This paper utilizes a large cross-section of data sets such as the ILOSTAT, NSSO Quinquennial Employment and Unemployment Survey, Labour Bureau Annual Employment and Unemployment Survey, National Fami...
by Surbhi Ghai | On 03 Feb 2019 Reverse mortgages provide an alternative source of retirement funding by allowing older homeowners to borrow against their home. However, a recent pilot program of reserve mortgage products in several...
by Katja Hanewald | On 03 Feb 2019 This paper examines the dimension of inequality since our earlier work on poverty and deprivation suggest that social inequality seems to overwhelm all other inequalities in a whole range of indicator...
by K.P. Kannan | On 31 Jan 2019 In this paper the positive correlation between firm productivity and export status is well established. This correlation can arise from multiple alternative casual models. It has investigated these re...
by Apoorva Gupta | On 12 Jan 2019 A large empirical literature finds that financial development is beneficial for economic growth, although some recent evidence suggests otherwise. The paper contributes to the finance–growth literatur...
by Gemma Estrada | On 19 Oct 2018 This paper examines how women’s participation in family decision-making is affected by land rights in rural areas in India. The 2005 Hindu Succession Act was legislated to protect women’s rights to an...
by Harold Glenn A. Valera | On 26 Sep 2018 The paper examines how the effects of school construction on girls’ education vary with a widely-practiced marriage custom called bride price, which is a payment made by the husband and/or his family...
by Nava Ashraf | On 17 Sep 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 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 report sets out to establish how well social enterprise really does address gender inequality and women's empowerment in Pakistan. It is part of a series of reports commissioned by the British Co...
by Mark Richardson | On 28 Jun 2018 This paper studies the effects of firms’ investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their demand for female and skilled workers. Using the gradual liberalization of the broadba...
by Natalie Chun | On 31 May 2018 This paper is an evidence review of
how intersecting forms of inequalities influence women’s
political participation and representation at the local level in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
The r...
by | On 11 May 2018 Review of
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by Kishor Podh | On 24 Apr 2018 In this paper aggregate labour quality and the first order quality indices of education, age and
gender have been estimated using the JGF (1987) methodology for the Indian economy, its broad sectors,...
by K L Krishna | On 04 Apr 2018 The paper says that average saving rate over 1990-91 to 1995-96 has been only 14.7 percent of GDP.
by Sarfraz Qureshi | On 30 Mar 2018 Trade facilitation measures improve the trading environment by reducing transaction costs
and thereby increasing the gains from trade. Although the use of trade facilitation measures
for tackling tr...
by Sanjana Joshi | On 28 Mar 2018 The report indicated a widespread stagnation of women’s work participation in poorer districts, a narrowing of their work, income, prospects and opportunities, growing wage differentials between men a...
by Centre for Budget and Policy Studies CBPS | On 23 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 Ensuring Women’s their participation in the economy requires access to skills, technology and finance. India and Japan have supported such initiatives in Asia and Africa in the past, but a joint effor...
by Renana Jhabvala | On 15 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 This report looks at global normative work, regional frameworks, and good country level practices, it provides an analysis of the most important aspects to be taken into consideration to successfully...
by Ombretta Tempra | On 09 Mar 2018 The current paper tries to fill this gap by investigating the impact of floods on pregnancy and birth outcomes across conflict-affected and unaffected districts in Pakistan.
by Baishali Goswami | On 08 Mar 2018 The participation of women in the labour market varies greatly across countries, reflecting differences
in economic development, education levels, fertility rates, access to childcare and other suppo...
by | On 07 Mar 2018 Microcredit is essentially utilised as the source of empowerment among
the poor women in both rural and urban areas of the Indian states. Based
on a panel of the Indian states for the period 2007 to...
by | On 27 Feb 2018 This paper says that micro finance is an emerging reality in contemporary development discourse and has come to occupy a significant place in financial intermediation in India.
by M.A. Oommen | On 27 Feb 2018 This study aims to explore and identify circumstances related to the use of sexual violence by
armed groups, and by state forces in particular. The overall purpose is to contribute to an
understandi...
by Matilda Carlsson | On 20 Feb 2018 The paper says that women constitute only a quarter of the total labour force in India though they form nearly half of the Indian population.
by Martin Patrick | On 14 Feb 2018 This paper offers an analysis of the causes behind the changing philosophy and practices of one of the well-known crime organizations from India to move closer towards terrorism to support its crimina...
by Ajey Lele | On 09 Feb 2018 This report explores how fostering gender diversity at the firm level can be good for business.
by Ruchika Joshi | On 08 Feb 2018 Well friends, let me begin by narrating a short story. In the Indian epic
Mahabharata, dated around one thousand B.C., there is a celebrated fable about Ekalavya, an Adivasi boy; some of you will cer...
by | On 06 Feb 2018 The first order fact about the developing world today is that this is an era of unprecedented
prosperity. And that is true about India too which has been one of the most dynamic economic
performers...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 This paper analyzes 2015-TPA voting patterns in the Congress in the context of the trade negotiating objectives.
by Yoon Joon | On 24 Jan 2018 Property is widely recognized as an important resource for empowering women. Many development
policies worldwide therefore call for strengthening women’s rights to property, especially to physical
a...
by Rajendra Pradhan | On 11 Jan 2018 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 article provides a systematic review of the published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become more available, computing...
by Hope Corman | On 19 Dec 2017 This paper seeks to lay bare the contours and consequences of the relationship between paid work and unpaid care work for women in low-income households, in order to better understand the relationship...
by | On 12 Dec 2017 This Policy Note presents current statistics on female representation in key leadership positions in the Philippine government and industry.
by Clarissa C. David | On 12 Dec 2017 This paper examines the role of democratic decentralisation in promoting inclusive governance (responsive, efficient equitable) and social security in the context of globalisation. Firstly, the paper...
by | On 07 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 The Chhattisgarh Irrigation Development Project (CIDP) aimed to
increase agricultural productivity, improve rural livelihoods, and reduce
poverty by improving irrigation delivery, enhancing agricult...
by | On 22 Nov 2017 The ‘Balancing unpaid care work and paid work: successes, challenges
and lessons for women’s economic empowerment programmes and
policies’ research project within the Growth and Equal Opportunities...
by Mubashira Zaidi | On 31 Oct 2017 This paper deals with educational status of De-notified and Nomadic Tribes (DNT-NT) of Telangana vis-à-vis their socioeconomic conditions. The present study is based on primary data collected from Mah...
by Vijay Korra | On 27 Oct 2017 This study evaluates the impact of various socio economic and environmental variables on the incidence of diseases in district Bhimber of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
by Salma Kousar | On 27 Oct 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 Analysing the Indian labour market poses inherent challenges given the country’s size and diversity. Rather than a case of “jobless growth”, India has experienced concentrated employment growth, mainl...
by Sher Verick | On 04 Oct 2017 In recent days, the process of federalization within the Indian Union has become more debatable due to the unequal federal development at various levels. In this context, the issues of state formation...
by Susant Kumar Naik | On 14 Sep 2017 This paper, mainstreaming SMEs in the regional and global market loosely refers to the internationalization of SMEs.
by Philippine Institute Studies (PIDS) | On 05 Sep 2017 Viewers of South Indian devotional films, female viewers in particular, have been known to offer prayers to the gods on screen and even moved to a state of possession while watching a film. Filmmaking...
by Uma Bhrugubanda | On 31 Aug 2017 Women’s SHGs increasingly facilitate the
decentralized delivery of agriculture and nutrition
interventions around the world. Since their origins
in the microfinance revolution of the 1980s, SHGs
i...
by | 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 emergence of Al-Qaeda as a global terrorist organization carrying out devastating strikes across the USA, Europe, Middle East and Africa shed a spotlight on terrorism, and by extension on radicali...
by Fadi Farasin | 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 For the 2017 G20, the German government has prioritized commitments to reducing the male and female employment gap by 25 percent by 2025, and increasing the quality of women’s employment. Investing in...
by John Ruthrauff | On 31 Jul 2017 The major components in a ST plant are the heliostats, receivers, tower, HTF, working fluid and
power block.
by G. Srilakshmi | On 28 Jul 2017 The article reviews the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training
interventions designed to increase the productivity and income of the poor; it includes the
subset of evaluation...
by Mayra Buvinic | On 28 Jul 2017 This study looks at the roles that local women leaders can play in addressing the important environmental health issue of sanitation and hand hygiene by improving access to quality sanitation and hygi...
by Atonu Rabbani | On 25 Jul 2017 This publication reviews various country aspects of SME finance covering the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. It is expected to support evidence-based policy making and regulations...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 Jul 2017 This publication continues the ADB’s analysis of lake and wetland rehabilitation in the People’s Republic of China and examines how the current situation in the Chao Lake Basin compares with internati...
by All-India Drug Action Network (AIDAN) | On 03 Jul 2017 This publication is part of a series of six country reports on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Each report presents cur...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 This desk review explores the links between infrastructure development and women’s time poverty in Asia and the Pacific by drawing on time-use data and reviewing existing research and evidence from im...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jun 2017 This report, a joint effort of the Asian Development Bank and the International Labour Organization, seeks to foster a deeper understanding of the context, constraints, and opportunities for increasin...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Jun 2017 The paper says that preparing and implementing a K–12 transition absorbs considerable financial and human resources. It follows that the reasons for restructuring must be compelling.
by Jouko Sarvi | On 21 Jun 2017 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 19 Jun 2017 This report presents the case study of that project, whose special features include responsiveness to local contexts and to conditions created by conflict, a well-coordinated system for women collecti...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jun 2017 The private healthcare sector in rural India is often dominated by unqualified rural medical practitioners (RMPs). However, there is limited evidence on RMPs and potential for an intervention to reduc...
by Subrata Mukherjee | On 19 May 2017 This paper narrates that elections impact everyone in the entire country – citizens, businesses, administrative machinery, constitutional institutions, political parties, leaders and so on. Eventual i...
by Bibek Debroy | On 18 May 2017 The paper says that the government has already initiated reforms to strengthen the institutional framework for managing contingent liabilities arising from PPP projects. Among these reforms are (i) es...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 This report aims to support ASEAN policymakers and regulatory bodies by examining MRAs signed in other regions to see how well they have functioned on the ground. It focuses on the following issues: D...
by Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza | On 08 May 2017 This paper analyzes optimal monetary policy under zero lower bound in the
presence of cost channel. Cost channel introduces trade-o¤ between output and
inflation when economy is out of ZLB. As a res...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 04 May 2017 The paper asks what drives insurance coverage in low income households by analysing repurchase
patterns of micro-insurance policies. The paper uses data on customers of a financial services provider...
by Renuka Sane | On 03 May 2017 Agriculture sector as a whole has developed and emerged immensely with the infusion of science and
technology. But this latest emergence is not capable of plummeting the ignorance of women labour as...
by Mun Mun Ghosh | On 01 Mar 2017 The report captures the importance of shaping macro-economic policies so they support inclusive growth, and ensuring that women entrepreneurs have access to technology and finance. It also highlights...
by | On 21 Feb 2017 Research on economic status and adult mortality is often stymied by the reciprocity of this relationship. While financial resources increase access to healthcare and nutrition and reduce mortality, si...
by | On 15 Feb 2017 In this article, we review research on the economics and sociology of education to assess the relationships between family and community variables and children’s educational outcomes in South Asia. At...
by | On 14 Feb 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 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 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 Female Labour Force Participation (FLFR) is a driver of growth and economic development and therefore, participation rates indicate the potential for a country to grow more rapidly. However, women’s e...
