of Chinese people there. It analyzed the Chinese government’s position and enumerate...
by Dale Jiajun Wen | On 16 Oct 2009 Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country
governments. Letting domestic prices adjust to reflect the full change in international prices generates inflationary pres...
by Nora Lustig | On 09 Oct 2009 The paper argues that economism and, in particular, the individual drive to maximize utility and amass profit are not enough to ensure the efficient functioning of an economy; and that even for elemen...
by Kaushik Basu | On 09 Oct 2009 Review of the most salient issues in ecological economics when the subject is applied to the field of economic development. The aim here has
not been to be scholastic but to examine the lives of the...
by Partha Dasgupta | On 06 Oct 2009 The emergence of a large and dynamic middle class raises Asia’s profile as an attractive market destination for products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that th...
by Steffen Dyck | On 06 Oct 2009 In this paper, with empirical data, the Capabilities Approach to identify
'conversion factors' that are not typically addressed in the utility approach is used.
The two approaches are juxtaposed to...
by Jeemol Unni | On 01 Oct 2009 India is home to fantastic water harvesting traditions that have evolved over millennia. The central western Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are no exceptions to these traditions....
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 21 Sep 2009 This paper is an attempt to apply the technique of social cost - benefit analysis to the problem of choice of technology in building construction in Kerala. [WP No. 30].
by K P Kannan | On 21 Sep 2009 The present study
attempts to capture chronic poverty in Sri Lanka by examining general information on poverty and drawing conclusions on those who are likely to be among the chronic poor.
Certain p...
by Indra Tudawe | On 17 Sep 2009 The paper examines the present condition of tribals in India with a demographic perspective.
Construction of a long-term demographic perspective on India’s
tribal population rests on the premise...
by Arup Maharatna | On 28 Aug 2009 Lack of full regional connectivity is one of the major constraints hindering regional growth and integration in Asia, as well as with the rest of the world. One of the conclusions of this paper is tha...
by Biswa N Bhattacharyay | On 11 Aug 2009 The production of machine tools has long been associated with industrialisation
besides a formidable factor of technical change and international competitiveness.
This potent role of machine tool in...
by Vinish Kathuria | 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 This paper formulates a model of exchange rate determination that
describes the market processes by which the foreign exchange markets
are cleared and international receipts of countries are brought...
by Rajas Parchure | On 06 Aug 2009 The focus of this paper is India. In line with TRIPS India has introduced a product patent regime in pharmaceuticals from 1 January, 2005. WIll this lead increase in resources deveoted to R and D by I...
by Sudip Chaudhuri | On 31 Jul 2009 Many victims of domestic violence go to hospitals, but interaction with doctors and nurses tended to stop at treatment for injuries. Engaging with
the wider issues—emotional, psychiatric, social, and...
by Nayreen Daruwalla | On 29 Jul 2009 This paper provides an overview of conceptual understandings of, and
methodological research issues on, the relationship between chronic, or long-term,
poverty and processes of migration. The paper...
by Uma Kothari | On 13 Jul 2009 Access to clean water should be declared a basic human right for three reasons. First, access to clean water can substantially reduce the global burden of disease caused by water-borne infections. Sec...
by PLoS Medicine | On 09 Jul 2009 This paper addresses the issue of establishing a regulatory regime along the production, supply and value chains of multinational corporations in terms of setting labor standards and protecting worker...
by Fichter Michael | On 08 Jul 2009 The method used to measure Human Development are reviewed in order to measure Human Development Index for rural AP by considering indicators such as economic attainment, longevity and education. The e...
by Jatinder S Bedi | On 07 Jul 2009 The Ganga Action Plan (GAP) was launched by the Government of India in the year 1985 with the objective of abatement of pollution in the river Ganga due to discharge of sewage into the river from the...
by Kirit Parikh | On 03 Jul 2009 The Humanities in the 21st century has to contend with both
critique and context. It has to account as an anthropocentric, imperial discipline that not only privileged the human over other forms of...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 25 Jun 2009 In recent years, Bangladesh has experienced persistent price increases, especially of food items, in the domestic market in the backdrop of global increase in food prices. Such price developments in t...
by M. Golam Mortaza | On 22 Jun 2009 The popularly known Human Development Index (HDI) is obtained through linear averaging (LA) of indices in three dimensions- health, education and standard of living. This paper questions the appropria...
by Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan | On 16 Jun 2009 This paper presents a lecture delivered by the author under The Pravin Visaria Public Lecture in GIDR. India has made considerable demographic progress since 1947; however it seems that the country’s...
by Tim Dyson | On 16 Jun 2009 Competition law is different from other branches of law. It is not about the fairness or morality to be instilled in the actions which mark societal behaviour. Instead the rules of competition reflect...
by Tarun Jain | On 14 Jun 2009 The article focuses on understanding of the economics of the exchange control liberalisation in macroeconomic perspectives and, therefore, the article does not attempt to interpret or explore the lega...
by P Samarasiri | On 12 Jun 2009 They collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world’s most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. They show th...
by Rosalind S Hunter | On 11 Jun 2009 This report is intended as a wake-up call to anyone who thinks the developing world debt crisis has been resolved. In fact, it assesses fears of a new debt crisis, more serious than before, spreading...
