The 3rd Urban Economy Forum is one of the world’s most premier urban gatherings on sustainable urban economies and urban management. The collaborative approach for collective action taken by the organ...
by | On 07 Jan 2022 Policymakers across the developing world are facing the need to make rapid decisions on their COVID-19
response with little available data or guidance. Policies that help deal with the economic cri...
by Jonathan Leape | On 18 May 2020 The macroeconomic uncertainty created by COVID-19 is hard to measure. The
situation demands simultaneous policy intervention in terms of public health
infrastructure and livelihood. Along with the g...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 29 Apr 2020 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 The paper constructs a new measure of the changing generosity of deposit insurance for many countries, empirically model the international influences on the adoption and generosity of deposit insuranc...
by Charles W. Calomiris | On 03 Sep 2018 The paper analyses a nationally representative data set from India for the year 2013 in order to provide evidence on how short term migration is affected by household's ownership of land, and particip...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 25 Jul 2018 Gross capital inflows and outflows to and from emerging market economies (EMEs) have witnessed a significant increase since early 2000s. This rapid increase in these flows accompanied by sharp rise in...
by Ashima Goyal | On 25 Jul 2018 Ensuring the realization of the full potential of the incumbent DRRM policy requires appropriate sectoral and institutional translation of its espoused principles; reflecting more refined institutiona...
by Sonny N. Domingo | On 06 Jul 2018 There are many theories and approaches to study the home
asked is whether these approaches actually reflect the experiences of the majority
of homebased workers in India or was the field of theorisa...
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 04 Jun 2018 Like many other developing nations, the age-specific mortality vary across
regions and decline at different pace for India. Using a multinomial logit
model, this study analyses the predictors for ne...
by G. Naline | On 16 Apr 2018 Recently, a renewed interest in large-scale community health worker (CHW) programs has been
seen globally. This renewal provides an opportune moment to take stock of issues and
challenges such progr...
by Steve Hodgins | On 12 Apr 2018 This article presents a historical review of national community health worker (CHW) programs in
India using a gender- and rights-based lens. The aim is to derive relevant policy implications to
stem...
by Kavita Bhatia | On 06 Apr 2018 The report says that the goal is to promote community leadership in strengthening capabilities and resource mobilization.
by National Alliance Risk Reduction (NAADRR) | On 05 Apr 2018 From 2015 there has been a spate of incidents of violence and intimidation around issues of cow
slaughter and beef. These ranged from the lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq for alleged cow theft,
slaughter...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 04 Apr 2018 This paper analyses the way households in rural China use rural-urban migration and
off-farm work as a response to negative productivity shocks in agriculture. I employ
various waves of a longitudin...
by Luigi Minale | On 04 Apr 2018 The present study was undertaken to review the pilot implementation of the programme and its uptake by beneficiaries, in order to provide data to the DWCD, before scaling up the programme to all distr...
by Centre for Budget and Policy Studies CBPS | On 23 Mar 2018 Every year, 4 million newborn babies die in the first month of life, 99% in low and middle income
countries.1 India carries the highest single share of neonatal deaths in the world- around 25-30% of
...
by Sanjay Zodpey | On 13 Mar 2018 This paper explores the faith context of
displacement and settlement for the Sikh and
Christian Afghan refugees and Muslim Rohingya
refugees in Delhi. It examines the foundation of
community faith...
by | 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 paper studies a dynamic model of the decision to continue or abandon a research project. Researchers improve their ideas over time and also learn whether those ideas will be adopted by the scienti...
by | On 07 Mar 2018 The paper studies a dynamic model of the decision to continue or abandon a research project. Researchers improve their ideas over time and also learn whether those ideas will be adopted by the scienti...
by Bernhard Ganglmair | On 06 Mar 2018 This paper makes an attempt to assess whether this instrument has succeeded in bringing about the desired changes. A unique database is constructed on the basis of these country positions. Using this...
by Suranjali Tandon | On 03 Mar 2018 This paper examines critically the awards of the recent Finance Commissions (FCs) in the specific context of the ongoing work of the Thirteenth Finance Commission (13FC).
by K.K. George | On 28 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 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 The report says that the ISI has been equally thorough and ruthless in repressing political opponents to the military regimes that have ruled over Pakistan for more than half of its fiftyseven years o...
by Harinder Sekhon | On 12 Feb 2018 The foremost aim of the study was to investigate and analyze the relationship of General Mental Ability,
Interest and home environmentwith Academic Achievement.Methods:The participants were 110 stude...
by | On 12 Feb 2018 The paper says that this idiosyncrasy of Korea’s current account surplus seems to be related to increasing saving propensity of households especially among aged people.
by Han Chirok | On 01 Feb 2018 Conflict, violence and social upheaval have been the greatest threats to mankind since the dawn
of civilisation. Poorest communities, children and education sector are among the most severely
affect...
by Komol Singha | On 24 Jan 2018 ‘Lived place’ refers to the subject perception of place. It is concrete and based on experience. For the tribal communities staying or camping in the forest, it is their ‘lived place’ about which they...
by | On 12 Jan 2018 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 study provides growth projections for the Philippine agriculture based on growth in productivity differentiated by basic sector, using a computable general equilibrium model.
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 14 Dec 2017 The paper narrates that the inclusive growth requires boosting incomes of workers currently in agriculture, either by shifting them to better-paying jobs outside agriculture or raising wages within ag...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 13 Dec 2017 The report says that despite the government’s various poverty reduction and social protection programs, poverty remains a social problem the country needs to hurdle.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 13 Dec 2017 This paper aims to inform academia and policymakers about ways and means to first increase trade with Afghanistan, and second, to discuss trade-related procedures and processes that could be streamlin...
by Vaqar Ahmed | On 04 Dec 2017 About two-thirds of microfinance clients in India are reported to be in Self-Help Groups (SHGs). These mostly women’s groups have been promoted by nationalized banks since the early nineties to improv...
by Jean-Marie Baland | On 06 Nov 2017 This approach helps to publish timely, reasonably accurate and globally comparable estimates.
by Wage Indicator | On 23 Oct 2017 The empirical context of our study is Indonesia, a country with a long tradition of regulating consumer energy prices and a recent change in subsidy policies, facilitated by dramatically falling oil p...
by Sebastian Renner | On 29 Sep 2017 This paper attempts to outline a number of points, which would help to develop a more superior external intelligence infrastructure.
by Shantanu Bansal | On 28 Aug 2017 By way of this contact, communities have re-constituted their relation with the forest, their identity and relations with others.
by M. Suresh | On 22 Aug 2017 The report, Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in South Asia- Evidence for Interventions in the Health Sector, Women’s Collectives and Local Governance Mechanisms, is based on a systemic review of l...
by Rohini Prabha Pande | On 18 Aug 2017 This paper describes the process of displacement of tribals from the hills to resettlement in the plains.
by Arjun Patel | On 17 Aug 2017 The paper argues, in line with other recent studies that time has come to rethink concepts and practices used to promote local governance in African countries.
by Göran Hydén | On 10 Aug 2017 With a focus on Northeast Indian experiences and a comparative look at Nepal, this project addresses the role of women in local governance and politics, particularly within the context of peace and se...
by Calcutta Group | On 04 Aug 2017 Many poverty alleviation programs aiming to enhance nutrition include behavior change
communication (BCC). This study uses a field experiment in Bangladesh to assess the
impacts of BCC, focusing on...
by Berber Kramer | On 31 Jul 2017 The compendium details the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of the different technology options, and also describes the different types of systems formed as a combination of the technolog...
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 28 Jul 2017 This paper analyse data from the Nepal Living Standard Survey for the year 2010/11 to determine the extent to which these programs have reached the poor. The Government of Nepal has been providing fin...
by Dipendra Bhattarai | 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 Previous studies have examined how demographic characteristics, education, culture, and labor policy suppress Indian women’s labor supply. However, not enough attention has been paid to the role of po...
by Lei Lei | On 27 Jul 2017 The project developed a gender, caste, and ethnicity (GCE) strategy that sought to ensure the participation of women and ethnic minorities in decision-making processes, as well as their increased repr...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 25 Jul 2017 This annual publication showcases the results of knowledge management initiatives of the East Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank in 2014.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 Jul 2017 The paper estimates the relationship between the current account and fiscal deficit, and the real exchange rate, in a structural vector auto regression, with Indian data for the managed float period 1...
by Ashima Goyal | On 22 Jul 2017 Inflation expectations are an important marker for the conduct of monetary policy. Using a Bayesian structural VAR-X model that includes the inflation expectations of general public based on the Infla...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 21 Jul 2017 This report summarizes the initial activities of the Regional Hub, and contextualizes the challenges in Asia and the Pacific with the global efforts to reach the 2030 targets.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity, tax exemptions, and subsidized credit; examines the potential economic, energy, and en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as tax breaks for diesel and natural gas, market price support for natural gas for vehicles, and free electricity for low-income consumers as...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This study informs decision makers regarding major climate change risks to development and provides feasible policy recommendations for consideration to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability in...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jun 2017 The report says Mother Earth cleanses us from violent pollution and her waters renew us as we recover from violent penetration. The ancestors strengthen us and elders give insights on strategies for...
by Documentation and Information Sustainability (DINIPS) | On 20 Jun 2017 This report describes how applying community-driven development principles to managing the water resource can both expand livelihood opportunities available to beneficiaries at no additional cost to t...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Jun 2017 Ashas, the lowest rung of contracted full-time community health workers, face irregular
pay and lack social security. Will the draft Central Code on Labour enable their
regularization and a fixed wa...
by Kavita Bhatia | On 14 Jun 2017 This report reviews trade and transport procedures in Bangladesh, highlights the importance of monitoring trade and transport facilitation, and lays a foundation for future studies and establishment o...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jun 2017 The report sets out the experience, analysis and conclusions of VisionFund International and their Philippine microfinance operation Community Economic Ventures Incorporated (CEVI). This analysis foll...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Jun 2017 The study examines the Philippine government’s convergence initiative, and how it relates to community-driven development (CDD) that can impact rural communities in the Philippines.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Jun 2017 This report presents the findings of a climate risk financing study conducted by the GMS Core Environment Program in 28 rural communities in Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Viet Na...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 May 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 An important reason for this dichotomy between agriculture and non agricultural sectors is that the former is a state subject under the Indian Constitution placing the burden of implementation of refo...
by Ramesh Chand | On 18 May 2017 The paper outlines that the sanitation has long been “beneath the radar” on the development agendas of governments worldwide. Aside from the massive investment requirements for putting in place sanita...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 May 2017 The project has dramatically changed the life of Rabeya Sultana, chair of the women-led slum
improvement committee formed under the project in Cox's Bazar. "Managing people and money
gave me more co...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 May 2017 This paper introduces that the landscape approach has provided a platform for a wide-ranging
discussion about these issues, but has simultaneously opened up the opportunity for a discussion
about su...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 May 2017 This report summarises the main results of the initiative Earth Observation for a Transforming Asia and Pacific
(EOTAP) that brought together our two institutions – the European Space Agency (ESA) an...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 May 2017 This paper is a contribution to understanding income generation and inequality in India's agricultural sector. The paper analyses the National Sample Surveys of agriculture in 2003 and 2013 using desc...
by Sanjoy Chakravorty | On 02 May 2017 The category of Scheduled Castes, created for the purpose of affirmative action in
India, is large, heterogeneous and unequal. In 2007, the state of Bihar classified the
most disadvantaged among thi...
by Hemanshu Kumar | On 16 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 In the context of social
sector and particularly for children, the Union Budgets have disappointed the marginalized
community and the Union Budget 2017-18 further pushed its children to the peripher...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 06 Feb 2017 Reveiw of ‘Population, Health and Environment’ Edited by Sayeed Unisa, T.V. Sekher, Chander Shekhar, Abhishek Singh, L.K.Dwivedi and M.R. Pradhan by Rawat Pubslishers.
by Manisha Karne | On 30 Jan 2017 Demonetisation is a weapon to stop the black money in the country. But cash is only a small portion of black money. Also the economy has been affected by this step. How will the government tackle this...
by Rakesh Mumbai | On 27 Jan 2017 In India the Community Health Worker has long been a part of health care services for rural populations across the voluntary sector. As far as India?s public health sector is concerned, Community Heal...
by Kavita Bhatia | On 27 Jan 2017 The early literature on migrant urban communities emphasized the conditions and employment patterns of squatter residents who have emerged on the urban landscape. Only recently has attention shifted t...
by | On 23 Jan 2017 It is anticipated that this health index will assist in State level monitoring of performance, serve as an
input for providing performance based incentives and improvement in health outcomes, thereby...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 Jan 2017 Secondary education is an important stage in the school education ladder as it equips students with skills important for higher education and the labour market. Besides helping students to choose diff...
by | On 10 Jan 2017 The government of the United Arab Emirates requires all foreign migrant workers to reside on temporary visas. This affects transnational mobility patterns among the one class of residents whom we shou...
by | On 09 Jan 2017 Data from two recent NSSO surveys are analysed to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education
and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher education out...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 03 Jan 2017 This discussion paper examines the current state of sanitation services in India in relation to two goals—Goal 7 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which calls on countries to halve, by 2015,...
by Asian Bank | On 27 Dec 2016 Low-waged Tamil migrant workers have long been contributing to Singapore. Despite labouring for three decades and being connected to the existing Tamil diasporic community there, they have been left o...
by | On 24 Nov 2016 Finances of states have been changing due to (i) increased devolution of central taxes, (ii) rationalisation of the Centrally Sponsored Schemes, (iii) the introduction of the UDAY scheme, and (iv) the...
by Arvind Gayam | On 09 Nov 2016 Review of
Almost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York
by Githa Hariharan; Restless Books (Originally published by Fourth Estate, 2014), New York; 2016, 304 pages, $16.99.
by Dhanwanti Nayak | On 07 Oct 2016 This paper uses a field experiment to study how workers value alternative work arrangements. During the application process to staff a national call center, researchers randomly offered applicants cho...
by Alexandre Mas | On 05 Oct 2016 The most popular imagery that the 16th Lok Sabha election campaign projected was of good governance
and development. What does this mean for communities that lie on the margins of
body politics? Are...
by Shilp Shikha Singh | On 05 Oct 2016 The concern of this paper is limited to the approaches to rural women's development and an
understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. [CWDS Working paper].
by Kumud Sharma | On 30 Sep 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 tests the hypothesis that the expansion of improved drinking water supplies in rural India reduced household expenditure on water quality, offsetting some of the quality benefits from sourc...
by | On 16 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 A bill to create a world class medical education system that ensures high quality medical education system.