by sarabjit kaur | On 11 Nov 2016 This brief reports on findings from four country studies and a companion macroeconomic study calibrated using an average Asian economy. Almost 28% of the world’s working-age women are accounted for in...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Nov 2016 This paper deals with the evolution of laws, institutions and polices relating to
environmental protection in India. It considers the following questions : (a) whether the
laws are evolved indigenou...
by U. Sankar | On 28 Oct 2016 Case studies across the social sciences have established a positive relationship
between social status and happiness. In observational data, however, identification
challenges remain severe. This st...
by Bert Van Landeghem | On 25 Oct 2016 This article describes recent trends in female education and labor force participation
in developing countries. It also reviews the literature on the causes and effects of the recent
changes in fema...
by Rachel Heath | On 21 Oct 2016 As an economy transforms from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy, a decline in participation of female labour force is observed. This is attributed to the shift from family-based product...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 India has experienced rapid economic growth, a decline in fertility rate, introduction of employment generation programs and policy shifts towards women empowerment in recent years. Yet, a striking fe...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 The puzzling decline in female labour force participation in India in the context of high economic growth has recently generated considerable academic interest. Increasing educational enrolment by wom...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 The Global Crisis demonstrated to the world that Ratings Agencies had misled the public about the stability of financial institutions. The Finance literature had decided that it was impossible to have...
by | On 18 Oct 2016 Comparing before and after the reform within firms, we find that quotas are associated with a higher share of female board directors, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower share of...
by | On 12 Oct 2016 Measuring the gender peer effects on student achievement has recently attracted a lot of attention in the literature. Yet, the results are inconclusive. A substantial amount of research shows that hav...
by | On 12 Oct 2016 Black women in current cohorts ages 50 to 72 years have lower employment than similar white women, despite having had higher employment when they were middle-aged and younger. Earlier cohorts of older...
by Joanna Lahey | On 28 Sep 2016 This paper attempts to address some of these shortcomings and to move the debate beyond the simplistic focus of including vulnerable groups within disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy-making. By promo...
by | On 26 Sep 2016 A large literature attempts to identify factors that contribute to gender differences in performance and in the decision to compete. We exploit a highly competitive environment in which elite-female a...
by Erica G. Birk | On 22 Sep 2016 The 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are the only country grouping to have a dedicated article in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Article 4.9 commits all parties to the conv...
by | On 22 Sep 2016 There is a closing of the gender gap in many parts of the world in terms of female access to education and enrolments at various levels of secondary and tertiary level. The World Economic Forum recent...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 This study measures the willingness of male and female farmers to pay for climate-smart technology in
rice. Rice is the most important crop in India in terms of area, production, and consumption. It...
by Md. Tajuddin Khan | On 31 Aug 2016 Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students’ enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children...
by | On 29 Aug 2016 Increasing women’s participation in paid employment is a fundamental step towards women’s economic empowerment and improving development outcomes. The benefits of increasing women’s labour force parti...
by Somali Cerise | On 12 Aug 2016 There is growing unaddressed burden of cardiometabolic disorders particularly in the developing countries that is attributable to urbanization. One of the major life style factors that changes drastic...
by | On 11 Aug 2016 This paper explores the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. It runs regressions of job satisfaction on the share of males in an occupation. Overal...
by Grace Lordan | On 11 Aug 2016 This paper captures the payment gap by integrating labor market performance with that of family decision making practices. We conjecture that women from patriarchal families are earning less than men...
by Sukanya Sarkhel | On 04 Aug 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 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 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 Gender-based inequalities translate into greater value being placed on the health and survival of males than of females. In India, examples of health and population indicators that are driven by gende...
by | On 15 Jul 2016 This paper view to locating the growing concern with women’s economic empowerment within its growth research programmes. Inclusive growth,
as defined by IDRC, is growth which ensures opportunities fo...
by Naila Kabeer | On 13 Jul 2016 The paper shows that the female entrepreneurs in Pakistan are very important to economic and social development but they are facing serious troubles. Women’s entrepreneurship, properly exploited, has...
by Salman Khalid | On 12 Jul 2016 The rural structural distinctiveness in terms of resource endowments and factors of production often has bearings on livelihood and well-being of their people, constraining improvement in the economic...
by Rajiv Mehta | 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 Facing scarcity of a production factor, a firm can develop technologies to either substitute the scarce factor
(price effect) or complement the more abundant factors (market size effect). Whether th...
by zhibo Tan | On 06 Jul 2016 In the existing narratives the wider colonial contexts of institutionalization of western science
and medicine and growth of curative medicine, changing patterns
of education and health services for...
by Sujata Mukherjee | On 01 Jul 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 Several residential schooling strategies exist for girls in the publicly funded school system in India. However, there is no definite policy on residential schooling in general or for girls in particu...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 28 Jun 2016 The present study has been conducted in the rural and urban areas of 9 districts of 9 commissionaries
in Bihar. A random sample of 375 families is drawn from different socio-economic backgrounds. The...
by CARE India | On 20 Jun 2016 The documented historical rise in female labour force participation has flattened in recent decades, but the proportion of mothers working full-time has steadily increased. We provide the first empiri...
by | On 03 Jun 2016 In this paper, we analyze how forced displacements caused by violent conflicts affect the wages of displaced workers in Colombia, a country characterized by a long historical prevalence of violent con...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 The Compendium of Good Practices in Training for Gender Equality aims to make both an empirical and an analytical contribution to the field of training for gender equality. The Compendium offers in-de...
by | On 31 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 Since its independence the government
of Bangladesh had taken various measures to reduce the intensity of poverty on rural
people in Bangladesh. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine wh...
by Mahfuza Akther | On 20 May 2016 The policy guidelines were developed as part of the pilot project 'Incorporating Needs and Roles of Women in Water and Energy Management in Rural Areas in South Asia-Capacity Building in Rural Areas o...
by | On 18 May 2016 This paper evaluates housing policy in the Republic of Korea over the past several decades, describes new challenges arising from the changing environment, and draws lessons for other countries. The m...
by Kyung-Hwan Kim | On 18 May 2016 The Ministry of Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs
has entrusted a study to the NCAER to assess whether, and to what extent, the weaknesses noted by past evaluation studies on the TPDS ha...
by Sohini Paul | On 09 May 2016 The paper is a case study of Vadinar refinery in Gujarat. It examines the costs and benefits associated with one of the world's mega refinery projects highlighting the welfare impacts on society. The...
by Sumana Chaudhuri | On 02 May 2016 This paper analyses the role of various trade and technology related factors in determining female employment intensity (FEI), in a panel of India's manufacturing industries for the perio...
by | On 02 May 2016 Maternity leave reduces neonatal and infant mortality rates in high-income countries. However, the impact of maternity leave on infant health has not been rigorously evaluated in low- and middle-incom...
by Arjit Nandi | On 22 Apr 2016 This paper presents a model for contextual strategizing and scaling up of interventions to accelerate the pace of reduction of child marriage, with particular reference to India, and within India with...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 18 Apr 2016 The paper contains a theoretical discussion and a literature survey on the economic impact of child labour. Three main categories of economic impact of child labour are analysed: 1) the effects of chi...
by Rossana Galli | On 21 Mar 2016 The paper is based on a review of the available official data and the existing literature on the Missions. It is divided into three broad sections. The first analyzes data available from the official...
by Lalitha Kamath | On 21 Mar 2016 Rural-urban linkages are both a cause and a consequence of socio-economic development. Though there is a vast volume of literature on this subject, there are quite a few gaps in our knowledge about th...
by RS Pundir | On 20 Mar 2016 This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand f...
by Basab Dasgupta | On 20 Mar 2016 Existence of Environmental Kuznet’s Curve (EKC) is an empirical issue to analyze as evidence from the literature has been mixed. This study focuses on indoor air pollution generated from the use of fu...
by K.S. Kavi Kumar | On 16 Mar 2016 This paper makes an attempt to evaluate the implications of MGNREGS in labour short economy of Kerala. The analysis of NSSO unit level data revealed inter-state differences in implementation of the sc...
by V. Dhanya | On 14 Mar 2016 This paper presents the findings from the impact evaluation of the School Year (SY) 2013–2014 implementation of the program. This is a follow-up on the process evaluation conducted by the PIDS. The st...
by Ana Maria L. Tabunda | On 14 Mar 2016 Controlling healthcare costs while promoting maximum health impact in the recipient countries is one the biggest challenges for global health donors. This paper views global health donors as the regul...
by Han Ye | On 14 Mar 2016 The existing empirical literature on Taylor-type interest rate rules has failed to achieve a robust consensus. Indeed, the relatively common finding that the Taylor principle does not hold has fueled...
by Matthew Greenwood Nimmo | On 13 Mar 2016 May 14-15, 2013, the Arctic Council will decide on whether to admit India and China as observers to the organization.India and China consider the Arctic as a region of increasing global importance, an...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 It has been just over a year since the Delhi rape case in which a female student was raped and died from her injuries. In its wake, massive protests and a media campaign ensured the perpetrators were...
by | On 12 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 relationship between gender and poverty is a complex and debatable topic more than ever and thus a potential area for policy makers to focus. The aim of this paper is to review existing literature...
by Sukanya Das | On 10 Mar 2016 Unlike earlier literature that documented positive association between inflation and the dispersion of relative prices over time, the empirical evidence from this study suggests that the relative pric...
by Sartaj Rather | On 10 Mar 2016 The present research work aims to analyse the effect that the disaggregated developmental aid has had on the health status and the standard of living in the urban sector after the MDGs were establishe...
by Zareena Begum Irfan | On 10 Mar 2016 Our study investigates the determinants and use of cash holdings by Indian companies. Using a large sample of manufacturing firms that are publicly traded on Bombay Stock exchange for the period of 19...
by Ekta Selarka | On 10 Mar 2016 Infant and child mortality rates in India have fallen by almost half from the time of adoption of millennium development goals to 2012 but there has not been a concurrent decrease in morbidity and und...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 10 Mar 2016 In Pakistan, despite an increase in per capita food availability and resultant rise in per capita calorie and protein intake, the prevalence of malnutrition has not improved over last 20 years [Nation...
by Sarfraz K. Qureshi | On 10 Mar 2016 This brief paper is quite focused. It describes the methodology and scope of the household survey carried out by the PIDE between March and July 1999, with an aim to generate nationally representative...
by G. M. Arif | 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 Following up on recent debates about sectoral systems of innovation and production, the paper introduces a heuristic framework for analyzing and explaining distinct patterns of technology-based sector...
by | On 09 Mar 2016 The neo-classical economics literature incorporated the notion of environment during the mid 20th century, but climate change has found its place in the economics discourse during the early 1980s. Dur...
by Unmesh Patnaik | On 09 Mar 2016 The article provides an overview of the state of the art of sociological research on price formation. The dominant trait of the sociological approach to prices is to understand price formation not as...
by Jens Beckert | On 09 Mar 2016 The role of macroeconomic policy in the different varieties of capitalism has been largely ignored. Recent contributions to the literature have argued that nonliberal economies should be expected to h...
by | On 09 Mar 2016 Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documen...
by Claudia Olivetti | On 09 Mar 2016 What is the impact of business interest groups on the formulation of public social policies? This paper reviews the literature in political science, history, and sociology on this question. It identif...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 This paper calculates a Women’s
Disempowerment Index to examine women’s control over production, resources, income, household
decisions, and time burden. The index is based on a slightly modified me...
by Nuzhat Ahmad | On 04 Mar 2016 This Alert examines the role of intergovernmental and non-governmental stakeholders in promoting human security in Cambodia through transitional justice. It maps out the relations between and among th...