by Sarah Edwards | On 11 Jun 2009 In this paper, the author analyzes India’s approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on financial globalization. India’s authorities have taken a cautious and c...
by Eswar S. Prasad | On 09 Jun 2009 The article provides information pertaining to the recent outbreak of "swine flu", which has spread beyond Mexico and the US. The present study shows that the outbreak has lot to do with industrial fa...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 09 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 This paper presents the results of fieldwork on rural primary schools of two districts of Madhya Pradesh, India, conducted from December 2001 to March 2002. Since the mid-1990’s, the government...
by Francois Leclercq | On 04 Jun 2009 This paper reviews the urban water and sanitation scenario in metropolitan cities. Section 1 focuses on the institutional and organizational structure of the service providers by looking at the level...
by Joel Ruet | On 04 Jun 2009 Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) is crucial for preventing maternal deaths for which the policy has been to establish First Referral Units (FRUs). Twenty seven facilities from 6 districts from each adm...
by Raman Parvathy | On 03 Jun 2009 This paper seeks to evaluate quantity and quality of service delivery in rural public health facilities under NRHM. On appropriate and feasible measures, the former is assessed on the static and dynam...
by Kaveri Gill | On 02 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 The task of the Sub-committee was to review the existing methodologies for estimating the contribution of unorganised/informal sector to GDP and suggest measures to facilitate direct estimation. The G...
by NCEUS NCEUS | On 28 May 2009 This paper analyzes Singapore’s multi-pronged approach to managing prolonged low fertility which has led to population aging, labor force shortages, increasing elderly dependency ratios, and feminizat...
by Mukul. G Asher | On 15 May 2009 Capitalizing on the most recent worldwide estimates of the impacts of climate change on agricultural production, this paper assesses the economic effects of climate change for Southeast Asian countrie...
by Fan Zhai | On 14 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 This paper details the procedures adopted by the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation in procuring and supplying essential drugs to the government health care which is a positive measure in ensurin...
by Lalitha N | On 22 Apr 2009 The paper examines the division of tasks required between politicians and bureaucrats to run an effective rural employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in India, in the context of Indian history and habits.
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 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 This paper argues that it is becoming increasingly difficult for
most developing countries to achieve rapid growth through industrialization, and especially through export oriented activities. But th...
by Peter Sheehan | On 03 Feb 2009 The focus of this study is to analyze the pattern and costs
of services in four areas, which critically affect most households in Kerala .
The major concerns of this paper include answers to questio...
by Zachariah KC | On 12 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 In this paper an overview of
India’s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India’s
technological capability and the role it has played in the process of India’s econom...
by Amit Shovon Ray | On 26 Dec 2008 This paper provides a cradle-to-grave model for political union between two unequally endowed states. The main contribution of this paper is to highlight the role of technology gap and unequal distrib...
by Vikas Kumar | On 10 Dec 2008 Concerns of the community needs to be taken into account for water resources
development and management. The success of the National Water Policy will depend entirely on evolving and maintaining a na...
by Ministry of Water Resources GOI | On 02 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 Using product-level data on exports from different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to the rising export sophistication. [WP no. 226].
by Zhi Wang | On 26 Nov 2008 What does citizenship mean to poor and socially excluded people? How do their views help us understand and analyse what 'inclusive' citizenship means?
by Naila Kabeer | On 20 Nov 2008 Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based
indicators provided by the United Nations Development Program. Population share of the
genders enter the formulation of t...
by Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan | On 18 Nov 2008 The current system of publication in biomedical research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic. This system can be studied by appl...
by Neal S Young | On 12 Nov 2008 The policy brief describes the life stories of five people, to show the face of human face of chronic poverty. It also suggests that such life history material can be an important source of data for p...
by Martin Prowse | On 11 Nov 2008 This paper primarily assesses the status of rural livelihoods in fragile environments with diverse resource endowments and policy interventions. Livelihood
assessment was carried out using the sustai...
by V Ratna Reddy | On 07 Nov 2008 A multi-partner EPI Review in India was conducted to help influence the practices of routine immunization and articulate CARE’s potential role in establishing linkage between MOH, ICDS, and communitie...
by Robert Steinglass | On 20 Oct 2008 Ashish Nandy’s utopia is based on a particular view of cosmopolitanism – one that acknowledges and acts upon suffering as a global feature irrespective of geographical and historical location. Nandy’s...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 16 Oct 2008 The first section of this essay considers the personal narratives of suffering and growth of the
Tarini Bhavan workers and inmates. The second section analyses the ideological contours of the
reform...
by Bagchi B | On 16 Oct 2008 The wine market is a pretty paradoxical research object for the economical and marketing studies. In France alone, every year, hundreds of thousands of new brand differentiated products are marketed....
by Geneviève Teil | On 15 Oct 2008 The ongoing global financial turmoil represents an end of an era of exuberant financial capitalism. But the transition to a more sedate and scaled down financial sector will be traumatic for the world...
by Mukul Asher | On 15 Oct 2008 This paper proceeds with approach that it is the constitutional obligation of
the State to provide adequate quantity of drinking water to the citizens and
also protect water resources as common good...
