This study intends to understand the magnitude and nature of indebtedness among rural
poor households in Kerala. The study d analyses
the role played by various sources in meeting the credit requir...
by Aswathi Rebecca Asok | On 08 Mar 2021 Contents:
Editorial: Safdar Rahman, Tavishi Ahluwalia, Teresa Vanmalsawmi, Urwa Tul Wusqa
The Political Economy of Governmental Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis: A Migrant Workers’ Perspective: Kani...
by | On 02 Feb 2021 While tourism may support a town economy, it can also damage the environment and ecology of the surrounding villages and destroy common grazing lands. Here’s how two villages fought to preserve their...
by Anjali P Iyer | On 06 Dec 2020 Prakriti Karyashala, launched in 2012 through the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), to respond to the rising needs of rural communities to respond to ecological change. It trains a cadre of f...
by Anjali P Iyer | On 20 Nov 2020 In this paper, we describe the results of analyzing a large-scale survey, called the Covid19Impact survey, to assess citizens’ feedback on four areas related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain: social...
by | On 12 Jun 2020 • The development of an effective treatment and vaccine for COVID-19 is key to ending the pandemic and resuming social and economic activity. An international research effort to this end is underway.
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by | On 02 Jun 2020 Over 90,000 women, the ASHA workers at the community level, are at the centre of the public health system especially in the rural areas have been working non-stop during this pandemic. But they are no...
by | On 22 May 2020 For a COVID-19 like pandemic, the Achilles heel is an unsuspecting villain – rapid and global land use changes. The way governments, businesses and communities see, relate to and use land, not only in...
by | On 12 May 2020 This note describes some of the early policy developments in the UK and the way in
which the framing and understanding of a novel economic problem evolved to include
a focus on livelihoods combining...
by Paul Anand | On 01 May 2020 The public lecture by Dr. Sarah Hodges, organised by the Forum for Medical Ethics Society with the Centre for Law and Society, School of Law, and Constitutional Governance, Centre for Public Health, S...
by Sarah Hodges | On 22 Mar 2019 The study attempts a comparative assessment of the changing employment situation in major Indian states, measured in terms of worker-population ratios and the distribution of workers into status group...
by A.V. Jose | On 01 Feb 2019 This paper describes the Indian credit market and presents an argument for the need for personal insolvency law. It provides a brief overview of the provisions on personal insolvency in the IBC. It ma...
by Renuka Sane | On 30 Jan 2019 This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that spread across and within countries over fifty years. Apart from differences in initial...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 14 Jan 2019 This article applies theoretical concepts from the law and economics literature on insolvency to identify the sources of these two problems in insolvency law. It then applies these theoretical concept...
by Pratik Datta | On 07 Jan 2019 Solar lanterns are promoted across rural sub-Saharan Africa to improve both lighting in homes and educational outcomes. It undertakes a randomized controlled trial in Zimba District, Zambia, to evalua...
by Ognen Stojanovski | On 03 Jan 2019 This paper exploits the recent molecular genetics evidence on the genetic basis of arsenic excretion and unique information on family links among respondents living in different environments from a la...
by Mark M. Pitt | On 22 Nov 2018 Surface irrigation is a common pool resource characterized by asymmetric appropriation opportunities across upstream and downstream water users. Large canal systems are also predominantly state-manage...
by Hanan G. Jacoby | On 04 Oct 2018 This paper examines how women’s participation in family decision-making is affected by land rights in rural areas in India. The 2005 Hindu Succession Act was legislated to protect women’s rights to an...
by Harold Glenn A. Valera | On 26 Sep 2018 Risk management is a systematic approach to determine which goods and passengers need
to be examined in detail when entering a country. It involves (i) collecting, storing, and
analyzing data to und...
by Asian Development Bank | On 19 Sep 2018 Private–public partnership (PPP) methods are considered to be an effective way to narrow the gap between demand and supply of social infrastructure. If successfully pursued, PPP can deliver benefits t...
by Jungwook Kim | On 19 Sep 2018 In this paper, results of the 2015 Survey of Innovation Activities (SIA), conducted by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), are described and discussed. Survey results suggest that...
by Jose Ramon G. Albert | On 10 Sep 2018 This Policy Note revisits the country’s efforts to achieve gender equality focusing on the rural and agriculture sector. It likewise recommends measures to enrich the policy narratives on women in the...
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 30 Aug 2018 This paper is part of the joint project of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the Institute of Developing Economies looked into the school participation of children with disab...
by Adrian D. Agbon | On 03 Jul 2018 In recent years there has been an increased role for health insurance in Indian health care, through government funded health insurance programs and privately purchased health insurance. Our analysis...
by Shefali Malhotra | On 15 Jun 2018 This paper reviews the existing framework for infrastructure development and the associated standards in India, and identifies areas for concern. Rather than deeply analysing any one standard, this pa...
by Sanhita Sapatnekar | On 15 Jun 2018 Financial inclusion has significantly advanced in Armenia during the last decade. Rural and urban areas, however, have benefited unevenly. The high cost of providing financial services, the lack of ph...
by Armen Nurbekyan | On 07 Jun 2018 This paper is to studies how manufacturing plants in India adjusted to trade liberalization during the period 1998–99 to 2007–08. It estimates how the labor share changed due to tariff reduction. The...
by Prachi Gupta | On 05 Jun 2018 The paper theoretically and empirically show that dismissal laws and laws that impose hurdles on firing of employees - spur innovation and thereby economic growth. Theoretically, dismissal laws make i...
by Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian | On 29 May 2018 Biofuels are derived from renewable bio
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mass resources and, therefore,
provide a strategic advantage to promote sustainable development and to
supplement conventional...
by Government of India GOI | On 17 May 2018 This paper studies the relationship between rural wage growth and inflation in
India to assess the risk of a wage
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price spiral to the inflation trajectory.
The
results...
by Sujata Kundu | On 14 May 2018 Venkat Iyer was living a fast-paced life in the IT world in Mumbai when he decided to stop
and take a long, hard look at where he was headed. Disheartened by his stressful existence
in the city, h...
by | On 25 Apr 2018 The study comes at a crucial time when key actors as well as the general
public would like to know more about how effective is the implementation of the main law protecting
children from sexual abus...
by Bharti Ali | On 24 Apr 2018 Nithya D J is a Nutritionist at MSSRF with a doctorate degree in Food Science and Nutrition from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. She has worked as Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Cro...
by Nithya D J | On 24 Apr 2018 Existing research on “access to justice” has shown how the understanding of the term developed as the human rights approach gained ground. The conventional notion of access to justice was limited to s...
by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights | On 20 Apr 2018 This briefing provides an overview of the key factors that have influenced the European Commission’s carding decisions to date.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 06 Apr 2018 MGNREGS, the premier centrally-sponsored national rural
livelihood scheme, is one of the most elaborately designed and
implemented public workfare programmes in India. While a large number
of studi...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 05 Apr 2018 This paper analyses the way households in rural China use rural-urban migration and
off-farm work as a response to negative productivity shocks in agriculture. I employ
various waves of a longitudin...
by Luigi Minale | On 04 Apr 2018 This study will focus on the natural hill forests found in the northern region of Pakistan, particularly the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP).
by Lubna Hasan | On 26 Mar 2018 This chapter reviews theoretical and empirical research on the relationship between legal
systems and innovation and culture and innovation. We highlight legal and cultural forces
that encourage inn...
by | On 23 Mar 2018 The National Health Mission (NHM) encompasses two sub-missions, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM).
by Rajya Sabha Secretariat | On 23 Mar 2018 With a population nearing 60 million, half of which occupies the two major cities of Karachi and Hyderabad, Sindh is the only province with a rural population in the minority. Research conducted by PI...
by Salman Rashid | On 21 Mar 2018 The paper examines the impact of conditional fiscal transfers on public employment across gender in India taking the case of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). Th...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 19 Mar 2018 The paper aims at examining impact of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) on higher education and to identifying major impediments that
have resulted in slow penetration of ICTs in high...
by Kaushalesh Lal | On 19 Mar 2018 Gender budgeting is a fiscal approach that seeks to use a country’s national and/or local budget(s) to reduce inequality and promote economic growth and equitable development. While literature has exp...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 16 Mar 2018 In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh, India issued an emergency ordinance, bringing microfinance activities in the state to a complete halt and causing a nation-wide shock to the li...
by Emily Breza | On 10 Mar 2018 Following the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004,
Tamil Nadu lost about 8,000 people and the
lives and livelihoods of over 897,000 families
were affected. In 2015, Chennai, the capital city
of Tamil Nad...
by | On 09 Mar 2018 This 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 is a critique of this experiment to draw lessons for the other Indian states (which still lag way behind Kerala) and for Kerala State itself to put decentralization and democratic practices...
by M.A. Oommen | On 16 Feb 2018 The paper says that the region is plagued with piracy and has also witnessed maritime terrorism related activities, drug smuggling, gun running and illegal migration.
by Vijay Sakhuja | On 09 Feb 2018 This paper offers an analysis of the causes behind the changing philosophy and practices of one of the well-known crime organizations from India to move closer towards terrorism to support its crimina...
by Ajey Lele | On 09 Feb 2018 This paper aims to scrutinize the dilemmas involved in governing sustainable cities, and it offers a suggestion for how the challenge might be addressed.
by Joakim Öjendal | On 08 Feb 2018 This paper analyses the interrelationships between gender, poverty and environmental change
in rural India, focusing especially on variations across regions and shifts over time during the
past two...
by Bina Agarwal | On 05 Feb 2018 Speech of Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance on February 1, 2018
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2018 most of the major policy measures promised by this government to the Indian
farmers have not seen the light of the day. No social security measures have been taken for
farmers above the age of 60 or...
by ASHA Kisan Swaraj Alliance | On 31 Jan 2018 Book review of 'Playing through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town' by S L Price, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2016. x + 550 pp. $27.00.
Journalist S. L. Price tells a story of h...
by | On 26 Jan 2018 Budget analysis entails analysis and assessment of budget from the lens of marginalised sections
of population with the objective of prioritisation of public
expenditures and collection of revenues...
by Happy Pant | On 17 Jan 2018 Property is widely recognized as an important resource for empowering women. Many development
policies worldwide therefore call for strengthening women’s rights to property, especially to physical
a...
by Rajendra Pradhan | On 11 Jan 2018 A Bill further to amend the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act, 1981. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:
This Act may be ca...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 09 Jan 2018 This paper narrates that during the first week of January 2017, many in Pakistan were surprised, when the government allowed the earlier Parliamentary legislation on the military courts to elapse.
by D. Chandran | On 09 Jan 2018 Migration is a global phenomenon, and will continue to do so in the near future. Every country aspires to regulate migration according to their requirements. But, not all country is successful. Hence...
by | On 04 Jan 2018 Shukhrat Berdyev’s story (in Diary of a Gastarbeiter ) is a familiar one of a middle aged Uzbek school teacher who in the post-Soviet era is faced with the prospect of traveling to Moscow to work as a...
by | On 02 Jan 2018 This paper tries to lay bare the intertwined histories of rehabilitation of the refugees from East Pakistan and the development of the city of Calcutta in the initial decades after the partition of Br...
by | On 02 Jan 2018 The case studies undertaken mainly from India revealed that a large number of local and village communities and also from backward communities are involved in the production of the GIs products.
by N. Gopalakrishnan | On 28 Dec 2017 This paper discusses the practice of energy dual pricing in the broader context of fossil fuel subsidy reform.
by Anna Marhold | On 20 Dec 2017 This paper studies the mechanism through which intellectual property rights (IPR) protection can influence the impact of skilled migration on innovation activities in developing countries. We argue th...
by | On 18 Dec 2017 This paper aims to promote competitive access for telecommunications providers.
by Krystal Uy | On 14 Dec 2017 Using data from 1961 to 2001, the paper shows the impact on crime of two age-specific sex ratios corresponding to pre-marital (ages 10 to 16) and marriageable (ages 20 to 26) age groups in India. To d...
by Rashmi Barua | On 12 Dec 2017 The understanding of consumption patterns of the households of different income groups is essential for the development of successful food security policies. In recent years the studies on consumption...
by | On 08 Dec 2017 The report outlines and critically assesses trends in urban planning education across the globe, specifically in countries of the global South, and the extent to which curricula address issues of incl...
by Vanessa Watson | On 07 Dec 2017 The results of this study indicate that climate change acts in combination with many other socioeconomic determinants of migration.
by Fahad Saeed | On 04 Dec 2017 The paper evaluates a Finish student financing reform which created substantial financial incentives for on-time graduation, and had the side effect of turning expected nominal interest rates on stude...
by Ulla Hämäläinen | On 01 Dec 2017 Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? The paper examines a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a “culture of...
by Gil S. Epstein | On 21 Nov 2017 This paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural a...
by | On 20 Nov 2017 With the onset of wide-ranging economic reforms in India in 1991, agents have been exposed to increased price risk in commodity markets. Futures markets are one important instrument for reducing price...
by Raushan Kumar | On 07 Nov 2017 This paper attempts to address the impact of the MGNREGA on the rural agricultural sector, focusing on cropping patterns, irrigated area, crop yields, wages and rural employment. The analysis is based...
by Deepak Varshney | On 06 Nov 2017 This approach helps to publish timely, reasonably accurate and globally comparable estimates.
by Wage Indicator | On 23 Oct 2017 The report narrates that the COBRA is the web-based system for the WageIndicator Labour Law database.
by Kea Tijdens | On 23 Oct 2017 This paper, however, demonstrates
that the effective history of thinking about political representation in the
form of reservations for women is as old as the women’s movement itself.
Feminist enga...
by Mary E. John | On 28 Sep 2017 This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance.
by Luc Christiaensen | On 27 Sep 2017 This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets.
by Ravi Kanbur | On 27 Sep 2017 The authors study the effect of state medical marijuana laws (MMLs) on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Workers' Compensation (WC) claiming. The paper uses data on benefit claiming draw...
by Johanna Catherine Maclean | On 25 Sep 2017 The reports discuss the methodological challenges of gathering data on missing migrants.
by Frank Laczko | On 25 Sep 2017 This paper introduces a new dataset of orders passed by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in the insolvency cases under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code or IBC. It builds this dataset to atte...
by Sreyan Chatterjee | On 18 Sep 2017 The World Health Organization considered that its mission demanded it
should play a part in this debate, with the objective of illuminating how intellectual property rights might affect public health...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 14 Sep 2017 Shifting cultivation remains the main source of employment for large sections of the rural people who depend on agriculture for their livelihood in the hill areas of Manipur. Its inputs continue to be...
by Marchang Reimeingam | On 12 Sep 2017 The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border security...
by Jan van Ours | On 17 Aug 2017 The analysis, based on extensive fieldwork carried out over a three-year period, shows successful implementation of GRB in the region to be hindered not only by barriers such as lack of political comm...
by Andrea Spehar | On 11 Aug 2017 This paper undertakes an evaluation of the Labour and Environment chapters of the TPP Agreement, with a view to determining India’s stand if the same or similar provisions are proposed in multilateral...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 08 Aug 2017 This paper, based on a primary survey of companies engaged in organic food business in India and the United Kingdom (UK), examines how organic food can attract more investment (domestic and foreign) a...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 08 Aug 2017 The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) released an audit report on the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) programme under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) on July 21, 2017. The Re...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 07 Aug 2017 This paper considers arguments about Islam and women’s welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic elements treat women, with a focus on how women fare in Islamic family courts. Ke...
by John R. Bowen | On 02 Aug 2017 The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Globally 54 percent population lives in urban areas today (UN 2014). Although Asia is still relatively more rural than the Americas and the Europe, it is...
by Tanuka Endow | On 02 Aug 2017 One of the key components in achieving a substantial reduction in tobacco use and associated disease, economic and ecologic burden in India is to strengthen the governance for tobacco control. In the...
by Dr. Upendra Bhojani | On 01 Aug 2017 This paper purports to understand whether voting along narrow parochial lines in socially and ethnically fragmented societies has measurable gains. Using data from rural India, we establish that ident...
by Raghbendra Jha | On 31 Jul 2017 The study explores ground-level realities linked with initiatives on tax administration, construction permits, transparency, compliance with environmental and labour laws and regulations, and inspecti...
by Research National Council of Applied Economic | On 31 Jul 2017 The Asia and the Pacific region has the largest number of family farms in the world. It is home to 60 per cent of the world’s population and to 74 per cent of the world’s family farmers, with China al...
by Jingzhong Ye | On 30 Jul 2017 his series of project publications aims to capture the tools, methods, and processes developed under the EC and ILO joint project entitled “Strengthening the
Impact on Employment of Sector and Trade...
by Internaional Labour Organization [ILO] | On 28 Jul 2017 Rural poverty continues to be a scourge in India, affecting tens of millions of households despite years of strong economic growth for the country overall. In 2005, the government of India created the...
by Government of India & Employment | On 26 Jul 2017 The study investigates whether the farmers’ perception of changes in climate have led to any changes in their farming practices over the last three decades. The study surveyed 496 farmers living near...
by Nanda Kaji Budhathoki | On 25 Jul 2017 The report narrates that in Bangladesh, women-owned SMEs have different characteristics when compared with men-owned SMEs and tend to face specific challenges and obstacles.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 25 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 With export demand stronger than expected in the first quarter of 2017, the region’s GDP is forecast to expand somewhat faster than forecast in April in Asian Development Outlook 2017.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jul 2017 Book review of Feminists and Science: Critiques and Changing Perspectives in India, Edited by Sumi Krishna and Gita Chadha (Ed.);
Sage/Stree, New Delhi/Kolkata; 2017, Pp. 380, Rs 626.
by S Srinivasan | On 18 Jul 2017 The purpose of this note is to help development practitioners gather relevant information, conduct analysis, and present both in a standardized diagnostic framework. In addition to the guidance note i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 This 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 The results of the study indicate that climate change will likely have significant negative impacts on agricultural output in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands.
by M.W. Rosegrant | On 05 Jul 2017 This report summarizes findings and policy recommendations for the government's 13th Five-Year Plan.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 The video, produced as part of the AusAID-UNDP Climate Change Adaptation Programme, shares experiences of small and marginal farmers practicing integrated bio-pest management. It encourages farmers to...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 27 Jun 2017 This paper presents a summary of a technical assistance project on the development of disaster risk financing solutions for the cities of Can Tho and Hue and, by extension, for other cities in Viet Na...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 26 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 identifies some of Thailand’s critical development constraints and discusses policy measures and economic reforms needed to accelerate economic transformation toward a more modern and serv...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jun 2017 The report summarizes important lessons learned and policy implications from the first year of Village Law implementation.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Jun 2017 This report reviews trade and transport procedures in Bangladesh, highlights the importance of monitoring trade and transport facilitation, and lays a foundation for future studies and establishment o...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jun 2017 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 The report narrates that the Sanjiang Plain wetlands are among the most important wetlands in the People’s Republic of China with unique habitats, species, and ecology. There is a considerable body of...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 Jun 2017 This report narrates that ADB has scaled up its assistance to Papua New Guinea for power infrastructure, with an emphasis on clean energy solutions, in line with the government’s prioritization of pow...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 Jun 2017 This report presents the case study of that project, whose special features include responsiveness to local contexts and to conditions created by conflict, a well-coordinated system for women collecti...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jun 2017 Rural roads and rural transport services are fundamental to reducing rural poverty and enabling social and economic development. Evidence from Myanmar, and from around the world, makes it clear that a...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jun 2017 The report narrates that in 2015, there were about five lakh road accidents in India, which killed about 1.5 lakh people and injured about five lakh people. India, as a signatory to the Brasilia decla...
by Prachee Mishra | On 30 May 2017 Under the Constitution of India, for a bill to be enacted into a law, it has to be approved by both Houses of the Parliament - the Lower House (Lok Sabha) and the Upper House (Rajya Sabha). There is o...
by Pratik Datta | On 26 May 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 This paper narrates that elections impact everyone in the entire country – citizens, businesses, administrative machinery, constitutional institutions, political parties, leaders and so on. Eventual i...
by Bibek Debroy | On 18 May 2017 It has been observed that even though the Indian economy has achieved remarkable economic growth along with a decline in poverty over the last two decades, improvements in nutritional status have not...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 May 2017 This paper analyzes interdependencies between optimal trade policy and 'preferred' liability doctrine to assess infringement damages, when intellectual property rights are probabilistic, in a model of...
by Apurva Dey | On 16 May 2017 The paper narrates that the Government of Japan raises significant amounts from domestic capital markets to finance government expenditures, mainly through the issuance of Japanese Government Bonds (J...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 May 2017 The paper says that the government has continued to issue bonds since then with the primary objectives being to finance the annual budget deficit, support social and economic development, and restruct...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 May 2017 The paper narrates that the specific needs of the Pacific in the process of urbanization must be recognized and adequately addressed in the post-2015 development agenda. Key priorities include upgradi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 ADB recognizes four types of fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS)—conflict-affected, fragile,transitional, and subnational—and each situation has its own unique set of characteristics, and...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 May 2017 This paper draws on the background research by Saumya Mitra. PSDI thanks Erik Aelbers for preparing Appendix 2: Credit Guarantee Schemes in the Pacific, and Melissa Dayrit and Amanda Lucas-Frith for h...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 The paper mentions that over the 25 years that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has partnered with Mongolia, the country continues to be defined to a certain extent by its transition to free market re...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2017 it becomes important to view the level of press freedom in India in the wider context of societal freedom. The press cannot be truly free when facilitat...
by The Hoot the hoot.org | 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 report explores three entry points to the theme of poverty and prosperity: (i) managing
urbanization for inclusive development, (ii) strengthening responses to rural poverty in the context of
t...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 In 2015, there were about five lakh road accidents in India, which killed about 1.5 lakh people and injured about five lakh
people. India, as a signatory to the Brasilia declaration, intends to reduc...
by Prachee Mishra | On 30 Mar 2017 Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of perso...
by | On 16 Mar 2017 a major challenge
before Indian agriculture is the standardization of methods of providing the
power and economy of scale to small producers. A serious problem confronting our agriculture is the di...
by M. S. Swaminathan | On 14 Mar 2017 Finance Minister of Delhi Shri Manish Sisodia presented the budget of Delhi.
by Manish Sisodia | On 10 Mar 2017 In national accounts, government expenditures are used to measure the value of public
spending. These expenditures grossly overestimate the value of services received by
Indian households because th...
by Anders Kjelsrud | On 01 Mar 2017 The report captures the importance of shaping macro-economic policies so they support inclusive growth, and ensuring that women entrepreneurs have access to technology and finance. It also highlights...
by | On 21 Feb 2017 The situation today is that domestic violence is treated as a `social crime’ when compared with violence by strangers, even though it is much more severe in nature. Why is wife beating considered as a...
by Shalu Nigam | On 21 Feb 2017 Through a broad portrayal of character of its development, changing
urban patterns, nature of urban economic structure and contents of
urban development policies, this paper takes a political econom...
by Biswaroop Das | On 17 Feb 2017 India is increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks that range from intrusions that affect the integrity of data to large-scale attacks aimed at bringing down critical infrastructure. This vulnerability...
by | On 03 Feb 2017 Demonetization is the act of stripping a currency unit of its status as legal tender. Demonetization is necessary whenever there is a change of national currency. The old unit of currency must be reti...
by | On 18 Jan 2017 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Haseeb A. Drabu, presented the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir
for financial year 2017-18 on January 11, 2017.
by Arvind Gayam | On 17 Jan 2017 The demographic structure of South Asian countries are rapidly transforming, which can greatly influence future rice production and consumption in the region. Literature on the impact of demographic t...
by | On 11 Jan 2017 India registered rapid economic growth over the past couple of years, with the GDP growing 7.6 percent in 2015-2016. While economic activity remains buoyant, however, the country still has a long way...
by | On 11 Jan 2017 This paper examines the impacts of social pension provision among people of different ages. Utilizing the county-by-county rollout of the New Rural Pension Scheme in rural China, we find that, among t...
by | On 10 Jan 2017 Shortage of electricity prompted the countries to give a momentum to renewable energy resources. Renewable energy refers to energy resources that Aries naturally and repeatedly in the environment and...
by | On 04 Jan 2017 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 Much empirical research has shown that individuals’ decisions to adopt a new technology are the result of learning–both through personal experimentation through observing the experimentation of others...
by Jared Gars | On 03 Jan 2017 Demonetisation of INR 500 and INR 1,000 notes in India on November 8, 2016 is different from
many other countries’ scrapping of high value notes in two respects – the withdrawal of their
legal tende...
by Ashok K. Lahiri | On 02 Jan 2017 The policies needed to promote financial inclusion in the digital age were discussed
at an international conference held at the Asian Development Bank Institute.
The event took place on 7–8 April 2...
by Shawn Hunter | On 29 Dec 2016 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 India’s juvenile Justice Law started its journey in 1919-20 with Indian Jail Committee’s
recommendation that children be removed from Jails. This mandate remains unfulfilled till date.
One will stil...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 23 Dec 2016 This paper analyses the trends and pattern of women’s employment in rural India using unit data from two types of large scale surveys. It shows that while rural women’s employment has grown over the d...
by | On 20 Dec 2016 Despite increases in women’s employment, significant gender disparity exists in the time men and women spend on household and care work. Understanding how social expectations govern gender roles and c...
by Greg Seymour | On 15 Dec 2016 State legislatures are responsible for making laws on key subjects like land, police and health. They are also
tasked with approving the expenditure of money for their respective states every year. T...
by Prianka Rao | On 30 Nov 2016 This study investigates the consequences of poor implementation in public workfare programs, focusing
on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in India. Using
national...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 29 Nov 2016 With the farm sector continuing with unimpressive performance in terms
of the growth of value of output, agricultural infrastructure and also sustained
massive rise in the landless agricultural labo...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Nov 2016 This paper represents a holistic study of the multifaceted notion of stranded migrants, which gained renewed attention by international actors in the past decade, and especially in relation to the 201...
by | On 28 Nov 2016 This article focuses on Chinese female rural migrant workers. Based on the survey data collected in Anhui and Sichuan provinces of China, the article investigates gender aspects of Chinese rural-urban...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the Winter Session between November 16 and
December 16, 2016. There will be a total of 22 sittings.
The agenda for legislation includes ten Bills for consider...
by Kusum Malik | On 14 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 This paper seeks to measure the extent to which Indian regulators are responsive in the performance of
their functions. The paper focuses on one function common to all Indian statutory regulators, na...
by Anirudh Burman | On 08 Nov 2016 Presently, there is a constant intense debate on labour law reforms in India. It is argued that the restrictive labour laws create rigidity in the labour market or else the Indian economy would have w...
by | On 03 Nov 2016 This issue is particularly crucial in the present climate of privatization associated with structural adjustment policies. The intellectual tradition behind these policies assumes that the withdrawal...
by Sonalde Desai | On 02 Nov 2016 The rape followed by the death of a New Delhi university student in December 2012 shamed India and her cultural ethos while sparking nationwide debate over the need to make laws more stringent if not...
by | On 02 Nov 2016 It will be argued that while modernization in India has allowed for small improvements to women's autonomy, in rural India today the little autonomy women do have is constricted through traditional no...
by | On 02 Nov 2016 Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between
benefits and costs determines the level, speed, and place of urbanization. This paper
summarizes research finding...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 28 Oct 2016 This paper deals with the evolution of laws, institutions and polices relating to
environmental protection in India. It considers the following questions : (a) whether the
laws are evolved indigenou...
by U. Sankar | On 28 Oct 2016 While discussing about the problems and issues faced by children in India, we have overlooked a category of
children that are almost always overlooked are the ‘Children in Conflict with the Law’. Man...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 24 Oct 2016 The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on zero hunger is a top priority on the international agenda, and eliminating hunger globally is naturally and inevitably tied to farming. Therefore, the SDGs ha...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 The right to food is about freedom from hunger. The narrow meaning at hunger may be understood as the right to have two square meals a day, while in its broader meaning would include under nutrition....
by Johani Xaxa | On 17 Oct 2016 To provide for protection of rights of transgender persons and their welfare and for
matters connected therewith and incidental thereto. [Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment unde...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 13 Oct 2016 MGNREGS, the premier centrally-sponsored national rural
livelihood scheme, is one of the most elaborately designed and
implemented public workfare programmes in India. While a large number
of studi...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 10 Oct 2016 We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing im...
by | On 10 Oct 2016 A large number of people are being imprisoned largely under ordinary laws, just because they happen to live in regions where conflict/movement is going on. People are randomly picked up and booked und...
by Coordination for Democratic Rights Organisations CDRO | On 03 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 the last 50 years of feminist activism in India has managed to challenge the 5,000 years of patriarchal order. the main achievements were the deconstruction of violence against women, questioning of m...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 22 Sep 2016 This paper focuses on the dispute over river Cauvery in Southern India. Among the causes of river water disputes are contested property rights, difficulty in enforcing such rights, conflict of uses an...
by | On 20 Sep 2016 On 9th March 2016, the media reported an accident at a construction site of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi in which two workers were killed and three were injured. In less than...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 20 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 This brief focuses on the pathway from agricultural income to better diets, health, and nutrition, illustrated in blue in the figure below. However, all of the pathways are interrelated. Agricultural...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 This paper analyses the trends, nature and extent of out-migration from South Asia and its neighbouring countries like Afghanistan and Iran and examines the economic implications in both sending and r...
by | On 06 Sep 2016 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 Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students’ enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 In the paper, an informal preschool program is described that Akshara Foundation administered over 12 months in a set of non-notified slums in Bengaluru. The intervention is particularly noteworthy be...
by K. Vaijayanti | On 29 Aug 2016 The big challenge of the new century is the reduction of poverty. Virtually all countries and donors agree on the importance of reducing poverty and its attendant problems of inequity, lack of respect...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 24 Aug 2016 Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. S...
by | On 22 Aug 2016 This paper studies the entire class of liability rules,
and considers the bilateral care accidents. It is shown that the ‘causationconsistent’ liability provides a basis for an efficiency characteriz...
by Ram Singh | On 19 Aug 2016 This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 reviews the effectiveness of social protection interventions in reducing poverty, raising food consumption, relieving household food insecurity a...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 Aug 2016 This Work Programme will leverage research and innovation to address major societal challenges. Ensuring food and nutritional security, together with resource efficiency, and facing climate change. Ac...
by European union | On 09 Aug 2016 India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within three years. The program guarantees 100 days of employment per year at minimum wa...
by Satadru Das | On 09 Aug 2016 This paper analyses changes in China’s relations with socialist countries. It uses Chinese academic publications to add an inside-out perspective to the interpretation of Chinese foreign policy and ou...
by | On 05 Aug 2016 This section looks at a range of factors that enable progress towards food security and nutrition goals. The list of factors – economic growth, agricultural productivity growth, markets (including int...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 03 Aug 2016 Achieving gender equality has become a development challenge for India. Women are entitled to live with dignity in society and enjoy freedom from humiliation, fear, exploitation and every type of viol...