by | On 02 Mar 2016 Diversification of rural women from traditional crop based agriculture to high valued agricultural, allied and processing activities with emerging prospect merit considerable attention in context of w...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 02 Mar 2016 What do we know about the results of decentralized service delivery? Verifying outcomes and results of decentralized policies is a very challenging exercise, given the large number of stakeholders inv...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 The plan of the paper is as follows. Section 2 describes the data and definitions used in this study. Fertility and labour force participation are affected by broadly the same parameters. Section 3 lo...
by Surjit S. Bhalla | On 01 Mar 2016 The study highlights the need for implementation of developmental programmes in the tribal areas for the overall improvement of nutritional status of the community. There is also a need to carryout in...
by National Institute of Nutrition | On 29 Feb 2016 In this report about 90,885 individuals were covered for nutritional anthropometry and clinical examination from 30,390 households. The results indicated that there was reduction in the prevalence of...
by National Institute of Nutrition | On 29 Feb 2016 This report outlines the results of the surveys on diet and nutritional status of the populations. The objective is to assess the food and nutrient intakes of individuals in the rural areas of the sta...
by National Institute of Nutrition | On 29 Feb 2016 Several sporadic studies carried out in the developing countries, including India have been reporting a steady increase in the prevalence of diet related chronic diseases like obesity, hypertension, d...
by National Institute of Nutrition | On 29 Feb 2016 The most recent UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons identifies East Asia and the Pacific is an origin area for victims of trafficking where most of the victims consist of both adult and unde...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Literature in economic development shows how countries diverge and converge in economic growth owing to technological change and capital accumulation. This paper examines micro level issues of competi...
by Murali Patibandla | On 27 Feb 2016 Transnational crime involving all forms of domestic crime that traverse the international boundary with another one or more states have become a concern amongst all peoples of the Asia Pacific region....
by | On 26 Feb 2016 It is well-known that maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of the autoregressive parameter of a dynamic panel data model with Öxed e§ects is inconsistent under Öxed time series sample size (T) and large...
by Christian Gourieroux | On 25 Feb 2016 Energy supply and price volatility are no longer the only concerns that constitute contemporary energy security problems, which now comprise environmental and socioeconomic issues. Mitigating these no...
by Collin Koh | On 25 Feb 2016 Indonesia has experienced robust, sustained growth over the past 30 years, accompanied by swift socioeconomic change. However, Indonesian women have remained only moderately engaged in the labor marke...
by Simone Schaner | On 25 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 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 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 A key lesson of the 2007–2009 global financial crisis (GFC) was the importance of containing systemic financial risk and the need for a “macroprudential” approach to surveillance and regulation that c...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 22 Feb 2016 Despite recent decline, infant and child mortality in Bangladesh is still one of the highest among the developing countries with strong urban-rural differentials. Nearly one in ten children in Banglad...
by M. Islam | 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 The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as non-anonymous transfers, remittances are apt to be influenced by giving norms as well. We formula...
by Michael Alba | On 19 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 This report, which forms part of the PIRCCA project outputs, focuses on the results of the survey conducted in the first half of 2015 on climate change perception and adaptation strategies of male and...
by Michael Sheinkman | On 16 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 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 Corruption in the provision of basic services can have disproportionate and negative consequences for women and girls, compromising their own empowerment as well as the gender equality and development...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 The ‘theory and practice of change’ that the UHRC has been fortunate to learn from first hand is that organized slum women who are trained, mentored, and supported have a greater capacity to access go...
by Siddharth Agarwal | On 09 Feb 2016 The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development is the flagship publication of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women. It is presented to the Second Committee of the General Ass...
by UN Women | On 08 Feb 2016 Launched in June of 2000, "Progress of the World's Women" is UNIFEM's biennial investigation of progress made towards a world where women live free from violence, poverty and inequality. The first iss...
by UN Women | On 08 Feb 2016 This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed...
by Rafael Dix-Carneiro | On 07 Feb 2016 We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness score...
by M. Niaz Asadullah | On 07 Feb 2016 This study has used two rounds of the two panel data sets to examine the poverty dynamics in rural Pakistan (Sindh and Punjab). The Pakistan SocioEconomic Survey (PSES ) covers two periods, 1998 and 2...
by G. M. Arif | On 06 Feb 2016 This think piece examines the emergence of global innovations networks and their implications for multilateral trade rules. After pointing out, that the WTO agreements were reached with little direct...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 The empirical growth literature gives no clear indication as to how democracy impacts growth; there is evidence of both positive and negative effects and also of no direct link in democracy and growth...
by Madeeha Gohar Qureshi | On 03 Feb 2016 Public property common pool resources in many developing countries are manage them in a sustainable manner. While this explanation may have some merit, it is certainly inadequate. Instead, we argue th...
by Junaid Memon | On 03 Feb 2016 Urbanization has been progressing quickly in Indonesia and the consequences on health and health inequities are still not well understood. In this paper, new empirical evidence is presented on the dif...
by Matthias Helble | On 02 Feb 2016 The Karakoram-Pamir Landscape lies at the junction between the black Karakoram mountains, which mostly lie within Pakistan, and the grey Pamir mountains, which mostly lie within China. It is known for...
by Eklabya Sharma | On 02 Feb 2016 ayyadism is a term coined by New York Times columnist Tom Friedman that has gained widespread usage in the media and the quasi-academic literature emanating from various high-profile English-language...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 The revolutions that have rocked the presidential republics of North Africa and the Middle East since early-2011 have garnered intense scholarly and journalistic interest and, in a short time, spawned...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 Against the backdrop of UN 2030 Sustainable Development agenda, this paper analyses the measurement issues in gender-based indices constructed by UNDP and suggests alternatives for choice of variables...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 The responses collected from the online survey on people’s empowerment contained in this report represent a collaborative effort, made possible by the answers received from people across the world on...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially d...
by Sabina Alkire | 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 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 This Handbook on “Social Work Intervention in the Prison Setting” attempts to document the intervention strategies in working with various groups found in prison e.g. male and female prisoners, under...
by Prayas NGO | On 30 Jan 2016 The ARCAB programme has a well-developed theory of change (ARCAB 2012). This encompasses broader issues relating to the scaling up and out of CBA that are central to ARCAB as a whole and its goal of a...
by Sarder Alam | On 29 Jan 2016 Drawing strongly upon recent International Relations literature on the foreign affairs of small states, this paper elaborates several arguments on the trajectory of Qatar’s foreign policy: (1) An “act...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 The Sachar Commission Report of 2006 on Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India generated widespread awareness of the socioeconomic disparity and exclusion of religiou...
by Riaz Hassan | On 29 Jan 2016 With increasing urbanization and economic growth, air pollution is becoming an urgent concern in South Asian countries. The study upon which this paper is based has been conducted at SDPI, to look int...
by Mahmood Khwaja | On 28 Jan 2016 The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we consider some of the recent d...
by Colm Harmon | On 28 Jan 2016 Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) brings in uniformity in the standards of intellectual property rights among the member countries of the WTO irrespective of their developmental statu...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Jan 2016 Recent attention to Millennium Development Goals by the international development community has led to the formation of targets to measure country-level achievements, including achievements on health...
by Abdo Yazbeck | 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 This Discussion Paper explores recent experiences with innovative sources of development finance in order to capture lessons learned for the more effective implementation of both current and future in...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 27 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 The report assesses the impact of Samruddhi- the Madhya Pradesh model of financial inclusion that aims to improve access of the state’s poor to finance. It examines the current level and pattern of ac...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 This case study explores the relationship between socioeconomic opportunity and exclusion in relation to minority gender and sexualities in Nepal.The study, a component of a wider programme on Sexuali...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 Unpaid care work is relevant to almost all aspects of gender equality and is directly linked to the economic empowerment of women and girls. This report provides background to the issue, giving contex...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper develops new estimates of export quality, far more extensive than previous efforts, covering 178 countries and hundreds of products during the period 1962—2010. It finds that quality upgrad...
by Christian Henn | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper focuses on a particular aspect of such rural-urban difference, namely nutritional status of children. Over the years it is found that under nutrition among children in India; have declining...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 26 Jan 2016 Some innovations within the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) have demonstrated significant improvements in the nutritional status of children. This note discusses four such innovations, as...
by Ashi Kohli Kathuria | On 26 Jan 2016 India should comprehensively address its challenge of undernutrition. This includes, pursuing agricultural policies to strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages. This note suggests that agricultural p...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 26 Jan 2016 Despite the high contribution of urban areas to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), urban poverty and nutrition security in India remains a challenge. Poor infrastructure, high unemployment, poor state...
by M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation | On 26 Jan 2016 The poor are not uniformly disadvantaged. For the most health indicators, the status of ‘excluded groups’ such as scheduled caste and scheduled tribes, and Muslims is significantly worse than that of...
by Sukhade Thorat | 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 This note proposes an analytical framework for the current phase of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) programme of research on discriminatory social norms affecting adolescent girls. The curren...
by Caroline Harper | On 24 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 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 A study was done to assess food safety and hygiene practices amongst street food vendors in Delhi, India. findings and observations at the vending site. Data was entered and analyzed with the help of...
by Chander Thakur | On 22 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 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 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 article attempts to highlight the prevalence of zinc deficiency and its health and economic consequences in South Asian developing countries and to shed light on possible approaches to combating...
by S Akhtar | On 20 Jan 2016 This paper takes a critical look at how these three terms have come to be used in international development policy, exploring how different configurations of words frame and justify particular kinds o...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This literature review identifies and summarises existing evidence on the determinants of undernutrition in children under the age of two years in Bangladesh. The review gathers evidence on the immedi...
by Stuart Gillespie | On 19 Jan 2016 In the limited literature on gender and climate change, two themes predominate – women as vulnerable or virtuous in relation to the environment. Two viewpoints become obvious: women in the South will...
by Seema Arora-Jonsson | On 19 Jan 2016 Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find...
by Shwetlena Sabarwal | On 19 Jan 2016 Poor implementation of social welfare programs is a chronic challenge in developing countries such as India. Yet, despite the large number of people affected and the serious consequences of implementa...
by Nicholas Robinson | On 18 Jan 2016 Research on clientelism broadly assumes that local political agents, or brokers, possess fine-grained information on voters’ political preferences, and often can directly or indirectly monitor their v...
by Mark Schneider | On 18 Jan 2016 The literature on decentralized public programs suggests that errors in the targeting of anti-poverty programs are rooted in the capture of these programs by local elites or local politicians. Consist...
by Mark Schneider | On 18 Jan 2016 Anemia is defined as a reduction in the body’s red cell mass 1, reflected in a reduced oxygen carrying capacity of the blood. The World Health Organisation criterion for the diagnosis of anemia is a l...
by | On 18 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 This study, relying primarily on qualitative data from Côte d’Ivoire, examines how income allocation and intra-household dynamics affect household resilience during the lean season. Its findings indic...
by Elizabeth Kiewisch | 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 This article traces the different elements that explain and help understand the phenomena of declining child sex ratios in India along with the debates on the subject, with specific focus on urban loc...
by Preet Rustagi | On 13 Jan 2016 This paper examines the changing work profiles of women in the South Asian region, with all elements of contradictions, in terms of doubling their burdens or empowering them. Are the newer avenues for...
by Preet Rustagi | On 13 Jan 2016 This study was carried out to assess the immunization status of the NT-DNT children in
the 0 to 5 year age group and also to suggest an intervention strategy to immunize the
non-immunized children....