by Ramachandraiah C | On 13 Oct 2008 Malaysia and Australia hope to conclude free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations by 2009, said International Trade and Industry Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. [Bilaterals.org]
by Teh Eng Hock | On 08 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 objective of the paperis to obtain the inputs of stakeholders and to generate a discussion on the appropriate policy relating to cross media and ownership restrictions in India. The comments of al...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 03 Oct 2008 The paper analyzes the determinants of internationalisation, defined in terms of export intensity and overseas investments, of the IT firms in India. In particular, the paper examines the role of tech...
by Narayanan K | 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 This Centad working paper takes a critical look at the Hong Kong Ministerial text on agriculture and NAMA. On the basis of this analysis, the paper suggests specific and important negotiating points f...
by Prabhash Ranjan | On 30 Sep 2008 The paper investigates the role of economic factors in the enrolment decision at the
higher education level in India. The study concludes that the rate of
participation of women is in a disadvantage...
by Sugeeta Upadhyay | 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 Demographic transition is a global phenomenon; population growth is inevitable in the initial phases of the transition. For India the current phase of the demographic transition is both a challenge an...
by Prema Ramachandran | On 26 Sep 2008 This paper applies theoretical pluralism to studies of poverty. However in order to be more specific it takes as a case study some competing studies of Indian rural tenancy relations. In the paper, sp...
by Wendy Olsen | On 25 Sep 2008 This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘lim...
by Mausumi Das | On 24 Sep 2008 Budget in Brief is designed to summarize the detailed information into an
overview comprising essential information about expenditure and receipt and the
resulting budget balance.
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, | On 22 Sep 2008 2008 Budget presented by His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaksa
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 18 Sep 2008 Education is an important component of economic activity, although investment in education is only one of the many forms of investment in human capital. The idea behind this is that investment in huma...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 17 Sep 2008 The paper investigates the innovation behavior off entrepreneurs in small and medium sized enterprises in the ICT sector of the European Union. In this study innovative strategies of entrepreneurs are...
by Kaushalesh Lal | On 15 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 The paper examines the current problems with the IMF which include: 1) the institution is no longer fulfilling the functions it used to fulfil, nor is there a clear vision of any new functions for it;...
by Roberto Frenkel | On 21 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 The International Monatory fund is facing an uncertain future. Notewithstanding the important contributions it has made in helping the global economy deal with major economic and financial changes and...
by Jack Boorman | On 06 Aug 2008 This study aimed to provide some insights into sanitation-related strategies taken
by the BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programme from an
economic point of view. The aim of this report i...
by Kazi Faisal Bin Seraj | On 06 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 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 The objectives of the policy on organic farming, the strategies of the policy are explained here.
by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture CSA | On 26 Jul 2008 The aim of this paper is to examine the effects climate change will have on Bangladesh and also gives some possible solutions for tackling climate change.
by Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD | On 24 Jul 2008 Given the strategic long run character of the nuclear deal, the decision on it should nor be hurried. Nor is it one that can be taken without seeking wider public consensus than is available
to the...
by Arun Kumar | On 21 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 This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. Globalisation...
by Anja Schmiele | On 01 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 Review of:
Internal Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of the UN’s Guiding Principles
Edited by Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Samir Kumar Das,
Sage Publicatons, New Delhi;...
by Ratna Bharali Talukdar | On 22 Jun 2008 The introduction of the Chairman to the Draft presented for discussion based upon the 2006 text and to move the negotiations forward by proposing specific outcomes, not rehearsing everyone’s position,...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 19 Jun 2008 Submitted to Trade Negotiations Committee in response to request of members for language of full modalities on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations. As a result of the failure of the neg...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 19 Jun 2008 The revised text is the product of his bilateral and plurilateral consultations of the February meeting and builds on the July 2006 text “Towards NAMA modalities”, and the Hong Kong Ministerial Declar...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 19 Jun 2008 The chair of the Non Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) negotiating group, ambassador Don Stephenson, released on 19 May 2008 the revised draft negotiating text to focus further discussions towards mod...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 19 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 On 28th April 2008, hundreds of illegal plain settlers attacked the local Jumma people in Bangladesh. Hundreds of people were displaced and their houses burned. People suffered from such a level of sh...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 13 Jun 2008 This paper addresses one of the most relevant questions of the international situation at the end of the first decade of the century: is it possi-ble to construct an effective relationship of co-opera...
by Jorge Eduardo Navarrete | On 04 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 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 An important method of managing resources to finance consistent and
balanced human development lies in the reprioritisation of current
expenditure in accordance with the urgent needs and shortfalls...
by Tapas K. Sen | On 13 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 The role of economists in trade debates is especially pernicious because there is no area of economics in which economists have been less honest about what their models show. They have consistently ex...
by Dean Baker | On 17 Mar 2008 Budget for Children (BfC) is not a separate budget. It is merely an attempt to disaggregate from the overall budget, the allocations made specifically for programmes that benefit children. From 2000-0...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 04 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 Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be c...
by Rae Lesser Blumberg | On 20 Feb 2008 Recent behavioral and neuroimaging studies with humans and monkeys provide compelling evidence of shared numerical capacities across species. In this primer, it is explained why our understanding of t...
by Michael J. Beran | On 12 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 The work of the IPCC has helped the world to learn more on all aspects of climate change, and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has acknowledged this fact. [Speech delivered in Oslo]
by Pachauri R K | On 04 Feb 2008 This paper discusses the emerging contradictions that may have serious implications for the sustainable growth and performance of China’s rubber industry in the era of internal restructuring and globa...
by Viswanathan P K | On 30 Jan 2008 Review of The Social and the Symbolic edited by Edited by Bernard Bel, Jan Brouwer, Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Guy Poitevin; Sage, New Delhi; 2007, pp 481, Rs 895.