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 08 Sep 2016 Comprehensive program evaluation requires capturing indirect effects of an intervention,
such as changes in leaders’ efforts and constituents’ attitudes towards leaders. We
study political economy r...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 Almost half of all households have at least one migrant abroad or a returnee. Estimates of the number of Nepali migrants abroad vary widely, but the most frequently cited estimate, including seasonal...
by World Bank [WB] | On 25 Aug 2016 A Bill to further amend the Maternity Benefit Act, 2016. The 44th session of Indian Labour Conference, has recommended for enhancing maternity leave under Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 from existing twe...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment GoI | On 12 Aug 2016 India being home to the largest number of poor and malnourished
population in the world, the tabling of National Food Security Bill has
renewed the public pressure for universalization of PDS in Ind...
by Sowmya Dhanraj | On 03 Aug 2016 This Evidence Report seeks to understand the health and other impacts of slum women’s access to sanitation through the Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach. It also examines the process thro...
by | On 15 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 Indian government launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance scheme, in 2008 that provides cashless health services to poor households in India. The scheme is eval...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 11 Jul 2016 Corporate governance characteristics like board composition and leadership impact a firm’s performance. Researchers have attempted to explain the relationship using different theoretical perspectives...
by Chitra Singla | On 05 Jul 2016 The study sought to gauge the extent of decentralisation and devolution of power to community-based bodies in relation to schools, and see if there is any disconnect between what is envisaged and what...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 01 Jul 2016 The objective of the study is to assess the effectiveness of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Health Care System in the State of Kerala with a special reference to impact of duality and role of bureaucr...
by Jacob John | On 29 Jun 2016 International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in their incomes, and offers a large number of other positive benefits to the sendin...
by | On 28 Jun 2016 This paper studies how the directors play an important role in influencing board’s action and its effectiveness. This paper attempts to contribute to the existing literature. In this paper, propositio...
by Chitra Singla | On 27 Jun 2016 In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social...
by Michal Bauer | On 24 Jun 2016 This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the entire wage distribution using the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition approach. R...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 22 Jun 2016 Review of Inside-Outside: Two Views of Social Change in Rural India. Edited by B. S. Baviskar and D. W. Attwood, Sage Publications, New Delh, 2014.
by | On 20 Jun 2016 The paper analyses income mobility across different social groups in India using data from the
Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) collected in 2004–05 and 2011–12. Indices
signifying different n...
by Thiagu Ranganathan | On 16 Jun 2016 With the traditional system of the lady of the house looking after the older family members at home is slowly getting changed as the women at home are also participating in activities outside home and...
by | On 15 Jun 2016 In India, a majority of rural households meet their energy requirements from traditional fuel sources, such as fuel wood, agricultural residues and kerosene. Statistics shows that 21 percent of villag...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 If human development is defined as a comprehensive economic, social, cultural and political process aiming to improve the well-being of populations and individuals, then the one element that can serve...
by Gianna Alessandra Sanchez Moretti | On 06 Jun 2016 While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analy...
by | On 03 Jun 2016 This paper focuses on the scenario of antenatal care (ANC) check-ups and institutional
deliveries of beneficiaries across five districts of Delhi. The study analyses the socioeconomic
parameters and...
by Suresh Sharma | On 03 Jun 2016 The international humanitarian system—the vast UN-led network in which Oxfam and other international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, and others play key rol...
by Oxfam India | On 02 Jun 2016 This study, based on analysis of secondary data, assesses the current state of electricity access in PHCs and rural primary schools. Given the increasing policy support for solar energy in India, it a...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 In modern society, the possession of a personal official identification (ID) is critical to an individual’s access to government services, and social and economic programs. From voting to receipt of s...
by Michael Stahl | On 26 May 2016 The coastal freeway is a 34-km road planned along the entire Western Coastline of Mumbai. This presentation attempts to understand Social and Environmental Impacts of the proposed road on the city of...
by | On 20 May 2016 The NBAP draws from the principle that National Enviroment Policy (NEP) that human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development and they are entitled to a healthy and productive li...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 18 May 2016 "Modern energy access” is finally on the international agenda, but the current common definition of 100 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per capita per year is far too low.
To reflect likely demand and historica...
by Todd Moss | On 18 May 2016 This paper demonstrates the effect of an innovative community-based management programme on acute malnutrition among children under three years of age, through an observational longitudinal cohort stu...
by Vandana Prasad | On 11 May 2016 As a background paper to the International Expert Working Group on a New Development Paradigm, this document seeks to synthesise for busy readers how the IEWG might explain and defend well-being and h...
by | On 11 May 2016 The paper examines the impact of the initiative taken by an NGO -SelfEmployed
Women’s Association (SEWA)-in Ahmedabad, a city in western
India to impart knowledge about sexual and reproductive healt...
by Leela Visaria | On 05 May 2016 Climate change combat is often in the hands of policy-makers, researchers and
governments. However it is the marginalised and indigenous communities that feel
the full force of climate change effect...
by Serina Rahman | On 03 May 2016 Global competitiveness has redefined business strategies worldwide and the focus has certainly shifted to examining how our knowledge resources can reposition our stand in the world market. It means t...
by Sachin Mangal | On 28 Apr 2016 India's Design Act, 2000 was enacted to consolidate and amend the law relating to protection of design and to comply with the articles 25 and 26 of TRIPS agreement. The new act, (earlier Patent and De...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 26 Apr 2016 A technology switch in television affects different income groups differently. In India the digitization of TV signals is putting an end to the free-to-air telecast regime. This study, the first of it...
by Aloke Thakore | On 07 Apr 2016 The report gives a detailed account of the education system in India.
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 05 Apr 2016 Budget Speech of 2016 by Finance Minister of Singapore.
by Heng Swee Keat | On 28 Mar 2016 There is no single method in impact evaluation that can always address the different aspects better than others. Importance of mixed design approach in impact evaluation studies arises with the need f...
by Navneet Kaur | On 21 Mar 2016 In some poor parts of the world, rural areas are known as pastoral folk; for their heavily dependence on agricultural activities; and for having poor infrastructure, limited employment opportunities a...
by Subrata Dutta | 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 empirically examines human capital’s contribution to economy-wide technological progress and also on technical efficiency gain depending on its distance to frontier in a panel of 75 countri...
by Sujata Basu | On 15 Mar 2016 The focus of this study is to analyze the relation between intergenerational mobility (upward and downward mobility) and wage inequality (between skilled and unskilled workers) in a dynamic endogenous...
by Sujata Basu | On 15 Mar 2016 The paper examines human capital’s contribution to economy-wide technological progress through two channels – imitation
and innovation – innovation being more skilled-intensive than innovation. It d...
by Sujata Basu | On 15 Mar 2016 The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is poised to continue developing at a significant pace. The subregion is well placed to benefit from the emerging Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Com...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 This case study covers two related projects funded by the Asian Development Bank: the North East Coastal Community Development Project (NECCDP), which aimed to improve sustainable livelihood and natur...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 With rumors of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on the verge of restarting, a closer examination of the Israeli political situation and the intentions and calculations of teh current government shows...
by | 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 For more than a decade fears have been voiced by the international community at the prospect of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists or other non-state actors. The author ar...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 The study examines households’ willingness to pay for the
conservation of Pallinkaranai marsh located in the south of
Chennai, Tamil Nadu. A stated preference method, namely,
Contingent Valuation m...
by Suganya Balakumar | 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 North Korea’s recent nuclear test and satellite launch throw into sharp relief the dilemma of how the international community should respond to Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions. While immediate reaction...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 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 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 This study intends to analyze the impact of fiscal policy relating to subsidies (production and consumption subsidies), government current expenditure and expenditure on health and education on income...
by Zafar Iqbal | On 10 Mar 2016 The study deals with pension system reforms for the Pakistan economy and highlights the current situation and future prospects. The study presents an overview of the problems prevailing in current pay...
by Umaima Arif | On 10 Mar 2016 The aim of this research is to assess the willingness to purchase health insurance in Pakistan and assist the policy makers in formulating a national health insurance programme that meets the needs of...
by Ajmal Jahangeer | 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 What do we value? For markets to operate and for economies to grow, producers must attract purchasers to the products they offer. In advanced capitalist economies, market saturation and decline of dem...
by Jens Beckert | On 09 Mar 2016 The paper tries to analyse the effect of religious composition on the provision of public services captured mainly by infrastructure index, of four types, (i) basic amenities such as water, housing an...
by Santanu Gupta | On 09 Mar 2016 The growth story of Gujarat’s agriculture has received significant recognition (with around 10 percent growth rate in recent years) and is often being hailed as a role model for other states to follow...
by Itishree Patnaik | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper looks into the role of community based natural resource management focussing on the Joint Forest Management (JFM) in India. The analysis presented is the result of triangulation of critical...
by Madhusudan Bandi | On 09 Mar 2016 The recent cyber attacks on South Korea and the United States, as well as those on Georgia in 2008 and Estonia in 2007 have awakened a certain consciousness in the minds of the international community...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 What started off as a peaceful protest has descended into a full-scale armed insurrection, pitching opposition forces in the east against loyalist forces (estimated at 8,000 and 40,000 respectively)....
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 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 In recent weeks, Indonesia experienced a series of demonstrations over land rights in various parts of the country. While land rights controversies are not uncommon in Indonesia, the new wave of dis...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 02 Mar 2016 Volunteerism in Bhutan is deeply grounded in its traditional belief systems and community practices in which much emphasis is placed on the principles of national self-reliance, community participatio...
by | On 02 Mar 2016 The Union Budget has failed to deliver on the needs of the marginalised section of population. The spending has been much lower than what was budgeted.
by Paul Divakar | On 01 Mar 2016 Using data from the National Family and Health Survey 3, India, this paper measures and validates the extent of multidimensional poverty and examines the linkages of poverty level with child health in...
by Sanjay K. Mohanty | On 01 Mar 2016 In the main, this study uses the large sample National Sample Surveys (NSS) for the years 1983, 1993/94, 1999/2000, and 2004/5. There are two surveys that the NSS conducts in each of the large sample...
by Surjit S. Bhalla | On 01 Mar 2016 We present a framework for the analysis of tax and benefit policy in countries with significant informality. Our framework allows us to jointly analyse the e!ects of various taxes and benefits on ince...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper provides a comprehensive description of the financial environment for households and small businesses in a defined geographical region. It develops a new, functional approach to financial a...
by Greg Fischer | On 29 Feb 2016 Empirical evidence suggests that the emergence of international production networks in East Asia results from market-driven forces such as vertical specialization and higher production costs in the ho...
by Kornkarun Cheewatrakoolpong | On 29 Feb 2016 Low birth weight is a major public health problem in India. About 30% of all infants born in hospitals are reported to weigh less than 2.5 kg at birth. Studies carried out by ICMR in the late seventie...
by Sarath Gopalan | On 29 Feb 2016 A recent cover of the Economist magazine asked: ‘Has the Arab Spring failed?’ More questions along this line will certainly come as the international community follows closely the political developm...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 27 Feb 2016 This year is the 20th anniversary of the release of the 1994 United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Report, which defined the concept of human security and brought it to int...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 2015 is a critical year for global and regional institutions, and for the international community as a whole, as it represents a milestone in the big push for achieving global goals of peace, human se...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 The rising level of urbanisation in India draws attention to inadequate infrastructure levels in urban areas. While many factors play a role in infrastructure development, this paper examines the fina...
by Charan Singh | On 27 Feb 2016 Diasporic communities that advance their ancestral homelands through forging links with it can be best examined in the context of the history of migration of these communities and the culture of devel...
by Sudeep Basu | On 26 Feb 2016 The Human Development Index (HDI) is calculated using normalized indicators from three dimensions- health, education, and standard of living (or income). This paper evaluates three aggregation methods...
by Srijit Mishra | On 26 Feb 2016 In the Union Budget 2015-16, there was a reduction in the allocation for school education on account of more untied funds being given to States following the 14th Finance Commission recommendation. Ho...
by Provita Kundu | On 26 Feb 2016 This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the
international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fears
that the global recovery may be faltering, while ris...