by Praveenkumar Katarki | On 11 Jan 2016 The paper reports the advantages of data-based planning for solid waste management in a major Indian city, which have been demonstrated through three steps undertaken as part of a pilot project in a C...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 Heads of state and government have adopted a new development agenda to guide sustainable development efforts for the next 15 years. Member States will have the responsibility of turning this collectiv...
by | On 08 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 This section analyses the records maintained at the Special Cell,
between 1990-1997, in the city of greater Mumbai. As per the
procedural requirements at the Special Cell, women are supposed
to sub...
by Anjali Dave | On 05 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 Myanmar is expected to grow at least 6.8% per year in the coming years. Accompanying this growth will be an increase in demand for infrastructure services, including ICT-related services, both for co...
by Kee-Yung Nam | 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 Empirical studies on pharmaceuticals pricing across countries have found evidence that prices vary according to per capita income. These studies are typically based on survey data from a subset of cou...
by Toshiaki Aizawa | On 29 Dec 2015 Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both har...
by Jamilah Mahyideen | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper reviews the empirical evidence for the macroeconomic effects of financial globalization and discusses why several of the expected benefits have failed to materialize, in terms of both long-...
by | 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 presents the case for investments and actions — on an unprecented scale — to broaden the range of real opportunities open to the world's 3.5 billion women and girls. Advocates for equality...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 This study was undertaken on behalf of the Child Protection and Gender-Based Violence sub-working groups in Jordan, established in February 2012 to coordinate prevention and response to child protecti...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 This report presents lessons and results of specific relevance to shaping the post-2015 development framework derived from 20 Joint Programmes supported by the MDGF. These studies contain lessons to e...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 Around the world, a record number of women are now migrating to seek work and better lives. For many, migration yields these benefits; for others, it carries dangerous risks, such as exploitation in d...
by | On 28 Dec 2015 The Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) represents one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic regional communities. This report identifies some of the key trends and critical issues for the Indian Oc...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 A new feature of international migration for work is the increase
in the numbers of overseas women migrant workers, which in
countries like the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka exceed
the numbe...
by | On 28 Dec 2015 During the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action reflected the importance of the interface between gender equality and sustainable development. It reco...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 24 Dec 2015 India is the global epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. Previousresearch indicates that the majority of HIV-positive women in India were infected by their husbands, their only sexual partner,...
by Priya Lall | On 23 Dec 2015 It’s been 7 years since Sachar Committee published its reports, highlighting the deep and extensive deprivations Muslims in India face on the range of counts. It has been as many years since the Centr...
by Sajjad Hassan | On 23 Dec 2015 Right to Information Assessment and Advocacy Group (RaaG) came into existence, in 2008 when a group of RTI activists, researchers and academics got together to create a group dedicated to the ongoing...
by | On 23 Dec 2015 The objective of this study is to explore the inflation-economic growth linkage, if any, in Bangladesh. With this view, various tables and charts, correlation matrices, pair-wise Granger Causality tes...
by Sayera Younus | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper examines whether an increase in women’s time in agriculture adversely affects maternal and child nutrition, and whether the lack of women’s time in reproductive work leads to poorer nutriti...
by SOPHIE THEIS | On 22 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 Disaster risk now presents one of the most serious threats to inclusive and sustainable socioeconomic development. Coupled with anticipated increases in the frequency and intensity of weather-related...
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 Study on the needs and conditions of women workers in Delhi
must begin its enquiry with the initial problem of poor availability of employment or access to economic activity/work for women in the cap...
by Neetha N | On 21 Dec 2015 The question of what keeps people mired in poverty is one of great importance to policy-makers and economists alike. The world’s poor typically lack both capital and skills, and each of these two fact...
by Oriana Bandiera | On 18 Dec 2015 This study examines the effect of parental education in the regional variation of infant mortality in India. The results are very robust to different potential confounding factors including socio-econ...
by Pradeep Choudhury | On 18 Dec 2015 Health insurance is expected to promote equity in access to health, financial protection, reduce escalating healthcare cost, enhance provider networks and enable country to make an optimal use of limi...
by Shailender Hooda | On 18 Dec 2015 Although Nepal formulated an agricultural mechanization promotion policy in 2014, there is still much to learn about tailoring mechanization policies to different types of farm households. The Terai b...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 Budget Private Schools (BPS) are privately-run schools that charge very low fees, operating among the poorer sections of the society and have become relevant to the education discourse of India. This...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper assesses the emphasis of the literature on different agriculture–nutrition pathways in Bangladesh. More research is needed on the links between agriculture and nutrition in country-specific...
by | 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 The modest intention of this paper is to question the above assertion that Nepal is a failing state. To this end, it shall firstly outline the broad definition of failing states. Secondly, it will off...
by Oliver Housden | On 17 Dec 2015 In this joint publication, UNICEF and the World Health Organization report that between 2000 and 2015, malaria mortality rates among children under age 5 fell by 65 per cent, saving an estimated 5.9 m...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 The DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a nu...
by Ahmed F. | On 16 Dec 2015 The paper looks at the basic characteristics of female domestic workers, gaps in minimum wage coverage, compliance, and the extent of minimum wage violations. Presenting empirical evidence on labour m...
by | 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 For decades, the creative process in Goa has been stymied by the lack of a market, of production facilities, of free speech (for a significant part of the 20th century), and even a shortage of role mo...
by | On 15 Dec 2015 The disadvantaged and marginalized groups in Nepal, and particularly women and Dalits, face grave hurdles to acquire post secondary education. Lack of educational access has deprived the rural and m...
by Pramod Dhakal | On 15 Dec 2015 In this paper, documents a positive spillover effect of BRAC schools on female secondary enrollment in registered madrasas. Drawing upon school enrollment data aggregated at the region level, It first...
by Mohammad Niaz Asadullah | On 11 Dec 2015 HIV and AIDS are a serious challenge for the developing as well as the developed world. India, with an estimated 5.206 million people living with HIV in 2005, accounts for nearly 69 percent of the HIV...
by | On 01 Dec 2015 This paper reports and models the discrepancy between the full bidding and endow and upgrade findings from a willingness-to-pay (WTP) elicitation Becker-Degroot-Marschak (BDM) experiment for an improv...
by Banerji A | 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 The Global Gender Gap Report quantifies the magnitude of gender based disparities and tracks their progress over time. While no single measure can capture the complete situation, the Global Gender Gap...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 24 Nov 2015 Indonesia’s rate of birth registration is imprecisely measured but is low, especially among the poorer, rural, population. At the same time, the country has developed a system of population registrati...
by Cate Sumner | On 20 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 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 Although Bangladesh has achieved fairly steady economic growth, as of 2011, almost half of its population still lived in extreme poverty. As a result, the Government of Bangladesh and its development...
by Nayma Qayum | On 09 Nov 2015 This study aimed to evaluate the Multipurpose Learning Centres or Gonokendros (GK) operated by BRAC jointly with the local community in rural areas of Bangladesh. Two main goals were process evaluatio...
by | On 09 Nov 2015 Intermittent delivery of piped water can lead to waterborne illness through contamination in
the pipelines or during household storage, use of unsafe water sources during intermittencies,
and limite...
by Ayse Ercumen | On 05 Nov 2015 On 2 August 2015, the outcome document of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 was agreed by consensus by Member States. The outcome document will be presented to the Summit for adop...
by UN Women | On 30 Oct 2015 Despite lack of infrastructure and facilities, studies over the past decade
has shown that learning outcomes in these schools are equal to or better than those of far more resourcefu...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 29 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 Domestic violence (DV) is reported by 40% of married women in India and associated with substantial morbidity. An operational research definition is therefore needed to enhance understanding of DV epi...
by Seema Sahay | On 21 Oct 2015 This paper examines policies for the support of families with children, in particular child-related financial transfers and early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. The analysis is mainly f...
by Mary Daly | On 21 Oct 2015 This paper examines how growth, social reproduction and gender equality are connected in ways that make care work a key determinant of macroeconomic policy outcomes, growth and development. The paper...
by | On 21 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 The female workforce participation means the rate of percentage of female engaged in the total working population of a state or country. Women constitute an important part of the workforce of all over...
by Dr. Ananta Pegu | On 16 Oct 2015 India is the world’s second largest country in terms of total inhabitants. Further, out of a total population exceeding one billion, approximately 120 million are women living in poverty. India is one...
by | On 13 Oct 2015 While most states in India are grappling with the problem of high MMR, states such as Tamil Nadu have managed to reduce MMR levels to 79 deaths per 100,000 live births (SRS 2011–13). This review also...
by William Joe | On 06 Oct 2015 In this report, MGI explores the economic potential available if the global gender gap were
to be closed. The research finds that, in a full-potential scenario in which women play
an identical role...
by Jonathan Woetzel | On 30 Sep 2015 This paper discusses the trends and patterns in reduction in maternal mortality in India, and focuses on highlighting inter- and intra-state disparities. We find that the trends in the maternal mortal...
by William Joe | 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 This report is an effort to understand
the health status of Muslims in Maharashtra. The report is based on analysis of National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), District Level
Household Surveys (DLHS)...
by Sana Contractor | 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 The paper attempts to address the problem of undernutrition in India and its adverse effects on children and adults. Today, food security concerns include not only the problems of physical availabili...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 This paper seeks to provide an overview of the complex and dynamic relationship between nutrition and growth, examine how different growth patterns lead to different nutritional outcomes, and identif...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 This study explores issues surrounding the preservation and promotion of culture in the context of the secondary school English curriculum in Bhutan. The languages of Bhutan carry a rich and diverse t...
by | On 21 Sep 2015 The Global Gender Gap Report 2014 emphasizes persisting gender gap divides across and within regions. Based on the nine years of data available for the 111 countries that have been part of the report...
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 Review of Translation as a Touchstone. Raji Narasimhan, Sage Publications, 2013. 167 pp, Rs. 595 ISBN: 978-81-321-0954-9
by Supurna Dasgupta | On 09 Sep 2015 - Gender equality is considered a critical element in achieving social and institutional change that leads to sustainable development with equity and growth. Inequalities between men and women manifes...
by | 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 This paper summarizes the preliminary findings of Global Nutrition Report (GNR), which we shared at the GNR stakeholder roundtable in New Delhi. The primary recommendations suggested are a set of core...
by | On 04 Sep 2015 Despite rapid economic growth coupled with benefits of the demographic dividend, evidence from both the NSSO 66th and 68th Rounds reveals a decline in female labour force participation in India. This...
by Sandhya Mahapatro | On 04 Sep 2015 The findings of the paper highlights the role of fertility policies in women’s empowerment of last century. This paper investigates the impact of the birth control policies on teenage girls’ education...
by Wei Huang | On 03 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 Over the past 15 years, important gains have been made in gender equality. Gender gaps in educational attainment have shrunk substantially. In fact, in many high-income countries, young women’s educat...
by Megan Gerecke | On 31 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 This paper attempts to shed light on the causes behind the recent sharp decline in female labour force participation in India and to identify factors underpinning the long-term stagnation in female pa...
by Evangelia Bourmpoula | On 25 Aug 2015 Uttar Pradesh is ranked second among Indian states in ‘crimes against women’, which includes rape, abduction, dowry-related deaths, mental and physical torture and sexual harassment (Government of Utt...
by Jerker Edström | On 25 Aug 2015 This paper highlights that depowerment of women is linked to the belief and practice of patriarchy which subjugates women at various levels – political, economic, social, and cultural. Patriarchy is a...