by Sanghamitra Deobhanj | On 28 Jul 2016 Drawing on data from the 2006 China General Social Survey, propensity score matching was used to investigate the impact of rural-to-urban migration on family and gender values in China at distinct sta...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 The identification of gendered ramifications of migratory processes has meant greater attention has been paid by policymakers and scholars alike than has been done previously. There are a number of re...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 The MDG on hunger requires that the proportion of people suffering from hunger be halved between 1990 and 2015. Behind this apparently simple statement lies much complexity: the food intake required t...
by | On 19 Jul 2016 China’s rejection of the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling on its expansive claim to the South China Sea has set itself up for confrontation with maritime states in Southeast Asia. It will also he...
by | On 18 Jul 2016 The South China Sea disputes involve the interests of the United States, particularly with regard to freedom of navigation, international norms and law, relations with important partners and allies, a...
by | On 13 Jul 2016 A wholesome policy framework for the benefit of the farmers of the State is in place since 2008 with a focus more on the economic well-being of the farmers, rather than just on production and growth....
by Government of Odisha | On 11 Jul 2016 The rural structural distinctiveness in terms of resource endowments and factors of production often has bearings on livelihood and well-being of their people, constraining improvement in the economic...
by Rajiv Mehta | On 11 Jul 2016 This paper makes use of the most recent social pension reform in rural China to examine whether receipt of the pension payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression di...
by Xi Chen | On 11 Jul 2016 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 In this paper, the evolution of the corporate insolvency resolution framework, with the objective of linking it back to the policy directive of the time is described. It is concluded that when policy...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 09 Jul 2016 This briefing document articulates a grand strategy for India to pursue the development of cyber and cyber-physical weapons, with a view to manage conflicts and the future balance of power in Asia.Ind...
by | On 07 Jul 2016 This report has benefited from substantial input from many people, including the members of the Thematic Group and hundreds of suggestions received from experts representing all sectors of agriculture...
by | On 05 Jul 2016 Many art crimes exist in Asia, where looting and trafficking of regional artefacts have developed extensively in contemporary times. The sophisticated methods of looters and middlemen, the highly effi...
by Stefan Gruber | On 30 Jun 2016 Human society has witnessed adventure with knowledge
resulting in scientific understanding of the secrets of nature
and converting them into technological innovations resulting
in metamorphosis of...
by Prabuddha Ganguli | On 30 Jun 2016 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 According to the NSSO (66th round of Survey) on Child Labour in Major Indian States, 2009-10 in the (Age group 5-14) is 49.83 lakh. Poverty and social conditions of the family are main reasons childre...
by | On 27 Jun 2016 Do ruling parties positively discriminate in favour of their own constituencies in allocating public resources? If they do, do they gain electorally in engaging in such a practice? This paper tests wh...
by Subhasish Dey | On 27 Jun 2016 The existence of an inverse relationship between farm size and output per unit of land is well documented. However, little research focuses on if and how an inverse relationship between farm size and...
by Klaus Deininger | On 27 Jun 2016 The study attempts to measure the total benefits from rice varietal improvement research in China and India using variety adoption and performance data over the last two decades. It then uses informat...
by | On 23 Jun 2016 The goal of this paper is to describe and analyze the relationship between ability tracking and student social capital, in the context of poor students in developing countries. Drawing on the results...
by Fan Li | On 23 Jun 2016 The present report is a result of efforts that were spread over a period of more than a year (2013
– 2014) and included two national level consultations and sharing meetings held in Delhi, visit to m...
by Simpreet . | On 23 Jun 2016 Small land holders dominate Indian agriculture, and need off-farm income for survival. Analysis shows that for sufficient off-farm income
opportunities, growth in agriculture, manufacturing, or touri...
by Brajesh Jha | On 22 Jun 2016 This study uses the theory of social capital and social cognition to understand the drivers of Internet use from the perspective of outcome expectations and self-efficacy. The primary research questi...
by Rekha Jain | On 21 Jun 2016 India’s expanding partnership with Afghanistan has grown into multi-sectoral activities in all parts of Afghanistan. India’s reconstruction and developmental programmes in Afghanistan follow prioritie...
by Ministry of External Affairs, GoI MEA | On 21 Jun 2016 The present study has been conducted in the rural and urban areas of 9 districts of 9 commissionaries
in Bihar. A random sample of 375 families is drawn from different socio-economic backgrounds. The...
by CARE India | On 20 Jun 2016 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 comprehensive research found significant impediments preventing victims of trafficking from using the courts: from the lack of specialised legal assistance, to the absence of protection for those...
by The Thomson Reuters Foundation | On 17 Jun 2016 Land degradation and desertification pose an ever - increasing
global environmental threat. Human activities such as over cultivation,
overgrazing, deforestation and poor irrigation practices, along...
by Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO | On 17 Jun 2016 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 This paper contains the annual report 2010 of Ministry of Finance and Planning, Government of Sri Lanka.
by Ministry of Finance and Planning, Govt of Sri Lanka | On 15 Jun 2016 In order to encourage prosecution of sexual offences, mandatory reporting was introduced by the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (“POCSO Act”), and in 2013 the Criminal Law was am...
by | On 15 Jun 2016 The article gives the guidelines for setting up the Anganwadi centres under the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS). The Government is committed to repositioning the Anganwadi Centre (AWC) as “...
by Ministry of Rural Development GoI | On 10 Jun 2016 Today’s food and farming systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of foods to global markets, but are generating negative outcomes on multiple fronts: widespread degradation of land, water an...
by | On 10 Jun 2016 According to a report from the Mckinsey Global Institute, India is set to witness a leap in urban population by almost 25 crore over the next 20 years. That translates to roughly 35,000 more people in...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 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 Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts fo...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 The chapter tries to identify three dimensions of land rights – the type of ownership, tenants’ rights, and the right to transfer – to categorise the diversity of land tenures in colonial India. Also,...
by Anand Swamy | On 08 Jun 2016 Technology and the Internet have triggered important changes to how creative works are created, accessed and how creators and copyright-based industries generate their revenues. In this chapter, the e...
by Sacha Wunsch-Vincent | On 08 Jun 2016 This Occasional Paper shows the evolution of confiscation law in Taiwan. It reviews the
current state of confiscation laws and policies in Taiwan and also proposes suggestions
for reform of the conf...
by Helen Liu | On 08 Jun 2016 This study is undertaken to
quantify the benefits of contract farming
(CF)
on farmers’ income in a case
where new market opportunities are emerging for smallholder farmers in Nepal.
CF
is...
by Anjani Kumar | On 07 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 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 Public expenditure data has been sourced from the State budget documents, detailed demand for grants of MoHFW and
other Central Ministries/Departments. This document gives in totality classification...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare MoH&FW | On 02 Jun 2016 The social sciences are currently going through a reflexive phase, one marked by the
appearance of a wave of studies which approach their disciplines’ own methods and
research practices as their emp...
by Michael Mair | On 01 Jun 2016 Today, more than half of international trade is regulated through preferential trade agreements (PTAs). While in the past, these agreements served as tools to eliminate further tariffs between the pa...
by | On 01 Jun 2016 This WHO report provides a snapshot of the MPOWER measures, with all country-specific data updated and aggregated through 2014. In addition, the report provides a special focus on tobacco taxation and...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 31 May 2016 For countries which have a minimum wage, the minimum wage fixing system differs according to objectives and criteria, machinery and procedures, coverage, and subsequent adjustment as well as the opera...
by Sanjana Singh | On 31 May 2016 This paper discusses the underlying common concept of the rule of law as it bolsters courts, giving them their institutional status and enabling them to move toward a redesigned judiciary from diverse...
by Aung Htoo | On 31 May 2016 Despite its declining contribution to the GDP of ASEAN economies, agriculture remains a major source of employment for rural populations and provides much value add for agrifood industries. The ASEAN...
by | On 27 May 2016 On account of May 1st being the Labour Day, India Youth Fund interviewed Professor Arup Mitra from the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi on a number of labour rights and reforms related issues in In...
by Arup Mitra | On 26 May 2016 This report presents the results of the new approach to measuring poverty and standards of living, which the Royal Government of Cambodia initiated and carried out through 2011-2012.
by | On 25 May 2016 Domestic food supply in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will need to triple in the next 35 years. But SSA countries have also committed to reducing or halting deforestation. The tripling of food supply canno...
by Xiaoting Jones | On 25 May 2016 This research report outlines the journey of the cocoa bean on its way to becoming chocolate, showing how sustainability requires all actors to play their role in greening of the whole supply chain –...
by | On 25 May 2016 The study collected information about farmers’ ability to access land, and their attitudes and knowledge of land law, particularly women’s land rights and farmers’ ability to solve land-related confli...
by Gina Alvarado | On 24 May 2016 The present report on nutritional intake in India is based on data collected through the 61st round of NSS (July 2004-June 2005). It mainly focuses on intake of nutrients by households in terms of pro...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 20 May 2016 Since its independence the government
of Bangladesh had taken various measures to reduce the intensity of poverty on rural
people in Bangladesh. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine wh...
by Mahfuza Akther | On 20 May 2016 SIPP is envisaged to facilitate protection of patents, trademarks and design of innovative and interested startups.
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 20 May 2016 This paper aims to sensitize the
stakeholders, concerned organization and citizens towards need and importance of regulating
SEPs as well as facilitating their availability at Fair, Reasonable and N...
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 19 May 2016 Creativity and innovation have been a constant in growth and development of any knowledge
economy. There is an abundance of creative and innovative energies flowing in India. India has a
TRIPS compl...
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 19 May 2016 This publication highlights the link between rainwater harvesting, ecosystems and human wellbeing and draws the attention of readers to both the negative and positive aspects of using this technology...
by | On 18 May 2016 The interministerial group will rework its strategy on labour laws and tweak it in such a manner that it maximises benefits for both workers and employers. In this paper, we outline the manner in whi...
by Shamika Ravi | On 18 May 2016 There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of empi...
by Grant Miller | On 18 May 2016 This paper evaluates housing policy in the Republic of Korea over the past several decades, describes new challenges arising from the changing environment, and draws lessons for other countries. The m...
by Kyung-Hwan Kim | On 18 May 2016 The Act covers conservation, use of biological resources and associated knowledge occurring in
India for commercial or research purposes or for the purposes of bio-survey and bio-utilisation. It prov...
by National Biodiversity Authority NBA | On 17 May 2016 The Budget Session 2016 was scheduled from February 23 to March 16, and from April 25 to May 13, 2016. However, during
the recess period, Parliament was prorogued to allow the government to issue an...
by Kusum Malik | On 17 May 2016 Review of A Fly in the Curry: Independent Documentary Film in India. Edited by K.P. Jayasankar & Anjali Monteiro, Sage Publications 2016
by Hemali Sanghavi | On 17 May 2016 Indian trademark law statutorily protects trademarks as per the Trademark Act, 1999 and also under the common law remedy of passing off. Statutory protection of trademark is administered by the Contro...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 09 May 2016 An analysis of electoral data in local elections shows that rural local bodies have had higher turnouts than their urban counterparts in almost all states of India. Data from 2009-13 of city corporati...
by Bhanu Joshi | On 09 May 2016 Given the fact that education of young adults plays crucial role from both economic and social point of view, the objective of the study is to analyse the pattern of improvements in their education an...
by Runu Bhakta | On 02 May 2016 This paper motivates the need for a personal bankruptcy law, and study the
existing Indian legal framework in the form of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 (PTIA) for Calcutta, Bombay and Mad...
by Siva Raman | On 02 May 2016 This paper analyses 45 cases of insolvency and bankruptcy resolution in order to measure the efficiency
and problems of the present laws for firm bankruptcy in India.
by | On 02 May 2016 The performance of Indian tribunals has been unsatisfactory. Yet, policy-makers continue to rely heavily on tribunals to achieve their end objective. One example of this are the tribunals which will a...
by | On 02 May 2016 An absolute insistence on profits in numbers is increasingly driving the modern University system today. The insistence on metrics as an index of scholarship has entailed a shift toward the market mod...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 02 May 2016 Whether it was the Bofors gun in 1986 or Italian helicopters in 2012, a leak or disclosure at the source overseas is like dynamite, and usually impossible to refute.
by T.N. Ninan | On 30 Apr 2016 The report argues that state responses to women’s claims making provide a complex and variegated picture of a non-linear, slow, sporadic and contingent process of policy change, with iterations and re...
by Shraddha Chigateri | On 29 Apr 2016 Since the mid-1990s, migration of workforces from rural to urban areas has accelerated in south India accompanied by remarkable urban-based economic development. To investigate the nature of such rura...
by Keiko Sato | On 29 Apr 2016 This report consists the findings of a survey carried out in February 2016 in Tamil Nadu. The purpose of the survey was to find out what voters really want from the Government and how they rate the pe...
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 28 Apr 2016 The “Slater” villages of Tamil Nadu that were first surveyed by the University of Madras economist, Gilbert Slater, and his students in 1916, were resurveyed in the 1930s, 1960s and the 1980s. This pa...
by John Harriss | On 27 Apr 2016 A Patent Act is a country's legislation that controls the use of patents. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in...
by Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs GOI | On 27 Apr 2016 A Patent Act is a country's legislation that controls the use of patents. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in...
by Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs GOI | On 27 Apr 2016 The Indian Patents Act, 1970 provides patent protection in India. The same is in accordance with the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement. The recent conferment of “product patent” along with the “proces...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 27 Apr 2016 The provisions aim at providing a clear legal framework for trademark owners who wish to use their marks on the Internet and to participate in the development of electronic commerce. They are intended...
by WIPO WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION. | On 26 Apr 2016 This article places the evolution of India's patent laws in context as a reflection of the
nation's political and economic journey from colonial domination to independent nat...
by Janice Mueller | On 26 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 In this paper, the author examines the assertion that the establishment of secure property rights is a fundamental pillar of a well functioning market economy.
by | On 26 Apr 2016 In this paper, the author is examining the popular conceptions behind Patents and Copyrights and questioning whether they are legitimate forms of property.
by Tom Palmer | On 26 Apr 2016 This paper analyzes and deals with the IP law regime in India and the protections provided thereunder.
by | On 26 Apr 2016 This paper reviews the Indian Laws in the light of international convention on Intellectual Property and agreements and shows where we stand today.
by Mahima Puri | On 26 Apr 2016 This paper presents a model for contextual strategizing and scaling up of interventions to accelerate the pace of reduction of child marriage, with particular reference to India, and within India with...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 18 Apr 2016 Right-holders can create differences between their cultural goods to attract consumers with varying levels of willingness to pay. Some Internet intermediaries propose similar choices but do so without...
by | On 15 Apr 2016 Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh is in an advanced stage of crisis. While this is a generalised rural crisis, the burden has fallen disproportionately on small and marginal farmers, tenant farmers and ru...
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 12 Apr 2016 The Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) is an on-line platform that was launched by FAO in February 2010 with the objective of highlighting the major political, legal and cultural factors that infl...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 12 Apr 2016 We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and res...
by Nishith Prakash | On 11 Apr 2016 Apart from the turbulence in February over the sedition cases filed at Jawaharlal Nehru University, the arrests of students, and the allegations regarding doctored videos, the period saw an overall in...
by | On 05 Apr 2016 The study compiled information from academic papers, government and non-government reports on the subject of domestic migration, with a specific emphasis on their political inclusion. In order to cond...
by | On 05 Apr 2016 The report gives a detailed account of the education system in India.
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 05 Apr 2016 This paper analyzes the changes in employment and earnings of paid workers in rural India from
2004/05 to 2011/12. While the employment rate of adults remained stable at 51 percent during this
perio...
by Shantanu Khanna | On 04 Apr 2016 IFPRI’s Flagship Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2015 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2016. This year’s report takes an in-dep...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 04 Apr 2016 Budget Speech of 2016 by Finance Minister of Singapore.
by Heng Swee Keat | On 28 Mar 2016 This paper reports on the impact of a potential strategy to address iron
deficiency anemia in rural areas: double fortified salt (DFS) — salt fortified with iron and iodine. They conducted a large-sc...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 23 Mar 2016 This paper follows the lead in substituting variable names for national social systems from the project on “Democratization and Value Change in East Asia.” Specifically, it investigates the associatio...
by Robert Albritton | On 21 Mar 2016 This Working Paper gives the results of the 2007 round of the Migration Monitoring Studies (MMS) being conducted periodically by the Centre for Development Studies. It covers three areas: migration, r...
by | On 21 Mar 2016 India-Bangladesh relations are advancing rapidly in recent times. There are of course some impediments such as non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in trade, and the Teesta water-sharing dispute that need to be...
by Chandrani Sarma | 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 This working paper outlines a set of indicators at the outcome and impact level for the agriculture and rural development sector. It does not focus on implementation (e.g. output level indicators such...
by European union | On 20 Mar 2016 Rural-urban linkages are both a cause and a consequence of socio-economic development. Though there is a vast volume of literature on this subject, there are quite a few gaps in our knowledge about th...
by RS Pundir | On 20 Mar 2016 This paper characterises and distinguishes co-operatives from other forms of organisations and highlights the important place they occupy in India‘s rural economy. It examines their contribution to ru...
by Katar Singh | On 20 Mar 2016 This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand f...
by Basab Dasgupta | On 20 Mar 2016 This review and compendium of our country’s environmental laws, policies, and regulations aims to enhance the accessibility to information by judges, lawyers, government officials, and stakeholders in...
by Antonia Gawel | On 18 Mar 2016 India’s stances in global Internet governance debates have often been noted, and criticised, for their strong preference for multilateral models of engagement, as different from the multistakeholder a...
by Saikat Datta | On 17 Mar 2016 This paper examines the impact of strengthening Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) on within-country income inequality for a cross-section of 65 developed and developing countries for the time period...
by Swati Saini | On 16 Mar 2016 Transnational organized crime is one of the greatest global threats to the security and development of open and democratic societies. It is imperative for states to develop counterstrategies against i...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 State concerns about crime and security issues have strongly affected conceptions of economic action outside the law, a traditional field of research in sociology. This increasing encroachment by poli...
by Matías Dewey | On 14 Mar 2016 In sociology generally, the infringement of legal norms is not treated as a special kind of norm violation, the sociology of law being an obvious exception. The study of illegal markets therefore face...
by Renate Mayntz | On 14 Mar 2016 Housing policies in Japan after World War II were focused on the quantitative supply of houses with a wide range of targeted groups and public rental houses. The Japan Housing Corporation (now the Urb...
by Masahiro Kobayashi | On 14 Mar 2016 Tenancy has been on the rise in the post economic liberalization period from the decades of 1990s. It was also viewed that freeing the lease market for land may contribute to equity as well as efficie...
by E Revathi | On 14 Mar 2016 This study attempts to capture the impact of vertical and horizontal R and D spillovers across the supply chain. Empirical studies have captured vertical spillovers while finding the role of horizonta...
by Madhuri Saripalle | On 13 Mar 2016 Strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights in Myanmar has the potential to act as a catalyst for economic growth, spurring foreign direct investment and in the long run helping the c...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 In this paper we present a choice function of a rural household about her/his ward?s schooling. It makes an empirical evaluation on the basis of simple theoretical framework using primary data set, su...
by Debdulal Thakur | On 11 Mar 2016 This paper applies a program evaluation technique to assess the causal effect of adoption of agricultural related technologies on consumption expenditure and poverty measured by different indices. The...
by Santosh K. Sahu | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper intends to explore functional and households personal income distribution across four different income groups in both the urban and rural areas. Using Social Accounting framework, Siddiqui...
by A. R. Kemal | 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 paper explores possible frontiers of historical-institutionalist analysis. It argues three points: that progress will require a return from a static to a dynamic perspective in which change is no...
by Wolfgang Streeck | On 09 Mar 2016 Illegal markets differ from legal markets in many respects. Although illegal markets have economic significance and are of theoretical importance, they have been largely ignored by economic sociology....
by | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper is a preliminary attempt to assess the impact of Christian social activists on issues facing adivasis in the state of Jharkhand in contemporary India. This has been prompted by a few factor...
by Sushil J. Aaron | On 09 Mar 2016 The findings of this study show that urban local governments in India continue to remain plagued by numerous problems, which affect their performance in the efficient discharge of their duties. These...
by Rumi Aijaz | On 09 Mar 2016 State concerns about crime and security issues have strongly affected conceptions of economic action outside the law, a traditional field of research in sociology. This increasing encroachment by poli...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 The regulation of the transfer of property mortis causa has been a major concern of social reformers since the Enlightenment. Today, by contrast, the issue of the bequest of wealth from generation to...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 Current studies on pandemics explore the links between population mobility and health. These studies usually focus on regular population movement such as those of tourists and legal immigrants. Howeve...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 Human trafficking and illicit drug trafficking are arguably the most intractable of all transnational crimes. They are an issue of both domestic and foreign policy concern and a subject of longstandin...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 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 The recent UN Climate Change Conference (COP16) in Cancun, Mexico concluded on a generally positive note as growing optimism replaced the disappointment that defined the 2009 talks in Copenhagen.While...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 The controversy surrounding the Australia¬Malaysia refugee swap agreement that would have seen 800 asylum seekers sent to Malaysia in exchange for 4,000 processed refugees took a decisive turn on 31...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 02 Mar 2016 Despite having laws and regulations to protect health of workers in industries in India, little has been effective in ensuring and protecting health and safety especially in case of small and medium f...
by Amrita Ghatak | On 01 Mar 2016 The Government of India has publicly committed to a doubling or trebling of government health spending by 2012 and launched a major program, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), to help spend the...
by Peter Berman | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper analyses the various legal, political, military and economic circumstances of the two territorial disputes in the ECS, and it evaluates the approaches by both sides to turn the ECS from a `...
by Reinhard Drifte | On 01 Mar 2016 The Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister, Mr. Jayant Mallayya, presented the Budget for Madhya Pradesh for the financial year 2016-17 on February 26, 2016.
by Arvind Gayam | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper considers the issue of migration of the Rohingyas from the lens of international law. It evaluates the responses of the countries that have been the destination of these migration flows – n...
by Ramandeep Kaur | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper overviews governance issues in Indonesia and Korea from a comparative perspective. To do so, the WGI (World Governance Index) developed by the World Bank is employed for a more objective an...
by Prof. Yunwon Hwang | On 01 Mar 2016 Existence of structural and social inequality with growing poverty and shrinking livelihoods and other factors forced to people or entire families to migrate towards cities in search of means of survi...
by | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty. It scrutinizes evidence from a series of nationally representative sample surveys...
by Himanshu Prof | On 29 Feb 2016 In this paper we explore an innovative approach to poverty reduction by the introduction of an agro-forestry variant of sustainable agricultural land technology among the rural farming population of a...
by Roger Montgomery | On 29 Feb 2016 In Southeast Asia, the rise in agricultural investments takes place against the backdrop of a fast-evolving regional context. In this ‘Asian Century’, trade and investment flows are flourishing across...
by Shalmali Guttal | On 29 Feb 2016 Agroecological farming weaves in the essentials so that there is profit for each-soil, seeds, traditional knowledge of communities, food security and food sovereignty.
by | On 29 Feb 2016 Agriculture sector in India is beset with all kinds of issues ranging from declining output, unaffordable input costs, very low subsidies for small farmers, lack of proper procurement mechanism by gov...
by | On 29 Feb 2016 Issues or problems associated with land have become more multi-layered in the 21st century. In the Philippines, a number of “pro-poor” land laws were enacted after the Marcos dictatorship. These laws...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 29 Feb 2016 The objective of this paper is to assess the prevalence of clinical forms of vitamin A deficiency (particularly Bitot spots) among the pre-school children in the rural areas of the States covered by N...
by National Institute of Nutrition | On 29 Feb 2016 Several sporadic studies carried out in the developing countries, including India have been reporting a steady increase in the prevalence of diet related chronic diseases like obesity, hypertension, d...
by National Institute of Nutrition | On 29 Feb 2016 The present survey was carried out to assess the prevalence of common
micronutrient deficiencies such as vitamin A deficiency (Bitot spots) among the preschool children (1-<5 years), Iodine deficienc...
by National Institute of Nutrition | 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 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 The Fertile Crescent in the Near East is one of the independent origins of the Neolithic, the source from which farming and pottery-making spread across Europe from 9,000 to 6,000 years ago at an aver...
by Kavita Gangal | On 27 Feb 2016 This paper problematizes the basis for international policies and regulations towards adaptation, mitigation and adjustment for ‘climate change’. Specific aspects of Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC h...
by Nandan Nawn | On 27 Feb 2016 Over 10 million illegal migrants from Bangladesh live in India, according to both official and unofficial estimates. This paper examines the securitization of the issue by various actors through a cen...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 Farmers’ suicides have become an important socio-economic concern in India that has profound implication on the quality of life of farmers and their families. There are not many epidemiological studie...
by Srijit Mishra | On 26 Feb 2016 While property taxation has existed since ancient times, and the taxation of land has been a mainstay of public finances through the Middle Ages, in both Europe and Asia, it has all but ceased to be a...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the
international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fears
that the global recovery may be faltering, while ris...
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 This paper examines the effect of land reform and land transfer actions of farmer beneficiaries on land ownership concentration. A case study of two rice-growing villages was used to track down owners...
by Marife M. Ballesteros | On 25 Feb 2016 An established method for identifying the different components of a discipline is author cocitation analysis (ACA). ACA is a bibiometric technique that enables a map of the discipline, over a finite t...
by Peter Warning | On 25 Feb 2016 The implementation of the "Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997", CHED Memorandum Order No. 20, and "Public Higher Education Reform Framework" granted state universities and colleges (SUCs) the...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 25 Feb 2016 The principle of non-discrimination which comprises national treatment and most-favored-nation (MFN) treatment is an important pillar of the multilateral trading system. The World Trade Organization (...
by Sherzod Shadikhodjaev | On 25 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Uttam Kumar Deb | On 24 Feb 2016 Japanese corporations and American and European corporations take different approaches when it comes to business in China in general: (i) American corporations are concentrated in the music, motion pi...
by Yoshio Iteya | On 24 Feb 2016 National Hazardous Waste management Strategy has now been formulated to complement and strengthen the regulatory regime. This is based on the understanding and experience of diverse issues connected w...
by Ministry of Environment and Forest | On 24 Feb 2016 The documentation demonstrates the challenges waiting for the professional academic institutions to reach out beyond their walls to identify emerging issues and to develop new models of practice or st...
by Tata Institue of Social Sciences TISS | On 24 Feb 2016 This booklet is aimed at women's groups, activists, students, lawyers, police and all those who are concerned with the debate on violence against women. It provides empirical evidence gathered from po...
by Tata Institue of Social Sciences TISS | On 24 Feb 2016 Contract growing has been defined as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms under forward agreements, usually at predetermined prices for the production and supply of agric...
by Larry Digal | On 23 Feb 2016 The Budget Session of Parliament will be held between February 23, 2016 and May 13, 2016.
The session will have a recess from March 17 to April 24, when the Standing Committees will
examine the Dema...
by Kusum Malik | On 23 Feb 2016 Feeding Asia’s growing population requires modern agriculture based on the latest science and technology. Asian countries should embrace modern farming techniques and invest in R&D to develop sustaina...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 Despite recent decline, infant and child mortality in Bangladesh is still one of the highest among the developing countries with strong urban-rural differentials. Nearly one in ten children in Banglad...
by M. Islam | On 21 Feb 2016 In developing countries like Bangladesh rural-urban migration affects development in both urban and rural areas. As such, this study focuses on establishing the major causes and consequences of the mo...
by Research Institute of Social Welfare and | On 21 Feb 2016 This article analyses the motivation and impact of the 2009 intervention of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) in benchmark price negotiations. The impact of the transition from benchmark pri...
by Luke Hurst | On 21 Feb 2016 The world’s biggest summit on environment and development in 20 years will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June this year. What are the opportunities and challenges for this global multilater...