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 22 Jan 2008 The significance of international migration in the Philippines economy and society is discussed. The Government of Philippines plays a supportive and regulatory role promoting internationational migr...
by S. Irudaya Rajan | On 19 Jan 2008 The IAEA topical seminar on Financing of Nuclear Power Projects in Developing Countries reaffirmed that a major requirement for and constraint on the development of nuclear power projects in developin...
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 14 Jan 2008 The results of the 2007 round of the Migration Monitoring Studies (MMS) being conducted periodically by the Centre for Development Studies. It covers three areas: migration, remittances and employment...
by Zachariah KC | On 09 Jan 2008 KIA proposes to bring a paradigm shift in Indian Agriculture in terms of human resource development, research, technology generation, technology dissemination and commercialization. In the short run,...
by Ramanjaneyulu G V | On 05 Jan 2008 Following this disaster in Orissa caused by a super cyclone there was a great deal of controversy over whether the high levels of mangrove forest destruction in the area had increased the impact of th...
by Saudamini Das | On 13 Dec 2007 Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) will be an integral and significant part of global financial and capital markets even in the medium term. It is important for India to put in place domestic safeguards ag...
by Mukul Asher | On 12 Dec 2007 The United Nations Development Programme has just put out its latest Human Development Report, containing the human development index (HDI) for 177 countries, with the data being for 2005. India ranks...
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 Dec 2007 There is a large untapped trade potential between the two countries. Using the potential trade approach, the study finds that the export potential from India to Pakistan is to the tune of US$ 9.5 bill...
by Nisha Taneja | On 29 Nov 2007 The process of development, in any society, should ideally be viewed and assessed in terms of what it does for an average individual.For any approach or development framework to be meaningful and effe...
by Planning Commission, India | On 28 Nov 2007 To examine the functioning of Gram Sabha and participation of tribal communities therein to asses the status of self governance under the “Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) A...
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 14 Nov 2007 Although PLoS Biology does not often publish articles that grapple with issues like poverty and human development, it was chosen to do so here because it is believed that the collective output of scie...
by Liza Gross | On 12 Nov 2007 A large number of home-grown businessmen and international firms are looking well beyond the next quarter and looking long-term at what the future will be, and making sure that they will be a part of...
by T.N. Ninan | On 06 Nov 2007 Different options that RBI and government must decide regard to future inflows of international capital to India.
by T.N. Ninan | On 08 Oct 2007 As we celebrate 60 years of political independence and take pride in our dynamic private sector, our remarkable IT successes and all the other usual dimensions of success, let us remind ourselves that...
by Shankar Acharya | On 08 Oct 2007 It is time India recognises its dependency on groundwater resources, which is only going to increase in the coming years, partly because of growing urbanisation and industrialisation. In view of the g...
by Kirit Parikh | On 03 Oct 2007 Reports have been pouring in that the Burmese soldiers today used baton and tear gas against the Buddhist monks and civilian protesters at Shwedagon pagoda, the holiest Buddhist place in Rangoon. The...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 26 Sep 2007 An extensive literature reflects millennia of concern over what we humans call ourselves and others. All life sciences are now grappling further with how to categorize and study the nearly infinite po...
by Maggie Brown | On 26 Sep 2007 The key to making mobile TV a reality lies in combining traditional broadcast standards with features specific to handheld devices: mobility, smaller screens and antennas, indoor coverage, and relianc...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 24 Sep 2007 Evolution of the revised framework, its broad structure, preparatory measures taken by the RBI for implementing this framework and the challenges that will need to be tackled in migration to Basel II...
by Leeladhar V | On 14 Sep 2007 The price volatility of agricultural commodities assumes critical importance in the context of the ongoing debate regarding agricultural trade liberalisation in India. The arguments against agricultur...
by C S C Sekhar | On 12 Sep 2007 23 years after the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), there is still denial that the virus is the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The Internet has served as...
by Tara C Smith | On 11 Sep 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 This study has two closely related objectives: to evaluate post-Uruguay Round market access conditions and to contribute to a clarification of the stakes in the ongoing process of multilateral trade n...
by Marc Bacchetta. | On 27 Aug 2007 There are various conceivable links between services liberalization and poverty reduction, including the efficiency effects associated with increased competition in intermediate (infrastructural) serv...
by Rolf Adlung | On 27 Aug 2007 This paper takes a critical approach to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and
proposes a radical solution involving more direct involvement of civil society and the
private sector in WTO governing...
by Saif Al-Islam Alqadhafi | On 27 Aug 2007 This paper presents a systemic framework to look at the prospects for sustainability of Indian agriculture. The framework is based on trends, indicators and assessment by experts spanning three domain...