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Dialogue Centre for Policy | On 25 Feb 2016 Emerging security challenges in Asia are compelling the international community to take a hard look at their causes and implications on state and human security. Given the growing complexity of these...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 25 Feb 2016 The international community is now faced with an influenza pandemic and the rhetoric of global health security has become more urgent. Whilst our preparedness for such an emerging infectious disease i...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 Efforts to improve the business climate in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province are still facing significant obstacles. Moreover, a healthy business climate is needed to create conditions conducive to ha...
by Widjajanti Suharyo | On 24 Feb 2016 In this report 10 sites from seven landscapes are assessed located in the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, for their potential to harbour viable reintroduc...
by Wildlife Institute of India | On 24 Feb 2016 The key question therefore is what India, as a member of the global community which is to collectively address the global challenge of climate change, can be expected to do?and what it has been alread...
by World Bank | On 24 Feb 2016 The Pakistani government and the international community’s response to the recent floods has been heavily criticised for being woefully inadequate. While a national disaster management framework is in...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The trend of rising food prices has made this basic human need inaccessible to an increasing number of people. The impact on vulnerable groups, especially the poor, is immense. Food price rise has imp...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but...
by Kym Anderson | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper discusses the financial landscape of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a region engaged in building an economic community (a “single market and production base”) by 2015....
by Choong Lee | On 21 Feb 2016 The South Asia region is home to the largest pool of individuals living under the poverty line, coupled with a fast-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on wel...
by Dan Biller | On 21 Feb 2016 There have been many initiatives to improve education outcomes in South Asia. Still, outcomes remain stubbornly resistant to improvements, at least when considered across the region. To collect and sy...
by Salman Asim | On 21 Feb 2016 As the crisis in Syria edges towards civil war, the international community is locked in a stalemate over whether and how to intervene to stop the carnage. There is an urgent need for a middle ground...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 Euthanasia has always been in limelight as a subject matter of debate in the field of medicine and law. The euthanasia debate, being a value debate, seems to have no concrete solution, at least in the...
by Sandeepa Bhat B | On 20 Feb 2016 The policymaking in modern states is highly complex and requires a high degree of expertise and knowledge, which was not the case even 10, let alone 25 years ago. Partly in view of limited capacity in...
by Nurul Islam | On 20 Feb 2016 Despite a tobacco control bill, the holding of a tobacco exposition in Jakarta this week 19-21 September thwarts the Indonesian government’s smoke-free initiatives. The expo has the effect of making t...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 In his lecture on “Post-industrial dynamics and urban housing”, Hugo Priemus advocates a mixed urban housing strategy to provide high-quality urban housing for knowledge workers and affordable housing...
by Hugo Priemus | On 19 Feb 2016 This paper provides structural estimates of heterogeneous returns to work experience for Japanese married women. A dynamic model of labor force participation is used to account for dynamic selfselecti...
by Ken Yamada | On 19 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 China’s first attempt to establish a multilateral financial institution was met with some suspicion and caution in the west. According to one interpretation, China is frustrated with the United States...
by Mike Callaghan | On 19 Feb 2016 The ASEAN-Canada Research Partnership was launched in 2012 by the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological U...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 17 Feb 2016 Despite clear aspirations by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to create an effective framework to facilitate movements among skilled professionals within the ASEAN Economic Community...
by Demetrios G. Papademetriou | On 16 Feb 2016 Recent diplomatic engagements between North Korea and Russia have raised the prospect of resuming denuclearisation talks between Pyongyang and the international community. What is the prospect of Nort...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper studies how East Asia’s trade composition and orientation have changed over the past decade and analyzes the implications for the region and beyond. Over the last 2 decades we have witnesse...
by Matthias Helble | On 16 Feb 2016 The Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project in Bangladesh became the first initiative to successfully incorporate beneficiary participation into all aspects of managi...
by Asian Bank | On 15 Feb 2016 The continued withdrawal of ISAF forces and the handover of responsibilities to Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) along with a strong Taliban military push dominated the security realm. The ANSF...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 This study explores closed cases filed under section 498A of the IPC, which pertains to cruelty to a married woman by her marital family. It draws from two datasets of both primary and secondary data,...
by Anjali Dave | On 14 Feb 2016 Using original data from a newly collected nationally representative survey for 40,000 households in India, we examine associations of various dimensions of social capital with each other and with con...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 13 Feb 2016 Using original data from a newly collected nationwide survey for 40,000 households in India, we examine variation in social capital in India across caste, tribe, and religion. Our primary measure uses...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 13 Feb 2016 This paper seeks to explain disparities in delivery care across districts by focusing on three factors: marriage and kinship patterns; district wealth; governance and quality services. It examines the...
by Sonalde Desai | On 12 Feb 2016 This paper highlights the perception of each and everyone involved in the course of cross-border migration from Myanmar in each step they, internationally or unintentionally, maintain the status of il...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 Our data shows that most women go to the private sector for most of their reproductive health needs. After our early interventions, eligible/BPL women began availing of the benefits of the Chiranjeevi...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 In this quantitative study, 367 patients who had been hospitalised in the six months prior to the study were identified through Mitanins (Community Health Workers - CHWs) and interviewed using a struc...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 Can we create awareness among the urban poor and create documents for them? What are the steps to be followed for that?
by K.R. Antony | On 09 Feb 2016 China’s rising military power and its implications is of significant concern that has been widely discussed in the international community and among political elites across the globe. This paper explo...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 Although there is an extremely robust positive correlation between various measures of trade and financial development on the one hand, and economic growth, on the other, the evidence concerning the d...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in Chi...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 07 Feb 2016 Each ASEAN member state has taken some steps to addressing corruption at the national level, such as ratifying the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), but much more is urgently neede...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Contrary to the assumption that the leaks of the diplomatic cables represented a heavy and unexpected pressure on American diplomacy - through their exposition of a mode of operation based on hypocris...
by Hichem Al-Karoui | On 03 Feb 2016 In September this year, world leaders will meet in New York at the United Nations General Assembly. Top of the agenda will be the passage of a resolution laying out global development goals for the fi...
by Charles Kenny | On 03 Feb 2016 By 2020, road accidents are expected to be the third highest cause of death and disability globally. Transport safety concerns in poor countries have focused mainly on roads and motorised traffic, but...
by International Forum for Rural Transport and Develo IFRTD | On 01 Feb 2016 In response to the dearth of academic studies written on the Syrian opposition, this study reviews the various Syrian military organizations that are currently active against the Syrian regime, and di...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 A temperature increase of 2 degree celsius above pre-industrial levels is the maximum target range established by the scientific community for stabilizing carbon concentrations at a level that prevent...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 In Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, the earthquake of 7.0 on the Richter scale in early January 2010 had devastating effects. The Government estimates that more than 200,000 people (o...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The issue of climate change currently holds the attention of the international community. Worsening emissions predictions and a perception that impacts are occurring more rapidly than anticipated have...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 There is a renewed consensus on the need to re-regulate international capital movements. But there is a collective action problem, which puts developing countries at a particular disadvantage. Countri...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Arguably, ensuring food and nutrition security for all people in the coming decades is the major challenge for the global community. Food demand is increasing in aggregate and per capita values, in pa...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 This paper presents a proposed use of virtual community for farmers in Sri Lanka by reviewing Information and communication technology perspective with reference to past and present political strategi...
by Devaka Punchihewa | On 31 Jan 2016 The study was carried out in the Mbarali District of Tanzania. A qualitative study design was used. In-depth interviews and focus group discussion were conducted among members of the district health t...
by Health & Education Advice & Research Team HEART | On 30 Jan 2016 Role of cesarean section (C Section) is acknowledged worldwide to safe maternal and neonatal life, and especially in countries like Pakistan where maternal health care is not satisfactory. But there i...
by Saman Nazir | On 30 Jan 2016 The ‘De-notified Tribes’ are those communities which were notified under the several versions of the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enforced during colonial rule in India between 1871 to 1947. After a sev...
by Praveenkumar Katarki | On 30 Jan 2016 It was expected that education would address these problems to a large extent. However, inspite of enhanced investment on expenditure, leading to increased enrolment, these issues remain largely unatt...
by (Field Action Project on Homelessness and Destitut Koshish | On 30 Jan 2016 Homelessness can often lead to a vicious circle of suffering which gets exaggerated with the question of their identity / or rather the lack of it. This further makes them vulnerable to abuses of many...
by (Field Action Project on Homelessness and Destitut Koshish | On 30 Jan 2016 Homelessness can often lead to a vicious circle of suffering which gets exaggerated with the question of their identity / or rather the lack of it. This further makes them vulnerable to abuses of many...
by (Field Action Project on Homelessness and Destitut Koshish | 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 The study tries to examine the implementation process of the Forest
Rights Act 2006 in Kerala, in terms of providing individual holding land rights and
community rights over forest products. The stu...
by Jyothis Sathyapalan | On 29 Jan 2016 At the domestic level, if managed properly, the revenues from extractive industries can have a substantial impact on income and prosperity while respecting community needs and the environment. To achi...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper analyse the situation of the women working in subcontracting
arrangements in the industry. In the analysis of value chains we found that women workers in all segments were not the direct...
by Jeemol Unni | On 28 Jan 2016 Based on the evidence generated from a community-based maternity surveillance system, the note examines the prevalence of home births as well as the factors influencing the choice of home delivery, ca...
by Neena Shah More | On 28 Jan 2016 One of the critical dimensions of rural water supply has been participation by the local community in managing the source and finances. Drawing upon case studies of 20 villages (spread across 17 distr...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 Impaired infant growth, a major problem in South Asia, may require interventions to improve maternal mental health in addition to current interventions targeting infant nutrition. Unicef estimates tha...
by Marcus Hughes | On 28 Jan 2016 This document incorporates outputs of two discussions conducted on State of the Sector Report 2012. The summaries of the two discussions on SOS 2012 also find place in the State of the Sector Report...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 27 Jan 2016 The proposed SDGs constitute a comprehensive, universal and interactive agenda of structural transformations as the pathway to sustainable development, leaving no-one behind while creating green econo...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 Thailand, Brazil and Vietnam are examples of developing countries that have successfully reduced undernutrition. While each country used its own set of policies, strategies and approaches to address u...
by Sheila Vir | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper examines the agroforestry initiative adopted by the Government of Gujarat with the aim to enhance the incomes of tribal households facing numerous production constraints. The specific objec...
by Jharna Pathak | On 26 Jan 2016 A large number of rural households in the state of Odisha, India are dependent on agriculture for their basic livelihoods, which is affected by the frequent occurrence of climate externalities like cy...
by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati | On 25 Jan 2016 The understanding of livelihoods in an economy dominated by informality can benefit considerably from correlations between macro data on employment and detailed studies of ‘work’ and ‘non work’ in sel...
by Devesh Vijay | On 24 Jan 2016 This policy note reviews the trend in debt composition and sources of debt financing and analyzes debt sustainability of Bangladesh. Along with historical data on level of debt and sources of financin...
by Md. Ezazul Islam | On 23 Jan 2016 This paper contends that the complex and chequered Sino-Indian relationship entered a new phase following India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in his hometown...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 In Nepal the inability of the state to cope with the recent devastating earthquake was mitigated by help from India, China, and the United States. This points towards the urgency of enhancing the disa...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 This paper looks at the latest targeted killings in Pakistan that have not only exacerbated its sectarian tensions but also exposed the failings of the civil administration in a country where the Army...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 The Patel agitation of Gujarat should not be seen merely as a one-issue movement. More than merely an attempt by youthful members of the Patel community who feel they have been denied their just share...
by | On 23 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 Hannah Reid | On 23 Jan 2016 Using the data available through the Sample Registration System, the present paper employs a decomposition methodology to analyse the transition in fertility in India and in 15 of major states for the...
by Alok Chaurasia | On 23 Jan 2016 The profile covers all aspects of Post-harvest management i.e. collection. curing, pretreatment, grading, packaging, pre-cooling, low temperature storage. pallet loading, transportation, market practi...
by Department of Agriculture & Cooperation GOI | On 22 Jan 2016 Malnutrition in India is a public health emergency with serious health, academic and economic consequences. Malnutrition, though imperceptible, is in fact an underlying cause in about a third of preve...
by Sheila Vir | On 22 Jan 2016 Over the years, India has designed and implemented a number of targeted interventions for the poor including putting in place specific reservations for the disadvantaged to ensure equitable access to...
by Global IPE | On 22 Jan 2016 This is the second collective effort from the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies to address global issues that are largely unfamiliar to the Greek international affairs community. Last year we dealt wit...
by Stamatis Zachariadis | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper evaluates the impact and potential of development programmes known as Small Development Projects (SDPs), introduced by India as part of its development cooperation portfolio in Nepal. Throu...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 21 Jan 2016 The evidence on the link between agriculture and nutrition has so far been tenuous. On the one hand, undernutrition rates are severe and more widespread among those involved in agriculture. This evide...
by R V Bhavani | On 19 Jan 2016 This study attempts to break down ‘climate change’ into ‘climate related shocks and stresses in the course of time’ and conceptualizes the food security and nutrition outcomes as combination of the ad...
by Chris Béné | 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 The Indian Diaspora has a powerful influence on the global community where Indians constitute a diverse and a heterogeneous group that shares Indian origin and intrinsic values. Earlier migration was...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 In recent decades, research and development has become a key new arena of globalization. Whereas multinational corporations once conducted R&D primarily in their home countries, it is now often disper...
by Andrew Kennedy | On 18 Jan 2016 There have been very serious linkages between destitution and beggary; both with helpless people getting into beggary as well as state punishing working poor on charges of beggary under legislations l...
by Tata Institue of Social Sciences TISS | On 18 Jan 2016 There are five areas where the categories of ‘communal’ and ‘ethnic’ fall short: in their historical precision, in their scale, in their partial conceptualization of agency, in their ability to engage...
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 learning brief synthesises lessons drawn from CARE’s Adaptation Learning Programme for Africa (ALP), which has been supporting vulnerable communities in sub-Saharan Africa to adapt to the impacts...
by Webb J. | On 13 Jan 2016 The following is a report based on PUDR’s repeated visits to
Atali and its interactions with Muslim and Jat families over the last four
months.