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 We estimate intergenerational poverty persistence in Indonesia using a panel dataset. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such study looking at the issue in the Indonesian context. Differe...
by Yus Pakpahan | On 19 Feb 2016 The employment shock of late 2008 in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different events: (i) the contractionary macroeconomic policies introduced by the government...
by Xin Meng | On 19 Feb 2016 The adoption of the Paris Agreement on 12 December by 195 governments is a major turning point in the global fight against climate change. To date, 190 governments have committed to specific actions t...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 18 Feb 2016 In October 2015, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change released a Draft Environment Laws (Amendment) Bill 2015 proposing amendments to the Environment (Protection) Act 1986 and the Na...
by Shibani Ghosh | On 18 Feb 2016 Asia’s rapid change across socio-economic and political spheres, amid population growth and rising demand for food, feed and energy supplies, is unprecedented. To strike a balance between economic gro...
by Research Consultative Group on International Agricultural | On 18 Feb 2016 In his 1987 entry on ‘Perfect Competition’ in The New Palgrave, the author reviewed the question of the perfectness of perfect competition, and gave four alternative formalisations rooted in the so-ca...
by M. Ali Khan | On 17 Feb 2016 This Working Paper comprises a literature review that was carried out to inform the formulation of a research project on power, violence, citizenship and agency, which addresses how social actors reac...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 This Evidence Report asks how a market systems approach could be applied to improve poor households’ access to nutrient-dense foods. By ‘market systems approach’ we mean methods that identify and addr...
by Jodie Thorpe | On 17 Feb 2016 Agriculture is important sector for Indian economy. The agricultural growth output and rural income has to increase, only then can we think of an all-inclusive development of the economy. The problems...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 17 Feb 2016 Water and Sanitation is the neglected sector in Pakistan. Most of the households in Pakistan do not have access to safe drinking water and lack toilets and adequate sanitation systems. These poor peop...
by Faheem Jehangir Khan | On 16 Feb 2016 The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on health in Pakistan at provincial, both rural and urban level; using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard L...
by Muhammad Akram | On 16 Feb 2016 The main objective of this study report is to find out the impact(s) of the refinance scheme of Bangladesh Bank (BB) through comparing the economic well-being of the target group people who have taken...
by Md. Julhas Uddin | On 15 Feb 2016 The corporate governance mechanisms are market, institution and legal settings that protect outside investors from opportunistic behavior of managers or controlling shareholders. In the absence of suc...
by M. Bakhtear Uddin Talukdar | On 15 Feb 2016 The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on education in Pakistan at the provincial (both rural and urban) level, using the primary data of the Pakistan Social St...
by Muhammad Akram | On 14 Feb 2016 Political finance regulations have been introduced in a majority of democracies to promote fair political competition, but all too often political party and campaign finance laws are breached with imp...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 The characteristics of the area of the Middle East and North Africa known as the MENA region tend to fuel corruption and result in low levels of transparency. Yet anti-corruption strategies have prima...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 In “Calibrating Law Enforcement and Its Purpose,” published by Addiction on November 10, 2014, Vanda Felbab-Brown comments on Harold Pollack and Peter Reuter’s article “Does tougher enforcement make d...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 Following the Hausmann, et al. (2005) methodology, an attempt is done to identify the constraints to growth in Pakistan. It is argued that governance failure and institutional shortcomings are the h...
by Abdul Qayyum | On 14 Feb 2016 This study explores closed cases filed under section 498A of the IPC, which pertains to cruelty to a married woman by her marital family. It draws from two datasets of both primary and secondary data,...
by Anjali Dave | On 14 Feb 2016 The present study investigates the trends in inequality, welfare, and growth based on per capita household income/consumption in Pakistan, both its rural and urban areas, from 1963-64 to 2004-05. It e...
by Nadia Zakir | On 14 Feb 2016 This paper uses panel data from a pilot project and evaluates the impact of conditional cash transfers on consumption, education, and nutrition outcomes among poor rural families in Bangladesh. Given...
by Céline Ferré | On 12 Feb 2016 Whistleblowing helps to prevent and detect corruption and other malpractice. But reporting can come at a high price and it is essential to have policy and legal measures in place that provide an alter...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 This paper considers how technology trends and a globalized economy are reshaping the way we create, distribute and access content. The results of that study are intended to help everyone with an inte...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 This paper investigates the effect of the differential pecuniary costs of sons and daughters on fertility decisions. The focus is on dowries in India, which increase the economic returns to sons and d...
by Marco Alfano | On 11 Feb 2016 This version of the literature survey updates and expands a working draft produced in ugust 2000 as part of a project funded by the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID). It will contin...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Intellectual Property and Competition Law is one further contribution of the ICTSD Programme on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development to a better understanding of the proper role of...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 The possibility for developing WTO Members to suspend concessions in the field of trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPS) to redress an injury suffered with respect to trade in goods or ser...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 This paper underlines that the WIPO DA presents a timely and valuable opportunity to re-evaluate the design and delivery of IP training and education. It points to possible lessons to be learned by lo...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 This paper finds that PTAs are clearly drivers of significant IP reform in developing countries and that the implementation challenge for these countries is real and complex. The challenge does not on...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Mapping Prevailing Ideas on Intellectual Property by Professor Jean-Frédéric Morin, Universitélibre de Bruxelles, examines an overlooked yet critical dimension of global IP governance: where do IP ide...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 In a country where there are constraints in formal practices, informal activities normally arise. Informal practices are not necessarily illegal and bad, however some of them tend to occupy a grey are...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 This paper highlights the perception of each and everyone involved in the course of cross-border migration from Myanmar in each step they, internationally or unintentionally, maintain the status of il...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 In India an official definition of the term urban by Census is: over 5000 population; a population density of over 400 persons per sq km; over 75% of male workforce in non-primary activities. This art...
by Organising Team (MFC) | On 09 Feb 2016 A Baseline Study was conducted in 11 cities in early 2012 by the State Health Resource Centre. The survey focused on understanding utilization of maternal and child health services by urban slum popul...
by Priyanka Sahu | On 09 Feb 2016 This article offers observations to Gopal Guru’s article which highlights the endemic caste discrimination in places of higher learning in India in the wake of the Rohith Vemula suicide in Hyderabad....
by Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies | On 09 Feb 2016 This leads the present paper to reflect on the need for additional coordination mechanisms to address the challenges of an increasingly globalized and networked economy. In recognition of the fundamen...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This publication aims to provide a wide range of perspectives from various stakeholders on how trade policies and processes could contribute to advancing the objectives of sustainable land management...
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 08 Feb 2016 With 37% of fish harvest exported as food for human consumption or in non-edible forms, trade policies and measures constitute an essential part of the overall policy framework needed to support susta...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 The census of agriculture is one of the key pillars of a national statistical system, and in many developing countries it is often the only means of producing statistical information on the structure...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | 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 We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness score...
by M. Niaz Asadullah | On 07 Feb 2016 Urban poverty, which is distinct from rural poverty due to demographic, economic and political aspects remain hitherto unexplored, at the city level in Pakistan. The determinants of urban poverty in S...
by Masood Sarwar Awan | On 06 Feb 2016 This study has used two rounds of the two panel data sets to examine the poverty dynamics in rural Pakistan (Sindh and Punjab). The Pakistan SocioEconomic Survey (PSES ) covers two periods, 1998 and 2...
by G. M. Arif | On 06 Feb 2016 This exercise is envisaged to provide a brief account of the research studies on inter-relationship between remittance inflows from abroad and the poverty levels obtained in the country. This is discu...
by Mohammad Irfan | On 06 Feb 2016 Violence against women at the workplace is a major problem, though the statistical evidence is not well developed for many countries. This report aims at gaining a better insight into the extent to wh...
by Kea Tijdens | On 05 Feb 2016 The 2014 Cambodia NIS assessment reveals that overall Cambodia has a weak integrity system. It is not strong enough to uphold the rule of law, ensure sustainable development and a good quality of life...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Hardly a speech is delivered in South Asia without mention of the need to fight corruption in the region. Yet despite the lofty promises, corruption is on the rise. This report shows how a serious lac...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Transparency International Nepal’s (TIN) National Integrity System Assessment Nepal 2014 describes the latest status of 11 pillars of NIS in terms of their capacity, governance and role besides pointi...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 How can trade policy respond to the needs and concerns of more than a billion people in the developing world that lack access to energy for fulfilling their daily needs such as cooking and lighting? A...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 There are many barriers that prevent individuals from speaking up. Public trust in the ability of institutions to deal with corruption is low and reporting channels are often unclear or unreliable. La...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Major corruption scandals hitting the news often share key commonalities: the people at the centre of the scandal use a complex web of anonymous companies, trusts and other legal entities situated acr...
by Transparency International | On 04 Feb 2016 This study researches the decision-making process in national security matters in Israel; and examines the influence and role of the military establishment in this process. To achieve this purpose, th...
by | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on the Indian pre-crisis strategy of liberalization and integration into the world economy and its impact on labour market trends. It then examines the specific ways in which the cr...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 03 Feb 2016 Public property common pool resources in many developing countries are manage them in a sustainable manner. While this explanation may have some merit, it is certainly inadequate. Instead, we argue th...
by Junaid Memon | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper offers a novel perspective on the concept of freedom of conscience in Islam and the rules of apostasy in which the author, YehyaJad revises the notion of the death penalty for the apostate....
by | On 02 Feb 2016 This study analyzes some of the manifestations of the state of the Arabic language in contemporary Arab societies. Moreover, this study aims to explore and highlight the developmental potential of the...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 Based on expert opinion from around the world, the Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption worldwide. Not one of the 168 countries assessed in the 2015 i...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 The aggressive media campaigns by pesticide companies do not comply with FAO guidelines for advertising pesticides. Pakistan adopts FAO guidelines on the issues where Pakistani law is silent. The Paki...
by Shahid Zia | On 02 Feb 2016 Pakistan faces important policy challenges in improving service delivery and growth and development. Low levels of tax revenue act as a serious constraint to economic growth, provision of services and...
by Benjamin Olken | On 02 Feb 2016 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 Sri Lanka has about 120,000 engineered rural waterway crossings (such as bridges) and another 250,000 non-engineered crossings built and maintained by communities. Because of a lack of financial and h...
by Granie Jayalath | On 01 Feb 2016 This paper deals with the ‘swings and roundabouts’ encountered in water policy development in Sri Lanka. In recent decades, policy reforms for water resource management nationally-demanded but designe...
by Rajindra Ariyabandu | On 01 Feb 2016 In emerging economies like India, banking sector is very important. But banking sector is at 'crossroads'. There are many issues which this sector is facing and research which would generate fresh i...
by S.S. Mundra | On 01 Feb 2016 Forests are crucial for rural development, access to water, agricultural productivity, energy, soil conservation, and flood control. Forests are also home to at least 80 per cent of terrestrial biodiv...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The recent food price spikes have exposed deep structural flaws in the world food system. Although increased financial speculation in commodity futures and options markets seems to have amplified shor...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 This report is the result of the joint workshop on Building resilience for adaptation to climate change in the agriculture sector was organized by FAO and OECD. One of the conclusions of that 2010 Wor...
by Alexandre Meybeck | On 31 Jan 2016 Climate change adds to the existing challenges faced by cities. Cities – as net consumers rather than producers of food – are already highly vulnerable to the disruption of critical food and other sup...
by Marielle Dubbeling | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper examines the evidence on the forms of politics likely to promote inclusive social provisioning and enable, as opposed to constrain, improvements in service outcomes. It focuses on eight rel...
by Claire Mcloughlin | On 30 Jan 2016 The courts are one of the most fundamental institutions where power is contested in a constitutional democracy. A functioning and an independent judiciary can restrain and hold the executive accountab...
by . BRAC | On 30 Jan 2016 In this discussion paper, the question of technology transfer, intellectual property rights is addressed in the context of climate change. Technology development and transfer has been identified as a...
by K.Ravi Srinivas | On 30 Jan 2016 Owing to a dearth of government data and research studies on the urban existence of Pardhis, one of the principal aims of this study was to render visibility to the issue.
by Paankhi Agrawal | On 30 Jan 2016 This Handbook on “Social Work Intervention in the Prison Setting” attempts to document the intervention strategies in working with various groups found in prison e.g. male and female prisoners, under...
by Prayas NGO | On 30 Jan 2016 This manual has been written as a source book for gender interventions, an analysis of appropriate interventions giving various practical steps, rather than as a set of prescriptions. While the manual...
by Govind Kelkar | On 29 Jan 2016 This study first reviews current thinking on the underlying causes of conflicts and disasters, identifying poverty as a major driver of both. Poverty breeds frustration, compelling the poor to turn to...
by Surendra Varma | On 29 Jan 2016 Substantial literature has emerged in the past two decades on the meaning of “soft law”, its purposes, and its consequences for effective international cooperation. This paper argues that the distinct...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 The establishment of the WTO Agreement on TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) and the proliferation of plurilateral, bilateral and regional agreements have significantly cont...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 With increasing urbanization and economic growth, air pollution is becoming an urgent concern in South Asian countries. The study upon which this paper is based has been conducted at SDPI, to look int...
by Mahmood Khwaja | On 28 Jan 2016 In rural India social and cultural norms are deep rooted in society. Access to productive assets, employment opportunities and consequently incomes are to a large extent influenced by these social fac...
by Jeemol Unni | On 28 Jan 2016 Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) brings in uniformity in the standards of intellectual property rights among the member countries of the WTO irrespective of their developmental statu...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper is an attempt to study plausible causal relationship of women’s physiology and behaviour components with fertility in more or less non-industrial rural populations in Orissa, an Eastern Ind...
by Satyajeet Nanda | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper enquires into the potential of wells (as TWHS) in the Thar Desert area of Rajasthan. Following a detailed analysis of hydrological and structural aspects of the source and quality of water,...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper draws from a field research experiment to examine the
gendered aspects of willingness to pay for index-based insurance in Bangladesh. Participants were
presented with risky lotteries and...
by Daniel J. Clarke | On 28 Jan 2016 The research study highlights the financial inclusion needs of cycle rickshaw pullers in India. These include access to service sectors; improvement of asset base; employment of their women; increase...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The objective of this working paper is to critically test the assertion that pro-poor "green" tourism is one of the best development options for the majority of least developed countries (LDCs) -- a c...
by Shoaib Akhtar | On 27 Jan 2016 The paper assembles detailed information about the IP provisions contained in active RTAs notified to the WTO. The goal was to expand beyond the more commonly studied RTAs, to review the full array of...
by Maegan McCann | On 27 Jan 2016 We examine in this paper the impact of the tightening of IPRs, notably patents rights, and the adoption of utility model laws on export diversification. To perform our analysis, we used panel data cov...
by Kimm Gnangnon | On 26 Jan 2016 Harmonisation of intellectual property rights among the members of WTO has in the recent years seen informed debates on access to medicines. While the developing countries are lured to such agreements...
by Samira Guennif | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper focuses on a particular aspect of such rural-urban difference, namely nutritional status of children. Over the years it is found that under nutrition among children in India; have declining...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 26 Jan 2016 The poor are not uniformly disadvantaged. For the most health indicators, the status of ‘excluded groups’ such as scheduled caste and scheduled tribes, and Muslims is significantly worse than that of...
by Sukhade Thorat | On 26 Jan 2016 The paper examines the spatial pattern of poverty in India and tries to understand how multiple deprivation leads to reproduction of poverty especially in forest-based economies in the central-eastern...
by Amita Shah | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper presents a brief account, based primarily on available secondary sources, of the current status of drinking water supply and sanitation in rural Madhya Pradesh. With a discussion on the lop...
by Keshab Das | On 26 Jan 2016 A thriving and open Internet provides the foundation for the fourth industrial revolution. There has been growing concern that the Internet may be in danger of splintering into a series of bordered cy...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 25 Jan 2016 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 briefing paper primarily focuses on violations of women’s and girls’ reproductive rights and right to be free from sexual violence arising from child marriage in six South Asian countries—Afghanis...
by Center for Reproductive Rights CRR | On 23 Jan 2016 In the backdrop of recent global developments, this note examines some of the characteristics of inflation in Bangladesh including the contribution of major commodity groups to overall inflation in ru...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 This report summarizes outcomes of collaboration between ADB and implementing agencies of Bhutan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Philippines, and Viet Nam to address gaps in the production of a...
by Asian Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 Following the recent United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on Sri Lanka, the Sirisena Government has embarked on a process of establishing a ‘domestic mechanism’. It is imperative to...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 There continues to be widespread criticism of the extension of patent rights on pharmaceuticals in the developing world as required by World Trade Organization membership. This paper examines argument...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 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 paper contributes to the empirical understanding of the concept of commitment and the role it plays in shaping India’s social policy implementation. Taking the case of the landmark policy, the Ma...
by Deepta Chopra | On 21 Jan 2016 In this discussion paper, the status of synthetic biology in India and debates in India on synthetic biology are discussed and the discourses on synthetic biology in India are also analysed. The paper...
by Krishna Ravi Srinivas | On 21 Jan 2016 This discussion paper examines the use of three different technological options in the Indian agriculture. It shows that support to organic farming is increasing but at this stage innovation related i...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 21 Jan 2016 The relationship between poor sanitation, water borne disease, mortality and malnutrition is well documented. Statistics about the number of deaths due to diarrhea as well as stunting caused by malnut...
by Deepak Sanan | On 19 Jan 2016 The issue of Bangladeshi migration in India has become a major concern
for policy makers in recent years. Indeed, India’s eastern border is
facing major illegal activities viz. the influx of illegal...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 Human trafficking is one of the most widely spread and fastest growing crimes in the world. However, despite the scope of the problem, the important human rights issues at stake and the professed inte...
by Ngan Dinh | On 19 Jan 2016 There are India studies programs around the country in many institutions, but no university has made the commitment to dedicate a graduate level and senior research level focus on contemporary India i...
by Steve Coll | On 19 Jan 2016 The literature on decentralized public programs suggests that errors in the targeting of anti-poverty programs are rooted in the capture of these programs by local elites or local politicians. Consist...
by Mark Schneider | On 18 Jan 2016 The paper provides an overview of the inequities in health outcomes and their variation across regional, social, and economic groups. It seeks to explain these variations by focusing on health service...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 Anemia is defined as a reduction in the body’s red cell mass 1, reflected in a reduced oxygen carrying capacity of the blood. The World Health Organisation criterion for the diagnosis of anemia is a l...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 The recent success of India and Bangladesh in settling the complicated issue of political enclaves in each other’s territories could be traced to the spirit displayed by the leaders of the two countri...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 The paper identifies five important aspects of agriculture that
need immediate attention to bring economic advantages to millions of farm families. First, output
per hectare, which is a common measu...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 Jan 2016 Eldis has brought together an editorially selected range of over 170 research resources from diverse perspectives and publishers. The theme focuses on gender equality and the role that both women and...
by E. Esplen | On 14 Jan 2016 It lies at the intersection of two major challenges: disaster, experienced by many of the rural poor as drought, flood and storms; and the continuing issue of gender imbalances in many aspects of soci...
by Janet Robinson | On 14 Jan 2016 This study examines the current state of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in health care in Punjab, and possibilities for new kinds of initiatives in this broad category of institutional arrangement...
by | On 14 Jan 2016 Millions of job seekers in South Asia, including many tribals, are forced by lack of local employment opportunities to migrate towards urban areas. This fieldwork-based study aims to understand specif...
by Rajib Dhar | On 13 Jan 2016 The focus of this report is on vulnerabilities in natural resources and rural livelihoods, which stand at the front line of climate change impact. The overarching objective of this report is to promot...
by World Bank [WB} | On 12 Jan 2016 This paper synthesizes the evidence of a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental quality. It shows that inequality exerts adverse impact on environmental outcomes through seve...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 In this article, I depart from the factual difficulties of undocumented migrants to access a state’s protection mechanisms for avowedly universal human rights. I relate this aporia to two competing co...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 Rural Road connectivity is a key component of rural development by promoting access to economic services and thereby generating increased agricultural incomes and productive employment opportunities i...
by Ministry of Rural Development Government of India | On 11 Jan 2016 In this paper, we evaluate India’s flagship rural employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), by answering questions such as whether the MG...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper throws light on the view that the Indian state has been one that has been perpetrated by injustice irrespective of a series of ground-breaking legislative acts that enshrine a number of soci...
by John Harriss | On 09 Jan 2016 In this paper, the aim is to survey the findings of village studies that have been accomplished over the last two decades the era of economic liberalisation in India together with those of larger-scal...
by J. Jeyaranjan | On 09 Jan 2016 In this paper, we evaluate India’s flagship rural employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), by answering questions such as whether the MG...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 09 Jan 2016 Pakistan is among those countries, which have very high deforestation rate. The remaining forests are very diverse in nature and of significant importance for the country’s economy and livelihoods of...
by Tanvir Ali | On 08 Jan 2016 Land is regarded as an important source of livelihoods to many people, especially rural people. For those people, access to and control over land resources is the source of livelihoods. Therefore, lan...
by Samana Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 Cross-border production networks have been playing an increasingly important role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries’ trade in recent years, but micro-level studies are ra...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 07 Jan 2016 There have been few empirical studies in the developing world and the agricultural sector, on the impact of negative health shocks on household well-being. Does the pervasive effect of a negative hous...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 The publication “Locating the Survivor in the Indian Criminal Justice System: Decoding the Law” serves as a guide for survivors, young lawyers, and other key stakeholders in the criminal justice syste...
by Lawyers Collective | On 06 Jan 2016 The unexpected increase in the number of census towns (CTs) in the last census has thrust them into the spotlight. Using a hitherto unexploited dataset, it is found that many of the new CTs satisfied...
by Kanhu Pradhan | On 05 Jan 2016 Efforts have been made in the past to develop technologies and tools for selection of personnel, which have no or little concern to the caste, race, age, gender, place of birth or location or their so...
by K. Garg | On 05 Jan 2016 In a bid to fast-track environmental clearances for industrial projects, the Narendra Modi government constituted a high-level committee in 2014 under T S R Subramanian to review key environmental law...
by Kanchi Kohli | On 05 Jan 2016 In order to understand the current state of land dispute conciliation in Vietnam and to attempt to identify routes for improvement, The Asia Foundation, in partnership with the Australian Department o...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 This report reflects efforts to capture the trends in labour migration from Nepal, identify the structural gaps and suggests ways to move forward for the Government and stakeholders. Although various...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 Economic growth averaging 5.8% since 2010 has helped to lift 3.3 million Indonesians out of poverty. Yet 28 million were still living below the government’s poverty line in March 2014. Indonesia’s nat...
by Priasto Aji Aji | On 01 Jan 2016 The Indonesian school system is one of the largest and most diverse in the world, with more than 50 million students, 4 million teachers and more than 250,000 schools. Over the past 15 years, the gove...
by Norman LaRocque | On 01 Jan 2016 We build a general equilibrium model in which both illegal immigration and the size of the informal sector are endogenously determined. In this framework, we show that indirect policy measures such as...
by Carmen Camacho | On 29 Dec 2015 Myanmar’s agriculture sector offers substantial unexploited potential to underpin the country’s inclusive economic development. With extensive land, water, and labor resources, as well as proximity to...
by Jindra Samson | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper discusses how financial crises in emerging Asia and Japan worked as catalysts for legal reforms. Findings show that six Asian countries pursued significant legal and judicial reforms follow...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 29 Dec 2015 Few cities in South Asia have been affected by violence more than Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and economic centre. This working paper examines the impacts of the city’s declining security situati...
by Noman Ahmed | On 29 Dec 2015 Women’s access to, use of and control over land and other productive resources are essential to ensuring their right to equality and to an adequate standard of living. Throughout the world, gender ine...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 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 Women form a disproportionately large share of the world’s unbanked population. Gender inequalities in employment and earnings mean that women have lower incomes, making them less able to open account...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 How can we explain the exponential increase of the cesarean section in the U.S. in recent decades? Drawing from 130 in-depth interviews with women, obstetricians, midwives, and labor and delivery nurs...
by theresa morris | On 21 Dec 2015 Highlights lessons learned from implementing development schemes and policies, which have incorporated adaptation due to the increasing incidence of extreme weather events.
by | On 21 Dec 2015 The Indian education ecosystem today consists of the government, private sector, and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) that have helped provide education to millions of children. The enactment of t...
by Meril Antony | On 21 Dec 2015 This study places special attention on evaluating constitutional provisions that affect IDPs, on legislation pertaining to displacement, and the National Legal Framework for Relief, Rehabilitation, an...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 While the government continues to press for an unconditional surrender of arms and men as a precondition to a dialogue and settlement; the other side is also adamant on its demands including the withd...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 Rural-urban migration continues to attract much interest, but also growing concern. Migrants are often blamed for increasing urban poverty, but not all migrants are poor. In many cities, however, migr...
by David Satterthwaite | On 17 Dec 2015 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 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 Food security and nutrition is a major global challenge. SDC’s Global Programme Food Security(GPFS) represents an innovative initiative of Switzerland in addressing food security and nutrition challen...
by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC | On 17 Dec 2015 This paper examines how parental migration affects children’s health and education outcomes. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China data we are able to measure the share of children’s lifetim...
by Xin Meng | On 17 Dec 2015 As political commitment is an essential ingredient for elevating food and nutrition security onto policy agendas, commitment metrics have proliferated. Many conflate government commitment to fight hun...
by Rajith Lakshman | On 16 Dec 2015 The article presents the inconsistencies in the revised Draft ART Bill of 2010, particularly with regard to provisions about surrogacy and citizenship of the babies born from a surrogate mother.
by Aastha Sharma | On 16 Dec 2015 In this policy paper, Vanda Felbab-Brown explores the relationship between conflict,
peace dynamics, and drugs and other illicit economies in Thailand and
Myanmar/Burma since the 1960s through...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 16 Dec 2015 It is a widely accepted truth that the Indian state suffers from a serious crisis of implementation capability. Despite widespread recognition of this crisis, there is remarkably little analytical wor...
by | On 15 Dec 2015 From a human development perspective, work, rather than jobs oremployment is the relevant concept. A job is a narrow concept with a set of pre-determined time-bound assigned tasks or activities, in an...
by United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] | On 15 Dec 2015 This paper critically examines how lease farming can be a viable livelihood option for landless rural poor, especially women in India. In the absence of land ownership and education, the majority of l...
by | On 08 Dec 2015 Seasonal and circular migration is an important livelihood strategy for workers in developing countries and the construction industry is one of the largest recipients of such labour. The impact of lab...
by RPC Migrating out of Poverty | On 08 Dec 2015 If the global commitment to eradicate inequality for all people is truly unequivocal, as leaders claim it to be, the implementation of these Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) needs to take into acc...
by | On 03 Dec 2015 Almost a sixth of the world’s population and a large fraction of its poorest people live in India. Until recently, national poverty estimates were widely criticized because they relied on aggregate pr...
by | On 02 Dec 2015 This paper is a literature review that emphasizes institutional analyses of trade law, and explores some of the linkages with the development literature. The paper contends that the development of tra...
by | On 02 Dec 2015 This paper explores the notion of “sustainable development” which has progressively evolved over the recent years from the environmental field in which it originated, to the social sphere and has been...
by | On 02 Dec 2015 To inform the formulation of policies and interventions to strengthen women’s land rights, this paper analyzes nationally representative data from Bangladesh,
Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam to...
by Kathryn Sproule | On 02 Dec 2015 HIV and AIDS are a serious challenge for the developing as well as the developed world. India, with an estimated 5.206 million people living with HIV in 2005, accounts for nearly 69 percent of the HIV...
by | On 01 Dec 2015 This paper reports and models the discrepancy between the full bidding and endow and upgrade findings from a willingness-to-pay (WTP) elicitation Becker-Degroot-Marschak (BDM) experiment for an improv...
by Banerji A | On 30 Nov 2015 The development and utilization of renewable energy sources has been accorded high priority by the Government of India. The policies and programmes implemented by the Ministry of New and Renewable Ene...
by | On 27 Nov 2015 LPG and Superior Kerosene Oil (SKO), are not only important sources of fuel, but also commodities whose price is subsidized to benefit the people of Bhutan. Therefore, it is important to ensure smooth...
by National Council Economic Affairs Committee | On 27 Nov 2015 The Report brings out the different aspects of the insolvency laws which has a two-fold purpose- (i) to give relief to the debtor from the harassment of his creditors whose claims he is unable to meet...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 25 Nov 2015 This paper analyses 45 cases of insolvency and bankruptcy resolution in order to measure the efficiency
and problems of the present laws for firm bankruptcy in India. These cases have been selected t...
by Aparna Ravi | On 25 Nov 2015 The Bill which proposes fundamental changes to Environmental Governance in India is deeply disconcerting and disruptive of prevailing environmental jurisprudence. The Bill promotes fundamental changes...
by Environment Support Group (ESG) | On 20 Nov 2015 A Bill further to amend the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010. This Act may be called the Environment Law (Amendment) Act, 2015. It is a draft of the propose...
by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Chang GOI | On 20 Nov 2015 Indonesia’s rate of birth registration is imprecisely measured but is low, especially among the poorer, rural, population. At the same time, the country has developed a system of population registrati...
by Cate Sumner | On 20 Nov 2015 The Ministry of Mines’ fundamental job is to mine. Many of the violations and human rights abuses that result from mining, especially with respect to children, are not the mandate of the ministry to a...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Nov 2015 The vast majority of the world’s displaced people are hosted in the global South, in the poorest countries in the world. This is also a space with the highest numbers of disabled people, many of who l...
by | On 13 Nov 2015 Statistics have been the most important criteria for the Central Government in changing the juvenile justice law and introducing treatment of 16-18 year old juveniles committing such offences as adult...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 13 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 What the government should is to concentrate on economic issues with diversionary issues being put back in the cupboard.
by T.N. Ninan | On 07 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 One of social science’s core roles is to inform evidence-based policy making and policy interventions that produce pro-poor outcomes. This paper explores prominent debates on research uptake and polic...
by | On 05 Nov 2015 This paper primarily aims to capture the changing patterns of consumption expenditure of three broad classes, namely, the ‘upper’ ‘middle’ and ‘bottom’ classes in the rural and urban India. In contras...
by | On 05 Nov 2015 Given the importance of securing women’s rights to land as India grows and develops and recognizing the dearth of available data to guide the design of gender-sensitive interventions, this study provi...
by | On 04 Nov 2015 Targeted Public Distribution System was introduced in the country following the failure of the
Universal PDS to serve below the poverty line and poorest of the poor households.It is being
implemente...
by T Jayan | On 04 Nov 2015 An RTI filed by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights with Jail No.7 in Tihar, brought to light the
shocking violations of Child Rights and Juvenile Justice in the Tihar Jail. It was found that
within a peri...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 03 Nov 2015 IFPRI and India’s partnership played a particularly important role following the Green Revolution when that partnership analyzed the necessary policies to both promote domestic food production and to...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 03 Nov 2015 This interview with Vijoo Krishnan, Joint Secretary All India Kisan Sabha, on the agrarian crises leading to farmer suicides and rising prices of food grains traces backs the agrarian crises to the ne...
by Vijoo Krishnan | On 02 Nov 2015 Water, sanitation and hygiene services are central to addressing poverty, livelihoods and health. They are also critical in addressing the needs of poor communities and in achieving the Millennium Dev...
by M.V. Ramachandrudu | On 29 Oct 2015 It is evident that the poor, especially women and children are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because of their limited adaptive capacity. In such circumstances, BRAC Disaster, Envi...
by Tahera Akter | On 26 Oct 2015 After India gained independence in 1947, the country's leaders promised its diverse constituents citizenship rights that extended across religion, gender, and caste. Distinct from its previous British...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 This report provides an overview on the main issues debated during the development and passage of the India’s National Food Security Act (2013), which legally binds national and state governments to e...
by Harsh Mander | On 20 Oct 2015 This is an analytical narrative about post-conflict dynamics of poverty in a block of villages in north Bihar known as ‘the Mushahari Project’. It is related with the socio-economic and political cons...
by Anand Kumar | On 20 Oct 2015 Adoption provides a very important function in Indian society. India has long tradition of child adoption. In olden days, it was restricted within the family and was covered by social and religious pr...
by A.S. Shenoy | On 20 Oct 2015 Even after a hundred years of child labour legislation and fifty years of independence, child labour is a common occurrence in India. Today, their numbers exceed those of any other country. The urgent...
by | On 19 Oct 2015 This article uses Pakistan’s 2010 floods to identify the
effects of a natural disaster on citizens’ aspirations. Aspirations were significantly reduced—especially
among the poorest and most vulnerab...
by Katrina Kosec | On 19 Oct 2015 This case study documents key gender equality issues as well as key achievements and lessons from a project carried out in post conflict Sri Lanka as part of urgently needed reconstruction. The Improv...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | 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 Bihar has lowest per capita income amongst the major states of India and high rate of persistent poverty with social structure fragmented based on caste lines. Therefore present study has been underta...
by | On 14 Oct 2015 Present study has been
undertaken to understand that to what extent reforms measures in terms of repeal of
the act has affected investment in agricultural marketing infrastructure. The present
s...
by Vijay Intodia | On 14 Oct 2015 This paper focuses on the economic activity and the work status of men, women and children in rural Bihar. It uses data from surveys carried out in 36 villages under the research programme, Aiming at...
by | On 13 Oct 2015 Consumer protection law rests on the foundations of contract law and the law of sale of goods. A consumer law has to conceptually express this foundation and the modifications it is bringing about in...
by Akhileshwar Pathak | On 13 Oct 2015 This paper tries to assess the impact of coping strategies on household welfare. The paper tries to identify the components of vulnerability to better focus policy. India, particularly rural India, h...
by Raghbendra Jha | 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 This year’s annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report takes stock of progress made towards achieving the internationally established hunger targets and reflects on what needs to be done, as...
by Food and Agriculture Organization | On 07 Oct 2015 One of the causes for raised eyebrows to the Companies Act, 2013 is Section 135. The provision mandates companies meeting certain requirements to compulsorily contribute to corporate social responsibi...
by | On 06 Oct 2015 Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most common form of microfinance in India. The authors provide evidence that SHGs, composed of women only, undertake collective actions for the provision of public good...
by | On 01 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 Roughly 40 percent of the world’s poor live in South Asia, where poverty is basically a rural problem. Therefore, a significant gain in rural poverty reduction in this sub-region will be crucial to re...
by | On 30 Sep 2015 This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and food security, with a particular focus on women as food producers, consumers, and family food managers. The discussion is set against...
by Bina Agarwal | On 29 Sep 2015 Women in the communities make efforts to seek allocation under appropriate budget heads to identify streams of revenue, available revenue and the required expenditure. Town planners, policy makers and...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 28 Sep 2015 Almost three years since the enforcement of POSCP Act is a good time to review its implementation and
build evidence that can be used to seek improvement and/or appropriate changes.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 24 Sep 2015 The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005, an inheritance law that covers 83.6% of the population of India, corrected some of fundamental inequalities in the law bringing the women in equal status to...
by Sohini Pal | On 23 Sep 2015 This paper seeks to provide an overview of the complex and dynamic relationship between nutrition and growth, examine how different growth patterns lead to different nutritional outcomes, and identif...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 Given the ubiquity of mobile phones, their use to support healthcare in the Indian context is inevitable. It is however necessary to assess end-user perceptions regarding mobile health interventions e...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 This paper was originally commissioned by the Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2015 report. This report aims to provide an additiona...
by Ulrike Hanemann | On 22 Sep 2015 Rural Health is one of vital elements of rural life. India being a nation of villages requires an intensive approach towards rural health. Nearly 75 per cent of health infrastructure and other health...
by | On 22 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 focuses on the nature and characteristics of unemployment using the five-yearly surveys of the NSSO. The dominant narrative in the literature has been that the rate of unemployment, whichev...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 Conventional growth models incorporate capital but not labour as the determining variable. An alternative way to look at growth is to treat it a function of growth of employment and productivity: grow...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 As stress on Indian agriculture increases because of several reasons, such as continuous fragmentation of landholdings and climate change, there is a serious threat to livelihood based on farming. Thi...
by Digvijay S. Negi | On 17 Sep 2015 The paper addresses the issue of growth and development by looking at evidence from six country case studies to assess how to enhance the employment impact of social protection programmes by improving...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 16 Sep 2015 Limited statistics on internal migration, international migration, and remittances worldwide prohibit understanding of migration’s role in the agricultural transformation process. Insights from the qu...
by Valerie Mueller | On 16 Sep 2015 This paper 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 This report – “Assessment of State Implementation of Business Reforms” is a scorecard to take stock of what reforms have happened, and to identify the way forward for States. The report highlights the...
by World Bank | On 15 Sep 2015 This paper examines, in particular, the effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) programme on employment, wages and incomes of the rural poor. It also considers its effect on...
by | On 14 Sep 2015 The purpose of the national consultation was to bring together initiatives from across the country to share experience and challenges. This report is the final draft of the discussions and a common ag...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 14 Sep 2015 This study highlights that India has not been complying with its obligations under the ICCPR and has indeed been imposing death penalty without legal sanction. While the violations of international fa...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 14 Sep 2015 The loud clamour for liberalisation of labour laws in recent times quite overlooks the fact that other institutional reforms are far more important for rejuvenating the sector.