by V.M. Rao | On 27 Aug 2007 This paper attempts to value the biodiversity functions of India’s
natural ecosystems and suggest a method to adjust national (GDP) and
state income (GSDP) accounts. The main objectives of this stud...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 26 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 The doctrine of precedent is getting established in WTO and seems to be there to stay however much it is argued otherwise. Neglect of this fact means that we are overlooking some of the problematic de...
by Sheela Rai | On 08 Aug 2007 There are three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital development), and technology and knowledge upgradation. It examines how the imp...
by Aradhna Aggarwal | On 02 Aug 2007 The paper examines child labour, lower schooling attendance and attainment, and significantly elevated fertility in families vulnerable to debt bondage.
by Eric Edmonds | On 02 Aug 2007 Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method,...
by Zachariah KC | On 23 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 India has clearly achieved a large sustained level of remittances. Policy initiatives by the government and banking institutions have achieved two significant results. First, most remittances flow tho...
by Muzaffar Chisti | On 11 Jul 2007 The lecture focuses on some implications -- both positive and normative -- of the most surprising development in the international financial system over the last half dozen years. That development is...
by Lawrence H. Summers | On 05 Jul 2007 The September 2007 annual summit of APEC to be hosted by Australia will witness the ending of the decade long moratorium on membership. A major anomaly of the APEC is that while the three largest econ...
by Mukul Asher | On 26 Jun 2007 The relationship between Indian macro-economic factors and economic growth has been analyzed by a number of empirical studies. This paper re-examines the sources of variability in the Indian economy f...
by Bharat Chadha | On 26 Jun 2007 The essay is to provides a detailed overview of the state of the recent empirical literature on why and how children work as well as the consequences of that work. It provides a descriptive overview o...
by Eric Edmonds | On 01 Jun 2007 The proposition that social capital expands household welfare is tested by estimating the effects of social interactions on per capita expenditure among a sample of 810 households in northern Banglade...
by Farhad Ameen | On 30 May 2007 Humanism is defined to mean: any system which puts human interests and the mind of man paramount; non-religious philosophy based on liberal values; tendency to civilise; and compassion. Tarkunde satis...
by J. S. Verma | On 28 May 2007 The international migration of health workers, especially of physicians and nurses but also increasingly of other health workers, has become a major global health concern. Most of the migration of hea...
by Delanyo Dolvo | On 23 May 2007 Stalemate in agricultural negotiations at the WTO has persisted with a continued lack of convergence on most important issues of trade-distorting domestic support, market access and related flex...
by Linu Mathew Philip | On 08 May 2007 This paper argues that IBSA( India, Brazil, South Africa) as opposed to IBSAC (with China) is a far more coherent group when it comes to WTO negotiations as its interests coincide given the agenda tha...
by Debashis Chakraborty | On 25 Apr 2007 This article analyses the importance of international commercial service transactions relating to both trade and investment, which form an essential element of analyzing production fragmentation and e...
by Mukul Asher | On 17 Apr 2007 This article traces the history of negotiations in the WTO on Trade Facilitation, the only Singapore issue that has survived beyond Doha and Cancun. Last ten years of sustained work by the negotiators...
by Shashank Priya | On 27 Mar 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 The paper explores the factors that are pushing the development of ethical trade and also the potential constraints.
by Anne Tallontire | On 15 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 Singapore’s 2007 budget reaffirms government’s determination to continue with the current globalization strategy of high growth, high net in-migration and minimal social risk pooling in financing old...
by Mukul Asher | On 05 Mar 2007 The role of education in economic development has been
recognised for quite some time in mainstream economic literature.
Divergence between the private and social rate of return from education is th...
by Anit Mukherjee | On 02 Mar 2007 The report intends to provide general and specific recommendations to both provider and recipient nations that they should take into consideration while undertaking any TA programme in a recipient nat...
by Rajesh Sagar | On 25 Feb 2007 the objective of this report is to analyse the existing and potential
links that can be established between current Geographical Indications (GIs) and regional sustainable development. A case study a...
by Mariano Riccheri, | On 24 Feb 2007 This paper investigates the relationship between capital account openness and
inflation since the 1980s. It argues that widespread capital account liberalization
during the last two decades appears...
by Abhijit Sen Gupta | On 23 Feb 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 The paper reviews the experience of select countries - both advanced and emerging markets - in regard to capital account liberalisation (CAL). The advanced countries' experience with regard to CAL is...
by Mohua Roy | On 10 Jan 2007 This paper contends that the general understanding that precedent system does not apply in the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism. The author argues that the drafters or the negotiators always wanted to...
by Sheela Rai | On 09 Jan 2007 The EU Commission argues that radical changes to he origin rules will both simplify processes and make them more development friendly. Will they? There are different opinions on what Rules of Origin s...
by Christopher Stevens | On 06 Jan 2007 This paper charts the complex dynamics of the movement of technical talent in the
world economy and assesses broadly the impact of such mobility on both sending and
receiving countries. Based on sec...
by Anthony P. D'Costa | On 29 Dec 2006 In the context of the TRIPS agreement and the accompanying debate about the merits of the requirement to enforce product patents for pharmaceuticals, this paper provides a rigorously-derived estimate...
by Shubham Chaudhuri | On 27 Dec 2006 The paper addresses the issues of contribution of aids towards human development and the efficiency of such aids in poorer countries, assessing if there is cross-country evidence for an effective huma...