by | On 20 Aug 2015 Notwithstanding its impressive economic growth, food insecurity in South Asia continues to be a stark reality for a large number of households. Despite several successful policy interventions by Gover...
by K. S. Kavi Kumar | On 19 Aug 2015 Review of Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 304 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16768-0.
by Nathaniel Isaacson | On 13 Aug 2015 The report aims to provide an overview of the higher education status in India, the key challenges it faces and reforms which are at various stages of conceptualization or implementation. In this vers...
by Confederation of Indian Industry | On 04 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 Domestic violence is recognised as a serious violation of women’s basic rights. Conventional economic models of domestic violence suggest that higher participation by women in the labour force leads t...
by Sohini Paul | On 30 Jul 2015 This Policy note on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment is central to the attainment of the overarching goal of enabling poor rural women and men to improve their food security and nutrition, rais...
by International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD | On 29 Jul 2015 This paper deals with the phenomenon of witch-hunting among indigenous peoples in peninsular India. It looks at this phenomenon in a number of different contexts: the struggle over domination in the s...
by Shivani Satija | On 29 Jul 2015 Indonesia’s rate of birth registration is imprecisely
measured but is low, especially among the
poorer, rural, population. At the same time, the
country has developed a system of population
regist...
by Cate Sumner | On 16 Jul 2015 When women personnel are incorporated in the profession of policing, there is a general assumption behind it that the presence of women makes the force sensitive to gender-crimes, and thus more effici...
by Santana Khanikar | On 09 Jul 2015 This paper offers a regional overview of the mechanisms and consequences of the growing gender imbalances, as observed today in Asia. The extent and timings of the trend towards more masculine populat...
by Christophe Z. Guilmoto | On 02 Jul 2015 Increasing women`s economic participation is not yet universally accepted despite three decades of global advocacy; and women empowerment and gender equality are still a work in progress. A mechanism...
by Lucita Lazo | On 26 Jun 2015 In the context of increasing contribution of developing countries in world trade, an important question is whether trade can be used as an instrument to stimulate higher participation of women in the...
by Purna Banerjee | On 25 Jun 2015 Review of Tagore and the Feminine: A Journey in Translations Malashri Lal (ed). New Delhi: Sage Publications 2015. pp 332. Rs. 995/- ISBN: 978-93-515-0067-4.
by Supurna Dasgupta | On 22 Jun 2015 The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 was enacted to give effect to the
Proclamation on the Full Participation and Equality of the...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 22 Jun 2015 Drawing upon the data from the recent period, this paper explores the relationship between
women’s involvement in microfinance programs and improvement in their empowerment status.
The significant d...
by | On 19 Jun 2015 Budget FY11 contains Speech of the Bangladesh Finance Minister on the implementation status and macroeconomic analysis up to second quarter (July-December).
by | On 12 Jun 2015 This report consists of an overview of the secondary literature on the subject of gender biased sex selection in the Indian context. Its aim is to provide a road map for what has become an extremely w...
by Mary E. John | On 08 Jun 2015 This report is circumscribed in its aims, limiting itself to a subset of all that could be written about the status and situation of Scheduled Tribes in India today. An introduction in chapter 1 sets...
by | On 08 Jun 2015 Events in many parts of the world over the last decade – starting with protests in Greece in December 2008, following the death of a young student at the hands of the police, and continuing through th...
by | On 05 Jun 2015 The primary objective of the Act is augmenting wage employment. In this regard, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the...
by Committee on Empowerment of Women GOI | On 01 Jun 2015 This paper analyses the issue of gender parity in wages by focusing on the evolution of male-female wage gaps for an emerging economy, India, and decomposes the gaps to understand patterns of gender-b...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 29 May 2015 Transgender is also a part of the society and they have equal right to everything in the world that is available
to all other persons. The presence of such transgender is not new, but their presence...
by | On 28 May 2015 The Committee is mandated to prepare a position paper on the present socioeconomic, health and educational status of Schedule Tribes, and is expected to suggest policy initiatives as well as effective...
by Ministry of Tribal Affairs GOI | On 20 May 2015 The intention of this paper is to examine the role of banks particularly the state owned and specialized banks in
promoting women entrepreneurship in Bangladesh. Women constitute almost half of the t...
by | On 13 May 2015 The policy covers all key issues of youth and has provided a framework that promises social, economic and political empowerment of youth. The central theme of the policy is integrated youth developmen...
by | On 12 May 2015 The Committee are of the view that the disabled group in our country still remains an invisible group in the mind of policy makers.
A vast number of the disabled are excluded from the existing servic...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 11 May 2015 This paper is divided into two broad sections. The first section deals with the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam (north east India) and its transformation into a frontier in the nineteenth century. The sec...
by Manjeet Baruah | On 05 May 2015 The primary objective of the Act is augmenting wage employment. In this regard, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the...
by Committee on Empowerment of Women GOI | On 28 Apr 2015 The report focuses on the critical question of advancing gender equality, as seen through the prism of women’s unequal power, voice, and rights. Despite the region’s many economic gains, the Report ch...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 24 Apr 2015 The paper provides an in-depth empirical analysis of Thai political history in an attempt to understand why democracy has failed to consolidate since the 1932 revolution that ended the absolute monarc...
by | On 08 Apr 2015 Evidence regarding the relationship between married women’s autonomy and risk of marital violence remains mixed. Moreover, studies examining the contribution of specific aspects of women’s autonomy in...
by | On 26 Mar 2015 his country brief highlights how ADB operations have helped support Bhutan’s efforts in advancing socioeconomic development.
Since Bhutan became a member in 1982, ADB has provided $486.29 million i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2015 United Nation in its Millennium Summit in 2000 declared ‘Gender Equality and Women Empowerment’ as one among the
eight ‘Millennium Development Goal’ to be achieved by the year 2015. However these goa...
by | On 11 Mar 2015 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 Despite the steps towards gender responsive budgeting, the budgetary allocations for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment show a decline. Not only has the magnitude of the gender budget a...
by | On 17 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 A look at Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and the amendments to it from the perspective to those who live close to the land.
by Usha Ramanathan | On 02 Feb 2015 Despite economic growth, and a reduction in poverty, malnutrition is still rampant in South-Asia. This indicates that non-economic factors are important, and it used a nation-wide survey from Nepal to...
by | On 13 Jan 2015 In keeping with the special status accorded to Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the constitution of India, the Union Government has affirmed its commitment to improving their socio-economic status and has ta...
by | On 29 Dec 2014 Keeping the present status of the tribal community and government commitment to improve their socio-economic status there have been various policy, programmatic and legislative interventions from time...
by Natural Resource Knowldge Activist Hub | On 29 Dec 2014 The literature review on agriculture-child nutrition linkage indicates that
the evidence base is weak and inconclusive (Kadiyala et al., 2013). This
paper explores the possible linkages between agri...
by | On 24 Dec 2014 Urbanization worldwide has been found to be an effective engine of economic
growth and socio-cultural development. In pure economic terms, urbanization
contributes significantly to the national econ...
by | On 17 Dec 2014 This study analyzes the link between labor productivity of tea-plantation workers in Sri Lanka and their living conditions. The results indicate a significant negative relationship between Indoor Air...
by Ajantha Kalyanaratne | On 16 Dec 2014 There is reservation for women in Maharashtra in the local governments. But their number is less. A case study is given.
by Ruby Ojha | On 12 Dec 2014 Evidence from developing countries regarding the association between gender inequity and intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in women has been suggestive but inconclusive. Using nationally r...
by Mosiur Rahman | On 05 Dec 2014 Though the concept of multidimensional poverty has been acknowledged cutting across the disciplines (among economists, public health professionals, development thinkers, social scientists, policy make...
by Sanjay K. Mohanty | On 02 Dec 2014 This study addresses the nature, extent and reasons for women’s political participation within India, Nepal and Pakistan. All three countries have recently elected or are in the process of electing th...
by Ranjana Kumari | On 27 Nov 2014 Differences between women and men in political and economic empowerment, education, and health risks are well-documented. Similar gender inequities in access to care and medicines have been hypothesiz...
by Anita K. Wagner | On 26 Nov 2014 Children and women comprise vulnerable populations in terms of health and are gravely affected by the impact of economic inequalities through multi-dimensional channels. Urban areas are believed to ha...
by Srinivas Goli | On 19 Nov 2014 Although child immunization is regarded as a highly cost-effective lifesaver, about fifty percent of the eligible children aged 12–23 months in India are without essential immunization coverage. Despi...
by Prashant Kumar Singh | On 13 Nov 2014 This paper makes in-depth study of the level of literacy among females and the extent of gender disparity in
literacy in different districts of rural and urban Maharashtra. This paper also shows imp...
by Asha A. Jindal | On 11 Nov 2014 Girls Gaining Ground (GGG) is a catalyst for empowerment, encouraging program participants to realize the “freedom of choice and action to shape one’s life, including the control over resources, decis...
by Amber Baker | On 11 Nov 2014 Two studies done at different times in two different
parts of Maharashtra on women who have been forced
out of the marital home or chose to walk out due to
violence, show that women’s expectatio...
by Seema Kulkarni | On 11 Nov 2014 The dimensions along which mortality is patterned in India remains unclear. We examined the specific contribution of social castes, household income, assets, and monthly per capita consumption to mort...
by Y. T. Po June | On 07 Nov 2014 The use of maternal health care is limited in India despite several programmatic efforts for its improvement since the late 1980's. The use of maternal health care is typically patterned on socioecono...
by Praveen Kumar Pathak | On 06 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 Recent evidence indicated that gender disparity in child health is minimal and narrowed over time in India. However, considering the geographical and socio-cultural diversity in India, the gender gap...
by Ranjan Kumar Prusty | On 03 Nov 2014 Despite the growing evidence from other developing countries, intra-urban inequality in childhood undernutrition is poorly researched in India. Additionally, the factors contributing to the poor/non-p...
by Abhishek Kumar | On 03 Nov 2014 More than two decades have passed since India embarked on major economic reforms—and although official poverty rates have declined sharply since then, millions of Indians continue to face significant...
by Rajat Gupta | On 28 Oct 2014 This Human Rights Watch report documents how the UAE’s visa sponsorship system, known as kafala, and the lack of labour law protections leave migrant domestic workers exposed to abuse. Domestic worker...
by Human Rights Watch | On 24 Oct 2014 The impact on the Indian labour market of the slowing down of global economy is a complex issue. It is evident that women have become 'shock absorbers' in the overall functioning of labour market dyna...
by Michael Levien | On 14 Oct 2014 A staggering 2 billion people get so little essential vitamins and minerals from the foods they eat that they remain undernourished, according to the 2014 Global Hunger Index (GHI) being released toda...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 14 Oct 2014 The objective of the study is to analyse the impact of provision of health care facilities on the child health status taking into account the utilization of these available facilities. The study offer...
by Runu Bhatka | On 19 Sep 2014 The Handbook is intended to provide a bird's eye view of the present status of Indian women. The various tables indicate the primary data sources and the key facts are presented in bullet points at th...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 15 Sep 2014 UN Women’s report, “Hearts and Minds: Women of India Speak” acknowledges the “lived experiences” of women and girls in India at the grassroots level and ensures that the voices of those who remain soc...
by UN Women | On 15 Sep 2014 In the Hindu Kush Himalayas, climate change is threatening the livelihoods of those directly dependent on agriculture and the natural resource base. Rural women are disproportionately vulnerable to th...
by Suman Bisht | On 28 Aug 2014 The conditions in some of the hospitals in India are very poor. There is utter callousness and disregard for the poor who are forced to seek health services. Basic health care and values of human dign...