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 13 Sep 2015 The paper seeks to mainstream a gender perspective in the Jawaharlal National Rural Urban Renewal Mission through a set of guidelines for integrating gender issues in the urban renewal and reform agen...
by | On 11 Sep 2015 The report reveal the magnitude of the challenge that the world still faces in the quest for gender equality. This report promotes the cause of inclusion of women by informing research and policy disc...
by World Bank | On 11 Sep 2015 There have been numerous investigations in recent years to determine the incidence and prevalence of modern slavery worldwide, and debt bondage in India has been found to be the most extensive form of...
by Sarah Knight | On 10 Sep 2015 The paper attempts to revitalise appropriate systems that will provide for and enable appropriate teaching-learning systems that could realise the identified goals of reach, equity, and quality. Moder...
by National Council of Educational Research &Training NCERT | On 10 Sep 2015 The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matricu...
by Fan Li | On 09 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 Problems and challenges faced by the rural labour in India are many both in terms of their magnitude and impact on the rural economy in general and rural labourers in particular. The magnitude and the...
by | On 09 Sep 2015 Problems and challenges faced by the rural labour in India are many both in terms of their magnitude and impact on the rural economy in general and rural labourers in particular. The magnitude and the...
by | On 09 Sep 2015 This paper provides a descriptive summary of India’s experience with school feeding programmes (SFPs), focussing mainly on the period since 1995, the year that saw the launch of a national initiative...
by M S Swaminathan Research Foundation India | On 08 Sep 2015 This paper takes a look at the efforts made by the Government of India since the enactment of the Act to improve the relevance of minimum wages, its impact in bringing the workers out of the poverty l...
by | On 07 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 This paper explores why migrants at their destination fare better than nonmigrants, across different socio-economic classes in India, while the general perception of migrants is that they are less end...
by Vamsi Vakulabharanam | On 03 Sep 2015 The paper offers a ctitical understanding of the policy approaches for rural industrialization by underscoring inadequate understanding of the dynamics understanding of the dynamics or specificities...
by Keshab Das | On 03 Sep 2015 On 21 October 2011, hundreds of Mexican civil society organizations formally submitted a petition to the Lelio e Lisli Basso Foundation in Rome to justify the opening of a Mexican Chapter of the Perma...
by Rosalba Icaza | On 02 Sep 2015 This paper examines the links between gender equality and rural employment for poverty reduction by constructing a gender analytical framework to interpret differentiated patterns and conditions of wo...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 02 Sep 2015 Over the last decade, the landscape of Bangladesh has changed remarkably. Persistent mobility of people questions existing development strategies, which are largely based on sectoral approaches
that...
by Rita Afsar | On 31 Aug 2015 The Law Commission of India received a reference from the Supreme Court in Santosh Kumar Satishbhushan Bariyar v. Maharashtra [(2009) 6 SCC 498] and Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. Maharashtra [(2013) 5 SCC...
by Law Commission India | On 31 Aug 2015 The present study attempts to examine the role of specialist services in rural public health system of India in the areas of maternal and child healthcare. The study uses primary data collected throug...
by Shreekant Iyengar | On 31 Aug 2015 This paper highlights a strategic framework to eradicate rural poverty by 2015 with the rural household as the central unit. It is based on the premise that the livelihoods of rural households depend...
by Ministry of Rural Development Government of India | On 31 Aug 2015 This report presents evidence for re-examining the death penalty in India, through a study of Supreme Court judgments in death penalty cases from 1950-2006.
by Amnesty International AI, | On 31 Aug 2015 The Report consists of seven Chapters. While Chapter I introduces the issue at hand, Chapter II captures various International Conventions, Treaties and Declarations that concern the issue of ECD. Cha...
by Law Commission India | On 31 Aug 2015 This report presents the industrial cluster development policy of the Republic of Korea and draws lessons from that experience for South Asia. It briefly reviews Korean industrial policy since the 196...
by Jong-il Kim | On 31 Aug 2015 This report looks at the situation of women in policing in Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, and Pakistan. It is based on the premise that gender equality, besides being a value to be upheld in and of...
by Aideen Gilmore | On 28 Aug 2015 The report takes into account present scenario of urban poverty in India. Incidence of urban poverty can be attributed to lack of development as also to the nature and pattern of development. Importa...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 This ACHR report focuses on six specific case studies on the right to life in the context of death penalty. The report highlights Constitutional and other legal guarantees against self-incrimination a...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 24 Aug 2015 Poverty reduction and economic growth can be sustained only if natural resources are managed on a sustainable basis. Greening rural development can stimulate rural economies, create jobs and help main...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 24 Aug 2015 Bills Passed by Parliament during the Monsoon Session
by Kusum Malik | On 24 Aug 2015 This paper analyses an overview of china human development in Time and Space. The paper covers themes like regional inequality in China Since 1952 and Urban-Rural Inequality, 1980-2000. The paper is a...
by | On 21 Aug 2015 The research draws on interviews with rural-urban migrant construction workers in Kathmandu as well as with families of construction workers, other migrant labourers and non-migrants in two contrastin...
by | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper compares the experience of poverty reduction in China and India. It finds that more than economic growth per se, what has mattered crucially is the nature of the growth: whether it is assoc...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 21 Aug 2015 One of the well-known barriers to development is persistence of disadvantage among communities. The lack of occupational and therefore upward social mobility continues to restrain households from achi...
by | On 20 Aug 2015 Notwithstanding its impressive economic growth, food insecurity in South Asia continues to be a stark reality for a large number of households. Despite several successful policy interventions by Gover...
by K. S. Kavi Kumar | On 19 Aug 2015 This publication attempts to study major concepts of WTO and present some perspectives on Nepal’s membership in this rule based global trading organization. The chapters presents an introduction with...
by Nepal Rastra Bank NRB | On 17 Aug 2015 A review is done to understand if criminalising cheque bounce cases has been an effective remedy. The penalties imposed in other countries against cheque bounce offenders is studied and an analysis of...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 14 Aug 2015 Against the post-New Industrial Policy (1991) growth witnessed in large-scale industries, a corresponding boom in the small and mid-sized domestic industry has been conspicuously absent. The paper see...
by Amit Chandra | On 13 Aug 2015 Street vendors’ rights to carry on their trade in public spaces, has been the subject matter of debate and discussion in India for a very long time. In fact it has taken numerous judgments of the Supr...
by Amit Chandra | On 13 Aug 2015 This report examines changes in the lives of rural households and in the rural economy against the backdrop of changes brought about by the programme. This research report addresses such challenging q...
by Sonalde Desai | On 13 Aug 2015 The central objective of the paper is to empirically examine the relationship between financial development and income inequality. Theoretically, there are grounds for both a positive and negative
re...
by Donghyun Park | On 12 Aug 2015 Of all the markets in which politicians interfere with prices, the land market is probably the last that will be reformed.
by T.N. Ninan | On 08 Aug 2015 This project aims to assess the impact of IPR rules on economic growth (including investment), environmental protection (including biodiversity) and social goals (including rural development). There w...
by IPDEV . | On 06 Aug 2015 This paper presents direct evidence on the quality of health care in low-income settings using a unique and original set of audit studies, where standardized patients were presented to a nearly repres...
by Alaka Holla | On 04 Aug 2015 This report is by the National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India is part of the series on household consumer expenditure on utilisation of...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 31 Jul 2015 This Policy note on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment is central to the attainment of the overarching goal of enabling poor rural women and men to improve their food security and nutrition, rais...
by International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD | On 29 Jul 2015 This paper captures the policy processes leading to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RFCTLARR) Ordinance, 2014. It maps the role an...
by G. Raghuram | On 28 Jul 2015 This study aims to provide a mid-term appraisal of the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12), focusing on the performance of flagship programmes in Tamil Nadu. In this paper, a brief note on the Eleventh...
by K. R. Shanmugam | On 27 Jul 2015 The article tells us about what are the positive aspects of Juvenile Justice bill what it is lacking.
by Bharti Ali | On 23 Jul 2015 Economic mobility is a significant consequence of income inequality and growth. In this paper, authors have used a unique ARIS/ REDS surveys data set for rural India spanning three decades to determin...
by Kailash Chandra Pradhan | On 21 Jul 2015 The report presents the (i) safeguard systems of Bhutan, India and Nepal; (ii) differences in national safeguard laws and institutional processes with the Asian Development Bank’s safeguards policy; (...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 13 Jul 2015 This study estimates the entrance fee that can be charged to visitors
for ‘turtle watching’ to ascertain whether revenues from such fees can
be used to compensate fishermen and reduce such illegal...
by R. M. Wasantha Rathnayake | On 10 Jul 2015 The study is an attempt to bring to the fore a Commons perspective of agriculture, livestock and rural livelihoods in the dryland and tribal areas of India. Would agriculture, livestock and rural live...
by Foundation for Ecological Security FES | On 07 Jul 2015 Based on the author’s intensive fieldwork in rural West Bengal and the adjoining state of Jharkhand in India, the paper seeks to reveal how the field, beyond its geographical connotation, becomes an a...
by Dipankar Sinha | On 03 Jul 2015 This paper explores some aspects of the imperialism/empire/new imperialism debate and looks at whether imperialism remains to be a valid theoretical category in analyzing contemporary economics and po...
by Subhanil Chowdhury | On 02 Jul 2015 The right to acquire/rent property anywhere in the nation is a fantasy fostered by the Constitution and the rhetoric of modernisation and urbanisation.
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 28 Jun 2015 This report is an outcome of the field study conducted to assess the rural water supply schemes In rural Maharashtra. The aims of the study are to understand the water supply systems and their functio...
by S. Ramesh Sakthivel | On 26 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 aim of this booklet is to introduce activists and the general public to the Supreme Court orders, and help them to make effective use these orders. The Supreme Court orders can also be used to hel...
by | On 24 Jun 2015 The statement aims to stand firmly as an independent institution and to conduct every election honestly, fairly and transparency and in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the country. The st...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 18 Jun 2015 Statement aims to establish good governance by coordinating activities of different ministries & divisions and supervising activities of field administration in pursuing government policy and strategy...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 The process of urbanization in terms of workforce patterns is largely considered to be unidirectional – increasing engagement of the workforce in non-agricultural occupational pursuits. Using a unique...
by | On 16 Jun 2015 Agriculture is the single sector making most use of child labour. This Handbook offers guidance and tools for assessing the impacts of agricultural and food security programmes and projects on child l...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 16 Jun 2015 Review of Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism through the Lives of Practitioners Ed. Todd Lewis. Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. 352 pp. Rs 2,215/- (paperback) ISBN-13: 978-0...
by Mavis Fenn | On 15 Jun 2015 The Government’s main budgetary objective is to allocate fiscal resources in line with Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS). In this way, it will be assured that resources are allocated to...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 11 Jun 2015 This report discusses the need to eradicate hunger and achieve food security across all its dimensions. The report also identifies key factors that have determined success to date in reaching the MDG ...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 10 Jun 2015 India continues to have among the lowest public health budgets in the world at just over 1% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and it gets reflected in the performance of the public healthcare delivery s...
by Oommen C. Kurian | On 08 Jun 2015 This paper examines a number of questions that have a bearing on women’s employment in South Asia. The characteristic features of the region such as the predominantly rural, agrarian economy; patriarc...
by | On 04 Jun 2015 The primary objective of the Act is augmenting wage employment. In this regard, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the...
by Committee on Empowerment of Women GOI | On 01 Jun 2015 This Food and Agriculture Organization publication assesses the extent of the "double burden" of malnutrition in six developing countries – China, Egypt, India, Mexico, the Philippines and South Afric...
by Food and Nutrition Division FAO | On 01 Jun 2015 The comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2020 was adopted by the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly in May 2013. The present report summarizes progress made in implementing the action plan. The...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 01 Jun 2015 Review of Nation and Family: Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India by Narendra Subramanian, Stanford University Press, 2014. 400 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-887...
by Aparna Malaviya | On 31 May 2015 The Working Group aims to deliberate on the existing labour laws and the need for review of these laws in order to protect the interest of workers more effectively while at the same time promoting gro...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment GoI | On 26 May 2015 The present report is an attempt to focus on how our national policies and programmes can be better appreciated and reflected in the country’s obligations and commitments to the various international...
by Planning Commission | On 25 May 2015 The Executive Board held its 133rd session on 29 and 30 May 2013 and its 134th session from 20 to 25 January 2014. This report summarizes the main outcomes.
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 22 May 2015 The Working Group has taken cognisance to the issues of inclusive growth. It lays emphasis on the view that employment generation should be focused on different segments of labour force – organized, u...
by Planning Commission | On 21 May 2015 The Working Group recognises the need for enhanced, inclusive and sustainable growth in rainfed areas. It identifies factors contributing to instability in production system under rainfed conditions e...
by Planning Commission | On 20 May 2015 This Bill is further amendment to the constitution on levy and collection of goods and service tax and trade in India. It provides the parliament with exclusive powers to make laws with respect to goo...
by Ministry of Finance | On 19 May 2015 The present study is based on primary survey across 18 states of India by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi conducted between December 2013 and January 2014. The survey wa...
by | On 18 May 2015 The Standing Committee on Labour and Employment (Chairman: Mr. Dara Singh Chauhan) presented its 40th report on the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 on December 13, 2013....
by Ministry of Labour and Employment | On 14 May 2015 The report provides a strategy in the field of agriculture related issues on Dryland / Rainfed Farming System including Regeneration of Degraded / Waste Land, Watershed Development Programme.
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 13 May 2015 The Act provides for amendments in Trade Union Act, 1926. The amendments relate to payment of a minimum subscription by members, employment and conditions of unorganised workers.
by Ministry of Labour and Employment GoI | On 13 May 2015 This policy brief documents the participation of youth in Andhra Pradesh in civil society, the extent to which they uphold secular attitudes and their perceptions about and participation in political...
by Population Council | On 12 May 2015 In order to achieve excellence in sports, government of Assam aims to adaopt a uniform policy so that sports activities in the state are spread over the year. Assam sports policy aims to provide sport...
by Government of Assam | On 12 May 2015 The January 2014 issue of YOJANA contains the following articles - Tribal and Marginalized Communities, Constitutional Provisions, Laws and Tribes, Actualising Adivasi Self-Rule, The Food Bill, Wild F...
by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting MIB | On 11 May 2015 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 which is a rights-based flagship scheme of the Government of India with effect from 2 February, 2006, guarantees at least 100...
by | On 06 May 2015 This Report is an update of the Rural Food Insecurity Atlas of 2001 released by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Since then, numerous new programmes...
by V B Athreya | On 06 May 2015 The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) during the period July 2009 - June 2010 carried out an all-India household survey on the subject of employment and unemployment in India as a part of 66th roun...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 05 May 2015 This report presents the information on nutritional intake by the Indian population. Among the different nutrients only three nutrients – viz, calorie, protein and fat – are discussed in this report....
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 05 May 2015 The primary objective of the Act is augmenting wage employment. In this regard, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the...
by Committee on Empowerment of Women GOI | On 28 Apr 2015 The report focuses on the critical question of advancing gender equality, as seen through the prism of women’s unequal power, voice, and rights. Despite the region’s many economic gains, the Report ch...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 24 Apr 2015 This Five Year Plan document focuses on Economic Sectors which provides plans for Agriculture, Industry, Energy, Transport, Communication, Rural Development, Urban Development and Other Priority Secto...
by Planning Commission | On 23 Apr 2015 This policy review looks at four types of Internet traffic management policies across the globe: legal regulation, transparency, non-neutrality, and government control. Each of these has been employed...
by Christine Stover | On 16 Apr 2015 Academic research has been paying little attention to the net neutrality debate in developing countries, where large content providers such as Facebook, Google and Twitter have long been executing agr...
by | On 14 Apr 2015 Based on interviews with more than 50 rights defenders and their families, the 71-page document titled, "Their lives on the line: Women rights defenders under attack in Afghanistan," illustrates the r...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 14 Apr 2015 This paper explores the physical, psychological and socio-economic consequences of acid attacks, and delineates the various legal provisions in place to combat this form of gender violence. Highlighti...
by | On 13 Apr 2015 This report presents an overview of both legal frameworks that have institutionalised discrimination and fuelled religious intolerance and violence against women and a dysfunctional criminal justice s...
by International Crisis Group | On 13 Apr 2015 Globally, the number of adults and children who are trafficked for forced labour, bonded labour or commercial sexual exploitation is estimated to be about 12 million. Though India has made several com...
by K G Santhya | On 10 Apr 2015 The paper assesses the current status of governance institutions in Myanmar, as well as their performance, in comparison to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and selected other countr...
by Cullen Hendrix | On 02 Apr 2015 In this paper People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) potential growth rate during the last 30 years is analysed. The PRC’s potential growth rate is not demand constrained, in particular by the balance...
by Juzhong Zhuang | On 27 Mar 2015 Evidence regarding the relationship between married women’s autonomy and risk of marital violence remains mixed. Moreover, studies examining the contribution of specific aspects of women’s autonomy in...
by | On 26 Mar 2015 This document studies the Trade Policies and Institutions of BRICS, India and BRICS: issues of trade and technology; and examines the scope for deepening cooperation in services among BRICS members. T...
by | On 24 Mar 2015 his country brief highlights how ADB operations have helped support Bhutan’s efforts in advancing socioeconomic development.
Since Bhutan became a member in 1982, ADB has provided $486.29 million i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2015 This paper argues that that per capita income in all states in India increased in the past four decades but in fact no sign of convergence could be visible as it was expected in the context of liberal...
by | On 13 Mar 2015 This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2012. Amnesty International records figures on the use of the death penalty based on the best available info...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 13 Mar 2015 The Act aims to ensure a humane, participative, informed and transparent process for Land acquisition, industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities and urbanisation with leas...
by | On 09 Mar 2015 The asks of the Agriculture sector are many but what all must the budget focus on? A National Convention on Budget 2015-16 by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability looks at these.
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 Ahead of the Union Budget, Civil Society Organizations ask for policy strategies to support drinking water and sanitation for vulnerable sections. Civil society budget groups, collectively as a networ...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 Sanitation is a big challenge in the rural India. Through this you will be taken to to five villages in Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh, to meet families that do not have a toilet at home. Nearly 65 p...
by Sutapa Deb | On 21 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 Rural Electronic Government (e-government) projects are aimed at providing government services and information to rural public. The e-government initiatives have not been very successful in developing...
by | On 04 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 The objective of paper is to demonstrate feasibility of nutrition-sensitive agriculture. The proposed model is being tested in two select locations to demonstrate improvement in nutrition status throu...
by M S Swaminathan | On 21 Jan 2015 Youth in Afghanistan have benefited from national laws and policies in the sectors of education, culture, sport, rural development and reconstruction, but three decades of civil unrest deprived a gene...
by Government of Republic of Afghanistan | On 16 Jan 2015 ASAR report has made a great contribution to the discussions on our primary education policy. On a few parameters, these surveys show that the overall learning levels have deteriorated over the years....
by PRATHAM | On 15 Jan 2015 The purpose of this paper is Understanding Cyber crime and its phenomena, challenges and legal response to assist everyone in understanding the legal aspects of cyber security and to help harmonize le...
by Shilpa Yadav | On 13 Jan 2015 Jasodhara Bagchi, feminist scholar, activist and leader of the women's movement and a pioneering women's studies academic passed away on January 9, 2015 after a brief illness in Kolkata, India.
by | On 11 Jan 2015 A short post on PosterWomen that first appeared in July 25, 2011 in which Jasodhara Bagchi, the late feminist scholar and activist talks about her involvement with the women's movement in India.
by Jasodhara Bagchi | On 11 Jan 2015 Bills Passed by Parliament during the Winter Session
by Kusum Malik | On 24 Dec 2014 The lack of social protection for the elderly in rural areas of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has, since the 1990s, been seen by the government as a critical issue. The central government intro...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Dec 2014 Indian constitution stands on the bedrock of secularism though nowhere in the original constitution the word secularism‘ was mentioned. Indian political circuit, in recent times has seen the dirtiest...
by Saadiya Suleman | On 23 Dec 2014 Parliament performs several essential functions including that of making laws, scrutinising and passing the budget, conducting oversight on the activities of the government and representing citizens....
by Prianka Rao | On 06 Dec 2014 The President of India signed a revised set of labour laws from Rajasthan into state law. The Rajasthan government has revised the Factories Act, the Industrial Disputes Act and the Contract Labour Ac...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 02 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 In India, biofuel has gained in popularity in recent years because of its potential
as a clean energy source and a means to stimulate rural development.
Yet, growth in Jatropha, a key bio-fuel crop,...
by Kishor Goswami | On 27 Nov 2014 The report seeks to track and map the extent to which central and state governments in India have succeeded in ensuring access to a range of basic public goods for all people. This report argues that...
by Centre Equity Studies | On 27 Nov 2014 This study addresses the nature, extent and reasons for women’s political participation within India, Nepal and Pakistan. All three countries have recently elected or are in the process of electing th...
by Ranjana Kumari | On 27 Nov 2014 Child marriage is a strong social custom, particularly for girls in Bangladesh. The most vital reasons among them are poverty, superstition, lack of social security
and lack of awareness. According t...
by Nahid Ferdousi | On 25 Nov 2014 This is the second edition of the Global Slavery Index (‘the Index’) which provides estimates the number of people in modern slavery in 167 countries. The Index estimates there are 35.8 million people...
by Walk Free Foundation | On 18 Nov 2014 Urbanisation in India is neither unique nor exclusive but is similar to a world-wide phenomenon. Indian urbanisation has proceeded as it has elsewhere in the world as a part and product of economic ch...
by K.C. Sivaramakrishnan | On 11 Nov 2014 This paper makes in-depth study of the level of literacy among females and the extent of gender disparity in
literacy in different districts of rural and urban Maharashtra. This paper also shows imp...
by Asha A. Jindal | On 11 Nov 2014 Development of an economy goes hand in hand with a declining importance of agriculture in output and employment. Given the primarily rural population in developing countries and their concentration in...
by Amartya Lahiri | On 06 Nov 2014 Recent evidence indicated that gender disparity in child health is minimal and narrowed over time in India. However, considering the geographical and socio-cultural diversity in India, the gender gap...
by Ranjan Kumar Prusty | On 03 Nov 2014 The NREGS is an ambitious public works program intended to provide a basic safety net to the rural poor in India. This paper attempts to study two aspects of the program’s functioning using data from...
by Vinayak Uppal | On 31 Oct 2014 In the post-reform period no opportunity has been missed out by the employers, the critics of labour regulation and the government in describing the labour laws in denouncing manner, viz. archaic, num...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 28 Oct 2014 In this paper, the relationship is assessed between possessing information on, gaining access to and the efficacy of delivery of India's national rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGA) in three sta...
by Shylashri Shankar | On 28 Oct 2014 This book originates from a conference of the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils and contains writings and research reports on Youth in Transition in the Asia and Pacific region. Th...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 16 Oct 2014 A public policy is basically a law or rule that is enforced by any level of government, whether central, state, or local. When making policy, the government often fall into the conceit that they are i...
by Parth Shah | On 15 Oct 2014 Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate
factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising
agricultural cost of produ...
by Thangzason Sonna | On 14 Oct 2014 Despite recent advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and women, pervasive challenges remain. These challenges reflect widespread deprivations and constraints and include epidemic levels...
by Jeni Klugman | On 14 Oct 2014 100 laws are identified which can be repealed. The laws in this compendium need to be repealed on account of any one of three
reasons: they are either redundant (having outlived their purpose), they...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 08 Oct 2014 Despite economic growth, government latrine construction, and increasing recognition among policymakers that open defecation constitutes a health and human capital crisis, it remains stubbornly widesp...
by Diane Coffey | On 07 Oct 2014 The role of male’s participation in reproductive healthcare is now well-recognized. The present study investigated the role of men in some selected reproductive health issues, characterizing their inv...
by Md Shahjahan | On 25 Sep 2014 Agriculture is an intrinsically risky economic activity. Farmers face a multitude of risks, such as production risks, on account of weather variations, and price risks, associated with falling output...
by Thaigu Ranganathan | On 24 Sep 2014 India’s recent development cooperation activities with the South have provoked global curiosity. Two factors shape this interest. First, the strong growth of some countries like India, China and Brazi...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 18 Sep 2014 In spite of the rapid growth of the Indian economy, the fraction of the rural population living in poverty has declined only modestly. Increasing indebtedness, rises in input prices, and rapid commerc...
by Raj M. Desai | On 17 Sep 2014 This brief is one of series on scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition. PepsiCo is a global business operating in more than 200 countries and territories and rooted in creating and...
by Beth Sauerhaft | On 17 Sep 2014 Migration is a process that gets intensified with the process of economic development. Population mobility from rural to urban areas is a common feature in India. Interestingly, this rural-urban migra...
by Debasis Chakraborty | On 11 Sep 2014 The WHO-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) for Water and Sanitation, which tracks progress towards the water and sanitation targets of the Millennium Development Goals, estimates that 36% of the wo...
by Clarissa Brocklehurst | On 10 Sep 2014 Over the past 40 years, China’s population has been aging at a rate that took more than 100 years in developed countries. In 2010, the number of people over 60 years old reached 178 million in China,...
by World Bank | On 09 Sep 2014 The mechanism adopted to keep the rise in property prices under check until 2000 was the active participation of the public sector in keeping supply ahead of demand. This seems to have worked well in...
by Jatinder S. Bedi | On 08 Sep 2014 This report on the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2013 prepared by the non-profit Pratham Education Foundation recently pointed out that the quality of learning—as measured by reading, writi...
by PRATHAM | On 02 Sep 2014 The state of Chhattisgarh today faces several challenges in improving the health status of its people. The on-going problems of maternal and child mortality, communicable diseases, and HIV/AIDS pandem...
by Nitin M. Nagarkar | On 27 Aug 2014 About 4.5 lakh fair price shops in India sell 10-20 lakh tons of rice and wheat at the subsidized rate per month. Majority of the ration shops are in urban areas, they are hardly ever open and only a...
by Parth Shah | On 27 Aug 2014 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which guarantees employment of every rural household for 100 days, has different progressive provisions which incentivise higher p...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 25 Aug 2014 The Maharashtra Comprehensive Nutrition Survey 2012 is the first ever state-specific nutrition survey with a focus on infants and children undertwo and their mothers. A representative sample of child...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 23 Aug 2014 The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country,...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2014 In India, the entire schooling span is divided into multiple stages beginning with nursery or pre-schooling (at home, kindergarten or crèches, age group 3 to 5), followed by primary (class I to IV, ag...
by George Varghese | On 28 Jul 2014 A group of economists presented their views on what the Union Budget 2014-15 offered for India's agricultural sector and farmers, during a conference entitled Analyzing the Budget 2014 for Rural India...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 23 Jul 2014 If the Union Budget 2014 is anything to go by , the fiscal policy of the new government shows no change. In fact, there is an amazing continuity with the previous few Budgets. Significantly however,...
by Ravi Duggal | On 23 Jul 2014 Book Review - Understanding India: Cultural Influences on Indian Television Commercials discusses Indian Television Commercials in the context of marketing interests and visual culture. The author exa...
by Hemali Sanghavi | On 09 Jul 2014 This study underscores the need to connect the dots if the practice of son preference and its manifestation, discrimination against daughters, is to be addressed. Clearly, it is not only about impleme...
by Kirti Singh | On 07 Jul 2014 This study examines the impact of India's Public Distribution System (PDS) on poor households in terms of income gains, reductions in the incidence and severity of poverty, as well as nutritional impr...
by R. Radhakrishna | On 07 Jul 2014 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 The importance of strengthening the human development (HD) achievements in a country to augment its growth potential is well known in development literature. Several initiatives to enhance the HD leve...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 24 Jun 2014 Irrefutable is the fact that trafficking of women and children is a grave violation of Human Rights and one of the most serious organized crimes of the day, transcending cultures, geography and time....
by P.M Nair | On 18 Jun 2014 This paper examines some of the recent pronouncements of the Supreme Court and other High Courts and tries to analyse them vis-à-vis the understanding of the rule of law in India. [IIMA W.P. No.2014-0...
by Anurag K Agarwal | On 11 Jun 2014 To study the various definitions of a child as highlighted under the Constitution as well as under various other legislations and compare the various objectives which led to the differential criteria...
by Mubashshir Sarshar | On 09 Jun 2014 The PRS Annual Policy Review aims to capture the key legislative and policy developments in
India during the fiscal year 2013-14. The objective of this document is to summarise all the
major devel...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 05 Jun 2014 With an urbanization level of 31.16 percent in 2011, India is the least urbanized country among the top
10 economies of the world. In addition, unlike other countries, the transition of workforce out...
by Ajay Sharma | On 26 May 2014 Many transition and developing economies have reduced direct public involvement in the production and trade of seed and other agricultural inputs. This trend creates opportunities for farmers to reali...
by David Gisselquist | On 23 May 2014 This paper examines the issues related to just,
adequate and effective compensation in cases of medical negligence and provides certain
suggestions. [IIMA W.P. No.2014-03-27].
by Anurag K Agarwal | On 22 May 2014 Unlike migration, scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of commuting by workers in
developing countries. This paper fills this gap by using a nationally representative data set from India t...
by Ajay Sharma | On 20 May 2014 This report presents data and analysis to better understand the factors driving the expansion in undergraduate and graduate education across Asia. By looking at the system as a whole, the authors eval...
by David W. Chapman | On 16 May 2014 The Report highlights the unique aspects of youth development in various regions but emphasizes that young people the world over are ultimately constrained in their efforts to contribute to their own...
by United Nations UN | On 16 May 2014 Gender equality is one of the six goals of the global Education for All campaign that UNESCO leads. This was launched in 2000, when the countries of the world agreed to “eliminate gender disparities i...
by Edward B. Fiske | On 12 May 2014 Indoor air pollution, associated with using biomass cooking fuels, causes an estimated 871,500 child deaths globally every year from respiratory related complications. Children are particularly vulner...
by Meena Sehgal | On 02 May 2014 This report demonstrates that inequality in society is an old and fatal phenomenon. If left unchecked, it can undermine the very foundations of development and social and domestic peace. This Report r...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 18 Apr 2014 India’s status as a preferred refugee haven is confirmed by the steady flow of refugees from many of its subcontinental neighbours as also from elsewhere. India continues to receive them despite its o...
by Arjun Nair | On 17 Apr 2014 The paper analyzes causes of movements in Indian wages for rural unskilled male laborers, and
assesses their impact on inflation. Theoretical priors derived from an analytical framework based on the
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 10 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 In 2007-08, short-term migrants constituted 4.35 per cent of the rural workforce. A total of 9.25 million
households in rural India had short-term migrants.Using a nationally representative data for...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Mar 2014 This paper focusses on the interaction between fossil fuels and farming in India, to capture total intensity of fossils in farming and offer some evidence on inflationary impact of fossil fuel price i...
by Mukesh Kumar Anand | On 13 Mar 2014 The first of a series of eSSays dossiers on issues of public concern. Guest editor: M.H. Suryanarayana.