by Karuna Gomanee | On 22 Dec 2006 To analyse the role of partisan beliefs and interests, this paper focuses on two
industries—telecoms and electricity—which have been subject to strong pressures for policy diffusion and thereby are u...
by Maria Victoria Murillo | On 21 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 Nuclear weapons have security, economic and political implications. In the ultimate analysis, however , the issue of nuclear weapons is an ethical question. It is question or right and wrong, good and...
by Amulya K.N. Reddy | On 14 Dec 2006 Taking into account the latest data of exports of textiles and clothing to the European Union from South Asia and China, a year-end assessment of the impact of the Generalised System of Preferences (...
by C. Satapathy | On 14 Dec 2006 In line with the perspectives of human capital, human development
and human rights, this paper conceives education to be the basic right of children and re-christens all children who are not in schoo...
by M. Venkatnarayana | On 06 Dec 2006 This paper, based on ‘capabilities’ approach, analyses the ‘development outcomes’ forf ‘tribals’ of rural south Gujarat and examines the relative roles of physical, human and social capital within a...
by Arti Nanavati | On 26 Nov 2006 This paper outlines a facilitative procedure for settlement of disputes in the area of trade facilitation when the party against which a complaint has been lodged in a dispute happens to be a developi...
by C. Satapathy | On 23 Nov 2006 Once the reach of education remains circumscribed only by its functional role in the formation of human capital, which, by definition, has little significance beyond its instrumentality in production...
by Arup Maharatna | On 20 Nov 2006 The management of natural resources is quite complex and requires the involvement of multiple social actors or stakeholders. Managing natural resources sustainably requires learning from local people,...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 09 Nov 2006 Introduction: Regional integration in Asia editorial by Ramkishen S. Rajan
Production fragmentation and trade integration: East Asia in a global context by
Prema-chandra Athukorala and Nobuaki Yamas...
by The North American Journal of Economics and Finance | On 05 Nov 2006 Malaysia is finding it difficult to translate current favourable macro-economic environment, and the commodity boom into sustainable competitive advantage in manufacturing and services and to cope wit...
by Mukul Asher | On 03 Nov 2006 Malaysia is finding it difficult to translate current favourable macro-economic environment, and the commodity boom into sustainable competitive advantage in manufacturing and services and to cope wit...
by Mukul Asher | On 03 Nov 2006 Data Exclusivity: Another Self-Goal and a Trade Barrier S.Srinivasan
Medico Friend Circle Letter to PM on DE
DE in International Trade Agreements
IDMA on DP and DE
Safeguards if Decision by Go...
by Medico Friend Circle | 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 Given the divergence in economic and institutional structures in the region, any attempt to create a common currency absent macroeconomic policy coordination and mechanism for automatic intra-regional...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 30 Oct 2006 Given the divergence in economic and institutional structures in the region, any attempt to create a common currency absent macroeconomic policy coordination and mechanism for automatic intra-regional...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 30 Oct 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 The most critical factor for maintaining regional stability in East Asia over the next few decades is the relations between the three great powers in the region: China, Japan and the United States. Th...
by Ezra F.Vogel | On 24 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 South Africa has undergone a remarkable transformation since its democratic transition in 1994, but economic growth and employment generation have been disappointing. Most worryingly, unemployment is...
by Dani Rodrik | On 13 Oct 2006 As China has become an increasingly important part of the global trading system over the past two decades, interest in the country and its international economic policies has increased among internati...
by Lee Branstetter | On 13 Oct 2006 While talk of a 'China-India axis complete with 2.4 billion people' is no doubt fanciful, the progress in relations over the seven years following the nuclear crisis of 1998 is claiming the close atte...
by David A. Kelly | On 03 Oct 2006 While Iraq and future Iraq policy are constantly in the news, almost all the American facts-on-the-ground in that country -- of which Camp Bucca is one -- have come into being without consultation wit...
by Tom Engelhardt | On 26 Sep 2006 The objective of this research paper is to approach the debates on
indigenous/tribal identity in international law deploying the framework
of subaltern studies in South Asia with a view to, first, c...
by Rajat Rana | 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 The paper examines aspects of the contents of contemporary international laws
that are threatening the legitimacy of public international law as well
as International Commercial Law.
by Gbenga Oduntan | 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 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 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 In convening the third session of the World Urban Forum in Vancouver, the United Nations Human Settlements Program has asked us to focus our attention on the Sustainable City and consider critical cha...
by Patricia L. McCarney | On 13 Jul 2006 The cultural demands made of women by migrant communities struggling to establish a new identity and the stereotypes of women of other races often promoted by host communities are important forces in...
by Delia Davin | On 07 Jul 2006 The Mckinnon-Shaw Hypothesis, in its’ various forms, is now thirty years old. This paper attempts to survey the literature on the Mckinnon-Shaw Hypothesis and tries
to draw out some of the recurrent...
by Firdu Gmech | On 02 Jun 2006 This paper dwells on the essential requirements of economic
development and the role of international credit,. It is also an incursion into
the operational principles and strategies of the World Ba...
by Musa Jega Ibrahim | On 01 Jun 2006 Recognising that the construction of large dams has also led to incalculable loss, destruction, and damage of cultural resources ranging from shrines of local communities to world heritage monuments,...
by Steven A. Brandt | On 01 Jun 2006 The aim of this paper is to analyse India's anti dumping behaviour.