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 13 Jan 2016 The paper looks at the flow of ideas from the South Asian Diaspora groups to their original homelands. This is occurring in the areas of economic management and political change. As a result of the in...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 09 Jan 2016 The study of geography of poverty and peoples’ changing livelihood and their relation with globalization are some of the major areas of geographic research in the present context (Subedi, 2005). So, P...
by Basant Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 Land is regarded as an important source of livelihoods to many people, especially rural people. For those people, access to and control over land resources is the source of livelihoods. Therefore, lan...
by Samana Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 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 investigates and analyzes the present status, potential, and prospects of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). The move towards the ASEAN Economic Co...
by Suthiphand Chirathivat | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper explores the long-term challenges for trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The region has emerged as an important production base...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 06 Jan 2016 Switzerland changed its migration policy in the 1990s from a “non-qualified only” policy to one of almost free movement of labor. To analyze the impact of this policy change on the schooling outcomes...
by Maria Cattaneo | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper explores Gross National Happiness (GNH) as a framework for socio-economic development in Bhutan by elucidating GNH principles that affect the way Bhutanese society and state interact.The pa...
by Karma Ura | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper reviews the development of the social security system and trends in the urban labor market in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC face...
by Wang Dewen | On 29 Dec 2015 The paper examines ASEAN’s political and security challenges and prospects in the coming two decades. The challenges facing ASEAN could be classified into six broad categories: (1) the shifting balanc...
by Amitav Acharya | On 29 Dec 2015 The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was set up in 2003 with the objectives of creating a single market and production base, enhancing equitable economic development as well as facilitating the integrat...
by Siowyue Chia | On 29 Dec 2015 “Abenomics” refers to the economic policies advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who became prime minister of Japan for a second time when his party, the Liberal Democratic Party, won an overwhelmin...
by Farhad Hesary | On 29 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 Twenty-five years ago Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen used the concept of ‘missing women’ to highlight the gender bias in mortality that results in a huge deficit of women in substantial parts of Asia and...
by Riaz Hassan | On 23 Dec 2015 Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the biggest food producers, they earn only one-tenth of the world’s income and own less than 1% of the world...
by | On 23 Dec 2015 The quick pace of India’s economic growth over the past few decades has failed to translate into the well being of many of its people, especially women and children. India ranks 55th out of 76 countri...
by Dipa Sinha | On 23 Dec 2015 This paper intends to ascertain whether a uniform national law would be beneficial to the interests of the three main parties involved with refugee policy in India, namely the Government of India, the...
by Arjun Nair | On 22 Dec 2015 Indian society has remained deeply entrenched by the patriarchal norms and values. Needs of women emerge and progress through the life cycle; from childhood to adolescent to womanhood. Women's health...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 This brief describes key findings from a rigorous seven-year evaluation of the first of these livelihood programmes, BRAC’s ‘Targeting the Ultra-Poor’ programme in rural Bangladesh. Targeted household...
by Clare Balboni | On 18 Dec 2015 What motivates rural households to switch from older cooking methods to newer, more improved, ones? Improved cooking stoves (ICS) technology has demonstrated capacity to reduce health hazards from smo...
by Dipika Gawande | 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 Savings provides the means for investments. Typically, investments are primarily funded through domestic savings and the rest through foreign capital inflows. Domestic savings are from three sources -...
by Vardhana Pawaskar | On 17 Dec 2015 This paper looks at possible alternatives to UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions with a view to establishing if there are organizations or other interested parties, which may be more effective...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 This research paper is divided into two parts to provide a more complete view of how both countries think in term of their ambitions and the methods they deem important to achieve them. This paper arg...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 This paper makes an attempt to map the Maoist conflict in its present state of affairs and while describing its present manifestations, the past links have always been revisited. The paper also attemp...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 Sri Lanka, home to a plethora of ethnically diverse communities, saw horrific
communal bloodshed in July 1983. Over three decades down the line, history seems to be repeating itself as hordes of Budd...
by Chaarvi Modi | On 17 Dec 2015 The Paris Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is expected to be an important milestone in global efforts to combat climate change. Such effort...
by | On 16 Dec 2015 The study finds that micro hydro (MH) has significant impact on reduction in fuel wood consumption. Communities are more inclined to harvest fuel wood from government forest. These led to the promotio...
by Bishwa Koirala | On 15 Dec 2015 This paper examines poor households in the city of Mumbai and their exposure, vulnerability, and ability to respond to recurrent floods. The paper discusses policy implications for future adaptive cap...
by | On 14 Dec 2015 This paper aims to measure the changes in the type and depth of knowledge and understanding on sexual and reproductive health and gender issues, and how they obtained that knowledge. Secondly, changes...
by Md. Abdul Alim | On 11 Dec 2015 The central government periodically constitutes a Pay Commission, to evaluate and recommend revisions of salaries and
pensions, for its employees. Recently, the Seventh Central Pay Commission has mad...
by Vatsal Khullar | On 10 Dec 2015 The World Economic Forum along with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) convened the National Strategy Day on India on 3rd and 4th of November to provide a platform to boost economic growth and...
by | On 09 Dec 2015 An important element of the socio-economic impact of HIV is
how it disproportionately affects women and girls, in terms of
their vulnerability to infection, constrained access to services
and the a...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Dec 2015 Review of The Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India. Harper Collins India, 2015; pp. 552, Rs 527/-
by Sandeep Dubey | On 20 Nov 2015 Communicable diseases constitute a significant portion of the overall disease
burden in India. Improving access to sanitation in India will, similarly, reduce the communicable disease burden and chil...
by Sekhar Bonu | On 18 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 This paper provides an assessment of the interventions in reforming the
drinking water and sanitation sector in Gujarat as through the Water and
Sanitation Management Organisation (WASMO) from a sup...
by Keshab Das | On 06 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 Targeted Public Distribution System was introduced in the country following the failure of the
Universal PDS to serve below the poverty line and poorest of the poor households.It is being
implemente...
by T Jayan | On 04 Nov 2015 An RTI filed by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights with Jail No.7 in Tihar, brought to light the
shocking violations of Child Rights and Juvenile Justice in the Tihar Jail. It was found that
within a peri...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 03 Nov 2015 The study aimed to assess the ‘incentive package’ implemented in
the study area through the frontline health workers of BRAC. A qualitative research design used in-depth interviews, Informal discussi...
by | On 29 Oct 2015 This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and incre...
by Samik Chowdhury | On 20 Oct 2015 the influence of the industry financial composition on the export flow between
Pakistan and its trading partners is determined. The importing countries are split according to their OECD membership st...
by Aadil Nakhoda | On 16 Oct 2015 More than 850 million people in developing countries are excluded from a wide range of information and knowledge, with the rural poor in
particular remaining isolated from both traditional media and...
by | On 14 Oct 2015 A wide range of interventions, from subsidized grains all the way to conditions on nutrition in conditional cash transfers, have either been tried or put in place in different countries in order to fi...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 12 Oct 2015 This document presents a summary of the initial findings from a research
programme on inclusive growth in Bihar, carried out by the Institute
for Human Development, New Delhi. The study aims to unde...
by | On 12 Oct 2015 Improving maternal health has been a great challenge in developing countries like India. This study comprehends women’s perceptions of quality and satisfaction with maternal health care services. It w...
by Aditya Raj | On 12 Oct 2015 The present study aims to assess determinants of adaptation diversity (i.e., a number of
adaptation mechanisms undertaken by the farm households). For empirical
assessment, a farm household-level s...
by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati | On 09 Oct 2015 The practice of sharing sanitation facilities does not meet the current World Health Organization/UNICEF definition for what is considered improved sanitation. Recommendations have been made to catego...
by | On 30 Sep 2015 Tobacco control needs in India are large and complex. Evaluation of outcomes to date has been limited. The aim of this paper is to review the extent of tobacco control measures, and the outcomes of as...
by | On 30 Sep 2015 This paper tries to identify food insecure population of the country, analyse the availability, storage, procurement of food grain , assess the effectiveness of PDS, identify the discrepancies in the...
by Ishita Aditya Ray | On 28 Sep 2015 Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, The paper aims to estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 24 Sep 2015 This paper explores the spatiality and temporality of women’s decisions to navigate particular forms of paid work, through means of a comparative analysis of three different sites and forms of work—at...
by Sonal Sharma | On 21 Sep 2015 Bhutan is one of the youngest democratic countries in the world. The constitution of Bhutan was formally signed on July 18, 2008 by the fifth King of Bhutan, elected members of Parliament, and the Chi...
by | On 21 Sep 2015 This paper reviews the literature on the performance of commonly found social safety net programs in developing countries. The evidence suggests that universal food subsidies have very limited potenti...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 This paper analyses the legal framework and policy innovations undertaken towards achieving the stated objectives of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. This paper seeks to cri...
by | On 15 Sep 2015 Child marriage can be prevented and children protected by activating the mandated government structures. A two-pronged approach – working with
specific community groups, as well as with representativ...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 14 Sep 2015 This paper encompasses two major themes - local governance and citizens' participation in five neighbouring countries in South Asia, their trials, achievements and failures. Whether their experiences...
by | On 14 Sep 2015 More than half of Rural Maharashtra defecates in the open. The main issue to understand is the nexus between the access to water and adoption of sanitation practices. It is also interesting to underst...
by Parliamentarian's Group for Children PGC | On 09 Sep 2015 This paper uses the microdata of the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Survey to assess the contribution of occupational concentration to wage inequality between establishments and its growth o...
by | On 09 Sep 2015 This brief provides an overview of civil society in Sri Lanka. With a view to strengthening ADB cooperation with civil society organizations, the NGO and Civil Society Center periodically prepares rep...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Sep 2015 A juvenile or a child is any person below the age of 18 years. Over the last 10 years, crimes committed by
children, as a percentage of all crimes committed in the country, have risen from 1.0% to 1....
by Apoorva Shankar | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper examines the role of national and sub-national institutions in managing carbon sequestration and trade in Nepal. It first asks whether it is feasible and advantageous to implement REDD+ in...
by Bishnu Prasad Sharma | On 20 Aug 2015 In this paper the results are documented which derived from the Perception and Attitudes towards Ageing and seniors (PATAS) survey completed in early 2014. These results delve into respondents beliefs...
by Mathew Mathews | On 11 Aug 2015 This paper reflects upon a simple micro-economic model of a small peasant household economy has been formulated to derive the conditions for optimum labour time allocation among different gainful acti...
by Arup Maharatna | On 10 Aug 2015 This document describes the activities and achievements of an effective approach used in Nepal to involve community leaders and local health workers, volunteers, and organizations in tracking children...
by Hari Krishna Shah | On 06 Aug 2015 This paper examines, in particular, the effects on educational mobility of a well-known maternal and child health and family planning program in Matlab Bangladesh. Results suggest that the program res...
by Andrew Foster | On 29 Jul 2015 Analysis of the long term effects of social and public health programs using household survey data requires an understanding of patterns of household recombination–that is the processes by which house...
by Andrew Foster | On 16 Jul 2015 This working paper examines the migration drivers into the two low-paid and insecure occupations of domestic work and construction work from rural areas in Indonesia. While the ideas of migration exis...
by Khoo Choon Yen | On 06 Jul 2015 This report is the first of its kind to measure health service coverage and financial protection to assess countries’ progress towards universal health coverage.
It shows that at least 400 million...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 25 Jun 2015 There are an estimated 750 million internal migrants in the world, yet the effects of access to internal migration for rural households are not well understood. Internal migrants may provide wealth tr...
by Cynthia Kinnan | On 25 Jun 2015 The data generated by the Budgeting Information System has been used to prepare this report which put forward the following major findings- Up to April FY11, 80.2% of the Revenue target of the budget...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 International experiences show significant opportunities in using GIS technologies and participatory methods to map community natural resource uses. In India, this has as far as is known only been don...
by Patrik Oskarsson | On 01 Jun 2015 This year the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will formally establish the ASEAN Community, which is set to enhance regional community building among its member states. Ramses Amer makes...
by | On 13 May 2015 The January 2014 issue of YOJANA contains the following articles - Tribal and Marginalized Communities, Constitutional Provisions, Laws and Tribes, Actualising Adivasi Self-Rule, The Food Bill, Wild F...
by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting MIB | On 11 May 2015 Serious efforts at economic integration among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members started only in 1992. Initial obstacles included the widespread pursuit of import substitution...
by Siow Yue Chia | On 14 Apr 2015 According to the Asian Development Outlook 2015, India is forecast to overtake China in terms of economic growth as the initial phase of government efforts to remove structural bottlenecks is lifting...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Apr 2015 This policy brief highlights the Enactment of the landmark RTE legislation has triggered significant improvements, but evidence shows that quality has often been neglected.
by | On 25 Mar 2015 This paper proposes a simple game-theoretic framework for analyzing the relationship between the government, industry and indigenous community, especially in the context of mounting violence surroundi...
by Soumyanetra Munshi | On 23 Mar 2015 This paper evaluates the fiscal and welfare implications of fuel subsidy reform in India. Fuel subsidies are found to be badly targeted, with the richest ten percent of households receiving seven time...
by | On 11 Mar 2015 Research findings point to the need for focusing on gender equality in education and the need for a multi-level approach addressing barriers
at the individual, community, school and policy levels if...
by | On 11 Mar 2015 Nutritional deprivation is the highest among tribal children in india. However, fiscal policy strategy to improve nutritional status for this section of the population depends a lot on the implementat...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 20 Feb 2015 This special issue on mental health was put together for the Annual Meet of the Medico Friend Circle at Pune. Contents - Power to Label: the Social Construction of Madness by Prateeksha Sharma (1); T...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 18 Feb 2015 Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, whi...
by Yasuyuki Sawada | On 16 Feb 2015 The studies broad aim is to access the welfare impact of solar home systems (SHS) on households and to evaluate the present institutional structure and financing mechanisms. Also it accesses the direc...
by Shahidur R. Khandker | On 27 Jan 2015 This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to dif...
by Niels-Hugo Blunch | On 29 Dec 2014 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 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is approaching eight years of
implementation. Since 2006, it has offered up to 100 days per year of guaranteed public works
employm...
by Anil K. Bhargava | On 28 Nov 2014 When households increase their deposits in formal bank savings accounts, what is the source of the
money? High-frequency surveys are combined with an experiment in which a Sri Lankan bank used
mobil...
by Michael Callen | On 13 Nov 2014 The report is an outcome of a coordinated civil society effort led by CommonHealth, a national level coalition working on maternal-neonatal health and safe abortion. India has been reporting a steady...
by Renu Khanna | On 17 Oct 2014 In order to provide Quality Care in these CHCs Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS) are being prescribed to provide optimal expert care to the community and achieve and maintain an acceptable standar...
by Government of Odisha | On 09 Sep 2014 There is perhaps only one broad certainty in the contemporary debate on climate change: not only does climate change affect different nations and communities differently, but the responses of individu...
by Vivan Sharan | On 02 Sep 2014 It is shown that boundedly-rational individuals can, simply by
tracking sources of gossip, identify those who are most central in a network according to “diffusion centrality,” which nests other stan...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 20 Aug 2014 In the American animated television series, Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA), a visually Asian-influenced world of humans, animals and spirits plays out a history of violence, trauma and resistance....
by Gayatri Viswanath | On 24 Jul 2014 This paper focuses on autobiographies by Kaushalya Baisantri and Surajpal Chauhan to look into the ways in which Dalit life-narratives written by men and women vary in terms of emotions, nature of the...
by Shweta Singh | On 24 Jul 2014 The paper aims to capture the synthesis and popular reconstruction of one of independent India’s earliest instances of large-scale violence over the emotive issue of language, i.e. the January 1965 Ma...
by Sriram Mohan | On 24 Jul 2014 This Outlook on Education report for the EAC region was produced on behalf of the African Union - Department of Human Resources, Science and Technology - for the 2014 Conference of Ministers of Educat...