Contents:
Poverty Line: Pursuit of an Elusive Minimum by
M.H. Suryanarayana
Fixing Poverty...
by eSocialSciences eSS | On 08 Mar 2014 MGNREGA, which is the largest work guarantee programme in the world, was enacted in 2005 with the primary objective of guaranteeing 100 days of wage employment per year to rural households. It aims at...
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 05 Mar 2014 Rising inequality alongside rapid economic growth reinforces the need to examine patterns of social mobility in India. Are children from less well-off sections also able to rise to higher-paying posit...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 04 Mar 2014 This paper studies the problem of chronic hunger and malnutrition in India. The government of India introduced the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in 1997 replacing the Universal Public Dis...
by Madhura Swaminathan | On 03 Mar 2014 The Government of India recently enacted the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act(NREGA) 2005.1 The NREGA guarantees onehundred days of wage employment every year to every rural household whose adu...
by G.M. Antony | On 28 Feb 2014 To gain a better understanding of the changes in the numbers of cultivators and Agricultural labor (marginal or main), it is useful to read them with the change in the number of agricultural holdings...
by Rahul Goswami | On 28 Feb 2014 Analysis of time series data on poverty in India has revealed a clearly discernable link between urban poverty decline and rural poverty decline. Previous analysis, focusing on the pre-reform period,...
by Peter Lanjouw | On 27 Feb 2014 Vasudha Dhagamwar, legal activist and academician, passed away on February 10, in Pune.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 21 Feb 2014 What children need are effective institutions, equitable services and adequate resources,
combined with political will and accountable leadership. This is what political leaders can
promise them. [H...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 20 Feb 2014 This paper on the mining sector is an attempt to analyse the sector, in particular, at its competitiveness. Against the backdrop of the Planning Commission’s High-level Committee Report on National Mi...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 05 Feb 2014 This paper attempts to shift the focus from ‘women’ to the significance of the
gender equation by assessing the intensity of gender disparity across geographic space,
and enquiring into the reasons...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 04 Feb 2014 Taking note of the pervasiveness of Violence against Women (VAW), coupled with insensitive and prolonged investigations & trials, which only furthers the trauma faced by a sexual violence survivor; th...
by Lawyers Collective | On 21 Jan 2014 Ila Pathak was a dedicated social activist who stood by socially excluded sections of society, especially brutalized women. She tirelessly supported women survivors of dowry harassment, rape victims,...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 21 Jan 2014 The relationship between governance and economic development is one of the most important areas of research in international development. Much of the
previous literature has focused on whether better...
by Kunal Sen | On 20 Jan 2014 Indian Penal Code (IPC, ) is the main criminal code of India. It is a comprehensive code, intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law. The Code has since been amended several times and...
by Lawyers Collective | On 20 Jan 2014 Tobacco continues to be a major social and health menace across the globe. It is estimated that by 2030, it would account for the death of about 10 million people per year; half of them aged between 3...
by Dr. Pragati Hebber | On 09 Jan 2014 India struggles with water scarcity, a problem that poses especially huge implications for the country’s food security and rural livelihoods.
While watershed development has been employed in communit...
by Erin Gray | On 09 Jan 2014 In 2000-01, almost Rs 10,000 crore was spent on rural development schemes. The central government has almost a dozen major schemes in operation. But how is the success or failure of these schemes to b...
by Arpita Bedekar | On 31 Dec 2013 This study examines time use data for 1244 children in the age-group 6-12 years in 274
villages in eight states in rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent
in school, time sp...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 02 Dec 2013 This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. A simple illustrative model based on Dustmann (2003) is presented that incorporates economic
and non-economic motive...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 13 Nov 2013 As Nepal prepares to hold the Constituent Assembly
(CA) elections on 19th November 2013, there already
seems to be one positive lesson: those “convicted of a criminal offence involving moral turpitu...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 11 Nov 2013 The issue of child mortality in India has been under the scanner in several research publications in recent times. All the reviews acknowledge that India will not achieve the required reductions of un...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 28 Oct 2013 This paper focusses on two Indian laws that seek to guarantee socioeconomic rights: the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), an important example of India’s
recent history of legislation...
by Reetika Khera | On 25 Oct 2013 Rural development reflects in the improvements in the economic well being of people living in villages. In someway, it reflects in the increase in the purchasing power of the rural inhabitants.
This...
by Ch.Sambasiva Rao | On 18 Oct 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 The present study attempts to analyse the effect of capital gains and inheritance taxes on individual decisions to migrate. [NIPFP WP no. 81].
by Martin David | On 11 Oct 2013 The Human Capital Index explores the contributors
and inhibitors to the development and deployment of a
healthy, educated and productive labour force, and has
generated the information contained in...
by World Economic Forum WEF | On 04 Oct 2013 Presented are estimates of the impact of India’s Public Distribution System on rural poverty, using National Sample Survey data for 2009-10 and official poverty lines. At the all
India level, the PD...
by Jean Dreze | On 27 Sep 2013 This paper discusses and comments on the legal and policy dimension and the obstacles it poses to a sustainable and effective response to HIV/AIDS as many do not come forward to obtain medical servic...
by Bhavani Fonseka | On 14 Sep 2013 Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. The 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey is used to exa...
by Valerie Mueller | On 06 Sep 2013 The Hedonic property value method is used to estimate how a dismenity, bad odor from an open sewer system, affects housing prices in the city of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. An estimate of the benefits of...
by Mohammad Irfan | On 05 Sep 2013 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 The gains made since ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) are plenty, but the reality of children’s situation is disturbing on many counts calling for urgent and serious att...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 26 Aug 2013 A bill to provide for mental health care and services for persons with mental illness and to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of such persons during delivery of mental health care and services a...
by Lok Sabha | On 21 Aug 2013 This report is based on the eighth quinquennial survey on employment and unemployment
conducted in the 66th round of NSS during July 2009 to June 2010. The survey was spread over
7402 villages and 5...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 19 Aug 2013 A bill to consolidate and amend the law relating to companies. [Ministry of Corporate Affairs]. URL:[http://www.mca.gov.in/Ministry/pdf/The_Companies_Bill_2012.pdf].
by Ministry of Corporate Affairs GOI | On 09 Aug 2013 Interview on the recent released poverty line.
by Planning Commission | On 05 Aug 2013 Obituary: Veena Mazumdar (1927-2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 31 Jul 2013 Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is
facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically d...
by Ram Fishman | On 30 Jul 2013 Obituary: Sharmila Rege (1964 to 2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 30 Jul 2013 Cyber operations could have as devastating an impact on populations as conventional military weapons. With militaries already in the process of developing cyberwarfare as a means of battle, there is a...
by Elina Noor | On 26 Jul 2013 This study raises some relevant issues and examines them from an economic perspective. To begin with, it would examine how did the Indian approach, official in particular, to defining and measuring po...
by Suryanarayana M H | On 26 Jul 2013 This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existenc...
by Kaivan Munshi | On 22 Jul 2013 This study looked at budget processes related to health in two districts of Maharashtra and found that there was a significant variation in the way budget estimation was practiced at the level of Prim...
by Prashant Raymus | On 17 Jul 2013 The Supreme Court today posted the petition challenging the judgment of the Gujarat High Court which held that all women automatically convert to the religion of their husbands upon marriage, to be he...
by Lawyers Collective | On 16 Jul 2013 ANAND GROVER, a senior advocate and the director of Lawyers Collective, appeared on behalf of the Naz Foundation (India) Trust in the Supreme Court in the Section 377 case. In an interview to Frontlin...
by Lawyers Collective | On 15 Jul 2013 The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post-TRIPs, with reference to manufacturing industry in India is studied. The fact that...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 12 Jul 2013 Migration literature has always considered environmental constraints as one of the prime movers of populations, especially from dry regions, where water rather than land is the primary limiting factor...
by Amita Shah | On 28 Jun 2013 This 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 28 Jun 2013 In recent decades India has achieved one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world, yet its progress against both child and adult under-nutrition has been sluggish at best. While this Indian v...
by Derek Headey | On 12 Jun 2013 The present study attempts
to, (a) analyse the broad patterns of temporary and permanent migration
in India; and (b) explore the determinants of temporary and permanent
migration with special focus...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 06 Jun 2013 Parliament convened for the Budget Session 2013 for 32 days between February 21 and May 8. Both Houses
were adjourned sine die on May 8, two days ahead of the planned schedule. There was a month long...
by Priya Soman | On 03 Jun 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 According to Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) “The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012” report, there is a reduction of 34.9 percent in prevalence of undernourishment from 1990-1992 to 2010-...
by Anonymous | On 27 May 2013 Addressing gender gaps is a major development objective anywhere in the world. This paper aims to illustrate that this is far more critical in the presence of another social layer –disability. Among p...
by Christian Mina | On 24 May 2013 Notwithstanding its impressive economic growth, food insecurity in South Asia continues to be a stark reality for a large number of households. Despite several successful policy interventions by Gover...
by K.S. Kavi Kumar | On 23 May 2013 This booklet explains the SECC,2011, as it relates to rural India,
and details the entire process in simple language. [Ministry of Rural Development]. URL:[http://rural.nic.in/sites/downloads/general...
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 02 May 2013 The study takes a comparative approach by examining household livelihood mobility within two very different villages, in the same district administration of Madhya Pradesh (MP), India. [ODI Working Pa...
by Caroline Wilson | On 26 Apr 2013 This brief explores circular migration in India and the policy response, and impact of this
policy response, on the welfare of migrants and more broadly, on regional inequality. [ODI Policy Brief No....
by Kate Bird | On 24 Apr 2013 Land acquisition, which refers to the process of a government forcibly acquiring private property for public purpose, has been the cause of over a third of the legal conflicts in India in the past dec...
by iGovernment. in | On 19 Apr 2013 Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go to cities to find work
because they cannot survive on what they can earn in thei...
by Naomi Jacob | On 17 Apr 2013 The present study is concerned with the migrant who has changed his/her place of
residence from a state other than Punjab and is working in brick-kiln industry as worker. [Repec]. URL:[http://mpra.ub...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 15 Apr 2013 A bill further to amend the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the Indian
Evidence Act, 1872 and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 [PRS]. URL:[http://www...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Apr 2013 Against the backdrop of evolution of rural credit system in India as well as its observed failure to be inclusive in character, this paper makes use of a fairly large data set of the Center for Manage...
by Saugandh Datta | On 07 Mar 2013 The budget has come with schemes for rural India. It has got schemes for women, youth and poor.
by Sunil Duggal | On 28 Feb 2013 Budget Speech by Chidambaram.
by P Chidambaram | On 28 Feb 2013 Budget expectations for automobile sector. [IRIS India].
by IRIS India IRIS | On 19 Feb 2013 The proposed legislation marks a paradigm shift in addressing the problem of food security – from the current welfare approach to a right based approach. About two thirds of the population will be ent...
by MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DIST GOI | On 15 Feb 2013 This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between selfemployment and paid-empl...
by Yuling Cui | On 13 Feb 2013 The Internet has created possibilities for those who access the online world, but it has also spawned new avenues of gendered violence. While the law can provide legal recourse for a woman who faces h...
by Network of Women in Media NWMI | On 12 Feb 2013 A bill
to consolidate and amend the law relating to companies. [PRS]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Company/companies%20bill%202011.pdf].
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 11 Feb 2013 Recognizing that the domestic violence is a serious social evil; that there is incidence of domestic violence within
Bhutanese Society; that victims of domestic violence are the most vulnerable membe...
by National Assembly of Bhutan | On 11 Feb 2013 The ordinance is a hasty piece of legislation that has not taken into consideartion situations and conditions that are widely prevalent. It does not remedy existing laws and nor is even an interim me...
by Pratiksha Baxi | On 07 Feb 2013 A comprehensive chart mapping legal developments regarding sexual offences developed and published by Lawyers' Collective.
by Lawyers Collective | On 07 Feb 2013 The Amendment was drafted taking into account the recommendations of the Justice Verma Committee that was set up following the rape and murder of a young girl in New Delhi. The Amendment was signed i...
by Government of India GOI | On 07 Feb 2013 This paper analyses the property tax system in India, examines the reasons for its low revenue productivity, reviews the recent reform initiatives and identifies further reform areas. [NIPFP Working P...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 06 Feb 2013 The Supreme Court today allowed an application for impleadment filed on behalf of CEHAT (Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes) in a matter where it will consider the constitutional validit...
by Lawyers Collective | On 04 Feb 2013 This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter
heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http:/...
by Gerard Padro-i- Miquel | On 09 Jan 2013 The first half of the Winter Session of Parliament, 2012 was dominated by disruptions over and discussion on the government's notification to allow 51% FDI in the retail sector. The issue was finally...
by Devika Malik | On 21 Dec 2012 This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is show...
by E J Wilson | On 05 Nov 2012 Food wastage is prevalent in Southeast Asia and has significant implications for the region’s food, environmental and economic security. It is likely that the region wastes approximately 33 per cent o...
by Paul S Teng | On 08 Oct 2012 This study aims at analyzing
the differentials across rich and poor states and across rich and poorer
strata and rural urban segments of 19 major Indian states. The study
indicates that besides ind...
by Brijesh C Purohit | On 28 Sep 2012 This paper identifies key knowledge gaps on the issue of migration and commuting workers in India. [WP-2012-023]. URL:[http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publication/WP-2012-023.pdf].
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Sep 2012 Although the urban health issue has been of long-standing interest to public health researchers, majority of
the studies have looked upon the urban poor and migrants as distinct subgroups. Another co...
by Prashant Kumar Singh | On 24 Sep 2012 This study examines the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India,
bringing together data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses a...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 20 Sep 2012 This paper examines whether an individual-level transfer of property rights increases
the individual's bargaining power within the household. The question is analyzed in
the context of a housing ref...
by Shing-Yi Wang | On 18 Sep 2012 A primary census-type panel household survey is show that in 18 villages in rural China, child health status has barely improved in the past decades despite more than double digit of annual per capita...
by Xi Chen | On 07 Sep 2012 The heterogeneity of welfare impacts of contract farming participation is demonstrated by estimating
an endogenous switching model using survey data for 474 farmers in four commodity sectors, gherkin...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 06 Sep 2012 India is perhaps the first country to set up, at the national level, a commission to study the problems and challenges being faced by what in India is called the unorganized economy - or the informal...
by NCEUS NCEUS | On 05 Sep 2012 The policy processes of the policy on ‘Nurse practitioners in midwifery’ (NPM) are described. The policy aims to educate and create a new cadre of competent midwives in the government hospitals as an...
by Sharma Bharati | On 03 Sep 2012 The Editors examine the lack of correlation between the size of a city and its air quality, noting that the strength of environmental laws and the accountability of the country's government have a gre...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 30 Aug 2012 This paper covers recent trends in a series of broad indicators of the financial health of the Government of Kerala with its developmental policy as the backdrop. It examines fiscal balances in Kerala...
by Tapas K. Sen | On 30 Aug 2012 Mangoes from Andhra Pradesh reach everywhere in India. This has caused the conversion of large tracts of paddy fields into mango farms in Andhra. It affects the rural employment. Use of chemicals to r...
by Alex George | On 14 Aug 2012 Review of the book Challenges for Development in 21st Century by Ruby Ojha, B.R. Publications, 2011.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 14 Aug 2012 A bill to provide for the establishment and incorporation of Universities for Research and
Innovation and for enabling them to emerge as centres for ecosystems to develop as
hubs of education, resea...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Aug 2012 This study aims to explore the impact of improved cook stoves (ICS) on fuel
expenditure (consumption), smoke emission, and health of women (cook) in rural
households of Bangladesh. In the follow-up...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 06 Aug 2012 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 What is ‘good’ governance?
Can the quality of governance be measured? And how do state
governments in India measure up by such a measure?
[Working Paper no. 104]. URL:[http://www.nipfp.org.in/neww...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 02 Aug 2012 Is there an impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India.
Using state level variation in legal changes to women's property rights, it is shown that better property
righ...
by Siwan Anderson | On 02 Aug 2012 There is a huge crisis for water all around the world, certainly in India with groundwater table going down and drinking water selling almost at the rate of toned milk. That also shows that country ha...
by Anil K Gupta | On 20 Jul 2012 This paper discusses the evolution of Model Concession Agreement for National Highways, the vital framework on which the success of Public Private Partnership lies. The key learnings of this study wou...
by Ramakrishnan T S | On 18 Jul 2012 Using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005, intergenerational
occupational mobility in India is examined, an issue on which very few systematic and rigorous studies exist. Individ...
by Sripad Motiram | On 12 Jul 2012 On 24th May 2012, the United Nations Human Right Council reviewed India’s
human rights record during the 13th session of the Universal Periodic Review
(UPR) in Geneva, Switzerland. This was India’s...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 12 Jul 2012 The Philippines has often been cited as the global model in managing international
labor migration. Despite the complexity of our management infrastructure, however,
some gaps still remain. This pap...
by Julyn S Ambito | On 12 Jul 2012 Review of
Putting Women First: Women and Health in a Rural Community
Rani Bang with Sunanda Khorgade and Rupa Chinai;
Stree, Kolkata, India;
November 2010; pp 650; Rs 350.
by Anuja Jayaraman | On 11 Jul 2012 Estimates of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in India vary greatly depending on the source. The 2001 census found 21.91 million disabled persons (2.13 % of the population), but there are serious cons...
by National Advisory Council NAC | On 11 Jul 2012 This Act ensures a prompt and just legal remedy for the victims of domestic violence; facilitate
access to remedies for immediate and effective assistance, shelter homes and protection to the victims...
by National Assembly of Bhutan | On 11 Jul 2012 This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment
in primary schools among children in the 6–10 age group. A household-level
longitudinal survey is also done coveri...
by Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay | On 10 Jul 2012 Creating and developing fair and evidence-based national and global systems to more rationally set priorities for public spending on health. An interim secretariat should be there to incubate a global...
by Amanda Glassman | 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 Budget of Bhutan 2012-13. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bt/downloads/BudgetReport2012.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Bhutan | On 04 Jul 2012 The objective in this
paper is to estimate the role played by such factors in determining the
utilisation of formal health care to cure diarrhoea and certain respiratory
illnesses plaguing young ch...
by Anindita Chakrabarti | On 02 Jul 2012 This paper analyzes income related inequality in financial inclusion in India using a
representative household level survey data, linked to State-level factors. This paper also provides estimates of...
by Rama Pal | On 27 Jun 2012 This study investigates the effects of introducing elections on public goods and redistribution in rural China. A large and unique survey was collected to document the history of political reforms and...
by Yang Yao | On 05 Jun 2012 Public works programs, aimed at building a strong social safety net through redistribution of wealth and generation of meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries....
by Mehtabul Azam | On 29 May 2012 K.J. Somaiya Centre for Studies in Jainism organized release of the book ‘Various Facets of Saman Suttam’ on 24th May, 2012.
by Hemali Sanghavi | On 28 May 2012 This paper takes a broader view and explores the multiple effects that global warming and climate change could have on food production and food security. Dealing with climate change would require stre...
by S. Richa | On 24 May 2012 This paper provides an empirical basis for the perceived link between rural infrastructure
and agricultural productivity. It validates the hypothesis that deficiencies in rural infrastructure
e.g.,...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 24 May 2012 The present paper is part of a larger study on agricultural
growth and rural incomes in the Philippines. This study examines
the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms
by w...
by Arsenio M. Balisacan | On 24 May 2012 The objective of this paper is to place in the public domain various facets and dimensions of black money
and its complex relationship with the policy and administrative regime in the country. The pa...
by Ministry of Finance | On 22 May 2012 Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 22 May 2012 In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be done about it.
Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human deve...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 21 May 2012 Crimes against the historically marginalized Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) by the upper castes in India represent an extreme form of prejudice and discrimination. In this paper, the ef...
by Smriti Sharma | On 16 May 2012 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 paper undertakes an examination of the experience of developing countries with dispute settlement vis-à-vis developed countries during the 17 years since the entry into force of the WTO Agreement....
by Anwarul Hoda | On 08 May 2012 Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions
worldwide and threatens the world.s most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal
forest extraction in the tropi...
by Robin Burgess | On 08 May 2012 It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries thro...
by Rema Hanna | On 03 May 2012 The NAC Working Group held three national consultations on different aspects of the issue of declining child sex ratio. The Working Group conveners also separately met with Ministry of Women and Child...
by Farah Naqvi | On 25 Apr 2012 This paper examines the larger issue of how a ‘free’ media performs during times of
war with particular reference to US and India using case studies. It focuses on ‘national
security’ becoming a maj...
by Aradhana Sharma | On 20 Apr 2012 The study focused on the factors and forces behind the participation of women in
Panchayat Structure specially after the seventy third Constitution Amendment Act. The
role performance, role awarenes...
by Dilip Kumar Sarkar | On 20 Apr 2012 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 What India has to do to overcome the dents that India has suffered in its international image? India will have to play a delicate game of exercising autonomy in its pursuit of national objectives with...
by T.N. Ninan | On 10 Apr 2012 A Corporate Governance Index for 500 large listed Indian firms for
the period from 2003 to 2008 is constructed. The index construction uses information
on four important corporate governance mechan...
by Jayati Sarkar | On 04 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 Labour market insecurity, recognised as pervasive in rural India, is
multi-faceted. This study attempts to fill a gap in the research on
key dimensions of labour market insecurity by using the Natio...
by Padmini Desikachar | On 02 Apr 2012 This paper reviews the key policies with regard to agriculture inputs such as seed, fertilizer, water, agricultural equipment, research, extension, and agricultural credit. It also provides an overvie...
by Ganga Shreedhar | On 29 Mar 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 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 To greatly develop trade in services and realize the transition from a big trade country to a strong trade country, the 12th Five Year Plan is formulated based on Outline of the 12th Five Year Plan f...
by Ministry of Commerce China | On 15 Mar 2012 Budget speech 2011-12 by Finance minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/11_12/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 14 Mar 2012 Time is an important economic resource that can be spent in a variety of
ways. Diverse demands on a person’s time may reach a point where the
individual may be categorized as time poor. Time poverty...
by Najam us Saqib | On 09 Mar 2012 Discussion on the human rights violation of under trial prisoners.
by Ranesh Chandra Majumdar | On 06 Mar 2012 The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a
billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of eviden...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 01 Mar 2012 In the last ten years, economic issues related to currency policy have become the major ongoing
dispute between China and the U.S. Especially the U.S. Congress is stridently demanding
a tougher poli...
by Nicola Nymalm | On 01 Mar 2012 The main objective of the study is to investigate whether there is any evidence to support the
view that the disbursement of micro finance to women reduces the incidence of domestic
violence, and if...
by Institute of Social Studies Trust ISST | On 23 Feb 2012 This paper considers the effects of contemporary restructuring of women and men’s employment in
rural south India alongside ongoing efforts to recast India’s poor rural women as entrepreneurs. This s...
by Samantha Watson | On 15 Feb 2012 In this paper the issue of high dropout rates in India is examined which has adverse implications for
human capital formation, and hence for the country’s long term growth potential. Using the 2004-0...
by Manisha Chakrabarty | On 14 Feb 2012 This study is an attempt to assess the importance and potential impact of any further
development of the credit cooperative sector; identify development interventions that will result in a strong Fil...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 13 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 he caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India
from most other societies. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close
link betwee...
by Ira Gang | On 07 Feb 2012 Review of
Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services: Mid- term Evaluation of India's National Rural Health Mission
by Nirupam Bajpai, Jeffrey Sachs and Ravindra Dholakiya;
Sage Pub...
by Shyam Ashtekar | On 07 Feb 2012 The Gender Quality Action Learning programme initiated a village level intervention in 2007 in 10 districts to increase knowledge, change perception, attitudes, and practice/behaviour of the villagers...
by Md. Abdul Alim | On 03 Feb 2012 What is the role of financial regulation in the field of micro- finance?
This paper identifi es two features of micro- finance which call for unique
treatment in policy considerations as compared...
by M Sahoo | On 03 Feb 2012 A large number of studies in Nepal have been conducted to identify the factors responsible for
inflation based on the different theories of inflation. Although these studies provide insight
into the...
by Nepal Rastra Bank Research Department NRB | On 02 Feb 2012 Although previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural India, son-biased stopping rules imply that estimates of the effect of gender on parental investmen...
by Silvia H. Barcellos | On 30 Jan 2012 This paper explains the gaps between official objectives and the actual accomplishments of the Aquino government, with an emphasis on the implementation record of agricultural-based strategies. Summar...
by V. Bruce J Tolentino | On 30 Jan 2012 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 has tried to address some key research
questions like will India and Andhra Pradesh achieve the Millennium Development
Goal of Sanitation ? Are the TSC targets realistic? What is coverage...
by M Snehalatha | On 25 Jan 2012 This paper analyses gender dimensions in rural to urban migration (age
10 years and above) in Pakistan. The study is based on Labour Force Surveys
1996-2006. The findings of the study show that over...
by Shahnaz Hamid | On 20 Jan 2012 The paper has the objective of viewing the condition of women in terms of freedom of choice, freedom and expression and right of privacy. Also it views violence against women.
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 20 Jan 2012 The paper studies the subsidy policy in Bangladesh. It analyses implications of subsidy policies; both pros and cons and also suggests some possible solutions.
by M Asaduzzaman | On 20 Jan 2012 This paper focuses on two issues: the problems with the compulsory acquisition of land, and the regulatory and institutional impediments that obstruct voluntary land transactions. It is argued that an...
by Ram Singh | On 19 Jan 2012 The
HUNGaMA (Hunger and M alnutrition) S urvey
conducted across 112 rural districts of India in 2011
provides r eliable estimates of c hild n utrition
covering nearly 20% of Indian children. The H...
by HUNGaMa for Change HUNGaMa | On 12 Jan 2012 It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon—pe...
by Xi Chen | On 10 Jan 2012 The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill (LARR) is considered to be a flawed piece of legislation. An alternative method based on auction based pricing mechanism is suggested here.
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 05 Jan 2012 Poor quality essential medicines, both substandard and counterfeit, are serious
but neglected public health problems. Anti-infective medicines are particularly
afflicted.
Unfortunately, attempts...
by Paul N Newton | On 03 Jan 2012 This paper examines how the neoliberal policies have influenced the water
sector reform policies and interventions in India, particularly, in the states
of Maharashtra and Gujarat. In doing so, the...
by Viswanathan P K | On 26 Dec 2011 A commentary on final report of the task force on domestic workers
by G.D Bino Paul | On 26 Dec 2011 Delivering the third Business Standard lecture on Thursday night, Raghuram Rajan provided an interesting insight into the reason for high inflation in India. The professor of finance at Chicago, who i...