India has become a major user of anti dumping measures, initiating more
than 300 cases against many of its trading partners. After...
by Nandana Baruah | 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 The formulation of appropriate criteria for origin determination is crucial for any country or regional trading block interested in ensuring growth and economic. Perhaps this is the single most impor...
by C. Satapathy | On 19 May 2006 The dams debate is simple because behind the array of facts and figures, of economic statistics and engineering calculations, lie a number of basic and easily understood principles. If adhered to and...
by World Commission on Dams WCD | On 24 Apr 2006 While Asia’s success in growth and poverty reduction is to be greatly welcomed, and should be analysed for the lessons it has for other countries, the policy discourse should take on board three key p...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 21 Apr 2006 This paper assesses the impact of India’s unilateral tariff reductions and lowering
of quantitative restrictions since 1991. It then evaluates the WTO commitments on nonagricultural market access in...
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 21 Apr 2006 Experiential knowledge is what indigenous knowledge is all about. Unfortunately again the Western intellectuals are reframing indigenous knowledge to suit their purposes. In the course of living with...
by Jinan K.B. | On 21 Apr 2006 Global outsourcing, technical change, and falling barriers to trade worldwide have
transformed the structure of production and global competition in the textile and apparel industry. This sector has...
by Meenu Tiwari | On 20 Apr 2006 In late March the release of data on sale of new homes in the US showed that it had dropped 10 per cent, the biggest drop in nine years. In the immediate aftermath of this report, the US currency gav...
by V. Anantha Nageswaran | On 07 Apr 2006 Conference schedule
by LeftWord Books | On 01 Apr 2006 A SWOT analysis of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) in the WTO regime
reveals that the much acclaimed IPI’s expertise in process development skills
were made possible by the amendments made...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Mar 2006 Liberalisation and the policies thereafter have lead to a definite increase in production and export from the leather accessories industry in India. The focus of this paper is on migration and labour...
by Jesim Pais | On 28 Mar 2006 Policy makers are particularly concerned about the extent and speed of exchange rate pass-through into domestic prices. However, in recent times there seems to be a growing degree of disconnect betw...
by Amit Ghosh | On 14 Mar 2006 Now that the nuclear deal has been struck, there is a real danger of India now settling comfortably into a de facto NWS status within a welcoming international non-proliferation architecture. This wil...
by D.Raghunandan | On 14 Mar 2006 Technological development in Asia is driven by government policy, and that policy is motivated in large part by technonationalism, or the desire of Asian states to free themselves from dependence on W...
by David Kang | On 07 Mar 2006 Much more than comparative advantage and free markets have been at play in shaping China's export success. Government policies have helped nurture domestic capabilities in consumer electronics and oth...
by Dani Rodrik | On 04 Mar 2006 India has much to gain from the Nuclear Deal. But if India places its breeder programme under international safeguards, then its research will come under public scrutiny, exposing all of India’s advan...
by D.Raghunandan | On 28 Feb 2006 Social Sectors
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 Many aspects of the Iraq venture have turned out differently from what was purported before the war: there were no weapons of mass destruction, no clear link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, no imminent dan...
by Linda Bilmes | On 25 Feb 2006 The close relationship, a symbiotic one, between the media and the government of the day has long existed. In the run up to the Iraq war and afterwards, the Bush Administration and legislators in t...
by Yasemin Inceoglu | On 16 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 Despite numerous empirical studies examining various facets of the topic, the degree of intraregional financial integration in East Asia remains a matter of vigorous debate. This paper offers a select...
by Tony Cavoli | On 07 Feb 2006 Russia’s Gazprom, the world’s largest gas company, has precipitated serious tensions among the post-Soviet countries by sharply hiking gas prices this winter. Gazprom has been supplying gas to these c...
by R.G. Gidadhubli | On 07 Feb 2006 As India continues to pursue calibrated globalisation and expand external linkages, this is an opportune time to develop robust economic partnership with Taiwan, an economy with a GDP of over US$300b...
by Mukul Asher | On 02 Feb 2006 A new 18-country opinion survey sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found that "while majorities of citizens generally support the continued use of existing nuclear reactors, mo...
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 02 Feb 2006 There has been a very rapid rise since the early 1990s in foreign reserves held by developing countries. These reserves have climbed to almost 30 percent of developing countries' GDP and 8 months of i...
by Dani Rodrik | On 27 Jan 2006 Report of the Expert Group
by Ministry of Finance | On 20 Jan 2006 Karnataka is the single largest producer of silk in the country.As an income generation activity,sericulture has been seen as part of anti-poverty efforts of both the state and central governments. Ho...
by Anand Inbanathan | On 19 Jan 2006 This paper deals with the impact of irrigation on agrarian change and local politics in the period, 1960 to 1996 in the irrigated region of South Telengana, Andhra Pradesh. The article is based on a p...
by V. Anil Kumar | On 17 Jan 2006 This paper analyses the opportunities in services trade that may arise out of the India-ASEAN Economic Cooperation to makes an assessment of the net gains that could arise from liberalisation of the c...