by East Community | On 09 Jul 2014 Despite widespread and substantial private expenditure on private tutoring outside the
formal school system in many developing countries, not much is known about their effects
on learning outcomes....
by Ambrish Dongre | On 05 Jul 2014 This
paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex
ratio. Standard survey questions on fertility preferences ask the respondent her
desired number of children of...
by Seema Jayachandran | On 01 Jul 2014 This paper intends to further the understanding of how a ‘tradition’ is formed through pedagogy – how ideas of continuity, change and knowledge transfer are addressed during the student’s period of le...
by Ajinkya Shenava | On 13 May 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 The article highlights of the SC judgment on Transgender Rights and why it will go down in history as one of the most rights enhancing decisions in the Court’s history.
by Siddharth Narrain | On 16 Apr 2014 Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's
public distribution system (PDS) in the rural areas. The results suggest a significant improvement in...
by Andaleeb Rahman | On 02 Apr 2014 Using the India Human Development Survey data for 2004-05,
two methodologies are used to estimate the earnings structure
of household nonfarm businesses owned by Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs)...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 20 Mar 2014 This paper makes an attempt to incorporate bene ts from unpaid public services into
consumption decisions to arrive at more accurate measures of poverty and inequality. The
analysis is based on prim...
by Anders Kjelsrud | On 14 Mar 2014 Using the India Human Development Survey data for 2004-05, two methodologies are employed to estimate the earnings structure
of household nonfarm businesses owned by Scheduled Castes and
Tribes (SCS...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 17 Feb 2014 This paper focuses on the fishing hamlet of Adimalathura located
on the coast of the Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala, which has
been identified as an area of extreme developmental disadvantage...
by J. Devika | On 11 Feb 2014 In many of Southeast Asia’s cities, critical infrastructure development is concentrated in affluent areas; and poor communities, lacking access to basic services, often resort to alternatives that may...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 15 Jan 2014 This study examines time use data for 1244 children in the age-group 6-12 years in 274
villages in eight states in rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent
in school, time sp...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 02 Dec 2013 This paper explores the different sets of power relationships and resultant ethical dilemmas that arise when developing community monitoring systems. Community Based Monitoring and Planning, as part o...
by Renu Khanna | On 22 Nov 2013 This paper deals with the philanthropic between Indian migrants and the local community in
Gujarat from a homeland perspective. It is based on research in rural central Gujarat, one of the regions
i...
by Natascha Dekkers | On 05 Nov 2013 India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally. Understanding the impacts of NREGS and the pathway through which its impacts are realiz...
by Songqing Jin | On 14 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 The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is responsible for providing infrastructure and
services in the metropolitan area. From January 18 to 21, 2013, it bulldozed 1,512 homes (42
blocks) and...
by PUCL Karnataka | On 30 Sep 2013 This paper estimates the short-and-medium-run effects of participating in a sub-
sidized vocational training program aimed at improving labor market outcomes of
women residing in low-income househol...
by Pushkar Maitra | On 30 Sep 2013 The present study attempts to build a SAM for India for 2007–08. This SAM consists of 78
sectors and nine categories of households which are based on occupation and location (i.e.
rural and urban)....
by Basanta K. Pradhan | On 26 Sep 2013 Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to
test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal
migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to...
by Ingrid Dallmann | On 06 Sep 2013 Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. The 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey is used to exa...
by Valerie Mueller | On 06 Sep 2013 In the aftermath of the anti-governmental Gezi demonstrations of May-June and the conclusion of the Ergenekon trial earlier this month, clear fault-lines are crystallizing in the Turkish political lan...
by Ozan Serdaroglu | On 05 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 The role of the lactation consultant is to provide care, problem-solving, education, and counseling to
breastfeeding mothers and their families. These clinical
services, however, make up just one pa...
by International lactation Consultant Association | On 07 Aug 2013 The report deals with the estimation of poverty and identification of poor – differences in approach. It also describes the characteristics and trends of urban poverty. The vulnerability of urban poor...
by Planning Commission, India | On 29 Jul 2013 Can culture constrain caloric intake and contribute to malnutrition? Inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared
to their non-migrant neighbors, ev...
by David Atkin | On 27 Jun 2013 The Union Cabinet gave its approval to launch a National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) as a new sub-mission under the over-arching National Health Mission (NHM).
by Anonymous | On 27 May 2013 As per the Census, the child sex ratio (0-6 years) has shown a sharp decline from 927 females per thousand males in 2001 to 914 females per thousand males in 2011.
by Anonymous | On 27 May 2013 This paper presents a choice experiment designed to estimate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) of rural farmers to mitigate damages caused by invasive plant species, particularly Mikania micrantha, in the...
by Rajesh Kumar Rai | On 27 May 2013 Motivated by the concern that the recent surge in inflation could retard growth, the paper revisits the nexus between inflation and growth from the perspective of an emerging economy, India. Examining...
by Saumitra N Bhaduri | On 23 May 2013 Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go to cities to find work
because they cannot survive on what they can earn in thei...
by Naomi Jacob | On 17 Apr 2013 This paper studies the interaction of incentive pay and social distance
in the dissemination of information. BREAD Working Paper No. 380. URL: [http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/380.pdf].
by Erlend Berg | On 16 Apr 2013 This paper records the findings of a small investigation into a fragment of experiences of people living on streets and into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, b...
by Harsh Mander | On 10 Apr 2013 Based on the last four rounds of NSS data the study explores some dimensions of women’s labour market participation across social groups. [CWDS Occasional Paper No.59]. URL:[http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPa...
by Neetha N | On 01 Mar 2013 Modernization, encouragement to PPP, integration of MGNREGA, has been given importance in the railway budget.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 27 Feb 2013 The status of various forms of tribal and folk art and culture are explored. The influence of tribal and folk art & culture on the socio-economic
conditions of the subjects covered under survey are...
by Gramin Vikas Seva Sanshtha GVSS | On 26 Feb 2013 This paper attempts to identify lifestyle changes at the individual level, and behavioral changes at the community level that could offer high carbon abatement potential. It also provides some good pr...
by Brahmanand Mohanty | On 22 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 Food Security in Asia, by Amitava Mukherjee Sage Publications India 2011
pp. xix+392, Rs 895/-.
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 04 Jan 2013 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 Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence
suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they
derive substantial long-run...
by Laura Zimmermann | On 19 Nov 2012 Home-based work has a much wider scope of activity than the singular task of an individual working from
his/her home. This essential service is tied in with a larger chain of forward and backward lin...
by Indira Gartenberg | On 16 Oct 2012 In 2011 the US National Institute of Mental Health launched the Grand Challenges to Global Mental Health on the lines of earlier initiatives on ‘Global Health’ and on ‘Global Chronic Non-Common-commun...
by Anonymous | On 05 Oct 2012 A new comprehensive scheme, called Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls or Sabla, merging the erstwhile Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY) and Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls (NPA...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 05 Oct 2012 The National Food
Security Bill, 2011 was
introduced in the Lok
Sabha by the Minister of
Food, Consumer Affairs
and Public Distribution on
December 22, 2011. The
Bill was referred to the
Stand...
by Sakshi Balani | On 28 Sep 2012 This paper identifies key knowledge gaps on the issue of migration and commuting workers in India. [WP-2012-023]. URL:[http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publication/WP-2012-023.pdf].
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Sep 2012 The paper reviews the
available evidence on the patterns of Muslim participation in education and
employment. Comparing the estimates derived from the most recent round of
the National Sample Surve...
by Rakesh Basant | On 27 Sep 2012 The earlier National Youth Policy was formulated in 1988. The socio-economic conditions in the country have since undergone a significant change and have been shaped by wide-ranging technological adva...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 12 Sep 2012 The NYP 2012 is a step forward from the earlier Policy formulated in 1988 and, later, in 2003. It reaffirms commitment of the nation to the rights and holistic development of the young people of the c...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 12 Sep 2012 The BasicNeeds model of Mental Health and Development (MHD), Nepal emphasizes
user empowerment, community development, strengthening of health
systems, and policy influencing.
The Nepal program was...
by Shoba Raja | On 24 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 The focus of this study is to see how equitable the access and utilisation
of health services are among married women in Pakistan. It examines the
changes in the pattern of maternal health care prac...
by Naushin Mahmood | On 20 Aug 2012 Improving maternal and newborn health in low-income settings requires both health service and community
action. Previous community initiatives have been predominantly rural, but India is urbanizing....
by Neena Shah More | On 17 Aug 2012 The proportion of elderly in the world population is increasing. Health systems across the globe are ill prepared to meet the needs of aging populations. The needs of the elderly are different from t...
by Arlene S Bierman | On 08 Aug 2012 Agriculture’s share in GDP is less than 15 per cent but it still remains the direct domain of over half of the population whose economic prospects are linked to the performance of agriculture. There a...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 03 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 Traditional analysis of gender wage gaps has largely focused on average gaps between men and women, and mean wage decompositions such as the Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) decomposition method. To answer the q...
by Shantanu Khanna | On 26 Jul 2012 A
bill
to promote autonomy of higher educational institutions and universities for free pursuit
of knowledge and innovation and to provide for comprehensive and integrated
growth of higher educati...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 12 Jul 2012 This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment
in primary schools among children in the 6–10 age group. A household-level
longitudinal survey is also done coveri...
by Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay | On 10 Jul 2012 Review of the book From Individual to Community: Issues in Development Studies--Essays in Memory of Malcolm Adiseshiah by Nandan Nawn.
by Nandan Nawn | On 05 Jul 2012 In 2007, the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out the Aarogyasri health
insurance to reduce catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.” The program...
by Victoria Fan | On 05 Jul 2012 The United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development (Rio+20) takes
place in Rio de Janeiro on 20–22 June
2012. Twenty years after the 1992 Earth
Summit that led to the establishment of
two m...
by Georgina M Mace | On 02 Jul 2012 The concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is relatively new to many Southeast Asians, who have traditionally relied on the state for security and therefore faced a sense of hopelessness when such...
by Pavin Chachavalpongpun | On 27 Jun 2012 Afghanistan is
an example of a ‘‘fragile state,’’ characterised
by a government that lacks the
capacity to provide core services and basic
security to its population. Improving health
care within...
by Peter Ventevogel | On 22 Jun 2012 This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China’s urban labor market
using the 2009 survey data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies. Several estimation and
decomposition meth...
by Biwei Su | On 01 Jun 2012 The Pendang parliamentary and Anak Bukit by-elections for the Kedah state legislative assembly
were among the most contentious of by-elections in recent Malaysian politics. Held
simultaneously on 18...
by K Ramanathan | On 10 May 2012 The objective of the study was to review media coverage (print ) related to HIV/AIDS in three states (Gujarat, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh) in order to determine the gaps in reporting. [CCMG Working Pa...
by Biswajit Das | On 10 May 2012 The study examines the different aspects of labor in the rural household economy. It
identifies the factors that significantly determine the rural households' labor allocation decisions.
Moreover, i...
by Maria Teresa C Sanchez | On 18 Apr 2012 Review of the book Community Policing: Misnomer or Fact? Author: Veerendra Mishra
Sage, New Delhi.
by Vijay Raghavan | On 16 Apr 2012 The situation of juveniles in conflict with law and children in need of care and protection across India is precarious. Nothing underlines this more than the situation in Karnataka. While the State Hu...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 05 Apr 2012 The analysis of micro impacts of macroeconomic adjustment policies (MIMAP) is a relatively new discipline. It has spawned out of the concern that adjustment policies aimed to correct macroeconomic imb...
by Celia M Reyes | On 04 Apr 2012 Despite recent achievements to reduce child mortality, neonatal deaths continue to remain high, accounting
for 41% of all deaths in children under five years of age worldwide, of which over 90% occur...
by Hadley K Herbert | On 29 Mar 2012 This study examines whether the allocation of public expenditures of
the Indian states are significantly influenced by government specific political
characteristics. Three types of government specif...
by Bharatee Bhusana Dash | On 27 Mar 2012 Statistics is used in our day to day life. Examples are there to show that statistics is misused in many. This can happen when people are information illiterate. [Address at DST-CIMS, BHU on Mar 20, 2...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 27 Mar 2012 Since the elections of 2010, Myanmar’s political landscape has changed significantly;
the old military junta has officially been dissolved and a new
civilian government, led by President Thein Sein,...
by Christopher O’Hara | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget speech by the Finance Minister of Bhutan. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bt/downloads/Budgetreport2012.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Bhutan | On 22 Mar 2012 Over the last two decades, community-based forest management has
graduated from being an experimental strategy to becoming a much more
mainstream approach. In developing countries, an estimated 22 p...
by Priya Shyamsundar | On 19 Mar 2012 Rural people are deprived even of the basic facilities of medical care. Is this ethical? [6th K R Memorial lecture].
by Yogesh Jain | On 16 Mar 2012 BUDGET SPEECH 2011-2012 by
DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHAIKH, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and
Planning & Development.
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 12 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 Major shifts in the policy initiated in the electricity sector are well documented so that the effect of this policy change can be analyzed especially from the point of view of laying down future poli...
by Planning Commission | On 28 Feb 2012 National Food Authority's (NFA) twin
mandate of price
stabilization and food
security has cost the
government billions of
pesos in losses over the
past few decades. As
such, there is a need to
...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 28 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 Review of the book 'Riots and After in Mumbai: Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliation' Meena Menon, Sage Publications India, 2011, Pp 267 + xcii, Rs. 595/-
by Irfan Engineer | On 17 Feb 2012 A stated objective of Myanmar is to become a modern developed nation that
will stand shoulder to shoulder – proud, dignified and tall – with the countries
of the world. How far has Myanmar come in a...
by U Myint | On 15 Feb 2012 Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing
countries often receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and...
by A. Mushfiq Mobarak | On 10 Feb 2012 This paper explains the gaps between official objectives and the actual accomplishments of the Aquino government, with an emphasis on the implementation record of agricultural-based strategies. Summar...
by V. Bruce J Tolentino | On 30 Jan 2012 Home to over 25 per cent of the world’s hungry poor, India faces major food security challenges and the situation has barely improved in two decades. Will the National Food Security Bill that the Indi...
by Sally Trethewie | On 27 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 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 Many Sri Lankan companies, particularly in the food processing sector, do
not have adequate management systems in place to control and dispose
solid waste. In order to address this challenge, a new...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 09 Jan 2012 Affirmative action, especially in the form of reservation policies, to address the issues of inclusion and equity has been in place in India for a long time. Through these policies higher participatio...
by Rakesh Basant | On 09 Jan 2012 The financial implications of the food security bill can be questioned. But the
Bill proposes to protect the citizens from hunger and improve the nutritional intake of women and children.