by Sunil Nandraj | On 19 Aug 2014 This paper analyses the benefits from female education (who gains and in what ways) and the constraints (direct and opportunity costs, reflecting economics and tradition). It then outlines promising a...
by Barbara Herz | On 01 Aug 2014 If the Union Budget 2014 is anything to go by , the fiscal policy of the new government shows no change. In fact, there is an amazing continuity with the previous few Budgets. Significantly however,...
by Ravi Duggal | On 23 Jul 2014 The term gender budgeting has become a catch phrase to describe various government initiatives that seek to address gender issues in the domain of public expenditure and policy. In India, the strategi...
by Rituparna Dutta | On 14 Jul 2014 Book Review - Between Love and Freedom: The Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel by Nikhil Govind, Routledge India;
February 2014; pp 200; Rs. 432
by Sandeep Dubey | On 26 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 This paper uses long panel survey data spanning over
20 years to examine the dynamics of microcredit
programs in Bangladesh. With the phenomenal growth
of microfinance institutions representing...
by Shahidur R. Khandker | On 26 Apr 2014 This study investigates whether mother’s empowerment as measured by her bargaining power relative to father’s affects children’s nutritional status by using three rounds of NFHS data in India. First,...
by Katsushi S Imai | On 17 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 The starting point of this study is the observation that many villages in India seem to
possess urban characteristics. As compared to definitions of urbanization adopted by
other countries, the Indi...
by Anima Gupta | On 21 Feb 2014 BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in Bangladesh are studied, which targets asset transfer (primarily livestock) and training to rural wo...
by Narayan Das | On 05 Feb 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 This paper reviews the channels through which empowerment may improve the efficiency and quality of public service delivery, particularly in developing Asia. Departing from a macro perspective, we foc...
by Guo Xu | On 20 Jan 2014 While security and women’s empowerment are both prominent development concerns, there has to date been little sustained analysis of the relationship between the two. An unexamined assumption appears t...
by Naomi Hossain | On 15 Jan 2014 The issue of child mortality in India has been under the scanner in several research publications in recent times. All the reviews acknowledge that India will not achieve the required reductions of un...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 28 Oct 2013 This paper focusses on two Indian laws that seek to guarantee socioeconomic rights: the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), an important example of India’s
recent history of legislation...
by Reetika Khera | On 25 Oct 2013 The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI), which reflects data from the period 2008–2012, shows that global hunger has improved since 1990, falling by one-third. Despite the progress made the level of hunger...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 16 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 This study is an attempt to examine the decentralized production of supplementary nutrition which has been instituted for the Integrated Child Development Services in
urban Maharashtra, specifically,...
by Natasha S. K. | On 04 Oct 2013 An innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar was introduced that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle...
by Karthik Muralidharan | On 19 Sep 2013 Recruiting female teachers is frequently suggested as a policy option for improving girls' education outcomes in developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of...
by Karthik Muralidharan | On 06 Sep 2013 Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to
test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal
migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to...
by Ingrid Dallmann | On 06 Sep 2013 The 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 This report is based on the eighth quinquennial survey on employment and unemployment
conducted in the 66th round of NSS during July 2009 to June 2010. The survey was spread over
7402 villages and 5...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 19 Aug 2013 According to Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) “The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012” report, there is a reduction of 34.9 percent in prevalence of undernourishment from 1990-1992 to 2010-...
by Anonymous | On 27 May 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 national budget is truly a potent tool for the economy to journey towards inclusive growth that would empower Filipinos through deliverance from backbreaking poverty. [Senate of the Philippines]....
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 08 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 Review of the book 'Child and Adolescent Mental Health' edited by Usha Nayar, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children; February 2013; pp 363; Rs 115...
by Aarti Salve | On 07 Feb 2013 To understand the ageing in India, a primary survey was carried out in seven states – Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal – having a higher percentage of...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 08 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 This study was conducted in 25 neighborhoods and 5 zones of the Ahmedabad
Municipal Corporation (AMC). A total of 50 sanitation workers were interviewed and
through them the condition of their famil...
by Ashish Mishra | On 05 Dec 2012 To reduce child under nutrition in India, convergence from various sectors are required. The framework notes that issues related to convergence must be resolved in relation to three major steps in the...
by Rajani Ved | On 16 Nov 2012 Three strategies are discussed to integrate institutional
analysis into resource and development econometrics: (1) recognition of institutional variables; (2) use of multilevel
thinking and estimati...
by Vikram Dayal | On 25 Oct 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 is an inclusive policy, which recognizes diversity in gender, caste, class, religion, language and reiterates the commitment of the State to this vibrant and significant population group and look...
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 A primary census-type panel household survey is show that in 18 villages in rural China, child health status has barely improved in the past decades despite more than double digit of annual per capita...
by Xi Chen | On 07 Sep 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 A unique data-set from Indonesia is analysed to understand what individuals know about the income
distribution in their village to test theories such as Jackson and Rogers (2007) that link informatio...
by Vivi Alatas | On 23 Aug 2012 What is the relationship
between social conflict and poverty in the context of Manipur? There is a need to recognize togetherness of the imperatives of
economic well being, socio-cultural identity a...
by Anand Kumar | On 22 Aug 2012 This study aims to explore the impact of improved cook stoves (ICS) on fuel
expenditure (consumption), smoke emission, and health of women (cook) in rural
households of Bangladesh. In the follow-up...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 06 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 Drawing on secondary data, insights and ideas from an all-India consultation meet
at NIAS, four regional / zonal consultations, data from a project in Chamarajanagar district (Karnataka),
and select...
by P Veerbhadranaika | On 01 Aug 2012 The major objective of this paper to examine the determinants of child malnutrition, based on the Pakistan Panel Household Survey (PPHS-2010). The study has focused on individual (child), household an...
by G M Arif | On 16 Jul 2012 Estimates of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in India vary greatly depending on the source. The 2001 census found 21.91 million disabled persons (2.13 % of the population), but there are serious cons...
by National Advisory Council NAC | On 11 Jul 2012 The objective in this
paper is to estimate the role played by such factors in determining the
utilisation of formal health care to cure diarrhoea and certain respiratory
illnesses plaguing young ch...
by Anindita Chakrabarti | On 02 Jul 2012 The NAC Working Group held three national consultations on different aspects of the issue of declining child sex ratio. The Working Group conveners also separately met with Ministry of Women and Child...
by Farah Naqvi | On 25 Apr 2012 Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly
low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, it is shown that
...
by Lant Pritchett | On 23 Apr 2012 The study focused on the factors and forces behind the participation of women in
Panchayat Structure specially after the seventy third Constitution Amendment Act. The
role performance, role awarenes...
by Dilip Kumar Sarkar | On 20 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 Budget speech by Finance Minister. [Ministry of Finance, Malaysia]. URL:[http://www.treasury.gov.my/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2008%3Abajet-2012&catid=87%3Acatbajet-tahunan&Itemid=19...
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 29 Mar 2012 Rapid demographic ageing is a growing public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries
(LAMICs). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a construct frequently used to define groups of people...
by Ana Luisa Sosa | On 19 Mar 2012 The report includes a specific recommendation to
categorically have a statutory provision imparting genuine independence to the CBI
by declaring, for the first time, that it shall not be subject, on...
by Rajya Sabha | On 14 Mar 2012 Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in
India. Estimates suggest that more than 25 million women are
"missing". Sex selection at birth and the mistreatment of
young g...
by Siwan Anderson | On 09 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 Discussion on the human rights violation of under trial prisoners.
by Ranesh Chandra Majumdar | On 06 Mar 2012 A Working Group on Child Rights was constituted by the Planning Commission to recommend priorities and strategies for children in the 12th Five year Plan 2012-17. Five Sub Groups of the Working group...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 06 Mar 2012 The 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 The main objective of the study is to investigate whether there is any evidence to support the
view that the disbursement of micro finance to women reduces the incidence of domestic
violence, and if...
by Institute of Social Studies Trust ISST | On 23 Feb 2012 The paper has two objectives, namely: (a) determine and assess how existing empirical
household models are able to capture the effects of changes in the macroeconomic variables on the
welfare of the...
by Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr. | On 17 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 This paper looks at some key entry points for agriculture to influence nutrition and suggests policies for
nutrition-sensitive agricultural development, within the current policy framework. In additi...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 07 Feb 2012 This paper examines the long-term impacts of improved school quality at the elementary school stage on subsequent schooling investments and labor market outcomes using unique data from a recent survey...
by Futoshi Yamauchi | On 31 Jan 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 After a decade of rapid economic growth, many developing countries have attained middle-income status. But poverty reduction in these countries has not kept pace with economic growth. As a result, mos...
by Amanda Glassman | On 31 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 present paper explores the nexus between gender-energy-poverty, highlights areas of gender
concern, and suggests actions. It is analyzed how women from rural areas and low income
households are...
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 19 Jan 2012 The
HUNGaMA (Hunger and M alnutrition) S urvey
conducted across 112 rural districts of India in 2011
provides r eliable estimates of c hild n utrition
covering nearly 20% of Indian children. The H...
by HUNGaMa for Change HUNGaMa | On 12 Jan 2012 This article examines the relationship between women’s economic and social
empowerment in the context of extreme poverty. It is based on the findings of primary
fieldwork on the char islands of nort...
by Lucy Scott | On 11 Jan 2012 It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon—pe...
by Xi Chen | On 10 Jan 2012 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 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 Scientific authors who pay to publish
their articles in an open-access publication
should be congratulated for doing so. They
also should be aware that they may not be
getting full open access fro...
by Michael W Carroll | On 13 Dec 2011 This
Report covers developments in implementation of the Convention in India
from 2006 to 2011. The harmonised guidelines for preparation of Common
Core Document and the reporting Guidelines of the...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 25 Nov 2011 The brief is based on the experience and the success of a hospital
based Crisis Centres for women facing domestic violence in Mumbai - Dilaasa.
It is a joint initiative of the MCGM and CEHAT, establ...
by ... CEHAT | On 02 Nov 2011 Born on 23rd April, 1935, Kakkanadan, a Malayalam language short story writer and novelist from Kerala state, South India passed away on 19th October 2011. He is often credited with laying the foundat...
by Alex George | On 24 Oct 2011 This essay attempts to look beyond the long-standing qualitative-quantitative
tug of war in studying society. It takes as an example one approach, the case study,
that often acts as a bridge between...
by Ipsita Sapra | On 19 Oct 2011 The study aims to explore how the MNCH committee encouraged community
participation and how its communication activities empowered the community people
to ensure the healthcare needs of the poor and...
by Margaret Leppard | On 17 Oct 2011 A
bill
to ensure a humane, participatory, informed consultative and transparent process for land
acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities
and urbanisa...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Sep 2011 The main objective of this paper is to examine the patterns of gender differences for children in the north state of Haryana in India for health outcomes. Specifically it addresses the incidence, and...
by Suresh Sharma | On 23 Aug 2011 Information and Communication
Technology (ICT’s)
bring lot of opportunities to women in the work situations and small business.
Teleporting, flexi time and work from home arrangements are some of t...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 29 Jul 2011 Review of
Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India. Edited byNalini Iyer, Bonnie Zare,Rodopi, Amsterdam. 2009. 248 pp. $71.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-420-2519-6.
by KumKum Chatterjee | On 23 Jul 2011 The rural-urban distribution of the population is shown. URL:[http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/india/paper2_1.pdf].
by | On 21 Jul 2011 An evaluation of a program that aims to improve children’s reading skills by providing classes with
age‐appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day readR...
by Ama Baafra Abeberese | On 12 Jul 2011 The study highlights interlinkages amongst district level poverty, socioeconomic developmental indices, RCH-care utilization and fertility. Thereby the study formulates a recursive model to highlight...
by S C Gulati | On 11 Jul 2011 New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data ana...