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Dec 2011 The Department Related Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice tabled its 48th Report on the ‘Lok Pal Bill, 2011’ on December 9, 2011. The Bill was introduced in the Lok Sa...
by Kaushiki Sanyal | On 23 Dec 2011 Women who come into the stream of domestic workers are poorly educated and do not know their rights. It is necessary that these women know about their rights. Even after reading the policies some ques...
by Anwesha Sen | On 19 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Debt and Death in Rural India: The Punjab Story' by
Aman Sidhu and Inderjit Singh Jaijee
Sage Publications India, New Delhi,
2011, Rs 750/-, pp 360.
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 13 Dec 2011 The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce examined the subject of Foreign and Domestic Investment in the Retail sector beginning April 5, 2007 under the chairmanship of Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi....
by Anirudh Burman | On 05 Dec 2011 The Bill establishes a body called the Lok Pal. It provides a process for receiving corruption complaints against
public servants and investigating and prosecuting these in a time bound manner. The B...
by Kaushiki Sanyal | On 30 Nov 2011 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the making of markets. The paper identifies two
ideal-typical processes in which markets are made – organized making and spontaneous
making – which are often...
by Patrik Aspers | On 29 Nov 2011 Construction is a $1.7 trillion industry worldwide, much of which is linked to publicly financed
projects. Outcomes from this financing are frequently suboptimal. Cost and time escalation, as
well a...
by Charles Kenny | On 25 Nov 2011 This
Report covers developments in implementation of the Convention in India
from 2006 to 2011. The harmonised guidelines for preparation of Common
Core Document and the reporting Guidelines of the...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 25 Nov 2011 Rural households in developing economies frequently use precautionary saving to cope with income risk. Such prudent behavior can be strengthened in transition economies where more risks are typically...
by Ling Jin | On 23 Nov 2011 In an era of globalised communication technologies, research is focussing on the potential of media as a means of ‘soft power’, to persuade people and wield influence. The issue of credibility also co...
by Maya Ranganathan | On 22 Nov 2011 Two recent IRS quarterly surveys have shown that readership of newspapers is declining in Assam. Why is this happening?
by Nava Thakuria | On 22 Nov 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 The study tries to better understand three fields which seems
to be essential with respect to the problem of a facilitated
access to medicines :
1. the ambiguous position of intellectual property...
by Bastein Briand | On 17 Nov 2011 A
bill
to provide for the establishment of an Authority to promote old age income security by
establishing, developing and regulating pension funds, to protect the interests of
subscribers to sche...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 17 Nov 2011 The rapid export growth of China's township-village enterprises (TVEs)
has not been well understood and explained. Using a simple analytical model
and exploring a unique dataset on China's TVEs the...
by Changqi Wu | On 08 Nov 2011 Sarvarkar’s case for Unity is at best a cumulative network of agile concepts that are open-ended, and can be used by future sympathetic thinkers. To not grasp this agility is to fundamentally misunder...
by Nikhil Govind | On 03 Nov 2011 A
Bill
to lay down an obligation upon every public authority to publish citizens charter stating therein the time within which specified goods shall be supplied and services be rendered and provide...
by Department of Administrative Reforms Public Grievances | On 03 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 This brief presents a review of the potential opportunities
and challenges of using nanotech applications for agriculture, food, and
water in developing countries. [IFPRI Policy Brief 19]. URL:[http...
by Guillaume Gruère | On 01 Nov 2011 The object world of the social sciences is complex, historical and self-reflexive. It generates
nonlinear effects, it is unique, and it is able to understand the theories developed
about it and resp...
by Sandra Mitchell | On 01 Nov 2011 In most universities, sharp disciplinary and departmental divisions continue to this day and have regrettably translated into the life sciences being taught with scarce attention to their historical a...
by Giovanni Frazzetto | On 31 Oct 2011 Restrictions imposed by the Government of India on the
emigration of women in ‘unskilled’ categories such as domestic work
are framed as measures intended to protect women from exploitation.
Specia...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 24 Oct 2011 There has been a growing concern on the official estimates of poverty released by the Planning
commission. The official poverty estimates have been severely criticised on various counts. In view
of...
by Planning Commission | On 21 Oct 2011 With a review of the historic role of India as a supplier of Antiretrovirals (ARV) medicines the paper outlines some of the key rulings in Indian courts as the interpretation of the new patent laws ar...
by Cassandra Sweet | On 19 Oct 2011 A bill to consolidate and amend the law relating to the
scientific development and regulation of mines and
minerals under the control of the Union. URL:[http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2011/sep/d2...
by Ministry of Mines GOI | On 03 Oct 2011 This paper provides an economic valuation of the recreational uses of
atoll-based marine resources in the Republic of the Maldives. A travel demand model to estimate the benefits of atoll-based marin...
by Mahadev G Bhat | On 30 Sep 2011 Income originating within geographical boundaries of urban and rural areas of Gujarat is estimated
for three benchmark years – 1993-94, 1999-00 and 2004-05 - at current prices following the broad
me...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 26 Sep 2011 The paper provides estimates of workers residing in rural (urban) India and commuting to urban (rural) areas
for work. These estimates are based on National Sample Survey Organisation’s survey of Emp...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 19 Sep 2011 The foundation of the new policy, known as the “National Policy for Senior Citizens 2011” is based on several factors. These include the demographic explosion among the elderly, the changing economy a...
by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment GOI | On 19 Sep 2011 This study
analyses the pollution-income relationship (for both local and global
pollution), separately across rural and urban households in India based
on unit record data on fuel consumption obta...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 14 Sep 2011 The new Bill on land acquisition recently tabled in Parliament is well intentioned but seriously flawed. Its principal defect is that it attaches an arbitrary mark-up to the historical market price to...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 12 Sep 2011 In preparing the Approach Paper, the Planning Commission has consulted much more
widely than ever before recognising the fact that citizens are now much better informed and
also keen to engage. Over...
by Planning Commission, India | On 12 Sep 2011 This paper estimates returns to education in India using a nationally representative survey. The standard Mincerian wage equation separately for rural and urban sectors is estimated. To account for th...
by Tushar Agrawal | On 06 Sep 2011 The paper paper reviews the 'model' central and state government bills, pertaining to groundwater, through a conceptual framework and discusses the Andhra Pradesh experience in the developing governme...
by G.Ananda Vadivelu | On 30 Aug 2011 Agro-industries are given high priority in India particularly because of their great potential
for contributing to development. The emphasis on village-based agro-industries was
introduced almost a...
by Vasant P Gandhi | On 29 Aug 2011 Whether viewed as “land grabs” or as agricultural investment
for development, large-scale land deals by investors
in developing countries are generating considerable
attention. However, investors,...
by Julia Behrman | On 29 Aug 2011 Bill to establish an independent authority to investigate offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 to detect corruption by expeditious investigation and to prosecute offenders and to ensu...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 26 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 This paper deals with migration into India from adjoining neighbours and its impact on security and other issues of national interest. Unlike other studies on migration, it focuses on the ethnic ident...
by Subhakanta Behera | On 26 Aug 2011 The main objective of this paper is to examine the patterns of gender differences for children in the north state of Haryana in India for health outcomes. Specifically it addresses the incidence, and...
by Suresh Sharma | On 23 Aug 2011 Poor returns to cultivation and absence of non-farm opportunities are indicative of the larger
socio-economic malaise in rural India. This is accentuated by the multiple risks that the
farmer faces...
by Srijit Mishra | On 23 Aug 2011 There is a need to
focus more on the economic well-being
of the farmers, rather than just on
production. Socio-economic well-being
must be a prime consideration of
agricultural policy, besides pr...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 19 Aug 2011 This article looks into the role of land reform in comparison to concentric ef fort
to augment agricultural GDP. Redistribut ive land reform policy aims to improve
land endowments of poor, though va...
by Debdatta Pal | On 18 Aug 2011 This paper provides estimates of poverty and inequality across states as also for different sub-groups of
population for 2004-05 by using the old and new methods of the Planning Commission. The new m...
by Durgesh C Pathak | On 17 Aug 2011 Globally, we are applying
excessive nitrogen (N) fertilizers
to our agricultural crops, which
ultimately causes nitrogen pollution
to our ecosphere. The atmosphere
is polluted by N2O and NOx
gas...
by Allen G Good | On 17 Aug 2011 The objective of this paper is to identify climate change related threats and vulnerabilities associated
with agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, a...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 17 Aug 2011 The draft Bill puts in place a new institutional mechanism to ensure that the Rehabilition and Resettlement (R&R) provisions are implemented effectively as an integral part of land acquisition.
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 10 Aug 2011 Given the declining share of traditional agricultural commodities in production, consumption and
trade, horticulture and other non-traditional high-value agriculture represent an important area of
p...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 09 Aug 2011 Illegal markets differ from legal markets in many respects. Although illegal markets have economic significance and are of theoretical importance, they have been largely ignored by economic sociology....
by Jens Beckert | On 05 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 UN General Assembly’s decision to convene a “high-level meeting on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide” in September 2011 creates a major, timely opportunity to...
by Devi Sridhar | On 02 Aug 2011 In this paper, the overall goal is to examine the impact of the Rural
Primary School Merger Program on academic performance of students using a dataset from a
survey that we designed to reflect tran...
by Alexis Medina | On 27 Jul 2011 The importance of academia- industry linkages for development of an economy is well
recognized. With a view to make the higher technical education relevant, by forging and
catalyzing functional link...
by Jancy Ayyaswamy | On 26 Jul 2011 Land acquisition and involuntary displacement continue to result in great distress and resistance – and often violence – in many parts of the country. NAC-I had reflected carefully on these issues, an...
by National Advisory Council NAC | On 26 Jul 2011 The rural-urban distribution of the population is shown. URL:[http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/india/paper2_1.pdf].
by | On 21 Jul 2011 The general perception that dentistry is expensive keeps many people away from
seeking treatment from registered professionals and make them hostage to the
services of non-registered lay practitione...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 20 Jul 2011 This Primer explains the process by which a citizen group can participate and become actively involved in the process of lawmaking. A number of cases have been used to demonstrate the various ways in...
by Avinash Celestine | On 19 Jul 2011 The Union Law Minister recently launched the ‘Mission Mode Programme for Reduction of
Pendency of Arrears in Courts’. According to media reports, the programme aims to dispose of
40 per cent of the...
by Rohit Kumar | On 15 Jul 2011 Review of
Anthropologists Inside Organisations: South Asian Case Studies
Edited by Devi Sridhar, Sage India , New Delhi; 2008, 184 pp., Rs 585.
by Dhanwanti Nayak | On 12 Jul 2011 The empowered group of ministers on food on Monday approved the draft National Food Security Bill, bringing the ambitious social security programme that guarantees highly subsidized food grains to abo...
by Economic Times ET | On 12 Jul 2011 Review of
Political Economy of Communications in India: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by Pradip Ninan Thomas;
Sage, India; 2010, Rs 650.
by Vrijendra | On 07 Jul 2011 This paper considers the potential role of marriage in improving labor market outcomes through the expansion of an individuals' networks. The impact of a father-in-law on a young man's career using pa...
by Shing-Yi Wang | On 05 Jul 2011 Sah and Shah (2003) have shown that the incidence of poverty in the South-Western tribal belt of Madhya Pradesh is alarmingly high. About three fifths of the households in this tribal belt were catego...
by D.C. Sah | On 04 Jul 2011 Disparities in income and living standards across countries and between regions within countries (spatial inequality) have been the subject of much debate and research in recent years. Spatial inequal...
by Hari Nagarajan | On 01 Jul 2011 The interface between environment and poverty is a complex phenomenon. Poverty reduction needs will be enabled if the poor are allowed access to natural capital, such as land, water, forest and minera...
by Amita Shah | On 23 Jun 2011 In order to tackle the issues of desertification, land degradation and droughts, 22 major
programmes are being implemented in the country, including, the “Mission for Green India”,
one of the Missio...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 21 Jun 2011 The slowdown and in some years reversal of poverty reduction in China forcefully demonstrates that growth is not sufficient for combating poverty even if that growth is of unprecedented magnitude. Pol...
by Guanghua Wan | On 16 Jun 2011 This paper analyses a panel dataset on 379 rural households in Bangladesh
interviewed in 1987/88 and 2000. Using a ‘livelihoods’ framework it contrasts the fortunes of
ascending households (which es...
by Binayak Sen | On 16 Jun 2011 For the revival of rural
cooperative credit institutions, a Working Group was constituted by
NABARD to formulate and suggest comprehensive human resource
guidelines for the State Cooperative Bank (...
by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Devt NABARD | On 15 Jun 2011 The UNU-WIDER project on 'Spatial Disparities in Human Development' has collected and analysed evidence on the extent of spatial inequalities within developing countries. The studies find that spatial...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 15 Jun 2011 Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply side or a demand side
issue? This paper examines school attendance and total human capital investment time (time in sc...
by Sripad Motiram | On 13 Jun 2011 Polarization in India is analysed roughly in the past two and half decades using consumption
expenditure data. It is seen that polarization has increased sharply since the 1990s, reversing the earlie...
by Sripad Motiram | On 13 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 This paper uses data from a household survey to estimate changes in land distribution in
rural West Bengal between 1967-2004 and decompose these into contributions of
different factors. There was a...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 09 Jun 2011 The paper explores the vulnerability and persistence of poverty amongst the rural households
in the disaster-prone areas of Bangladesh. It draws upon some of the factors and processes
that have prev...
by Quazi Shahabuddin | On 08 Jun 2011 The Bill lays down the definition of sexual harassment and seeks to provide a mechanism for redressing complaints.
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 01 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 In recent decades India has achieved one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world, yet its
progress against both child and adult undernutrition has been sluggish at best. While this Indian...
by Derek Headey | On 27 May 2011 Upon an initial reading of the SEZ Act it is not apparent
whether the labour law governing Special Economic Zones (SEZs)
in India is distinguishable from the law prevailing outside the
zones. Howe...
by Jaivir Singh | 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 In this distinguished lecture on Law and Economics, the author shares the lessons in economics that he has learnt from random experiences of the same. [IGDIR PP-067] URL: [http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/p...
by Y. Venugopal Reddy | On 18 May 2011 Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India Kalyani Devaki Menon;
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia; 224 pp. $49.95(cloth).
[H-Net Reviews.https://www.h-net.org/reviews/s...
by Sunila S. Kale | On 17 May 2011 The study was taken up with following objectives: To observe and record food intake of 100 anemic adolescents girls from low socio-economic group; to measure their serum Hemoglobin and ferritin levels...
by Leena Raje | On 09 May 2011 Although advances in medical treatment have reduced mortality in people living with HIV, thousands of children will continue to cope with the stress of living with a parent who has a chronic, potentia...
by Asha Menon | On 09 May 2011 This paper illustrates that the legal structure of mortgage credit, in particular, its status in
terms of recourse in foreclosure, can lead not only to the familiar problem of adverse selection
...
by Kaushik Basu | On 05 May 2011 The paper puts forward a small but novel idea of how can the incidence of
bribery be cut down.There are different kinds of bribes and what this paper is concerned with are bribes that people often h...
by Kaushik Basu | On 05 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 excellent systematic review in this
week’s PLoS Medicine by Paul Garner and
colleagues focuses discussion on this
critical issue. Their finding of poor quality
in both the public and private s...
by Jishnu Das | 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 Part I of the Budget speech by Finance Minister
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 Apr 2011 Unique survey data is used to study whether the introduction of local elections in China
made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. A simple model is developed
to predict the e...
by Monica Martinez Bravo | On 18 Apr 2011 The legal processes at SEBI is examined and described with a focus on the
enforcement process, particularly on the quasi-judicial functions. An attempt is made to lay out the
principles that ought t...
by Dharmishta Raval | On 15 Apr 2011 The paper examines the concept of negligence in medical profession in the light of
interpretation of law by the Supreme Court of India and the idea of the ‘reasonable man’. [WP No. 2011-03-03]. URL:...
by Anurag K Agarwal | On 13 Apr 2011 At the request of the World Health Organization (WHO), IMMUNIZATIONbasics (IMMbasics), the global USAID-funded project that supports routine immunization, undertook a review of the “grey literature” o...
by Monica Sawhney | On 31 Mar 2011 Nine legislative Bills were introduced during the session. Five Bills were passed and one Bill was withdrawn during the session. Several hours were lost due to interruptions on the issues of appointme...
by Kusum Malik | On 28 Mar 2011 The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a watershed bill to protect children below the age of 16 against sexual offences, aimed at speedy trail through special courts and having a legal regime at par w...
by Chetan Chauhan | On 26 Mar 2011 Growing evidences demonstrate that the mountainous societies in South and
Southeast Asian countries are underway of dynamic agrarian transition in the
context of market integration leading to emerge...
by P.K. Viswanathan | On 25 Mar 2011 The government introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that seeks to align voting rights in private banks with shareholding, enhance the central bank’s regulatory powers over banks and give grea...
by Economic Times ET | On 23 Mar 2011 A
BILL
further to amend the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, the Banking Companies (Acquisition
and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970 and the Banking Companies (Acquisition
and Transfer of Undertak...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 23 Mar 2011 State income, public finances, agriculture and animal husbandry, education, health, population etc are given importance in the economic survey. URL: [http://mahades.maharashtra.gov.in/files/publicatio...
by Maharashtra Government | On 23 Mar 2011 Centre for Gandhian Studies of K.J.Somaiya College of Arts and Commerce organized One-day Seminar on the Legacy of the Gandhian Approaches: Vinoba to Obama on 24 February, 2011.
by Hemali Sanghavi | On 22 Mar 2011 Poverty has different and varying manifestations. In fact, Hulme et al (2001) proposes a five-tiered categorisation of poverty. This identifies the always poor, usually poor, churning poor, occasional...
by Quazi Shahabuddin | On 22 Mar 2011 The main objectives of the study were to analyze
the role of non-timber forest products in poverty
alleviation in Chhattisgarh; to examine the system of
governance, institutional framework and prog...
by R S Deshpande | On 17 Mar 2011 The paper delineates
the situation of the Scheduled Tribes in the background of various policies of the state
during the successive plan periods and its impact on their socio-economic mobility.
Pol...
by M. Gopinath Reddy | On 16 Mar 2011 March 15, 2011: The 16-member Dr Rajinder Kumar committee, constituted by the Department of Health Research to evolve guidelines for accreditation of health research organisations has submitted its re...
by | On 15 Mar 2011 The Secretary, DHR, constituted a Committee under the chairmanship of Rajinder Kumar, Retired Professor of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore to evolve guidelines for accreditation of health resea...
by Department of Health Reserach DHR | On 15 Mar 2011 Knowledge Management (KM) envisages capturing, creating, sharing and managing knowledge.The implementation of any KM policy in Health sector will have essential ingredients and processes for improving...
by Department of Health Reserach DHR | On 15 Mar 2011 There have been reports of a large number of maternal deaths in recent months from Barwani, Madhya Pradesh with many of the deaths taking place in the District Hospital (DH), Barwani. This issue was i...
by Subha Sri | On 08 Mar 2011 Internal migration in Southeast Asia raises questions about strains upon traditional systems
of support for older adults. While remittances to parents’ households play a role in rural
household econ...
by Zachary Zimmer | On 08 Mar 2011 While the Government of India has several schemes for augmenting agricultural production and ensuring adequate availability of food for different segments, a Bill to provide a statutory framework to e...
by Government of India GOI | On 04 Mar 2011 As agreed by the NAC at its meeting on July 14th, 2010, a Working Group of Members of the NAC was constituted on the National Food Security Bill. After due deliberations and wide ranging consultations...
by Harsh Mander | On 04 Mar 2011 Economists are excessively influenced by the so-called positive
economics view, which says that economists should only describe and not
prescribe. Here the author argue that this view is flawed beca...
by Abhijit V. Banerjee | On 04 Mar 2011 Budget speech 2011-2012 by Pranab Mukherjee.
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 01 Mar 2011 Among the many reasons cited for India to proceed ahead with the Unique Identification (UID) project -that it will facilitate delivery of basic services, that it will plug leakages in public expenditu...
by Mohan Rao | On 23 Feb 2011 Nine preliminary lessons from the Great Recession for monetary and financial policies are presented. [3rd P. R. Brahmananda Memorial Lecture].
by Stanley Fischer | On 18 Feb 2011 This paper analyzes parents‘ decisions about girls‘ schooling in the context of
marriage through in-depth exploration of case studies in two rural areas of northern
Bangladesh. The villages are site...
by Sajeda Amin | On 15 Feb 2011 The Godavarman Case since 1995, the Centre for Environment Law –WWF-India case also instituted in 1995 and
the Navin Raheja case since 1998, ongoing before the Apex Court with over few thousand appli...
by Sanjay Upadhyay | On 15 Feb 2011 This report addresses the recent dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh with particular focus on two groups of the poorest - the chronically poor and the extreme poor - based on the 64-village census...
by Zulfiqar Ali | On 14 Feb 2011 The presentation outlines the 22 years of Brazilian experience in of evolving a comprehensive health care strategy
by Armando De Negri Filho | On 10 Feb 2011 In the debate over the role of civil society under authoritarian regimes, the spread of transnational web-based media obliges us to rethink the areas in which the societal voice can be raised --- and...
by Bert Hoffman | On 10 Feb 2011 The Commonwealth Games have been an eye opener in several ways. Behind the glitz of fancy stadiums, hotels, and apartments, lies the murky and sensitive death knell of a large majority of people whose...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 10 Feb 2011 List of Contents
Articles
Arindam Samaddar, Prabir Kr. Das and Stephen R. Morin, 'Technology Adoption and its Constraints: The Cascading Effects in Two West Bengal Villages'
Erick Tejada Sanchez, '...
by SEPHIS | On 07 Feb 2011 This submission to the UNCRC Committee is primarily addressing the right to be heard in
judicial processes. It analyses the space available within the legal system that ensures that
children are giv...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | 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 Employing data from Census 2001and the NSS 52nd and 60th rounds, this study examines the following: (i) inter-state variations in the distribution of rural aged by three broad social groups and a host...
by Moneer Alam | On 02 Feb 2011 Since 2005, every year the ASER report presents estimates of enrollment and basic reading and arithmetic learning outcomes for every district in rural India. Every year the core set of questions
rega...
by Pratham Pratham | On 02 Feb 2011 There have been many evaluation studies on the impact of NREGS but there are hardly any systematic
studies relating to impact of the scheme on children. This paper tries to fill this gap. There is a...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 31 Jan 2011 The draft policy document aimed at guiding the future of research in the country raises serious questions about how quality of health research is perceived.
by Oommen C. Kurian | On 30 Jan 2011 The Indian Council of Medical Research, an autonomous agency within the
Ministry of Health, was the apex organization responsible for guiding, supporting
and conducting medical research in the c...
by Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR | On 30 Jan 2011 In the face of persistent rural poverty, an incomplete agrarian transition, the
predominance of small and marginal farms and an emerging feminization of
agriculture, this paper argues for a new in...
by Bina Agarwal | On 28 Jan 2011 The NEC Shillong has assigned the National Institute of Rural Development,
North Eastern Regional Centre (NIRD-NERC), Guwahati to prepare a report
on “Poverty Eradication in the North Eastern Region...
by Ministry for Development of the North East (DONER) | On 28 Jan 2011 The emotional dominant of well-being in contemporary cultures today,demands a transformational citizen. The transformational citizen is one who enhances and improves her/himself, feels/experiences a s...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 23 Jan 2011 Educational studies in Bangladesh are mostly quantitative in nature – broadly based on survey methods. However, the cases prepared for this study employed qualitative research techniques, where an eth...
by . BRAC | On 19 Jan 2011 This paper explores the relationship of the informal economy to the formal economy and to the
formal regulatory environment. It begins with a comparison of the earlier concept of the
‘informal sec...
by | On 18 Jan 2011 Information on vegetation is important for the planning of regional natural resources management carbon cycling studies, terrestrial primary productivity modeling of hydrology, energy and climate. In...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 17 Jan 2011 ICDDR,B is an international health research institution. It is equipped with necessary research
facilities including excellent field study areas. The field areas are specifically designed for
resear...
by Abbas Bhuiya | On 14 Jan 2011 This paper proposes a structural VAR model which extends the frameworks of
Hoffmaister and Roldós (2001) and Prasad (1999). The model is then used to analyse
the sources of China’s trade balance flu...
by Yin Zhang | On 07 Jan 2011 In 1992, BRAC extended its comprehensive Rural Development Programme (RDP) to 100 villages of
Matlab thana (sub-district) where the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
(...
by Marty Chen | On 30 Dec 2010 The study was designed with the intention of developing a viable scale, for measuring psychological well-being as an indicator of the quality of life of rural women. A scale was prepared and finalised...
by Mohsina Khatun | On 27 Dec 2010 This paper looks at BRAC’s Rural Development Programmes’ (RDP) interventions and consumption
based poverty using household expenditure data collected from 3518 households in fourteen villages
in Mat...
by Hassan Zaman | On 24 Dec 2010 There is a high prevalence of antepartum depression and low birth weight (LBW) in Bangladesh. In
high- and low-income countries, prior evidence linking maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms with i...
by Hashima E Nasreen | On 14 Dec 2010 BRAC Human Rights and Legal Services Programme (HRLS) has initiated to form
ward-based Legal Rights Implementation Committee (LRIC) comprised of 19
members to ensure justice for the vulnerable women...
by Debasish Kumar Kundu | On 14 Dec 2010 The paper is a study to examine the impact of Uzhavar Sandhai on farmers' standards of living. It also gives some insightful policy suggestions.
by Murali Kallummal | On 09 Dec 2010 Rural e-Governance applications in the recent past have demonstrated the important role the
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play in the realm of rural
development. Several e-Governa...
by T.P. Rama Rao | On 07 Dec 2010 Peoples’ Science Institute (PSI), Dehradun and Winrock International India (WII), Gurgaon jointly initiated participatory hydrological studies in two micro-catchments that is, the Bhodi-Suan and Kuhan...
by Rajesh Gupta | On 26 Nov 2010 This note raise many policy issues related to real estate and the urban sector.
Urban issues and the very high cost of real estate in India have deep rooted
problems that have their origin in the po...
by Sebastian Morris | On 22 Nov 2010 Colonial judges and jurists interpreted matrilineal customs in
terms of a theory of matrilineal law, which they shaped in the process of
interpretation, rather than on the basis of existing practice...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 18 Nov 2010 A major drawback of the plethora of regional studies in India is that most of them tend to treat regional development as an autonomous process of regional productive forces and relations of production...
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 15 Nov 2010 This paper investigates the effects of safe drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal diseases among children in rural Orissa. [Working Paer No. 278]
by Pradeep Kumar Panda | On 12 Nov 2010 This paper makes an attempt to estimate the index of informal sector employment
which can be attributed to the supply-push phenomenon. Factors which explain the
inter-state variations include the...
by Dibyendu S. Maiti | On 02 Nov 2010 This paper discusses the factors that promote clusters and the role of clusters in the
generation and spread of human capital The analysis in the paper is based on a comparative study of software fir...
by V. N. Balasubramanyam | On 29 Oct 2010 We examine why it is important to consider seemingly autonomous but more
embedded socio-political-economic aspects in assessing the impact of changes in
Science and Technology (S&T) on human capital...
by Bino Paul G.D | On 29 Oct 2010 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 present paper compares the strategies, capacity building processes and outcomes/impacts of three projects during the period 2005-10. The project area covered by the study are located as follows:
...
by Neela Mukherjee | On 29 Oct 2010 Mail questions addressed in this paper are: What is the cognitive perception of Muslim women on their own status in their community?
How do the Muslim women perceive their status when compared to the...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 20 Oct 2010 It outlines the broad framework and the strategy for poverty
reduction based on four pillars: (a) accelerating economic growth while maintaining the
macroeconomic stability; (b) improving the govern...