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 30 Dec 2011 A
bill
to provide for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring
access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a
life with dignity...
by Lok Sabha | On 30 Dec 2011 The BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programme reached 150 upazilas in collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh since 2006. This study assessed the changes in the use of tubewell water and w...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 28 Dec 2011 This paper focuses on homebased women workers and discusses the specific issues of
their vulnerability as women and as workers, in the framework of their basic citizenship
right to economic and soci...
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 26 Dec 2011 The paper attempts to empirically test a naïve version of what is rather
stylistically termed as “feminisation of poverty”, using the sub-sample of
female -headed households (FHHs) from two househol...
by Umer Khalid | On 21 Dec 2011 Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive...
by Gharad Bryan | On 20 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat' by
Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala, and Uma Rani
Routledge India, 2010 216 pages.
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 12 Dec 2011 Possible scenarios for China and the world economy until
2015 is looked at. In all of them, China will continue to accumulate FX reserves, so that
reserve assets will remain the largest component of...
by Catherine Shu Ling Tan | On 08 Dec 2011 How does informality in emerging economies affect the conduct of monetary and
fiscal policy? To answer this question two-sector, formal-informal new
Keynesian closed-economy is constructed. The inf...
by Nicoletta Batini | On 02 Dec 2011 The present paper adopts a diagnostic approach; problems of non-farm employment in
rural sector are identified by studying pattern and process of rural employment using data
from the NSS quinquennia...
by Brajesh Jha | On 22 Nov 2011 Spending on consumption items is examined which have signaling value in social
interactions across groups with distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are
defined by caste an...
by Melanie Khamis | On 10 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 With a review of the historic role of India as a supplier of Antiretrovirals (ARV) medicines the paper outlines some of the key rulings in Indian courts as the interpretation of the new patent laws ar...
by Cassandra Sweet | On 19 Oct 2011 This study estimates the transaction costs entailed in maintaining Farmer
Managed Irrigation Systems (FMIS) in Nepal based on a case study of
60 irrigation systems in the Kathmandu valley. It analyz...
by Ram Chandra Bhattarai | On 18 Oct 2011 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 The Indian national program of agriclinics and agribusiness centers, started in 2002, aims to provide farmers with a reliable alternative to the private input dealer by subsidizing technically trained...
by Claire J Glendenning | On 14 Oct 2011 Review of Nandanar’s Children: The Paraiyans’ Tryst with Destiny Tamil Nadu 1850—1956, Raj Sekhar Basu,
Sage India, New Delhi,
2011, 492 pp, Rs 895
by Rajesh Komath | On 11 Oct 2011 This paper examines
some of the explicit as well as not so explicit trends in relation to women’s
employment in India from 1993-94 till 2009-10 and argues that they indicate a
grave and continuing...
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 10 Oct 2011 While there is much written on the youth bulge in developing countries, little is being done to address the problems of the elderly. And yet demographically, it is this section that is showing high gr...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 10 Oct 2011 Management of hunger has to look into issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy. Posing it from
an ethical perspective the paper argues out in favour of right to food. But, for this to happe...
by Srijit Mishra | On 30 Sep 2011 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Institute (NAI) conducted two “Workshops Without Walls” during 2010 that enabled global scientific exchange—with no travel require...
by Betul K Arslan | On 28 Sep 2011 This paper seeks to understand whether decentralized
management of forests can reduce forest loss in developing
countries. [SANDEE Working Paper, No 59 - 11]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/upload...
by Priya Shyamsundar | On 28 Sep 2011 A
Bill
to provide for food and nutritional security, in human life cycle approach, by
ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices, for people to
live a life with dign...
by Department of Food and Public Distribution Fcamin | On 14 Sep 2011 This background paper seeks to brief readers on the extent of the development, production and
consumption of agrofuels, particularly liquid fuels for transport, in the Mekong region. The area of focu...
by Rebeca Leonard | On 12 Sep 2011 Over 160,000 people died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The correlates of
survival are examined using data from the Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery
(STAR), a population-representative...
by Elizabeth Frankenberg | On 06 Sep 2011 The project aimed to
find the reasons for bottlenecks in the present system that deprive the
tribal community of the benefit of schemes. Five villages from each block have been selected to
make tot...
by Maharana Pratap Adhyayan Evam Jan Kalyan Sansthan Jaipur | On 02 Sep 2011 Poverty and food security in the context of Bangladesh has become a major concern
over time. While efforts have been intensified to increase crop yield through increased
land use, using inorganic fe...
by Shyamal C Ghosh | On 30 Aug 2011 Trade policy reforms which lead to changes in world prices of agricultural commodities or
domestic policies aimed at affecting agricultural prices are often seen as causing a policy
dilemma: a fall...
by Sandra Polaski | On 26 Aug 2011 Participatory irrigation management programme as a prelude to irrigation
management transfer to users is being set up by many states for over five
years now. Though it is recognized that the governm...
by R Parthasarathy | On 25 Aug 2011 A
bill
further to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000. [Rajya Sabha passed this bill]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Juvenile%20Justice/juvenile%20jus...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 23 Aug 2011 As per UNSNA recommendations, valuables as a separate item had been introduced in the
expenditure side of GDP. Since India is one of largest importer and user of gold for various purposes,
this trea...
by Rakesh Kumar | On 04 Aug 2011 In 2004, Afghanistan pioneered a balanced scorecard (BSC) performance system to manage the delivery of
primary health care services. This study examines the trends of 29 key performance indicators ov...
by Edward Anbrasi | On 04 Aug 2011 The study seeks to examine the extent of financial inclusion in West Bengal. It is observed from
the study that although there has been an improvement in outreach activity in the banking sector,
the...
by Sadhan Kumar Chattopadhyay | On 03 Aug 2011 The ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection) control programme of BRAC has been in
operation for the last few years. No independent evaluation has so far been
conducted to explore how far the objectives of...
by Qazi Shafayetul Islam | On 28 Jul 2011 Return migration and health has received
little attention in policy and research.
This article will focus on the risk
factors and social determinants of health
during all phases of migration that...
by Anita A Davies | On 20 Jul 2011 A new application for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) – community radio is proposed. How MANETS help overcome important limitations in how community radio is currently operationalized is shown here. A...
by Kavitha Ranganathan | On 19 Jul 2011 Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic
income risk? Why don’t financial markets develop to pool these risks? This paper uses a
series of randomized field...
by Shawn Cole | On 06 Jul 2011 This paper attempts a decomposition analysis of Poverty scenario in UP during 1993-94 and 2004-05. It
was found that poverty has decreased but inequality has increased between these years. The main
...
by Durgesh Chandra Pathak | On 01 Jul 2011 Traditionally sanitary services are provided by the State or State owned bodies. However, with the ever increasing population and waste generation rates coupled with lack of financial resources and in...
by Sudhakar Yedla | On 27 Jun 2011 In this CGD essay, Mead Over argues that international donor community cannot afford to continue its business-as-usual AIDS policy. It must focus more on preventing HIV to decrease the number of peopl...
by Mead Over | On 27 Jun 2011 Community Forestry in India is characterized broadly by the presence of three different types of institutional structures aimed at promoting common property regimes- self-initiated efforts, NGO- promo...
by Rucha Ghate | On 15 Jun 2011 Over the last 25 years, the international community has pursued a series of measures to address unsustainable debt burdens in low-income countries. Early actions focused on debt relief for official bi...
by Ben Leo | On 15 Jun 2011 The objective of this research and policy brief is to analyse different mechanisms of access to land for the rural poor in an era when redistribution through expropriative land reform is largely incon...
by Alain de Janvry | On 10 Jun 2011 Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply
side or a demand side issue? School attendance and total human capital
investment time (time in school plus travel ti...
by Sripad Motiram | On 01 Jun 2011 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 This study reveals the importance of tank irrigation in the lives of poor households and suggests that the poor may bear the bulk of the burden from tank deterioration. Tank-based agricultural income...
by South Asian Network for Development and Environmen Economics | On 19 May 2011 The objective of this study is to show how the demand for a rentable
house can be quantitatively expressed. The data set is obtained by a primary (sample) survey of 209
households randomly selecte...
by S.K. Mishra | On 18 May 2011 The articles in each section of this analogy of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics represents major debates on the ethics of healthcare technology- its development and its application. They cover is...
by Sandhya Srinivasan | On 03 May 2011 The paper is an attempt to deal with pros and cons of deregulating savings deposit interest rate and take on board the suggestions of various stakeholders for either maintaining the status quo or dere...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 02 May 2011 The study looks at
the relationship between indigenous people and
their forest homes using a novel field field experiments approach. [Policy Brief No. 48-10]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/upload...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 29 Apr 2011 This particular field study is concerned with Van Panchayats, which can be seen as a variant of Common Property Resources. A comparison of the efficacy of this specific CPR across three villages in U...
by Chandana Anusha | On 27 Apr 2011 The paper presents some empirical data from the Pradhan Tribe of Andhra
Pradesh which highlights the community's indigenous agricultural knowledge and the
changes over time. These custodians of indi...
by Anil Kumar K | On 25 Apr 2011 The paper examines the poverty status of 4,198 households resident in 18 villages of Rajasthan, India, at four points of time between 1977 to 2010 using retrospective methodology known as Stages of Pr...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 20 Apr 2011 In this study, two types of aid transfers - boats and houses are examined- that were made to
rehabilitate tsunami-affected fishery households in Sri Lanka. The goal is to investigate the
distributio...
by Asha Gunawardena | On 20 Apr 2011 The NYP 2010 is a step forward from the earlier Policy
formulated in 1988 and, later, in 2003. It reaffirms commitment
of the nation to the holistic development of the young people of
the country....
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 19 Apr 2011 Many severe health risks in developing countries could be substantially reduced with access to appropriate
preventive measures. However, the associated costs are often high enough to restrict access...
by Alessandro Tarozzi | On 12 Apr 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 Rajesh Komath gives a description the conflicts between his socio-material position as a Teyyam performer, and persona/personality as a student of economics.
by Smriti Vohra | On 26 Feb 2011 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 INHP-II promoted a set of simple interventions to influence neonatal outcomes, including antenatal
tetanus toxoid, clean delivery and cord care, early and exclusive breastfeeding and thermal care, as...
by Rachna Program | On 07 Feb 2011 This paper studies the effect of community identity on investment behavior
in the knitted garment industry in the South Indian town of Tirupur. [BREAD Working Paper No. 004] URL: [http://ipl.econ.duk...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 03 Feb 2011 This paper considers how the official poverty line in India would have to change, if it were to be set at a level that allowed urban households to afford minimally adequate accommodation. It discusses...
by S. Chandrashekar | On 02 Feb 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 This population-based cross sectional survey was done in four maternal, neonatal and child health
(MNCH) intervention districts (N=4,800 households) and two control districts (N=2,400
households). D...
by Shumona Sharmin Salam | On 12 Jan 2011 There has been much interest recently in promoting decentralization in the forestry sector in the belief that it would bring in downward accountability, which in turn would ensure economic efficiency,...
by Rucha Ghate | On 06 Jan 2011 In this paper they provide the first estimate of the level and distribution of global household wealth. Mean
assets and debts within countries are measured, partly or wholly, for 38 countries using...
by James B. Davies | On 03 Jan 2011 BRAC’s Advocacy and Human Rights Unit (BAHRU) has developed a social
communications programme that goes beyond traditional approaches of marketing
communications. The goal of the programme is long-t...
by Jeneviève Mann ell | On 03 Jan 2011 This paper proposes a semi-parametric method for poverty decomposition, which
combines the data-generating procedure of Shorrocks and Wan (2004) with the Shapley
value framework of Shorrocks (1999...
by Yin Zhang | On 29 Dec 2010 The objective of this study was to identify and understand the problems
faced by women-headed households. The study was undertaken with two assumptions: (1) a support
system is in place which ensure...
by Naomi Hossain | On 28 Dec 2010 This paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using
the data from two national household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys
collected rich informatio...
by Shi Li | On 27 Dec 2010 The paper discuses the differences tribals and government have in understanding of and perception about the forest. It also discuses the outcomes of these differences.
by M. Suresh | On 15 Dec 2010 Open regionalism and trade cooperation between the world’s two largest developing countries,
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India, can foster outward-oriented development and
intra-regio...
by Swapan K. Bhattacharya | On 06 Dec 2010 Over the last decade, India has been one of the fastest growing economies, and has
experienced considerable decline in overall income poverty. However, in a vast country
like India, poverty levels v...
by Shatakshee Dhongde | On 03 Dec 2010 There has been much recent research on the world distribution of income, but also
growing recognition of the importance of other contributions to well-being, including
those of household wealth. W...
by James B. Davies | On 25 Nov 2010 China’s recent accession to the WTO is expected to accelerate its integration into the
world economy, which aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the
already rising inter-region in...
by Guanghua Wan | On 16 Nov 2010 A decomposition in the ownership of shares
by foreigners is offered into three parts: the change in insider shareholding,
the change in market capitalisation and the change in the fraction of
outsi...
by Ajay Shah | On 16 Nov 2010 The general assumption in New Delhi’s “strategic community” is that it is in India’s interest for Americans troops to stay on in Kabul. The theory is that the US is doing the hard work that is beyond...
by T.N. Ninan | On 11 Nov 2010 A developing economy like India is often characterised by a labour market with demand and supply of labour and a wage that even if competitively determined may not be adequate for the poor household t...
by Diganta Mukherjee | On 29 Oct 2010 The
perspective of global commodity chain or GCC framework and social
embeddedness are used to understand the organizational and social linkages in the
embellishment production network in garment i...