by Suparna Karmakar | On 24 Dec 2005 Though Paul Kennedy and other scholars of National Security, Diplomacy and
Foreign relations have emphasized the importance of the economy in National Power, not many economists have taken an interes...
by Arvind Virmani | On 24 Dec 2005 The next major boost to world trade is expected to come from greater trade in
services. And this is possible only when greater liberalization in services is achieved which in turn depends on the prog...
by Rajeev Ahuja | On 24 Dec 2005 The note is an attempt to make a methodological argument to the students about how to approach the study of human phenomena. Based on the experience of teaching about work, workers and organisations t...
by Rahul Varman | On 20 Dec 2005 The Draft document circulated at the beginning of the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong, China, 13–18 December 2005.
by World Trade Organisation | On 19 Dec 2005 This paper gives insights into the possible trade creating effects of service trade liberalization via Mode 4. In particular we expect that temporary movements of persons, like permanent movements, h...
by Marion Jansen | On 19 Dec 2005 This paper analyzes the risks of preference erosion arising from MFN trade liberalization in manufactured products. It focuses on developing countries that receive non-reciprocal preferences in the m...
by Patrick Low | On 19 Dec 2005 The Cotonou Agreement introduces new fundamental principles with respect to trade between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries relative to the Lomé Convention: in particula...
by Alexander Keck | On 19 Dec 2005 The status of public services is one of the most hotly debated issues surrounding the GATS. There are two approaches to distinguish such services from any other services: an institutional approach t...
by Rolf Adlung | On 19 Dec 2005 This paper analyses the present state of play of WTO negotiations and evaluates how effective the current WTO provisions will be to reduce domestic subsidies in developed countries. The findings sugg...
by Parthaprathim Pal | On 12 Dec 2005 This paper looks at how the term ‘dumping’ is understood by the economists, trade and trade officials and multilateral bodies like the WTO and traces the origin and evolution of antidumping measures...
by C. Satapathy | On 12 Dec 2005 This paper is a literature survey of some relevant issues arising from environmental quality provision and eco-labelling schemes. First of all it is shown how the two topics are strictly related. Firm...
by Laura Valentini | On 11 Dec 2005 This paper outlines a proposal for a controlled approach to capital account
liberalization for economies experiencing large capital inflows. The proposal essentially involves securitizing a portion o...
by Eswar S. Prasad | On 09 Dec 2005 As developing countries including those from South Asia, rally forces and evaluate options ahead of the Hong Kong Ministerial meeting in December 2005, Non Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) assumes im...
by Prabash Ranjan | On 29 Nov 2005 There is a growing need to a more institutionalized economic arrangement in East
Asia. East Asia Economic Community might be an ideal form of such institution.
However, the road is still long and...
by A Damuri | On 23 Nov 2005 Inherenet weaknesses in AFTA and AEC and the need to counter regionalism in other parets of the world are some of the important reasons for evolving an East Asian Community. However, there are severa...
by Joseph Yap | On 23 Nov 2005
by ICRIER | On 22 Nov 2005 The Asian Age is coming and these are some of the factors aiding it. The reduction of the domestic market (decrease in population, development of service economy and increase in imports); Dissolution...
by Akira Yamasaki | On 22 Nov 2005 In order to advance regional integration in East Asia, there needs to be a rapid expansion of FTAs. The obstacles in promotion of FTAs need to be resolved. Some of the features in realising FTAs are:...
by Shujiro Urata | On 22 Nov 2005 An East Asian community(EAC) is an idea now being seriously pursued in spite of significant challenges. Proliferating bilateral deals in Asia could emerge as building blocks towards the EAC, provided...
by Rahul Sen | On 22 Nov 2005 The enterprise of building an East Asian Community has already begun. The
process will indeed be long-term. Malaysia, from the beginning , has been
steadfast in not giving up on the concept. Despite...
by Stephen Leong | On 22 Nov 2005 There has been a significant decline in anti dumping initiations. This is a welcome trend as there is scant support in economic literature for anti-dumping action. The trend might well indicate the ef...
by C. Satapathy | On 04 Oct 2005 This study looked at the intersection of reproductive health and mental health of women among the urban poor in Delhi, India. It is part of a larger study that seeks to understand how differences in e...
by Ranendra Das | On 17 Sep 2005 The years of turmoil in the Kashmir valley have resulted in a breakdown of the state machinery, especially the health infrastructure, with the breakdown of peripheral facilities and the migration of d...
by Zamrooda Khanday | On 10 Sep 2005 This note highlights the main issues and outlines the proposed action plan in respect of the following five major areas in Agriculture and Irrigation:
(1) Augmentation of water resources for irrigati...
by C.H. Hanumantha Rao | On 09 Sep 2005 The paper is a preliminary attempt to examine the human development scenario in Maharashtra. Its starting point is the Human Development Index, which indicates average levels of attainment in three di...
by Sangita Kamdar | On 05 Aug 2005 This paper considers the experience of the membership organizations that make up the international network of Shack or Slum Dwellers International (SDI,3 an international network of national urban poo...
by Diana Mitlin | On 31 Mar 2005 Cornell/SEWA/EDP/WIEGO International Conference
by Anonymous | On 29 Mar 2005 |