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, | On 19 Oct 2010 This paper attempts to survey the published literature on agricultural development of Kerala covering a period between 1800 AD and 1980 AD. The Survey covers both academic studies as well as governme...
by B.A. Prakash | On 18 Oct 2010 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 A study of the women dacoits of the Chambal valley was undertaken to determine what special circumstances exist which pressurize women to take up dacoity, or whether these outlaws had a psychopathic d...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 11 Oct 2010 After house price bubbles burst in many OECD countries, investors are keeping a very watchful eye for price developments on asset markets that signal a bubble.
by Steffen Dyck | On 08 Oct 2010 This paper is the product of an international research project of the
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, USA and the Centre for Science and
Environme...
by John Kurien | On 07 Oct 2010 The 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 On 14 December 2008, a worker died in an accident at the same site. What followed was unprecedented: workers at the site struck work and demanded that his body be released and shown to, them. They als...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 01 Oct 2010 For the last few years , a massive amount of construction work has been going on in various parts of Delhi for the Commonwealth Games (CWG) to be held in October this year. PUDR tried to conduct a fac...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 01 Oct 2010 In the next two decades, India is likely to become an
economically prosperous nation and move significantly
towards being a far more inclusive society, with the bulk of
its population gaining acces...
by Science Advisory Council to PM SAC to PM | On 01 Oct 2010 Seven girls and five boys from six countries in South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives,Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) took part in the Regional Children's Consultation for the first South Asia...
by Ravi Karkara | On 21 Sep 2010 Before we can assess where we are with the MDG Process, we need to be clear about what the objectives are of setting the MDGs and the MDG Process. In order to do this, two fundamental questions need t...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 21 Sep 2010 This paper studies the impact of taxation on poverty and ex ante vulnerability of households
in rural China based on national household survey data in 1988, 1995 and 2002. It has been
confirmed that...
by Katsushi S. Imai | On 21 Sep 2010 The objective of this research was to examine if the growth in health facilities within the cities have kept pace with growth of population. The methodology used was geographic information and mapping...
by Anandi Dantas | On 17 Sep 2010 Access to a well organized body of resource
materials for helping States in drafting nuclear legislation is possible with the help of this handbook. [IAEA].
http://www-pub.iaea.org/books/IAEABooks/...
by Carlton Stoiber | On 17 Sep 2010 In standard models dealing with liability rules, generally, the proportion of accident loss a party is
required to bear does not depend upon the 'causation' - the extent to which the care or lack of...
by Ram Singh | On 17 Sep 2010 Against the backdrop of policy of reservation of seats in Higher Education for the
Other Backward Castes in India, this paper examines two inter-related yet distinct
issues: (i) the use of economi...
by K. Sundaram | On 14 Sep 2010 In this paper, the influence of stronger intellectual property protection on technology transfer into developing countries via licensing is analyzed. Using panel data for the post-TRIPs period 1995-20...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 09 Sep 2010 The literature on Rural Non-Agricultural Employment (RNAE) in India is replete with
references as to its nature - whether or not it is residual. Vaidyanathan (1986)
advanced the view that for the se...
by C. S. Murty | On 08 Sep 2010 This volume contains summaries of 12 case studies for three categories of business
organisations defined by ownership, i.e. foreign, state and (local) private. The case
studies explore the history a...
by Anisha Sabhlok | On 06 Sep 2010
This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives
of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs): poverty reduction and financial viability. Using an
unbalanced pan...
by Thankom Arun | On 06 Sep 2010 The paper aims at bringing out and explaining the problems faced by tribals. The paper also analyzes various laws made for protecting the tribals and giving them justice.
by Ketan Mukhija | On 03 Sep 2010 For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India by Anjali R. Arondekar; Duke
University Press, Durham; 2009. xii + 215 pp. 74.95 (cloth),21.95 (paper).
by Durba Ghosh | On 31 Aug 2010 This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s
organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment
generation in the labour intensive sect...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 13 Aug 2010 Information plays a vital role in lives of individuals/groups for development and growth. Just information does not serve the purpose, but accurate information does. The sources/tools/techniques used...
by Rajanish Dass | On 06 Aug 2010 This study examined poverty across 28 Indian states, concluding that “81 percent of people are multidimensionally poor in Bihar—more than any other state. Also, poverty in Bihar and Jharkand is most i...
by Arun Kumar | On 05 Aug 2010 This paper is based on a set of village visits carried out by the authors as part of a study on rural housing
sponsored by Holcim Limited. The views expressed here are those of the authors. [Working...
by Shashanka Bhide | On 03 Aug 2010 The question of protecting intellectual property rights by academic inventors was never seriously contemplated until the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universiti...
by Amit Shovon Ray | On 30 Jul 2010
Despite the tremendous growth of mobile services in most developing countries, these have largely remained limited to urban areas. This has further aggravated the existing urban and rural divide....
by Rekha Jain | On 26 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 Drug consumption in Thailand is high in comparison with other countries. A key factor
influencing this over consumption is advertising. Radio is the media that can easily reach a
lot of people, in...
by Tanattha Kittisopee | On 23 Jul 2010 Attrition is the Achilles heel of longitudinal surveys. Drawing on our experience in the
Indonesia Family Life Survey, we describe survey design and field strategies that contributed
to minimizing a...
by Duncan Thomas | On 13 Jul 2010 In this paper an
analytical critique of the law and restrictions as also of the framework of urban
planning and a justification for why major change is required in the approach
to land markets, lan...
by Sebastian Morris | On 29 Jun 2010 It is generally presumed that strengthening the legal enforcement
of lender rights increases credit access for all borrowers, by
expanding the set of incentive compatible loan contracts. This
presu...
by Ulf Lilienfeld Toal | On 28 Jun 2010 Patents and patent applications are important indicators of innovative activity in industrial R
& D, especially in areas such as Information Technology (IT), where technology growth is
rapid. Within...
by Biju Paul Abraham | On 22 Jun 2010 The paper examines the programs for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) and concludes that DDR is set to remain an important tool, and that it is most effective when used flexibly, app...
by Walt Kilroy | On 16 Jun 2010 Street vendors are those millions of people who come to cities as economic refugees hoping to
provide basic necessities for their families.They are the main distribution channels for a large variety...
by Shailly Arora | On 15 Jun 2010 The controversy over evolution is a long standing one in American politics. The issue is often depicted as a conflict between science and religion. In this paper the effects of confidence in science a...
by Linda A Lockett | On 10 Jun 2010 This working paper is a compilation of the abstracts of all our publications in the last 10
years, which include 40 referred journal articles, 54 Working Papers, 19 Chapters in Books
and 18 Case Stu...
by KV. Ramani | On 07 Jun 2010 The present
paper focuses mainly on the issues like economics and efficiency of organic farming visà-
vis conventional farming in India. Four states namely Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab
and U.P were...
by D. Kumara Charyulu | On 25 May 2010 Over 330 million people live in India’s cities; 35 cities have a population of over a
million and three (Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata) of the 10 largest metropolises in the world
are in India. India’s...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 21 May 2010 Analysis of developing country cities indicates that neither policy frameworks nor infrastructural investments have kept up with urban growth, that the wrong choices with long-term consequences are be...
by Homi Kharas | On 20 May 2010 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 The discussion focusses on women in poverty their
concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational approach for their mobilization
and empowerment. Maximum emphasis has been placed on...
by Narayana K Banerjee | On 17 May 2010 Empowerment of women has emerged as an important issue in recent times. The economic empowerment of women is being regarded these days as a Sine-quo-non of progress for a country; hence, the issue of...
by Sathiabama K | On 19 Apr 2010 This paper aims at touching on the main divisions of fisheries management, with an insight into the state mechanism and the extra legal systems in place. The principal focus is the history of Indian m...
by Rohan Dominic Mathews | On 16 Apr 2010 This research paper analyses Government policy with regard to Jhuggi-Jhopri clusters- a
particular type of housing present in Delhi. These colonies are perceived to be illegal by the
Government. Wit...
by Eshaan Puri | On 13 Apr 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 This paper examines the basis upon which rural and urban areas are classified as such. It looks into various criteria for the above all over the world and re-iterates the Indian definition of an ‘urba...
by V.K. Dhar | On 22 Mar 2010 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 by finance minister of Karnataka
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 05 Mar 2010 West Bengal is not among the best performing states with regard
to NREGA. The performance of all districts in the state
is not equally discouraging. Some districts, in fact, have done well in
gener...
by Subrata Mukherjee | On 19 Feb 2010 The main issues surrounding this concern and provides a range of policy,
regulatory, and institutional measures that could help strengthen the impact of transport infrastructure on poverty reduction...
by Sununtar Setboonsarng | On 10 Feb 2010 In Nepal, agriculture is commercializing day by day
and levels of agro-chemical use are growing. This is
beginning to raise concerns about the health and environmental
impacts of farm chemicals suc...
by Ratna Kumar Jha | On 09 Feb 2010 Farmers, students , organic farmers, anti-GM activists thronged to the consultation on Bt-Brinjal held late last month in Gujarat with the government.
by Claude Alvares | On 05 Feb 2010 The study attempts to examine why there is staff shortage of health care professionals especially the nurses in India and the impact of such migration on services like emergency preparedness, quality...
by Ann Issac | On 04 Feb 2010 Based upon several field visits to the state of Andhra Pradesh to observe and analyse the social audit process initiated by the Government of Andhra Pradesh under the National Rural Employment Guaran...
by Neera Burra | On 04 Feb 2010 The purpose of this study was to explore the role and importance of human resources for the
scaling up of health services in low income countries. In the case studies, the following have been analyze...
by Christoph Kurowski | On 28 Jan 2010 This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level
detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some
households h...
by Naila Kabeer | On 28 Jan 2010 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 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 The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status
of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level)...
by Pratham Pratham | On 21 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 This note seeks to show that the debate on ‘Pro-Poor Growth’ is sterile and largely
academic with few policy insights.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 15 Jan 2010 This paper looks at rural infrastructure facilities in India, the lack of which is
demonstrated to be an impediment to sustained economic development. It is argued that problems of rural infrastruct...
by Suman Bery | On 15 Jan 2010 Living the Body: Embodiment, Womenhood and Identity in Contemporary India
by Meenakshi Thapan,
Sage Publication, Delhi;
2009, pp. 220; Rs. 550.
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 08 Jan 2010 This paper aims to highlight the critical importance of cost recovery in attracting and
sustaining private investment for power development. Based on a brief review of Indian
experience, it suggests...
by Vishvanath V. Desai | On 24 Dec 2009 Discusses about the different poverty measuements.
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Dec 2009 In many parts of rural India the use of wood for fuel is the cause of significant environmental and health problems. Efforts to help people switch to cleaner fuels have not been effective and fuelwood...
by ARABINDA MISHRA | On 18 Dec 2009 Firms often give away free goods with the product that they sell. Firms often give stock options
to their top management and other employees. Mixing these two practices—giving stock options
to consu...
by Kaushik Basu | On 15 Dec 2009 The study presents an initial assessment of the situation and to raise the main
issues in terms of farmers’ and workers’ rights. It is part of a long term process involving farmer movements, trade un...
by Isabelle Delforge | On 15 Dec 2009 Declaration made at the end of two days national seminar on Food security and Sustainability in India held on November 7-8, 2009 organized by GAD Institute of Development Studies, PO Naushera, Amritsa...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 14 Dec 2009 This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for
rural Sindh, Pakistan. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) d...
by Hari Ram Lohano | On 10 Dec 2009 This paper 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 A woman scientist writes about being a working woman scientist in a man's world. [Sandarbh Issue 65]
by Hema Ramachandran | On 26 Nov 2009 The Government has launched a reform-linked urban investment programme, JNNURM. The paper has analysed urban trends, projected population, service delivery, institutional arrangements, municipal finan...
by Chetan Vaidya | On 26 Nov 2009 Indian cities are characterised by rapid growth in human as well as motor vehicle populations. Although the poor benefit the least from motor vehicle activity, they bear the brunt of its impacts. The...
by Madhav Badami | On 26 Nov 2009 This paper addresses issues related to public private partnerships that can enable delivery
of comprehensive health care to rural communities.
by Prachi Shukla | On 25 Nov 2009 This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-villa...
by Manuela Angelucci | On 23 Nov 2009 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 This report summarises findings from the USAID-sponsored project on models of financing for slum upgrading in India, undertaken on behalf of SPARC,a Mumbai-based NGO involved in slum upgrading and th...
by Sally Merrill | On 19 Nov 2009 Questions about the processes of empowerment generated under each of these interventions and also suggests synergistic linkages between the two are raised.
by Joy Deshmukh Ranadive | On 13 Nov 2009 The paper begins with a review of national programmes and their performances. The next two sections highlight the record of domestic water supply programmes in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh with th...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 10 Nov 2009 This paper on political sociology of poverty in India is based upon the assumption that
a) the caste system and economic inequality complement each other in the case of the poorer sections of Indian...
by Anand Kumar | On 10 Nov 2009 The main thrust of this paper is: Why should women go to these courts to
settle matrimonial disputes while there are provisions for them in secular
courts? Do women face less harassment and get quic...
by Sabiha Hussain | On 05 Nov 2009 This paper distinguishes the Intellectual Property Rights relevant to agriculture and
explain these rights. The international intellectual property law for
these rights will be described. India's in...
by Jayashree Watal | On 03 Nov 2009 The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6 per cent in 1993-94 to 46.4 per cent in 2004-05, has been a matter of concern. The current exercise attem...
by Srijit Mishra | On 27 Oct 2009 This paper presents some such case studies for co-and tri-generating various cold and hot utilities using innovative designs of Matrix and Tube-Tube Heat Exchangers and Multi-Utility Heat Pumps develo...
by Rane M V | On 27 Oct 2009 The objective of the paper is to i) understand and document the morbidity profile, ii) examine utilisation of health services, and iii) estimate approximate expenses on health care by th...
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 07 Oct 2009 Review of the most salient issues in ecological economics when the subject is applied to the field of economic development. The aim here has
not been to be scholastic but to examine the lives of the...
by Partha Dasgupta | On 06 Oct 2009 What is ghost writing? How it can be tackled?
by Plos medicine Editors | On 05 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 Doha Declaration provides for access to medicines particularly by simplifying the compulsory licensing (CL) clause. This paper tries to provide a comprehensive review of the working of CL in the d...
by Lalitha N | On 21 Sep 2009 This paper explores the efforts of government to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. It focuses on the practices and effects of the Primary Education Stipend Programme, a conditio...
by Naomi Hossain | On 17 Aug 2009 This paper applies Carter and Barrett’s theory of assets poverty traps to a unique longitudinal survey from rural Bangladesh. Non-parametric and parametric methods are used to examine the shape of the...
by Agnes Quisumbing | On 06 Aug 2009 The article describes the constitution and functions of Village Development Boards (VDBs) in NAGALAND where VDBs are considered as “Financial Intermediaries” or “Non-Banking Financial Intermediaries”....
by Karmakar K G | On 06 Aug 2009 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 Many victims of domestic violence go to hospitals, but interaction with doctors and nurses tended to stop at treatment for injuries. Engaging with
the wider issues—emotional, psychiatric, social, and...
by Nayreen Daruwalla | On 29 Jul 2009 This 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 Budget reactions from various sectors and by various people in the industry
by Leena Chandan | On 10 Jul 2009 The thrust of this budget on the expenditure side is twofold. Continue with the fiscal stimulus measures and extend these for another six months or one years as the case maybe. Significant among these...
by IRIS India IRIS | On 09 Jul 2009 The method used to measure Human Development are reviewed in order to measure Human Development Index for rural AP by considering indicators such as economic attainment, longevity and education. The e...
by Jatinder S Bedi | On 07 Jul 2009 This paper provides an overview of the background, objectives, interventions and impact hypotheses of Integrated Nutrition and Health Project (INHP-II) and Chayan rural, the implementation approaches...
by Rachna Program | On 07 Jul 2009 Book Review Discourse on Women and Empowerment, Vibhuti Patel (Ed), (Empowering Women Worldwide Series: 4), The Women Press, Delhi, 2009.
by Usha Thakkar | On 30 Jun 2009 Neera Desai, a pioneer of Women's Studies in India, the first and founding director of the Research Centre for Women’s Studies at the SNDT University, Mumbai passed away late tonight in Mumbai. She wa...
by Padma Prakash | On 27 Jun 2009 Groundwater has rapidly emerged to occupy a dominant place in India’s agriculture and food security in the recent years. It has become the main source of growth in irrigated area over the past 3 decad...
by Vasant P Gandhi | On 23 Jun 2009 The present study has been an attempt to examine spatial distribution of various forms of crimes in Mumbai city (Municipal Corporation) and find out their correlates. More specifically the attempts ha...
by Abdul Shaban | On 23 Jun 2009 The present study has been an attempt to examine spatial distribution of various forms of crimes in Mumbai city (Municipal Corporation) and find out their correlates. More specifically the attempts ha...
by | On 23 Jun 2009 It is critical to emphasize that intergovernmental fiscal relations must be thought of as a system and that all the pieces in the system must fit together if decentralization is to work properly. Vari...
by Richard.M. Bird | On 16 Jun 2009 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 Competition law is different from other branches of law. It is not about the fairness or morality to be instilled in the actions which mark societal behaviour. Instead the rules of competition reflect...
by Tarun Jain | On 14 Jun 2009 The article focuses on understanding of the economics of the exchange control liberalisation in macroeconomic perspectives and, therefore, the article does not attempt to interpret or explore the lega...
by P Samarasiri | On 12 Jun 2009 The paper broadly examines the core trade interests of the EU and India, the content of the negotiations and outlines some key concerns of a potential deal for India in the areas of goods, services an...
by Shefali Sharma | On 05 Jun 2009 The 1994 Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (the WTO Agreement), requires each WTO member to “ensure the conformity of its laws, regulations and administrative procedures wi...
by Chaisse Julien | On 04 Jun 2009 Development scholars view corruption as a leading cause of persistent poverty in less development countries. The paper mainly studies dynamic incentives for corruption in one of the world’s largest pu...
by Paul Niehaus | On 03 Jun 2009 This paper argues that graduated penalties observed in most legal systems may be an attempt to direct law enforcement efforts towards crimes that are socially more harmful, thereby achieving better de...
by Parikshit Ghosh | On 03 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 revolves around the necessity to rid the large tenant of the lease market in the interest of the poor peasant, who yearns to lease-in a piece of land. The notion that the petty peasant is o...
by C. S Murty | On 02 Jun 2009 This paper seeks to evaluate quantity and quality of service delivery in rural public health facilities under NRHM. On appropriate and feasible measures, the former is assessed on the static and dynam...
by Kaveri Gill | On 02 Jun 2009 The informality discourse is large and vibrant, and is expanding rapidly. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions l...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 02 Jun 2009 Indigenous and local communities justly cherish traditional knowledge (TK) as a part of their very cultural identities. Maintaining the distinct knowledge systems that give rise to TK can be vital for...
by WIPO WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION. | On 31 May 2009 This background paper focuses on the implications of investment liberalization on ASEAN nations.
[FGS OP NO 5]
by Ignacio Jose Minambres | On 31 May 2009 The rapid spread of modern supply chains in developing countries is profoundly changing the way food is produced and traded. In this paper we examine the gender implications in modern supply chains. W...
by Miet Maertens | On 29 May 2009 This paper is about hopscotching, and in turn jumps over many disciplinary categories, from literature to gender studies to development studies. At one level this is the voice of the interdisciplinary...
by Barnita Bagchi | On 29 May 2009 The task of the Sub-committee was to review the existing methodologies for estimating the contribution of unorganised/informal sector to GDP and suggest measures to facilitate direct estimation. The G...
by NCEUS NCEUS | On 28 May 2009 India’s patent reforms represent a shift in India’s policy from one of enormous opposition to revising patent laws according to the WTO, to one of compliance with many aspects of TRIPs (Trade Related...
by Anitha Ramanna | On 26 May 2009 This paper is an attempt to examine the policy initiatives as well as experience of promoting organic farming in India and Canada where the need for promoting sustainable agriculture has been recogniz...
by Puttaswamaiah S | On 22 May 2009 Papers and Proceedings of The Third Annual Himalayan Policy Research ConferenceSession Chairs and Discussants
Session 1A: Conflict Resolution and Democratic Transitions
Chair: Christopher Can...
by Vijaya R. Sharma | On 19 May 2009 Social movements in Hong Kong have begun to challenge the law and the judicial system for the purpose of challenging government policies or at least making their claims highly visible before the publi...
by | On 19 May 2009 This paper offers a review of the concepts and definitions used in the NSS Employment-Unemployment Surveys (EUS, for short) which have remained virtually unchanged since they were introduced in the NS...
by K. Sundaram | On 15 May 2009 This paper investigates whether, in what direction, and to what extent one mode of technology transfer – namely, overseas R&D – is influenced by the strength of intellectual property protection that h...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 15 May 2009 The Indian states have been the standard unit of analysis for research on India that uses official data sources. For many empirical questions, states are a natural starting point because state governm...
by Hemanshu Kumar | On 15 May 2009 This is the first Bi-annual India Labour Market Report, published by Adecco TISS Labour Market Research Initiatives. The exploration of emerging issues in Indian labour market through the ATLMRI disc...
by Bino Paul G.D | On 14 May 2009 The focus of this paper is on food miles issues associated with the import of products from developing countries. As the concept of food miles has been an issue in organic agriculture since before the...
by Els Wynen | On 14 May 2009 This paper reassesses the nature of the epidemiological evidence underpinning one of the Global Burden of Disease topics: the estimate for the global burden of depression. Specifically, we look at the...
by Petra Brhlikova | On 14 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 To understand how gender, women’s rights and citizenship intersect with innovation in SouthAsia, one must begin by considering some of the main features of life for South Asian women, about a half of...
by Sujata Byravan | On 06 May 2009 This paper discusses if the Olymipic Games presented a change- not change along the lines of South Koreas leap towards democracy after the Seol Olympics, but some small shift- and how the nature of it...
by Jane Macartney | On 05 May 2009 This inaugural piece addresses a fundamental problem of communication – how to effectively talk about an issue. It’s not as simple as it seems. Its always known that people did not always “hear” what...
by Joseph Grady | On 05 May 2009 Agriculture sector, world over, has experienced a phenomenal growth since the mid-twentieth century. The growth, driven by Green Revolution technology, has made a significant dent on aggregate supply...
by Amita Shah | On 02 May 2009 The rural-urban disparities are a reality in developing countries like India. Post reform, there are lot of empirical studies which has focused on this aspect of development experience in India. The v...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 01 May 2009 Attacks on journalists throughout the world -- by organised crime groups in Latin America, autocratic regimes in the Middle East, repressive governments in Africa and by combatants in war zones -- pos...
by World Association of Newspapers WAN | On 28 Apr 2009 The media has a demonstrated ability in fostering mutual understanding by communicating across divides, thus bringing competing narratives together into a shared story. This ambivalence presents an op...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 28 Apr 2009 The Study aims at reviewing legal, policy and institutional provisions for the management of natural resources-water and forest in the State of Uttaranchal with a special focus on how the laws actuall...
by Videh Upadhyay | On 27 Apr 2009 This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public
Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty,
vulnerability and undernutrit...
by Raghbendra Jha | On 27 Apr 2009 India has a booming drug industry and has contributed to making generics at low prices worldwide. But medicines within India are overpriced and unaffordable. Price regulation of medicines is a key pub...
by All India Drug Action Forum AIDAN | On 25 Apr 2009 The paper examines the division of tasks required between politicians and bureaucrats to run an effective rural employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in India, in the context of Indian history and habits.
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Apr 2009 A courier service entirely run and staffed by the deaf? Is it a workable idea? Here’s the remarkable story of just such a service surviving against all odds.
by Indira Gartenberg | On 18 Apr 2009 The ability to image the fetus and its associated structures has revolutionized the clinical management of pregnancy. The obstetric ultrasound scanner had its major origins in a programme of research...
by E.M Tansey | On 17 Apr 2009 The indecent haste shown by Political Executive and Parliament on December16-17, 2008 while dealing with security related issues substantiates the argument that security and defence agenda of the Indi...
by C. P. Bhambhri | On 16 Apr 2009 Women in South Asia have a great balancing act to perform, what with the dual burden of
taking care of their homes and families and working outside the home or running a business.
For them, mobili...
by Sujata Byravan | On 16 Apr 2009 Communal riots have become an annual feature
of Indian life, although their number varies from year to year. A situation has come to pacs where maddening communal
violence, arbitrary actions of exe...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 16 Apr 2009 A consultation with about 40 children who have faced violations of their housing rights in some form or the other was organized on 13th November 2006 from 9 – 12 am on the National platform of India S...
by India Social Forum ISF | On 14 Apr 2009 Press Release at press conference on April 10, 2009 at New Delhi.
AIDAN appeals to Political Parties Contesting Elections
arguing that it is the one thing that will contribute to the lowering of...
by All India Drug Action Forum AIDAN | On 13 Apr 2009 Budget speech by finance minister of Karnataka
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 24 Feb 2009 Budget speech by Prof. Anbazhagan
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 24 Feb 2009 Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 23 Feb 2009 There is an urgent need to reassess the arguments used in favour of scaling-up private-sector provision in poor countries. The evidence shows that prioritising this approach is extremely unlikely to d...
by Anna Marriott | On 14 Feb 2009 Review of:
Prostitution and Beyond: An Analysis of Sex Work in India
Rohini Sahni, V. Kalyan Shankar, and Hemant Apte (edited)
Sage Publications, New Delhi; 2008.
by J Devika | On 08 Feb 2009 This paper argues that it is becoming increasingly difficult for
most developing countries to achieve rapid growth through industrialization, and especially through export oriented activities. But th...
by Peter Sheehan | On 03 Feb 2009 Twenty-one thinkers, academics and policymakers from
14 developing countries present snapshot views of how the
financial crisis is affecting their countries
by Globalisation Team IDS | On 31 Jan 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 Language alone can no longer be the basis for division of states. Issues such as size, governance, economic viability and recognition of new identities are equally important to consider the demands f...
by Asha Sarangi | On 14 Jan 2009 The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround
in employment growth in rural India after a phase of ‘jobless growth’.
Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide
...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 05 Jan 2009 The paper provides an analytical structure to endogenize the optimal gestational
surrogacy contract in terms of a simple moral hazard framework. The study shows that altruistic
surrogacy is optimal...
by Swapnendu Banerjee | On 23 Dec 2008 The purpose of the ASER 2007’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level)...
by Pratham Pratham | On 12 Dec 2008 The history and evolution and the factors underlying the success of primary education in Kerala. [CDS WP 189].
by P R Gopinathan Nair | On 10 Dec 2008 Thomas Conroy, Jarice Hanson, eds. Constructing America's War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. viii + 171 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).
by Fabian Virchow | On 06 Dec 2008 The report highlights the following aspects:
1. the inability of the legal system to recognise the unique unequal ,
2. position of women;
3. the perception of women as peripheral to economic develo...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 01 Dec 2008 A case study in Goa is used to examine whether tenure security and asset re-distribution can lead to environmentally sustainable outcomes.
by Pranab Mukhopadhyay | On 28 Nov 2008 The paper is a report of a survey done in Chitradurga District, Karnataka to know the functioning of NREGA and awarness of people about this Act.
by Centre for Budget and Policy Studies CBPS | On 19 Nov 2008 This paper is based on a qualitative analysis of three case studies, each belonging to one of three types of institutional structures: Self-initiated, NGO-promoted, and Government-sponsored JFM. The b...
by Rucha Ghate | On 14 Nov 2008 The policy brief describes the life stories of five people, to show the face of human face of chronic poverty. It also suggests that such life history material can be an important source of data for p...
by Martin Prowse | On 11 Nov 2008 This paper primarily assesses the status of rural livelihoods in fragile environments with diverse resource endowments and policy interventions. Livelihood
assessment was carried out using the sustai...
by V Ratna Reddy | On 07 Nov 2008 This paper discusses the criticality of electricity the vital modern economic infrastucture concerning its role in and nexus with rural development. Introducing broad issues in rural infrastructure an...
by Keshab Das | On 06 Nov 2008 In 2001, it is estimated that 270 million Indians belonged in the 12-24 years age group. While
attention is being focused on these young people’s potential for social transformation, some of them –...
by Nidhi Singal | On 04 Nov 2008 This paper examines empirically within sustainable development
framework the dynamics of coverage in rural drinking water supply of
180 demand-driven schemes from Malappuram, predominantly a coastal...
by K Pushpangadan | On 27 Oct 2008 Contents:
Culture as an Element in Violent Reactions to Economic Development by Dan Tschirgi
the Headscarf Issue, Women and the Public Sphere in Turkey by Yylmaz Colak
Inter-societal Comparative St...
by SEPHIS | On 21 Oct 2008 A multi-partner EPI Review in India was conducted to help influence the practices of routine immunization and articulate CARE’s potential role in establishing linkage between MOH, ICDS, and communitie...
by Robert Steinglass | On 20 Oct 2008 This study makes an attempt to analyse the transformation of common property resources (the lakes) into private property. [WP No. 60].
by Ramachandraiah C | On 17 Oct 2008 It is attempted to understand the implications of equality in water distribution on social welfare with a simple abstract analysis using Leontief-type fixed production function.
by Sashi Sivramakrishna | On 16 Oct 2008 Strategic Issues and Challenges in Health Management
Edited by V.Ramani, Dileep Mavalankar and Dipti Govil
Sage Publications, New Delhi.
by Lt.Col (Dr) Anil Paranjape | On 15 Oct 2008 This paper is preliminary exploration of the trends and spatial variation in gender differentials in adult mortality in India, as also of the related rural-urban differentials.
by N. Krishnaji | On 08 Oct 2008 In March 2006,President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom announced the "Roadmap for the Reform Agenda". The reform measures undertaken by the government have been half-harted. Instances of arbitrary arrests, dete...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 07 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 Men who will stop the water: vignettes from Goa's mining heartland
by Hartman de Souza | On 26 Sep 2008 This paper applies theoretical pluralism to studies of poverty. However in order to be more specific it takes as a case study some competing studies of Indian rural tenancy relations. In the paper, sp...
by Wendy Olsen | On 25 Sep 2008 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 The present paper is a study of how specific institutions affect innovation in a specific country. In the paper uses data for patents granted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a...
by Wilfred Dolfsma | On 16 Sep 2008 This study has the objective to: 1) examine the extend to which the flexibilities contained in the WTO agreement on TRIPS have been incorporated into the legislation of developing countries and the ex...
by Sisule F. Musungu | On 16 Sep 2008 There is a tremendous amount of media freedom problems in the world, and there is also a certain time travel backwards in many parts of the world. It is not only true in the new democracies, where we...
by World Association of Newspapers WAN | On 19 Aug 2008 Chhattisgarh continues to be the epicenter of the Naxalite conflict as a direct consequence of the counter-insurgency Salwa Judum campaign. There have been credible reports of serious human rights vio...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 18 Aug 2008 Volume III Eleventh Five year plan
by Planning Commission, India | On 18 Aug 2008 This paper seeks primarily to establish some benchmarks for policy and law for displacement and rehabilitation in India. It will do this by looking briefly at the actual experience of displacement due...
by Ravi Hemadri | On 14 Aug 2008 This study aimed to provide some insights into sanitation-related strategies taken
by the BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programme from an
economic point of view. The aim of this report i...
by Kazi Faisal Bin Seraj | On 06 Aug 2008 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 Ratification imposes specific obligations on a state to incorporate human rights into
national laws, to amend legislation, to promote, protect and fulfill human rights and
prevent violations of huma...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 31 Jul 2008 This study evaluates the economic feasibility of replacing shifting cultivation (Jhum) with settled agriculture and new soil conservation technology based on an assessment of the farmers’ risk and cor...
by M. A. Monayem Miah | On 29 Jul 2008 The objectives of the policy on organic farming, the strategies of the policy are explained here.
by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture CSA | On 26 Jul 2008 Women's Reservation Bill
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 24 Jul 2008 The development of drugs for maternal health cannot be constrained by market-driven needs. What is needed is a political will.
by PLoS Medicine | On 16 Jul 2008 The primary goal of this paper is to examine the impact of organic farming on economics of sugarcane cultivation in Maharashtra. The study is based on primary data collected from two districts coverin...
by Kshirsagar K G | On 14 Jul 2008 The presence of a large number of unqualified medical practitioners in the rural areas and urban slums indicate that they provide most of the outpatient services in the private sector. Given the huge...
by Naryana K V | On 08 Jul 2008 A large body of empirical literature highlights the need for stakeholder participation within the context of policy change and democratic governance. This makes intuitive sense and may appear to be a...
by Vinod Ahuja | On 19 Jun 2008 The paper undertakes a detailed mapping out of the sectoral system of innovation of India's pharmaceutical industry. The industry is one of the most innovative industries in the Indian manufacturing s...
by Sunil Mani | On 15 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 Contents
Mashelkar’s Folly - Gopa Kumar 1
Statement by Scientific and Public Interest Groups 5
The Glivec Story: Some Key Dates 7
Q&A on Patents in India and the Novartis Case 9
Gleevec Updates 1...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 31 May 2008 How is it that India’s leading language does not even have a national magazine,
commercial or otherwise, worth its name but can yet support a number of literary periodicals with readerships running...
by mahmood farooqui | On 28 May 2008 Review of:
Democracy in the Family: Insights from India.
Edited by Joy Deshmukh-Randive
Sage Publications. New Delhi
2008.
by Tulsi Patel | On 26 May 2008 The transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the Wellcome Trust Centre
for the History of Medicine at UCL, London on March 12, 2002. Edited by D A Christie and E M Tansey.