by Jeemol Unni | On 21 Oct 2010 This brief shows how three of the biggest donors to global HIV/AIDS programs can go beyond their stated commitments to address gender inequality and more effectively combat HIV and AIDS.
by Christina Droggitis | On 20 Oct 2010 There is an urgent need to study the social compulsions/ factors that lead parents to marry off their daughters to NRIs who ruin their lives completely. It is also to be examined whether any safeguard...
by M.K. Jabbi | On 13 Oct 2010 China’s consumers are better understood when looked at as two distinct classes: urban consumers and rural consumers. The urban households are much richer than their rural counterparts and consume thre...
by Syetarn Hansakul | On 12 Oct 2010 This paper is the product of an international research project of the
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, USA and the Centre for Science and
Environme...
by John Kurien | On 07 Oct 2010 The paper attempts to capture the construction of 'community' in Indian communication research. This paper attempts to trace the genealogy, interrogates its usage in Indian communication studies and s...
by Biswajit Das | On 05 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 India experienced high economic growth in the 1990s. Some earlier studies, which attempted to identify the influence of growth on poverty dynamics in the country by including growth variables among th...
by Nidhi Dhamija | On 04 Oct 2010 This paper examines the determinants of the Government yields in India using weekly data from
April 2001 through March 2009. The analysis covers Treasury Bills with residual maturity of
15-91 day...
by Pami Dua | On 13 Sep 2010 Labour income is often a major source of income not only for landless rural households but also for the 'small' farmers in Asian agriculture. Fluctuations in labour income can be quite marked, owing t...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 10 Sep 2010 Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack of information on the immigrants’ labor force activities in the home country, quotas limiting who is allowed to enter t...
by Randall K. Q. Akee | On 09 Sep 2010 The European Union is a profoundly political project and one which
has attempted to achieve important political goals through economic
means. Initially through the establishment of a coal and steel
...
by Christopher F. Patten | On 07 Sep 2010 The report gives information about The Art, Culture and Language Department which aims at preservation of cultural heritage of India.
by Kriti Kapur | On 02 Sep 2010 Knowledge of demand structure and consumer behaviour is essential for a wide range of development policy questions like improvement in nutritional status, food subsidy, sectoral and macroeconomic poli...
by Surabhi Mittal | On 25 Aug 2010 The study shows that the three major communities had different explanatory models of malaria. Though they had many differences and similarities, some beliefs and practices of malarial treatment and pr...
by Shamim Hossain | On 28 Jul 2010 The paper is a study of the relationship between poverty and environment by using a purpose-collected survey data from 535 households in 60 different villages of the Jhabua district of India. The meth...
by Shreekant Gupta | On 26 Jul 2010 Pakistan has historically received large volumes of aid but it has also faced an increasingly difficult task of aid coordination. In 2007, Pakistan received more than U.S.$2.2 billion in Official Deve...
by Abdul Malik | On 18 Jun 2010 The Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project – a dam and diversion project under construction in Central Laos – violates the Equator Principles and Lao law, according to this report. It documents how Lao villa...
by Ikuko Matsumoto | On 17 Jun 2010 Vietnam's (re) discovery in recent years by the international investor community gives the country a second chance to become and Asia tiger. The article looks into the economic, social, political, per...
by Tamara Trinh | On 16 Jun 2010 Effective targeting is a hallmark of the BRAC’s CFPR/TUP programme. Like many other targeted programmes, CFPR/TUP combines a number of targeting methods. Launching in 2002, his programme has scaled up...
by Munshi Sulaiman | 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 study aimed to explore the current state of awareness and knowledge among the community people about presbyopia and its treatment, barriers to detection of presbyopia and its correction by using...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 10 Jun 2010 The ultimate goal of this paper is to derive inspiration from Coase Theorem and the Japanese model of Keiretsu to empower the producers and suppliers of fish – namely, the fisher folk and to place the...
by Samar K. Datta | On 09 Jun 2010 This paper explores whether child labourers come from, not only the poor, but also the poorest households in Bangladesh or not. The paper also tries to explain what determines the participation of chi...
by | On 04 Jun 2010 This
paper will focus on different instances of community assertions by the
Syrian Christians in twentieth century Travancore/Kerala. [Working Paper 427]
by J Devika | On 02 Jun 2010 Without a better
understanding of the interactions between international players, households and public sector, it will be difficult for climate negotiators and donor institutions to
determine the...
by Brian Blankespoor | On 01 Jun 2010 The objective in this paper is to shed some empirical light on a claim often made by critics of affirmative action policies: that increasing the representation of members of marginalized communities i...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 26 May 2010 This paper reviews the development of the social security system and trends in the urban labor market in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC face...
by Wang Dewen | On 20 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 Obstacles to improving survival include: many newborn infants are invisible to
health services; care-seeking for maternal and newborn ailments is limited;
health workers are often not skilled and co...
by Nirmala Nair | On 03 May 2010 This paper attempts to
understand the various risks faced by households living in disaster prone regions of
rural India and specifically examine the effectiveness of coping mechanisms adopted
by ho...
by Unmesh Patnaik | On 12 Apr 2010 The paper raises some hard questions that need to be answered before one can conclude that events such as Common Wealth Games has a positive effect on the host community. Can the financial requirement...
by Vinayak Uppal | On 23 Mar 2010 The attention of the media and planners has been focussed almost exclusively on rural and tribal malnutrition. However, malnutrition among urban children, particularly the economically vulnerable slum...
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 22 Mar 2010 Budget speech 2010-2011 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 26 Feb 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 This study
seeks to identify the engineering, behavioural and socio-economic determinants of childhood
diarrhoea and its duration and to compute the resulting costs borne by slum dwellers. The study...
by M. Jahangir Alam | On 22 Feb 2010 This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level
detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some
households h...
by Naila Kabeer | On 28 Jan 2010 This paper estimates
the storm protection benefits due to mangroves during the super cyclone of 1999 in Orissa.
By combining GIS data with census information, the paper examines the mangrove mediate...
by Saudamini Das | On 25 Jan 2010 This study investigates the nature of relationship between price and trading volume for 50 Indian
stocks. Firstly the contemporaneous and asymmetric relation between price and volume are
examined. T...
by Brajesh Kumar | On 25 Jan 2010 This paper examines the effectiveness of damage control mechanisms to reduce crop losses
from agricultural pests. It uses data from a sample of Cole crop (Cauliflower and Cabbage)
growing households...
by Ratna Kumar Jha | On 22 Jan 2010 This paper examines the health services provided by Reliance Industries in the village,
Motikhavadi, which comes under the Special economic Zone- Jamnagar to scrutinise the
role of the state, especi...
by Shilpa Jadhav Bhakre | On 22 Jan 2010 Market-based approaches to environmental management, such as payment for
environmental services (PES), have attracted unprecedented attention during the past
decade. PES policies, in particular, hav...
by Bhim Adhikari | On 20 Jan 2010 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 Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component
projects under the RACHNA program, INHP-II and Chayan. Of the two, the INHP interve...
by CARE India | On 24 Dec 2009 This study explores the factors determining the dependence of local people on protected area of forest based on household analysis of a Protected Area from Kerala. [WP-2007-005].
by Shylajan C.S | On 21 Dec 2009 This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for
rural Sindh, Pakistan. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) d...
by Hari Ram Lohano | On 10 Dec 2009 The objective of the study is to undertake watershed based planning for integrated community management of natural resources for livelihood security. Separate studies were done in Nepal and in Uttarak...
by Debashish Sen | On 04 Dec 2009 This paper presents some of the findings of our recent study on women’s representation and participation in panchayats. Some of the findings of the study (Buch; 1999) of women in panchayats after the...
by Nirmala Buch | On 04 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 The speech covers the macro setting for GenNext banking by way of discussing the demographic composition of India’s population and the nexus between low dependency ratio and saving. It also provides...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 30 Nov 2009 This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and explores policy options for strengthening their livelihoods through a combinatio...
by Amita Shah | On 27 Nov 2009 This document highlights the results and associated processes from Chayan’s
implementation experience under the RACHNA program. The programmatic
framework, designed for low-prevalence contexts in In...
by CARE India | On 20 Nov 2009 No reponse form the policies that the government is announcing
by T.N. Ninan | On 20 Nov 2009 The present paper deals with the discourse of the rights of Muslim women in
the pre- independence period with particular reference to the Shariat Act
1937 and the Muslim Marriage Dissolution Act 193...
by Sabiha Hussain | On 20 Nov 2009 Migration decisions to urban areas that are backed by economic rationale
and attempts to understand gains accruing to individuals from migration,
in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analy...
by William Joe | On 16 Nov 2009 The Chiranjeevi Yojna is considered to be a successful PPP model and has also received a prestigious Asian Innovations Award by the Wall Street Journal. It is a flagship scheme of the Gujarat state mi...
by Akash Acharya | On 13 Nov 2009 INHP adopted a multiple volunteer per village model, with one volunteer serving the immediate neighborhood of about 20-30 households to rationalize volunteer workloads and to ensure cultural compatibi...
by CARE India | On 09 Nov 2009 This review paper provides the background to research that will take place in four country case-studies
to examine these issues. A key focus of this paper concerns government's capacity to fulfil the...
by Sara Bennett | On 09 Nov 2009 This paper is about the financial lives of poor households. It
examines the different sources of income and expenditure of the poor
households residing in a coastal settlement in Kerala. The method...
by B. S. Suran | On 29 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of climate change to the environment of China and most especially to the livelihood of Chinese people there. It analyzed the Chinese government’s position and enumerate...
by Dale Jiajun Wen | On 16 Oct 2009 BRAC health programme (BHP) initiated a pilot maternal, neonatal and child
health project (MNCH) in Nilphamari in 2006 to improve the health status of
women of reproductive age including neonates an...
by Shahnawaz Mohammad Rafi | On 15 Oct 2009 Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country
governments. Letting domestic prices adjust to reflect the full change in international prices generates inflationary pres...
by Nora Lustig | On 09 Oct 2009 This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of
nonfarm incomes across rural households. A unique data set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows us to...
by Maja Micevska | On 30 Sep 2009 The present study
attempts to capture chronic poverty in Sri Lanka by examining general information on poverty and drawing conclusions on those who are likely to be among the chronic poor.
Certain p...
by Indra Tudawe | On 17 Sep 2009 The book offers advocates arguments to make,
and value statements to support those arguments, for a variety of early care and education policy goals. It is believed that young children, their familie...
by Lori Dorfman | On 20 Aug 2009 This paper examines the levels, patterns, and determinants of
morbidity in Kerala. This study is based on a community survey
conducted in 2004, in three districts of the state namely
Thiruvananthap...
by Navaneetham K | On 14 Aug 2009 The paper attempts to appraise the extent of the constraint of credit relations on agricultural production and its differential impact across peasant classes. Additionally, the analysis of the structu...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2009 This study examines household behaviour related to fuelwood collection and use. The focus is on
identifying the behavioral transition of fuelwood-using households from collection to purchase.
The st...
by ARABINDA MISHRA | On 29 Jul 2009 INHP-II promoted a set of simple interventions to influence neonatal outcomes, including antenatal tetanus toxoid, clean delivery and core care, early and exclusive breastfeeding and thermal care, as...
by Rachna Program | On 07 Jul 2009 A large number of new Shasthya Shebikas were recruited under the maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) program besides the existing ones. This study attempts to explore whether and how the income...
by Mahjabeen Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 The paper analyzes the effects of changes in consumption factor on the calculation of inflation calculation in Bangladesh. This is important as there might exist some volatile and non-trend components...
by Md. Habibour Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 This paper investigates the relative importance of monetary and fiscal policies in altering real output of Bangladesh. An unrestricted vector auto regression (VAR) framework based on the St. Louis equ...
by Md. Habibur Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 Owning a house has become very costly now. If more land were thrown into the market, home ownership will not be a deam for the majority.
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Jun 2009 The poverty scenario in Gujarat is marked by three features: (1) low incidence of poverty (2) spatial concentration and (3) adoption of targeted policy for poverty reduction. One of the important high...
by Amita Shah | On 16 Jun 2009 The paper contours of a feasible design of VAT in India. It also takes on board the various alternatives proposed. It looks at the issues that need resolution and the options available for resolving t...
by R.Kavita Rao | On 12 Jun 2009 This paper deals with the nationalist discourse in Maharashtra spanning over forty years. This discourse argued that educating women and non-Brahmins would amount to a loss of nationality. The nationa...
by Parimala V Rao | On 11 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 This paper is mainly concerned about the approaches to rural women’s development and an understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. Changes in the economic and social participation o...
by Kumud Sharma | On 03 Jun 2009 The paper provides a detailed scan of the position of each of the major ALBA countries in turn, plus Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. While Argentina and Brazil are beginning to get involved in ALBA acti...
by David Harris | On 31 May 2009 This paper revolves around the Public health related aspects of industrial and intellectual property rights policies in a developing country with respect to Aids in India. It also focusses on its prev...
by Samira Guennif | On 22 May 2009 This paper analyzes Singapore’s multi-pronged approach to managing prolonged low fertility which has led to population aging, labor force shortages, increasing elderly dependency ratios, and feminizat...
by Mukul. G Asher | On 15 May 2009 The appropriate use of oxytocin, one of the drugs on which is the focus in the ‘Tracing Pharmaceuticals’ project, is directly linked to Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 (relating to child mortali...
by Patricia Jeffrey | On 14 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 The paper tries to understand what are the aims of education.
by National Council of Educational Research &Training NCERT | On 28 Apr 2009 The State of the World’s Children 2009 focuses on maternal and neonatal health and identifies the interventions and actions that must be scaled up to save lives.
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 13 Feb 2009 The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic
farming practices leads to better health. As a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of or...
by Sunantar Setboonsarng | On 22 Jan 2009 The focus of this study is to analyze the pattern and costs
of services in four areas, which critically affect most households in Kerala .