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 08 Jul 2011 The paper presents gender-based violence and theories its causes and correlates; it then reviews global information on the prevalence of gender-based violence against women and its health consequences...
by SAKHI Women's Resource Centre SAKHI | On 05 Jul 2011 Census figures show that the child sex ratio has gone down. There are several reasons for this. The issue is serious and issue should be dealt immediately.
by Anwesha Sen | On 10 Jun 2011 Bangladesh is a poor country with nearly half (48%) of the population living on the wrong side of the poverty line. The health status of the population has remained poor. The socioeconomic inequality...
by Abdullahel Hadi | On 25 May 2011 In India, today too, majority of educated women are unaware of their true self and still stuck in the process of self realisation. Moreover, there are some women who are aware of their self, their rig...
by Sachin S. Bhumbe | On 09 May 2011 Great novelists through their writings placed the history of the Indian national and social awakening movement in literature.The context of this article is great three novels of three great littérat...
by Sarmistha Ghoshal | On 09 May 2011 Economic growth is widely perceived as a major policy instrument in reducing childhood undernutrition in
India. The association between changes in state per capita income and the risk of undernutriti...
by Malavika A Subramanyam | On 13 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 The Government of Chhattisgarh is firmly committed to capitalise on its ‘new State
advantage’. The State has taken a conscious decision to do away with past
legacies and to adopt a fresh approach to...
by Government of Chhattishgarh | On 30 Mar 2011 Interest in the uncertainties prevailing at the macroeconomic level has
always been well known in economic literature. This paper analyses the
effect of firm level and macroeconomic uncertainty on t...
by Mrinal Kanti | On 22 Mar 2011 Most of the world’s poor no longer live in low-income countries. An estimated 960 million poor people—a new bottom billion—live in middle-income countries, a result of the graduation of several populo...
by Andy Sumner | On 21 Mar 2011 This paper explores how poverty affects childbearing patterns in the contemporary
developing world. In considering the association between poverty and fertility, we explore
one measure of economic s...
by Sajeda Amin | On 14 Mar 2011 The Corporation has decided to implement various schemes for females within the framework of its obligatory and discretionary
functions as laid down in the M.M.C. Act. A step towards it, is a separat...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 07 Mar 2011 The objective of this working paper is to examine the extent of employment oriented migration of females in India and the inter–state variations in its magnitude using NSSO 55th Round Household level...
by Shanthi. K | On 04 Mar 2011 The overall objective of the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) risk factors survey was to improve the information available to the Government health services and care providers on a set of high-priority...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 24 Feb 2011 Recent literature has not only recognized the implementation limitations of formal regulation, but also appreciated the significance of informal regulation for achieving environmental goals for develo...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 18 Feb 2011 The paper is a study of the family suicide cases in Kerala. The aim of the study is to gather information about demographic details, method adopted and causes of suicides that happened in Kerala durin...
by K Praveenlal | On 16 Feb 2011 Objective of this survey was to establish a baseline nutritional profile to assess the impact of
the MNCH programme interventions at the end of the project duration. Nutritional status and
related f...
by Farhana Haseen | On 27 Jan 2011 Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge (JMB) project was the first of its kind which incorporated
resettlement activities facilitating livelihood restoration of the project affected people (PAP). This
study was...
by Shyamal C Ghosh | On 21 Jan 2011 Life expectancy and other indicators of health status have, on average, increased markedly across the world during the last century. At the same time, however, health inequities within and between pop...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 20 Jan 2011 BRAC has been working since early 1990’s to evolve an impact assessment system (IAS) for its rural development programme (RDP). The first impact assessment study was conducted in 1993-94. Assessing th...
by (Ed.) A. M. Muazzam Husain | On 19 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 Understanding the morbidity profile and healthcare seeking behaviour of different
socioeconomic strata of the community is important for planning and delivery of appropriate health
services, especia...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 14 Jan 2011 Linkage between socioeconomic development and improved health and well-being has been a matter of growing
interest among social scientists and development practitioners, especially the processes and...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 14 Jan 2011 In 2002, BRAC launched a targeted and comprehensive development programme called
Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP)
aimed at the poorest of the poor,...
by Vivek A. Prakash | On 07 Jan 2011 Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper investigates the link
between female status and food security. Employing three different indicators of female
status – husband’s an...
by Mohammad A. Razzaque | On 29 Dec 2010 This study looked at the process of forming of Village Organizations (VOs) by BRAC. BRAC
organizes the poor by initiating the institution building process through which the formation of VOs
takes pl...
by Manzurul Mannan | On 29 Dec 2010 Bangladesh is popularly described in the literature as a ‘test case for development’ in view of the
complex nature of its socioeconomic and cultural problems, coupled with severe resource constraints...
by Mushtaque Chowdhury | On 29 Dec 2010 This paper looks at BRAC’s Rural Development Programmes’ (RDP) interventions and consumption
based poverty using household expenditure data collected from 3518 households in fourteen villages
in Mat...
by Hassan Zaman | On 24 Dec 2010 This paper addressed two current debates within the female empowerment literature using data from BRAC-ICDDR,B Joint research project at Matlab collected during April-July 1995. The first part explore...
by Hassan Zaman | On 24 Dec 2010 This study explores the effect of women’s involvement in BRAC’s income and health development
activities on the nutritional status of their children aged 6-72 months. MUAC measurements of 1,518
chil...
by Masuma Khatun | On 23 Dec 2010 In Bangladesh, patriarchal norms, ideology and social institutions shape women's role and
status in the society. Within this patriarchal system, some forces like NGOs may affect the
relationship bet...
by Amina Mahbub | On 23 Dec 2010 The major objectives of the paper is to:-
* to locate the Thiruvananthapuram district in the economic map of the State;
*to document the structural and sectoral transformation of the district;
*to...
by Oommen M A | On 22 Dec 2010 The date of the enforcement of the Constitution, 26th January 1950, marked a
crucial change in the legal status of the people of India. They were no longer
British subjects, but citizens of the Repu...
by Anupama Roy | On 22 Dec 2010 This paper traces the engagement of the Indian state with the issue of disability over the past three decades as a discourse of charity and welfare gives way to one of equality and human rights. Using...
by Renu Addlakha | On 22 Dec 2010 This paper is a scoping exercise to explore options for research on urban poverty in developing countries. Based on a review of the literature and experience, the first part of the paper reviews the c...
by Johannes F. Linn | On 21 Dec 2010 This paper uses data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey 2 (2003/2004) to find
evidence to whether children are less likely to work and more likely to attend school in
a household where the mothe...
by Milla Nyyssölä | On 20 Dec 2010 A crucial gap in the trafficking literature from India is the dearth of primary data and
micro studies that could be used for vulnerability mapping of the source areas and
addressing the identified...
by U. Vindhya | On 20 Dec 2010 Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded support without any appeal to global climate considerations. However, even relativ...
by David Wheeler | On 29 Nov 2010 Building on recent work in the fiscal response literature, the present paper develops a new fiscal
response model, which, for the first time in the relevant literature, combines the ideas of both
en...
by George Mavrotas | On 24 Nov 2010 Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers on women is good development polic...
by Matthias Doepke | On 18 Nov 2010 China is not only on the path to Great Power status, it also means to exercise its newfound muscle. What is difficult to understand is why it wants to behave like a rogue power when the world would wa...
by T.N. Ninan | On 05 Nov 2010 This paper reviews the status of the external sector of the Indian economy. It is divided into 5 broad
sections. Section I gives the trends of imports and exports, as well as the composition and dire...
by Archana S Mathur | On 26 Oct 2010 Mail questions addressed in this paper are: What is the cognitive perception of Muslim women on their own status in their community?
How do the Muslim women perceive their status when compared to the...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 20 Oct 2010 This paper attempts to survey the published literature on agricultural development of Kerala covering a period between 1800 AD and 1980 AD. The Survey covers both academic studies as well as governme...
by B.A. Prakash | On 18 Oct 2010 The twentieth century has witnessed a process of significant transition of the Syrian Christian community in Kerala in terms of its demographic and socio-economic status. In this paper, the transitio...
by K.C. Zachariah | On 05 Oct 2010 The past three decades have witnessed the growth of a voluminous literature on
tenancy arid reIated institutions. Problems of resource use efficiency, role of markets, inter-linkages between markets...
by D. Narayana | On 04 Oct 2010 A review of the literature on industrial growth in India, bows that barring a few studies [e.g.,Raj (1976,1984), Shetty (1978)], Industrial growth has been interpreted by merely fitting statistical m...
by R. Anandaraj | On 29 Sep 2010 This study makes an attempt to examine living environment and health status of women and children in slum and non-slum areas of selected metropolitan cities in India. The selected metropolitan cities...
by Chandra Sekhar | On 17 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 In 1956 Susanne Rudolph and I arrived in India for the first of many research years there. We were among the second batch of Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellows. As area scholars we were com...
by Lloyd I. Rudolf | On 15 Sep 2010 Long before Independence, the theme on which Gandhiji wrote repeatedly, was the
need to improve the status of Indian women. He drew attention to the fact that the
woman was ‘not only.... condemned t...
by Lotika Sarkar | On 14 Sep 2010 The objective of this paper is to analyse the determinants of the growth of firms in the
Indian automobile industry during the period 1980-81 to 1995-96. It re-examines certain issues
that have a...
by K. Narayanan | On 09 Sep 2010 The literature on Rural Non-Agricultural Employment (RNAE) in India is replete with
references as to its nature - whether or not it is residual. Vaidyanathan (1986)
advanced the view that for the se...
by C. S. Murty | On 08 Sep 2010 This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s
organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment
generation in the labour intensive sect...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 13 Aug 2010 The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has recently released the report
containing key results of the NSS 55th
Round Employment-Unemployment Survey covering
the period July 1999 thru June 2...
by K. Sundaram | On 26 Jul 2010 A mid-term survey of the CFPR/TUP programme participants (at the end of 1st cycle of 18 months intervention) on health and related issues was done during July-September 2004. The survey involved re-in...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 16 Jun 2010 The paper examines the programs for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) and concludes that DDR is set to remain an important tool, and that it is most effective when used flexibly, app...
by Walt Kilroy | On 16 Jun 2010 Street vendors are those millions of people who come to cities as economic refugees hoping to
provide basic necessities for their families.They are the main distribution channels for a large variety...
by Shailly Arora | 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 This paper is about the research study of health practices and health-seeking behaviour of the Female Sex Workers for their reproductive health needs in terms of pregnancy and
postpartum care, contra...
by Rachna Williams | On 04 Jun 2010 The purpose of this paper is to disseminate among a wider public insights gained
from the UNESCO Language Survey Report (2002) for Nepal. The emphasis is put on the
linguistic diversity of Nepal o...
by Sueyoshi Toba | On 03 Jun 2010 We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent l...
by Quy-Toan Do | On 02 Jun 2010 This
paper confirms that for Mexico over the period 1986-2000, the export sector pays higher wages
than other sectors, but school drop out increases with the arrival of new export jobs. The workers...
by David Atkin | On 28 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 This paper attempts to question the state of ‘women community” at large with situation
depicting the growing rate of crime, oppression and subjugation which is historically
unprecedented and its re-...
by Chitra Mishra | On 03 May 2010 Empowerment of women has emerged as an important issue in recent times. The economic empowerment of women is being regarded these days as a Sine-quo-non of progress for a country; hence, the issue of...
by Sathiabama K | On 19 Apr 2010 Female work participation in West Bengal is one of the lowest among all
the states in India. However, it varies widely across the state’s 341
blocks. An analysis of some block level characteristics...
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 26 Feb 2010 Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L. JeyaseelanSage publication, 2009, Pp 264, Rs. 595/-
by Sanchita Das | On 20 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 Living the Body: Embodiment, Womenhood and Identity in Contemporary India
by Meenakshi Thapan,
Sage Publication, Delhi;
2009, pp. 220; Rs. 550.
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 08 Jan 2010 The objective of the study is to find out the primary reason to encourage public
private participation in health care delivery system in Uttar Pradesh and the study
also aim to analyse UPHSDP -a Wor...
by Bibi Ishrat Jahan | On 07 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 Questions about the processes of empowerment generated under each of these interventions and also suggests synergistic linkages between the two are raised.
by Joy Deshmukh Ranadive | On 13 Nov 2009 A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features a...
by Indian Trust for Innovation and Social Change ITISC | On 12 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 This joint paper attempts an unusual collaborative approach that offers an understanding of the problems that registered nurses of India have faced. Through this paper, the problem of ‘social status’...
by Sreelekha Nair | On 10 Nov 2009 Can ‘participatory’ approaches to development constitute a viable strategy for promoting
citizenship? This paper addresses this question by scrutinising the equivocal reaction of a
peasant community...
by Katsuhiko Masaki | On 13 Oct 2009 The objective of the paper is to i) understand and document the morbidity profile, ii) examine utilisation of health services, and iii) estimate approximate expenses on health care by th...
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 07 Oct 2009 This concept papers aims at demystifying some of these
social, economic and political myths, and stimulate discussion, debate and deliberation
on various aspects of child labour. This paper, further...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 07 Oct 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 reviews the trends over three decades in the consumption of cereals, calories and micronutrients and nutritional status based on anthropometric measures using the data sets of NSS, NNMB and...
by Radhakrishna R | On 15 Sep 2009 It presents an overview of the theme based on the author’s experience on EIA in developing countries. In many of these countries, a holistic approach has been adopted to EIA requiring the consideratio...
by Iara Verocai | On 31 Aug 2009 This paper presents findings from an extensive review of
literature on organizational cultural (OC) and highlights the relevance of OC with respect to individual, organizational, intra-organizational...
by Indu Rao | On 10 Aug 2009 Book Review Discourse on Women and Empowerment, Vibhuti Patel (Ed), (Empowering Women Worldwide Series: 4), The Women Press, Delhi, 2009.
by Usha Thakkar | On 30 Jun 2009 The paper is an attempt to review critically the association between women’s paid work and empowerment in India. As a prelude, the author seek to assess the extent of women’s participation in paid wor...
by Sunny Jose | On 15 Jun 2009 The aim of this Erratum to the Annual report and Accounts, is to
inform Unilever shareholders and other interested parties of the
full story behind the good revenues and efficient restructuring
pr...
by FNV Mondiaal FNV | On 12 Jun 2009 Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding decisions are modelled and test has been done to predict model's predictions us-
ing...
by Seema Jayachandran | 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 The Report of the study is in two parts – Part A gives the findings of the literature survey, the limitations of the database and the data gaps for each infection; Part B is the annotated bibliography...
by Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR | On 05 Jun 2009 An important aspect that is often highlighted in the context of economic reforms, is the translation of labour market changes into defining or redefining gender relations and empowerment of women. In...
by Neetha N | On 03 Jun 2009 This paper is an evaluation study of NSS in India wherein a study is conducted to learn Volunteer strength in Andhra Pradesh from 1969-1994; Year wise Targets and Achievements of Chandigarh Regional C...
by Tata Institue of Social Sciences TISS | On 31 May 2009 The rapid spread of modern supply chains in developing countries is profoundly changing the way food is produced and traded. In this paper we examine the gender implications in modern supply chains. W...
by Miet Maertens | On 29 May 2009 The choice of the best measures of labour force, work force and unemployment has been the subject of intense debate in the formulation of employment strategies and preparation of plan documents. A new...
by J Krishnamurty | On 28 May 2009 The paper analyzes the effect of health status on labour force participation for aged Indians. The potential endogeneity in health and labour force participation has been taken care of by using full i...
by Manoj K Pandey | On 27 May 2009 Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese;
Random House India; 2009, paperback, pp.542, Rs.595.
by Mohan Rao | On 23 May 2009 This paper offers a review of the concepts and definitions used in the NSS Employment-Unemployment Surveys (EUS, for short) which have remained virtually unchanged since they were introduced in the NS...
by K. Sundaram | On 15 May 2009 The study aimed at identifying social and biomedical risk factors attributable to perinatal and neonatal mortality (PN, NNM) in rural Punjab.
by Rohina Joshi | On 30 Apr 2009 For a country like India that contains a large number of Urban Agglomerations (UAs), suburbanisation has drawn little attention of the literature. I focus on this sparsely studied issue in this work....
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 20 Feb 2009 The history and evolution and the factors underlying the success of primary education in Kerala. [CDS WP 189].
by P R Gopinathan Nair | On 10 Dec 2008 The paper carries the reader across and over great spans of space and time, with an Indian feminist woman academic journeying back to seventeenth-century ancien regime France, to 1770s Scotland, to 17...
by Bagchi B | On 01 Oct 2008 The study tries to focus on the violation of human rights that occur in prostitution. It holds that it is the responsibility of the state to protect these human rights and address the fundamental stru...
by Nina Srivastava | On 30 Sep 2008 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 the paper examines the current situation of adult education schemes in India and their impacts on the Indian society.
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 03 Sep 2008 Random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate
whether having a female chief councillor affects public opinion towards female leaders is analysed . Villagers who hav...
by Lori Beaman | On 22 Aug 2008 Ranga Reddy district, where the present study is carried out is marked by low
literacy rate and high concentration of child labour. M.V.Foundation adopted 16
Mandals of this district for the impleme...
by Davaluri Venkateshwaralu | On 10 Jun 2008 Budget and Annual Financial Statement for the year 2008-09.
by West Bengal Government | On 25 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 This manual is intended to help local governments to uphold the human rights of women, by involving them in identifying their needs and with their participation, to find possible solutions and move to...
by Aleyamma Vijayan | On 04 Feb 2008 Review of Erika Langmuir Imagining Childhood. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2006. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-10131-7.
by Loren Lerner | On 15 Jan 2008 World AIDS Day, the annual December 1 commemoration, first took place in 1988 under the auspices of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. At that time there was no idea about HIV treatment b...
by PLoS Medicine | On 11 Jan 2008 One of the principal mechanisms through which inequality is reproduced is language, specifically the language used as the medium of instruction. The
learner’s mother tongue holds the key to making sc...
by Carol Benson | On 21 Dec 2007 In a remote tribal village of Kandhamal District of Orissa, where there there are visible signs of empowerment of women due to the formation of SHG in the village. The confidence level of women, who...
by Pradeep Baisakh | On 05 Nov 2007 The Reserve Bank, as the regulator of the banking sector, has been actively engaged, from the very beginning, in the review, examination and evaluation of customer service in the banks. It has been re...
by Leeladhar V | On 26 Oct 2007 Review of
Sex- Selective Abortion in India –Gender, Society, and New Reproductive Technologies
by Tulsi Patel; Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2007.
by Sayeed Unisa | On 25 Oct 2007 The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally r...
by Alessandro Cigno | On 16 Oct 2007 This paper examines how the patterns of India’s food consumption have been changing in recent times as a consequence of its faster economic growth and generally rising affluence levels. The study, als...
by Srikanta Chatterjee | On 30 Sep 2007 Hands-on training in qualitative research in the context of health, nutrition and development. The training included all major steps in qualitative research: deciding objectives, designing tools, data...
by Shubhada Kanani | On 28 Sep 2007 The educated and socially empowered Asian Woman is the key to improving the nutrition and mental acuity of young children and that improvement sets in motion lifelong prospects for heightened learning...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 24 Jul 2007 This draft chapter of a reader on Health Care Case Laws in India addresses the following issues: Have reproductive rights been recognized in India? What has been the approach of the courts towards rep...
by Vijay Hiremat | On 04 Jul 2007 This paper considers the relative importance of improvements in economic status in explaining improvements in non-monetary measures of well-being during Vietnam's economic boom in the 1990s.
by Eric Edmonds | On 26 Jun 2007 The concern for ethical decision-making among the regulators, social groups and managers has substantially increased since failure of some of the prominent business organizations like Shell and Enron...
by Sunil Kumar Maheshwari | On 30 May 2007 This paper examines the benefits that accrue to households by financial empowerment of women, but also laments the need for more radical approaches to counter what might seem like inertia to fully eng...
by Irene KB Mutalima | On 17 Apr 2007 The objective of the study was to help children conceptualise and develop an on-line magazine and observe changes in their skills and confidence as communicators due to their experience of developing...
by Kaustubh Nande | On 22 Mar 2007 First, on the basis of primary data collected in a rural setting in the
State of Orissa, an attempt has been made in this paper to compare the
socioeconomic status of male- and female- headed househ...
by Pradeep Kumar Panda | On 12 Feb 2007 Grounded in a popular stereotype that female-headed households are the ‘poorest of the poor’, it is often assumed that women and children suffer greater poverty than in households which conform with a...
by Sylvia Chant | On 30 Jan 2007 It is often assumed that poverty reduction would lead to gender equality. Research however, points to the opposite, namely, that increasing prosperity can have perverse gender effects . It is therefor...
by Nitya Rao | On 26 Dec 2006 The present study attempted to assess the performance of Fisherwomen's self
help groups (SHGs) in Tamil Nadu . Primary data required for the study were collected from 725 fisherwomen SHG members repr...
by R. Jayaraman | On 03 Dec 2006 Over 75% of the annual estimated 9.5 million deaths in India occur in the home, and the large majority of these do not have a certified cause. India and other developing countries urgently need reliab...
by Prabhat Jha | On 31 Oct 2006 Imprisonment of mothers with dependent young child is a problematic issue. The effects of incarceration can be catastrophic on the children and costly to the state in terms of
providing for their car...
by Planning Commission, India | On 30 Oct 2006 At the time of reorganization of states on the basis of the linguistic formula,
the territory that belonged to erstwhile state of Hyderabad was broken down
to three parts and annexed to Andhra Prade...
by P. N. Mari Bhat | On 19 Jan 2006 Rural decentralisation and panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) are a profound change in the Indian rural institutional scene. They may ultimately offer a better option for rural development and poverty...
by Naresh C. Saxena | On 10 Sep 2005 The Constitution of India has more than 20 Articles on the redressal and upliftment of the underprivileged following the policy of positive discrimination and affirmative action, particularly with ref...
by D. Swaminadhan | On 10 Sep 2005 This article builds upon the recognition that the declining child sex ratios are a result of an ongoing process of societal change. Looking at areas both in the north and in the south which have shown...
by Mattias Larsen | On 03 Sep 2005 In the context of outbreaks of a number of water borne diseases in the thickly populated district of Kollam, especially duing the monsoons, this study was undertaken to assess the quality of drinking...
by M K P Roy | On 16 Aug 2005 Gender discrimination manifests itself as violence in the family, community, and society. It takes the forms of female foeticide, female infanticide, abuse of the girl child, social harassment, mental...
by Celine Sunny | On 16 Aug 2005 |