The major concerns of this paper include answers to questio...
by Zachariah KC | On 12 Jan 2009 Political will, imaginative and collaborative solutions from across the spectrum of health and social care providers are needed to address the needs of homeless individuals.
by Plos medicine Editors | On 06 Jan 2009 This is a continuation of an earlier paper (2005) by the author which dealt with policy implications based on the work done by CPRC in India. There is no map of chronic poverty in India, but have an a...
by N C B Nath | On 16 Dec 2008 Concerns of the community needs to be taken into account for water resources
development and management. The success of the National Water Policy will depend entirely on evolving and maintaining a na...
by Ministry of Water Resources GOI | On 02 Dec 2008 What does citizenship mean to poor and socially excluded people? How do their views help us understand and analyse what 'inclusive' citizenship means?
by Naila Kabeer | On 20 Nov 2008 The policy brief describes the life stories of five people, to show the face of human face of chronic poverty. It also suggests that such life history material can be an important source of data for p...
by Martin Prowse | On 11 Nov 2008 In the context of the current public policy focus on rising food prices and their implications for food security, this paper examines two major issues raised: (i) Universalization of the public distri...
by Suryanarayana M H | On 04 Nov 2008 This paper examines steady states of an overlapping generations economy with a given
distribution of household locations over a one-dimensional interval. Parents decide whether
or not to educate the...
by Dilip Mookherjee | On 06 Oct 2008 The paper carries the reader across and over great spans of space and time, with an Indian feminist woman academic journeying back to seventeenth-century ancien regime France, to 1770s Scotland, to 17...
by Bagchi B | On 01 Oct 2008 Recognising the dearth of detailed analyses of economic and environmental performance of traditional water harvesting systems (TWHS) meant exclusively for domestic use, this paper enquires into the re...
by Keshab Das | On 26 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 Over 50 persons, mainly Christians, have been killed since the Hindu fundamentalists launched an attack on the Christians following the murder of four members of the VHP including 90 year old Laxmanan...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 22 Sep 2008 The study is taken up in the state of Andhra Pradesh with the following objectives:
1. To study the opportunities and challenges in processing of rice, fruits and
vegetables, oilseeds and livestock...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 17 Sep 2008 It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a thres...
by Rama Joglekar | On 15 Sep 2008 Funds generated through community forestry offer crucial and significant resources for rural in Nepal. This study examines forestry funds in 100 communities in three districts to assess how large they...
by Ridish K. Pokharel | On 11 Sep 2008 This study aimed to provide some insights into sanitation-related strategies taken
by the BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programme from an
economic point of view. The aim of this report i...
by Kazi Faisal Bin Seraj | On 06 Aug 2008 The factors and process underlying agrarian distress in Kerala by undertaking the case studies of three villages situated in Wayanad and Idukki districts namely, Cherumad, Kappikkunnu and Upputhara. T...
by K.N. Nair | On 31 Jul 2008 The purpose of this study is to review the changes that have taken
place recently in water supply and sanitation services and examine
the role of various stakeholders involved in urban governance in...
by Agnes Huchon | On 15 Jul 2008 This paper examines the proposition that "poverty is a violation of human rights". The author disuses the possibility of this proposition to be implementable in real case senarios and in polcies,
by Arjun Sengupta | On 26 Jun 2008 Many popular social programmes have limited coverage among households at
the very bottom of the income and wealth distribution. If a programme reaches
the poor, but neglects the destitute, the (pre-...
by Isha Dewan | On 12 Jun 2008 In this Issue: Amar Jesani writes about the problems and process affecting health in Nicaragua; Malini Karkal discusses the population policy in China and Padma Prakash draws attention to the changes...
by Radical Journal of Health RJH | On 01 Jun 2008 A brief overview is provided about India’s long-term growth performance. Then an attempt is made to set out the conditions for successful innovations. To assess the role of innovations in the Indian...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 03 Apr 2008 The problematic areas in child feedoing, particularly the poor infrastructure for the Anganwadis was highlighted. The consensus was that despite all these shortcomings there must be an expansion of A...
by Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute SSMI | On 13 Mar 2008 The Bill seeks to amend the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961.
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 28 Feb 2008 People living in almost fifty percent of the districts in West Bengal are exposed to arsenic contaminated water. The economic costs imposed by arsenic-related health problems are estimated. Data from...
by Joyashree Roy | On 08 Feb 2008 A historical survey of transport to demonstrate that transport has always been recognised as of paramount importance for the wellbeing of the whole community, that a combination of collective and indi...
by Ralph Harrington | On 01 Feb 2008 A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agenci...
by Nicholas M Fisk | On 30 Jan 2008 This National Policy on the Voluntary Sector-2007 is the beginning of a process to evolve a new working relationship between the Government and the Voluntary Sector, without affecting the autonomy and...
by Planning Commission, India | On 29 Jan 2008 Review of The Social and the Symbolic edited by Edited by Bernard Bel, Jan Brouwer, Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Guy Poitevin; Sage, New Delhi; 2007, pp 481, Rs 895.
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 22 Jan 2008 This paper analyzes the situation of the Indo US Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture, by using the science studies approach.
by C. Shambu Prasad | On 16 Jan 2008 This study examines the impact of agrarian distress on the different socio-economic groups, the strategies of livelihood adopted by households and the local institution in shaping these strategies. Th...
by K.N. Nair | On 02 Jan 2008 Whether energy use drives economic growth or vice versa in the Indian context during the period 1970-71 to 2004-05 is examined. Utilizing the Granger causality test, the study suggests that it is the...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 17 Dec 2007 This document contains information and tools concerning testimonies of denial of health care – the stories of persons who have been denied essential health care from health facilities, and who have su...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan JSS | On 17 Dec 2007 When research takes place within the context of clinical care, how can we distinguish which activities constitute care, and which research? The editors of PLoS Medicine believe that open access to res...
by PLoS Medicine | On 30 Nov 2007 A method of collecting family histories that would act as a means of linking households from the panel studies with individual life histories is proposed. The procedure used to construct a three-gener...
by Robert Miller | On 07 Nov 2007 Performance Budget for 2005-2006 of Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH).
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 06 Nov 2007 Review of Community-based Natural Resource Management Issues and Cases from South Asia by Ajith Menon, Praveen Singh, Esha Shah, Sharachchandra Lele, Suhas Paranjape, K.J. Joy Sage Publications, New D...
by Santhakumar V | On 05 Nov 2007 What is the position of the Prime Minister among his Cabinet colleagues after signing the nuclear deal with the US?
by T.N. Ninan | On 15 Oct 2007 Majuli was once the largest river islands and the cultural home of the Asomiya community. Today, repeated floods of the Brahmaputra have ensured that the community has lost home and hearth to erosion...
by Apurba K. Baruah | On 07 Oct 2007 Idea on National Knowledge Commission, what it is and what are they trying to accomplish, ask for the audience support, understanding and also talk about the need for major reforms in University educa...
by Sam Pitroda | On 05 Oct 2007 Over the last decade there has been a major push within policy circles to strengthen community initiatives related to natural resources management. The success or failure of such projects is an import...
by Athula Senaratne | On 29 Aug 2007 This paper reports on the human aspect of a two-and-half-year collaboration between mathematics teachers of the City University of New York (CUNY), and grassroots organizers in rural Tamil Nadu. Repor...
by Vrunda Prabhu | On 19 Aug 2007 Environmental Issues in India: A Reader
Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan;
Pearson Longman, New Delhi;
Pp. 570, Rs 199.
by Vijay Laxmi Pandey | On 10 Aug 2007 This paper tries to advance the perspective that the poor and the marginalized in society lack a sense of “participatory equity,” by building a new model where a person’s community identity matters, e...
by Kaushik Basu | On 07 Aug 2007 This paper explores three important but interrelated issues: The power of example; the fragment as evidence; and finally, the field experience and the possibility of generalisation. These issues are...
by Paramjit S Judge | On 03 Aug 2007 Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method,...
by Zachariah KC | On 23 Jul 2007 The institutional delivery rate of Haryana is only 23 which is even lower than the all India figures (33). In order to reduce MMR and IMR, Govt. of Haryana has already initiated some programs. The imp...
by Haryana Health Ministry | On 20 Jul 2007 The relationship between Indian macro-economic factors and economic growth has been analyzed by a number of empirical studies. This paper re-examines the sources of variability in the Indian economy f...
by Bharat Chadha | On 26 Jun 2007 The paper provides the educational composition of the manufacturing workers in
the eighteen selected states of India during the last four NSSO rounds on Employment and Unemployment in India covering...
by Suresh Chand Aggarwal | On 13 Jun 2007 By using two large repeated cross-sections, one for the early 1990s, and one for the late 1990s, the growth in school enrolment is described and completion rates for boys and girls in India, and to ex...
by Sonia Bhalotra | On 22 Mar 2007 An attempt has been made to analyse agricultural growth and the contribution of various components to the overall output growth of the Maharashtra State for the period from 1961-62 to 1997-98. It is o...
by Shrikant Kalamkar | On 02 Mar 2007 Poverty, property rights and distributional implications of community-based resource management have become major topics of discussion and debate in recent years. This study tries to examine the contr...
by Bhim Adhikari | On 17 Feb 2007 Freshwater community-based aquaculture was introduce to village irrigation tanks in
the dry zones of Sri Lanka in order to off-set the limited supply of animal protein
available to residents in inla...
by Athula Senaratne | On 17 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 Devoted to the analysis of housing market in India, the paper employs a special
decomposition scheme for the structural VAR proposed by Blanchard and Quah to study the impact of permanent shocks to...
by Himanshu Joshi | On 10 Jan 2007 This study aims to investigate the impact of CFPR/TUP programme on the food and nutrient consumption. The report is presented in two parts- the first part is based on the comparison of food and energy...
by Farhana Haseen | On 19 Dec 2006 Although ‘Primary Health Care’, as outlined in the famous Alma Ata Declaration has been a central concept and strategy in the field of health care in the late 20th century, it has not found mention in...
by Anant Phadke | On 11 Dec 2006 Nabard’s Linking Banks and Self-Help Groups: with an outreach to 500,000
SHGs and a population of 40m rural poor, it is the largest non-directed microsavings & microcredit programme in the developing...
by Hans Dieter Seibel | On 21 Nov 2006 Data Exclusivity: Another Self-Goal and a Trade Barrier S.Srinivasan
Medico Friend Circle Letter to PM on DE
DE in International Trade Agreements
IDMA on DP and DE
Safeguards if Decision by Go...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 03 Nov 2006 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 Despite the general consensus that microfinance does not reach the poorest; recent evidence suggests that nearly 15% of microfinance clients in Bangladesh are among the poorest. It is from the realiza...
by Proloy Barua | On 25 Oct 2006 Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, ho...
by Valerie Ramey | On 06 Jun 2006 The number of elderly in the developing countries has been growing at a phenomenal rate; in 1990 the population of 60 years and above in the developing countries exceeded that of the developed countri...
by S. Irudaya Rajan | On 24 Apr 2006 Changes in the practices and norms of research have changed the dynamics of creation of knowledge. Issues of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and proprietary information and knowledge have begun to...
by Sambit Mallick | On 29 Mar 2006 This paper deals with the agrarian distress experienced in parts of rural Kerala from the latter half of the 1990s, and the ways in which the distress affected the livelihoods of cultivating household...
by R. Ramakumar | On 26 Mar 2006 Review of:
Communication Technology and Human Development: Recent Experiences in the Indian Social Sector by Avik Ghosh;
Sage Publications, New Delhi; 2006; Rs. 340.
by Devan Chandrasekher | On 23 Mar 2006 Does a social scientist need to renounce his ethnicity in order to be objective and unbiased? The issue of how and why scholars choose their subjects and approaches has been debated for almost a centu...
by Darshan Tatla | On 15 Mar 2006 Hospitals are an important component of the healthcare delivery system. Over the years, India has experienced a significant increase in the number iof hospital beds to meet the growing health demands...
by Ramesh Bhat | On 24 Feb 2006 In India, the recent decade has seen particularly dynamic changes in the economy
due to the economic reforms. This might have had a significant impact on the labour markets and also led to expansion...
by Jeemol Unni | On 16 Feb 2006 Health and health care inequities in Koppal reflect systematic hierarchies based on gender, caste, economic class, and life-stage; they also reveal systemic failures in health care services, both publ...
by Asha George | On 19 Jan 2006 The Cotonou Agreement introduces new fundamental principles with respect to trade between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries relative to the Lomé Convention: in particula...
by Alexander Keck | On 19 Dec 2005 There is a growing need to a more institutionalized economic arrangement in East
Asia. East Asia Economic Community might be an ideal form of such institution.
However, the road is still long and...
by A Damuri | On 23 Nov 2005 Inherenet weaknesses in AFTA and AEC and the need to counter regionalism in other parets of the world are some of the important reasons for evolving an East Asian Community. However, there are severa...
by Joseph Yap | On 23 Nov 2005 An East Asian community(EAC) is an idea now being seriously pursued in spite of significant challenges. Proliferating bilateral deals in Asia could emerge as building blocks towards the EAC, provided...
by Rahul Sen | On 22 Nov 2005 The enterprise of building an East Asian Community has already begun. The
process will indeed be long-term. Malaysia, from the beginning , has been
steadfast in not giving up on the concept. Despite...
by Stephen Leong | On 22 Nov 2005 Without trust-building, an East Asian community remains unrealized. The vision of an Asia-Pacific community offers a more attractive and viable option. A sound paradigm is community building and the w...
by David S. Hong | On 08 Nov 2005 EU's response to the East Asian community has to take account of several dimensions including Issues and dynamics of East Asian regional cooperation and integration; Scenarios of regional Community-bu...
by Willem vd Geest | On 08 Nov 2005 Medico Friend Circle, April-May 2005, featuring Background papers for annual Theme Meet on Quality and Cost of Health Care
by Anonymous | On 24 Aug 2005 With China’s access to World Trade Organization in November 2001, global competitions and local just-in-time productions became even more intense. Millions of migrant workers, in particular the young...
by Pun Ngai | On 31 Mar 2005 The working paper offers a conceptual basis for action research on internal controls in community finance institutions (CFIs) in rural Cambodia. A CFI is defined as “an institution that specializes in...
by Brett Matthews | On 31 Mar 2005 Membership based organisations are an increasingly important institutional form, encountered both in the social theories we use and in the practices of people we study. An examination of these organis...
by Joseph Devine | On 31 Mar 2005 |