Rachel Carson’s 'Silent Spr...
by Wellcome Witness WW Seminars | On 15 May 2008 This paper looks at the effects on livestock of silvi-pasture development on common lands in relation to (a) ruminant systems and (b) livestock numbers and ownership patterns in Rajasthan, India. [SDC...
by Czech Conroy | On 14 May 2008 The purpose of creating an industrial tribunal was to introduce compulsory adjudication where voluntary negotiation fails and the ‘appropriate government’ believes that the matter is grave enough to b...
by Navjyoti Samanta | On 13 May 2008 The government of India has appointed many committees to look into the issue of agrarian distress in India. An Expert Panel was constituted by the National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development...
by Satish Chander | On 12 May 2008 The Official Group would like to recommend a set of policy initiatives for the consideration of the Government of Karnataka. The recommendations of the Official Group are grouped under the following h...
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 04 May 2008 The challenges for journalists and the media community in South Asia encompass a range of factors that indicate the level of press freedom in any country: Physical attacks, threats and questionable le...
by Sukumar Muralidharan | On 04 May 2008 In the past tank systems of water storage and use played an important role in the region’s prosperity. In recent times these tanks are being neglected. A case in point is the Kaveripakkam tank in Tam...
by K Sivasubramaniyan | On 03 May 2008 The rapid growth of the Indian media has occurred in a regulatory vacuum. Nor are there are accepted standards on the exercise of the free speech right in the Indian media. In this draft discussion no...
by Sukumar Muralidharan | On 11 Apr 2008 The impressive growth of the Indian media is largely taking place outside of the voting classes, ensuring that the media are not playing a significant public service role. Ultimately, the author sugge...
by James Mutti | On 11 Apr 2008 Although new environmental and pathological threats to human survival and longevity have been documented, relatively little is known about how these threats are perceived in the popular imagination. D...
by Sajida Amin | On 09 Apr 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 CELENTA's STORY: Government schemes do little to change attitudes
GROWING INEQUITIES: Maharashtra's poor cannot access healthcare
VOTE BANK POLITICS: Small family not important in UP
QUACK TRAP: Qu...
by Health eNewsletter | On 02 Apr 2008 Social networking is about more than just friends reunited; it’s a framework for
understanding even the most basic of biological processes. Two papers in the month of March PLoS Medicine illustrate t...
by PLoS Medicine | On 26 Mar 2008 Economics has always been, and remains, a male-dominated occupation. In Mark Blaug’s mid-1980s surveys of great economists before and after Keynes, only three females – Rosa Luxemburg, Irma Adelman an...
by Brian Snowdon | On 17 Mar 2008 Speech describes India’s experiences on ‘Inclusive Growth’ - a topic which is both current and close to the hearts of public policymakers and central bankers of emerging economies. [Independence Comme...
by Usha Thorat | On 14 Mar 2008 This paper investigates a range of aspects including socio economic status,morality, morbidity requiring inpatient as well as outpatient care, health care-seeking behavior etc.
by Akash Acharya | On 10 Mar 2008 Budget presented by Finance Minister
by P Chidambaram | On 29 Feb 2008 Review of
Radhika Gajjala. Cyber Selves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian
Women. New York: AltaMira Press.
by Christine Tulley | On 28 Feb 2008 Quick findings for feedback as well as further analysis. [Contact Pravas Ranjan Mishra CYSD, E-1, Institutional Area, RRL PO., Bhubaneswar India - 751 013
Tel. +91-674-2300774, 2301725 Fax: +91-674-...
by Orissa Government | On 22 Feb 2008 The ‘sexual Internet’ is clearly a social space where multiple economies – commercial, political and libidinal – intersect. It is a phenomenon that requires exploration from multiple angles: economic,...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 21 Feb 2008 A bill to provide for the rehabilitation and resettlement of persons affected by the acquisition of land for projects of public purpose or involuntary displacement due to any other reason, and for mat...
by Lok Sabha | On 07 Feb 2008 Commenting on recent research articles which look at the potential health benefits of behaviour change, the PLoS Medicine Editors say that publication of the findings of such research is only one part...
by PLoS Medicine | On 01 Feb 2008 This paper focuses on both expanding and refining the analytical scope of the “social” (or non-economic) aspects of chronic poverty, and thereby, to enhance efforts to respond more effectively to it....
by Michael Woolcock | On 25 Jan 2008 Review of The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction" by Hal R. Varian, Joseph Farrell, Carl Shapiro, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, pages 102, Price Rs. 795 RBI Occasional...
by Brijesh Pazhayathodi | On 22 Jan 2008 Three important aspects of the Canadian pharmaceutical industry-viz. compulsory licence, price control on patented drugs and the R&D scenario. Unlike other developed countries, which have adopted the...
by Lalitha N | On 18 Jan 2008 Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative in the Armed Conflict
by Neloufer de Mel; Sage, New Delhi, 2007; pp. 329, Rs. 475.
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 14 Jan 2008 Three years ago Yahoo!, Intel, Nokia and Ericsson, formed the Beijing Association of Online Media (BAOM) ostensibly to ensure a check on media content especially pertaining to pornography, etc. Today...
by David Bandurski | On 10 Jan 2008 Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global avera...
by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC | On 07 Jan 2008 Under certain conditions it is optimal for the noninnovating south to give patent protection for a longer time period than the innovating north. A cooperative patent agreement involves a larger protec...
by Swapnendu Banerjee | On 03 Jan 2008 An increase in HIV infection has contributed to the problem of RTIs/STIs in India. This paper finds a high prevalence of RTI/STI among the rural women in Haryana. Half of the rural women have no knowl...
by Sanjay Rode | On 18 Dec 2007 Following this disaster in Orissa caused by a super cyclone there was a great deal of controversy over whether the high levels of mangrove forest destruction in the area had increased the impact of th...
by Saudamini Das | On 13 Dec 2007 The Overseas Development Institute in the UK recently carried out a study on ICT for rural livelihoods, commissioned by InfoDev. The study included a literature and donor review in collaboration with...
by Paul Matthews | On 26 Oct 2007 Review of
Sex- Selective Abortion in India –Gender, Society, and New Reproductive Technologies
by Tulsi Patel; Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2007.
by Sayeed Unisa | On 25 Oct 2007 Even after five years of after the liberalisation of the investment regime India has failed to attract FDI to come to the mining sector. In the last decade, many developing countries have significantl...
by Planning Commission, India | On 18 Oct 2007 The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally r...
by Alessandro Cigno | On 16 Oct 2007 Model bill to amend the laws relating to the Municipalities and to institutionalise citizens’ participation in municipal functions, e.g. setting priorities, budgeting provisions, etc. by setting up of...
by Ministry of Urban Development MoUD | On 08 Oct 2007 This paper is an attempt to measure the extent of peri-urbanisation that has taken place in TamilNadu. Geographical data is used based on the 1991 census for TamilNadu and Pondicherry. A systematic e...
by Sébastien Oliveau | On 04 Oct 2007 The Expert Group constituted by the Planning commission to examine issues related to groundwater management and ownership has made extensive recommendations tha need to be taken seriously. Most impor...
by K.V. Raju | On 04 Oct 2007 It is time India recognises its dependency on groundwater resources, which is only going to increase in the coming years, partly because of growing urbanisation and industrialisation. In view of the g...
by Kirit Parikh | On 03 Oct 2007 CHIUNG-JU HUANG : Wagner's Law : Empirical Evidence for China and Taiwan
CHIAO-YI CHANG, CHING-FU CHEN AND I-YUAN CHUANG : Does Asian Financial Crisis Change Price Co-Movements in East Asia.
G. RAM...
by Department of Economics DoE, Allahabad University | On 01 Oct 2007 During the period 1972-73 to 2004-05 in rural India, the total number of workers expanded more in the non-farm sector than the farm sector with the rise in male workers being sharper than that of fema...
by Sharad Ranjan | On 30 Sep 2007 The Eleventh Schedule added to the Constitution by the
Seventy-third Amendment lists twenty-nine functions devolvable by
States to Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). States were free to set
the sp...
by Indira Rajaraman | On 28 Sep 2007 This paper is intended to be a contribution towards the improvement of
transparency and efficiency of patentability examination for pharmaceuticals inventions, particularly in developing countries. I...
by Carlos Correa | On 23 Sep 2007 Presidential Polls 2
Woman President,
Women's Empowerment 3
1857 4
Corruption in Kerala CPI(M) 7
Crackdown in Campuses 9
Mining Policy 11
Dollar Millionaires in India 12
Public Transport...
by Liberation | On 20 Sep 2007 TRIPS is a reality and India has to rework its patent law to conform to it. But that does not mean that we have a patent law that provides for TRIPS plus rules. Our interest lies in taking full advant...
by Sheela Rai | On 20 Sep 2007 Contents
World Bank and India’s Health Sector -T.K. Sundari Ravindran 1
The Independent Peoples’s Tribunal on the World Bank Group in India 8
This is Not a Story about Binayak Sen -Subhas Gatade 9
...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 16 Sep 2007 The Ministry expects that putting such a code in place will have the
following important positive impact, among others.
• The public will be provided with a mechanism through which they can
voice t...
by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting MIB | On 16 Sep 2007 As Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights have been extended to agriculture, member countries are forced to provide intellectual property protection to plant varieties. As a member coun...
by Lalitha N | On 28 Aug 2007 Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism by Jyoti Hosagrahar; Routledge,New York; 2005. xiii + 234 pp., $43.95 (paper).
by Amita Sinha | On 23 Aug 2007 The political economy of the pharmaceutical industry defines truth significantly, if not substantially and wholly, in medicine as much as does dominant medical practice. This mediated wisdom of medici...
by S Srinivasan | 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 At the end of the course in Forensic Medicine, the learner shall be able to:
1. Identify, examine and prepare report or certificate in medico-legal cases/situations in accordance with the law of lan...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 08 Aug 2007 At the end of the course, the learner shall be able to understand the infectious diseases in terms of their etiology, pathogenesis, and laboratory diagnosis in order to efficiently treat, prevent and...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 08 Aug 2007 At the end of the course the learner will be able to understand the general principles of drug action and handling of drugs by the body in normal individuals including children, elderly, women during...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 03 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 The Budget is an important tool in the hands of the state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce e...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 03 Aug 2007 This paper is an attempt to bring out different needs of elders from different backgrounds and socio-economic groups. The main aim of the paper is to help policy makers in identifying these difference...
by Habibullah Ansari | On 02 Aug 2007 Tuberculosis (TB) is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and has received considerable attention in recent years, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where it is closely a...
by Salla A Munro | On 01 Aug 2007 Modernisation necessarily leads to the emergence of dowry as a direct transfer to the groom ("groom-price"). The historical instances of dowry can be classified according to the schema implied by the...
by Siwan Anderson | On 31 Jul 2007 This paper is principally focused on the changes in the size and structure of work force and the changes in labour productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st centur...
by K. Sundaram | On 30 Jul 2007 Detailed Objectives and curricular content in Biochemistry
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 24 Jul 2007 Detailed Objectives and curricular content in Physiology
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 24 Jul 2007 Detailed Objectives and curricular content in Anatomy.
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 24 Jul 2007 This report analyzes the ITRIPS agreement. It discuses the problems and stakes, and consequences of this agreement. The report also provides case studies related to the topic and finally gives a sugge...
by Andrea Onori | On 21 Jul 2007 The objective of foundation course is to sensitize the learners with the essential
knowledge and skills which will lay a sound foundation for his\her pursuit of learning across the subjects throughou...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 The IIME Core Committee has developed the concept of 'Global Minimum Essential
Requirements' (GMER) and defined a set of global minimum learning outcomes, which students of the medical schools must d...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 There has been a global shift in the emphasis from discipline based curriculum to more integrated and problem based curriculum. However, considering the logistics of implementation and constrains in t...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 Some of the major problems in primary healthcare relate to training and
capacity building of health service providers in foreseeable future. It is in this
background that government set up a Task Fo...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 This paper follows the new economic geography approach to model the relationships
between trade policy and spatial agglomeration of production in the context of a small open
developing economy. It c...
by Ayele Gelan | On 13 Jul 2007 Review of Writing the Women’s Movement: A Reader
Edited by Mala Khullar;
Zuban (in collaboration with EWHA Women’s University Seoul).
by Veena Poonacha | On 05 Jul 2007 A law to prevent sex determination tests was passed in Maharashtra known as Maharashtra Regulation of Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1988. In 1994 the the Parliament enacted the Pre-Natal Diagn...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 05 Jul 2007 National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tried and tested tool for summarizing, describing, and analyzing the financing of national health systems. The estimates prepared provide clues regarding the essent...
by National Health Acounts Cell NHA Cell | On 05 Jul 2007 Public Health Education in India -Ritu Priya 1
Public Health Education in India - Some Reflections -Ravi and Thelma Narayan 4
A Few Additional Issues for Discussion at the MFC Meet -Anant Phadke 19
...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 04 Jul 2007 Brain Drain: UP government hospitals can't retain doctors
Health Matters: Voices from grassroots
User Charges: Poor forced out of public health system
Neglected Diseases: The story of kalaazar in B...
by Health eNewsletter | On 04 Jul 2007 This draft chapter of a reader on Health Care Case Laws in India addresses the following issues: Have reproductive rights been recognized in India? What has been the approach of the courts towards rep...
by Vijay Hiremat | On 04 Jul 2007 Relatively small proportion of literature has focused upon health behaviours and types of health services used by the poor in rural Bangladesh, particularly ultra poor households.This study aimed to e...
by Shahaduz Zaman | On 14 Jun 2007 It is argued that Indian agriculture is undergoing fundamental change wherein the technology and inputs are moving out of the hands of the farmers to external suppliers. This, over a period of time ma...
by M S Sriram | On 13 Jun 2007 Review of:
Globalizing Rural Development: Competing Paradigms and Emerging Realities
by M. C. Behera; Sage Publications, 2006.
by Mohan Kanda | On 12 Jun 2007 Modern epidemiology has, by and large, been based on a narrow model of biomedicine and behaviour modification. It fails to answer, for instance the following questions: Why certain populations are inf...
by Vijay Kumar Yadavendu | On 15 May 2007 Review of Janani: Mothers, Daughters, Motherhood edited by Rinki Bhattacharya;
Sage India, New Delhi, 2006; Pp 200, Rs. 280.
by P. Princy Yesudian | On 14 May 2007 Review of Ela R Bhat's 'We are Poor, But So Many
Oxford University Press, 2006.
by Sharit Bhowmik | On 10 May 2007 Policy initiatives for reproductive health are often based on judgments made on the basis of a small, selective cross-section of the population. The Human Development Profile Survey (HDPS) conducted b...
by P. N. Mari Bhat | On 13 Apr 2007 This study investigates the role of common property resources as a source of sustainable income in the context of opportunities created by economic development. Commercialization of the common can inc...
by Purnamita Dasgupta | On 27 Mar 2007 Allocations to the budget for health appear to be impressive but a closer look shows that this is not so, especially taking into consideration the high inflation rate in the previous year. A substanti...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 21 Mar 2007 The study examines the marketing of wheat in India, focusing on the private marketing system, the marketing efficiency and quality. Wheat is now a major food staple in India, crucial to India’s food e...
by Vasant P Gandhi | On 14 Mar 2007 The Budget is ‘exciting’ precisely because it has at least decided to pay a little more than lip service to the so-called social sector. And Finance Ministers then tend to increase allocations for the...
by S Srinivasan | On 08 Mar 2007 The Budget is ‘exciting’ precisely because it has at least decided to pay a little more than lip service to the so-called social sector. And Finance Ministers then tend to increase allocations for the...
by S Srinivasan | On 08 Mar 2007 Indian agriculture is under policy reforms for some time now. One of the issues it faces is that of lack of viability of smallholdings and lack of international competitiveness of its produce. In this...
by Sukhpal Singh | On 07 Mar 2007 Land Reforms Act in Kerala rendered tenancy invalid and prohibited the creation of future tenancies in the State, but tenancy very much exists. It is a consequence of the simultaneous increase in two...
by K.N. Nair | On 07 Mar 2007 While welcoming the move to withdraw the Report of the Technical Expert Group on Patent Law Issues AIDAN has issued a statement that the group must not be allowed to re-submit the report. The matter m...
by All India Drug Action Forum AIDAN | On 04 Mar 2007 The health and survival of children is a key index of the level of development of
any society. Unfortunately, India's track record on this front continues to be dismal and is a true reflection of a f...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan | On 02 Mar 2007 The double burden carried by women explains their chronic state of malnutrition, overwork and fatigue. Added to these are the stresses and strains of modern life,
environmental degradation and increa...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan | On 28 Feb 2007 the objective of this report is to analyse the existing and potential
links that can be established between current Geographical Indications (GIs) and regional sustainable development. A case study a...
by Mariano Riccheri, | On 24 Feb 2007 The paper first provides some examples of how the media tend to neglect children as sources and resources and goes on to describe how briefly about how children have proved themselves eminently capa...
by Ammu Joseph | On 24 Feb 2007 The urban advantage in health masks enormous disparities between the poor and the
non-poor in urban areas of Sub Saharan Africa. Specific policies geared at preferentially improving the health and nu...
by Jean-Christophe Fotso | On 23 Feb 2007 Poverty, property rights and distributional implications of community-based resource management have become major topics of discussion and debate in recent years. This study tries to examine the contr...
by Bhim Adhikari | On 17 Feb 2007 Given the importance of urban public services in attracting firm location, increasing employment and facilitating economic growth, in this paper, the author examines the following questions: Is there...
by Kala Seetharam Sreedhar | On 17 Feb 2007 The objective of universal access to good quality, appropriate healthcare, envisaged over half a century ago at the dawn of Independence, today remains unrealised. Public health haseffectively remaine...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan | On 16 Feb 2007 First, on the basis of primary data collected in a rural setting in the
State of Orissa, an attempt has been made in this paper to compare the
socioeconomic status of male- and female- headed househ...
by Pradeep Kumar Panda | On 12 Feb 2007 Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care
throughout much of Asia. The paper describe the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in 14 countrie...
by Eddy van Doorslaer | On 06 Feb 2007 Ethical codes of conduct cannot be effectively implemented in isolation and may
be enforced in several different ways. One, is to conscientise the
members of the profession to observe the rules, sec...
by Amar Jesani | On 06 Feb 2007 Contents:
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...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 01 Feb 2007 Contents:
Impressions from a Rural Laboratory - Jan Swasthya Sahyog
Surgical Care for Rural India – A Perspective - George Mathew
Excessive Use of Screening and Diagnostic Tests - Anant Phadke
...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 01 Feb 2007 This analysis of the trends in public health expenditure in Maharashtra shows that the State has to become more proactive in raising resources being allocated to the health sector. The level of publi...
by Ravi Duggal | On 01 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 The changed survey methodology of the 55th round (and the consequent furore that has ensued) has demonstrated that there is indeed uncertainty surrounding estimates of poverty. The uncertainties conce...
by David Williams | On 30 Jan 2007 This paper makes an attempt at illustrating the dynamics
of caste-based deprivation considering the case of child under-nutrition.
It essentially demonstrates the patterns of differentials in nutrit...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 26 Jan 2007 Doing sociology, writing sociology, is to somehow engage with the subjects of the discourse, to give voice to these subjects. It perforce means that our writing should be sensitive to these voices. Li...
by Sundar Sarukkai | On 25 Jan 2007 In its launch issue in October 2004, PLoS Medicine signaled a strong
interest in creating a journal that to the social conditions in which
people live and work. The socially disadvantaged have less...
by Scott Stonington | On 23 Jan 2007 In many countries, the number of patients waiting for a kidney transplant is increasing.
But there is a widespread and serious shortage of kidneys for transplantation, a shortage that can lead to suf...
by Tarif Bakdash | On 23 Jan 2007 Social medicine is as important now as it has ever been. The fi eld of social
medicine includes various social and cultural studies of health and medicine
, and in this article, the focus is o...
by Timothy H. Holtz | On 23 Jan 2007 This presentation reviews recent social security reforms in Asia-Pacific, with emphasis on countries with major reliance on social insurance schemes. Japan, Korea, Philippines, China, Vietnam, and Tha...
by Mukul Asher | On 12 Jan 2007 This essay briefl y examines some of the diverse developments of social
medicine as an academic discipline and its links to political conceptualizations of the role of medicine in society. The...
by Dorothy Porter | On 10 Jan 2007 Cultural competency has become a fashionable term for clinicians and researchers. Yet no one can defi ne this term precisely enough to operationalize it in clinical training and best practices....
by Arthur Kleinman | On 10 Jan 2007 This paper contends that the general understanding that precedent system does not apply in the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism. The author argues that the drafters or the negotiators always wanted to...
by Sheela Rai | On 09 Jan 2007 This article discusses the art of deliberately creating a global city for Asiain Singapore. Twnty-first century cities exist in order to allow human interaction and enhance lifestyle. Such clusters...
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 09 Jan 2007 The 2nd and 3rd NGO Alternative Report on CEDAW -- INDIA has just been submitted to the UN CEDAW Committee and is coming up for review in January 2007 in New York. Each of the chapters in the Reports...
by National Alliance of Women | On 06 Jan 2007 Whether we choose to admit it or not, the anecdote continues to be an important engine of novel ideas in medicine. The anecdote is rife with such diffi culties as openness to interpretation, and...
by Rafael Campo | On 03 Jan 2007 As developing countries build allopathic medical systems, what should their bioethics be? In this essay, we explore possible answers to this question, ultimately arguing that Western bioethics is insu...
by Scott Stonington | On 03 Jan 2007 The overarching goals should be to increase the quality of life and years of healthy life for all Americans and to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. This has been
an ambitious undertaki...
by David Satcher | On 02 Jan 2007 This paper charts the complex dynamics of the movement of technical talent in the
world economy and assesses broadly the impact of such mobility on both sending and
receiving countries. Based on sec...
by Anthony P. D'Costa | On 29 Dec 2006 People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. S...
by Angus S. Deaton | On 28 Dec 2006 There are two factors that make additional central
transfers for reinforcing health services essential: (a) while
the prescription of spending 3 percent of GDP on health
may be an appropriate objec...
by Mita Choudhury | On 26 Dec 2006 It is often assumed that poverty reduction would lead to gender equality. Research however, points to the opposite, namely, that increasing prosperity can have perverse gender effects . It is therefor...
by Nitya Rao | On 26 Dec 2006 This paper focuses on two specific social funds, those in Zambia and Malawi,
to consider the possible contribution of social funds to decentralisation of
government administration. Both social funds...
by JanKees van Donge | On 22 Dec 2006 This paper examines core features of poor rural areas, the nature of coordination problems faced by different potential economic actors, the impacts of these problems on markets and economic developme...
by Jonathan Kydd | On 22 Dec 2006 This paper attempts to analyse the various aspects of informal rural credit
market of which interlinked contracts occupy the central place. In particular, the nature and extent of interlinked credit...
by Anita Gill | On 22 Dec 2006 This paper is an engagament with the nuances of institutions contained within the edifice of the State, in particular institutions that have played a role in the construction of property rights in Ind...
by Jaivir Singh | On 20 Dec 2006 This Report provides estimates of maternal mortality for the period 1997-2003. The study shows that overall MMR which was in the vicinity of 400 in 1997-98, has come down to about 300 in 2001-03, thus...
by Registrar General, India | On 20 Dec 2006 Good empirical analysis of the intergenerational transmission (IGT) of poverty is challenging.
This note clarifies this challenge and possible contributions by considering: (1) what
estimated relati...
by Jere R. Behrman | On 20 Dec 2006 This study is an attempt to broaden the discussion about the prevention of domestic violence against women, informed by a rights based strategy. The study discusses the critical elements of a human ri...
by Pradeep Kumar Panda | On 19 Dec 2006 Recent interest on rural industries derives from recognition of the
limits of agriculture and organised manufacturing sector in employment
generation especially during the post-liberalisation period...
by Dibyendu S. Maiti | On 19 Dec 2006 A price rise signifies a fall in purchasing power, if there is no
commensurate increase in income. Thus the pertinent question in the
face of the phenomenal rise during the 1990s in the prices of th...
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 19 Dec 2006 Nuclear weapons have security, economic and political implications. In the ultimate analysis, however , the issue of nuclear weapons is an ethical question. It is question or right and wrong, good and...
by Amulya K.N. Reddy | On 14 Dec 2006 This report documents the history of the systems of rice intensification (SRI, for short) in India in the last few years and presents some of the institutional changes and challenges that SRI throws u...
by C. Shambu Prasad | On 06 Dec 2006 How does growth actually trickle down to remove an individual’s poverty? Is it through increases in employment? What other avenues did the benefits of growth travel through before reaching and helpi...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 05 Dec 2006 This paper aims to discuss how global media manipulate the “clash of civilization” based on Van Dijk’s analysis of manipulation mechanism, the limits of the principle of the freedom of expression and...
by Yasemin Inceoglu | On 04 Dec 2006 Historically, Bangalore’s growth and physical spread had been dictated by the
location decisions of certain important industrial, institutional and residential activities, rather than as an outcome...
by G.S. Sastry | On 04 Dec 2006 Ironically the poverty situation, as reflected in the official statistics, depicts a
rather contrary scenario with dryland regions having lower incidence of poverty
despite their adverse agro-climat...
by Amita Shah | On 29 Nov 2006 This paper, based on ‘capabilities’ approach, analyses the ‘development outcomes’ forf ‘tribals’ of rural south Gujarat and examines the relative roles of physical, human and social capital within a...
by Arti Nanavati | On 26 Nov 2006 Much needs to be done in the area of lowering child mortality and maternal mortality in Andhra Pradesh, although trends from a survey in one district indicate some progress. The paper makes some recom...
by Alex George | On 26 Nov 2006 What is the character of our cities? What are the attributes of inequalities and social exclusions in towns, metropolises and mega cities? How do urban structures and forms characteristic of pre capit...
by Sujata Patel | On 18 Nov 2006 The present work builds on the affirmed desire of the Commission on Social Determinants of
Health (CSDH) to be judged on both its scientific rigor and the policy implications that the
Commission’s w...
by Stefania Maggi | On 15 Nov 2006 This overview of trends and issues concerning young people and the media is based on a broad review of existing print and electronic sources, interviews with child media experts from different regions...
by Susan Gigli | On 14 Nov 2006 An action plan to emplement World Bank's strategies.
by World Bank | On 08 Nov 2006 Highlights:
Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience
Amita Baviskar
Participatory Governance and Institutional Innovation – A Case of Andhra Pradesh Forestry Project...
by Madras Institute of Development Studies | On 08 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 There is a stark contrast between the Gramscian approach to the relationship between intellectuals, knowledge and people and the Freirian approach. The former favours the exclusivity of the intellectu...
by V. Anil Kumar | 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 This article reports on an investigation of the position of girls in respect of high achievement in mathematics. It is also aimed to collect and accumulate the reflections of of peopla asociated with...
by Satyendra N. Giri | On 30 Oct 2006 Imprisonment of mothers with dependent young child is a problematic issue. The effects of incarceration can be catastrophic on the children and costly to the state in terms of
providing for their car...
by Planning Commission, India | On 30 Oct 2006 Globalization, or integration with the world economy via WTO membership, was expected to increase foriegn investment and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although forei...
by Anita Chan | On 26 Oct 2006 Decentralising health services – the transfer of power and responsibility from the central to the local level should help the poor if local resources, accountability and governance are in good shape....
by Hiroko Uchimura | On 25 Oct 2006 Over the last two decades, concern has been expressed about the readiness of the
public health workforce to adequately address the scientific, technological, social, political and economic challenges...
by Stephen Borders | On 25 Oct 2006 In a context where despite high levels of literacy and economic independence, women in Kerala are still expected to conform to conservative standards of docility, obedience and family-oriented (at the...
by Usha V.T. | On 20 Oct 2006 This paper synthesises the different explanations and presents an overview of the development and characteristics of the Chinese rural enterprises (REs). The rural industrialization history of the Chi...
by Justin Yifu Lin | On 18 Oct 2006 The nuclear deal probably will lead India to emit substantially less CO2 than it would if the country were not able to build such a large commercial nuclear fleet. The annual reductions by the year 20...
by David G. Victor | On 17 Oct 2006 This book attempts to address how the tribes in India have perceived the State and its law. The tribes stand apart from the general population, and are made to stand outside the law, characterises the...
by Mayur Suresh | On 16 Oct 2006 In "Bowling Alone," Putnam (1995) famously argued that the rise of television may be responsible for social capital's decline. I investigate this hypothesis in the context of Indonesian villages. To i...
by Benjamin A. Olken | On 13 Oct 2006 The book is an exciting study of male emotional injury in literature, medicine, and the law. Travis's strategy of carefully framing the scope of her book gives the reader a clear idea of what to expe...
by Auli Ek | On 07 Oct 2006 Investors in today’s India should not need to seek escape from poor infrastructure and irrational labour laws, in special zones; rather, the underlying problems should be tackled in the country as a w...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Oct 2006 The Seeds Bill, 2004 aims to regulate the quality of seeds sold,
and replaces the Seeds Act, 1966. The proposed Act would replace the Seeds Act, 1966. The Bill seeks to update the existing Act in or...
by M. R. Madhavan | On 01 Oct 2006 Open access (OA) to the research literature has the potential to accelerate recognition and dissemination of research findings, but its actual effects are controversial. This was a longitudinal biblio...
by Gunther Eysenbach | On 27 Sep 2006 A research article by Gunther Eysenbach published in May 2006 in PLoS Biology
provides robust evidence that openaccess articles (OA articles) are more
immediately recognized and cited than non-OA ar...
by Catriona MacCallum | On 27 Sep 2006 Review of Vincent C. Peloso(ed) Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century
Latin America, Jaguar Books on Latin America Series.
The book is obviously designed for those teaching courses on 20t...
by Peter Blanchard | On 25 Sep 2006 In India, thousands of women, men and children slave away in the brick kilns. Common to almost all brick kilns is the use of violence, over or implicit. Women and girls, however, are profoundly affect...
by Nalini Kant | On 25 Sep 2006 This paper will explore the discursive practices surrounding specific
laws, trials, and the ideology of punishment in colonial and
independent India. The purpose is to show how through this matrix o...
by Ujjwal Kumar Singh | On 29 Aug 2006 How do queer women then claim rights provided by the constitution
and international conventions when their identity per se is not included
in the legal regime and if such an inclusion might be count...
by Ponni Arasu | On 29 Aug 2006 Within the context of the mere posit of resistance, who is the remnant within the time of the now? Does the remnant include the postcolonial juridical subject as
the index of a cultural and political...
by Tawai Ansah | On 29 Aug 2006 The issue of feminization of crime provides a vantage point in delineating
the theories of crime, criminals, penology and sociology of law.
by Tapan Mohanty | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper will examine the implications of the colonial construction
of criminality for our understanding of criminology and gender today.
by Sumanta Banerjee | On 29 Aug 2006 While recognizing that the goals of legal education can, and should,
extend beyond the solitary objective of generating competent legal
professionals this paper will argue that experiential learning...
by Sudhir Krishnaswamy | On 29 Aug 2006 The tribal communities of Orissa face a massive new threat from
legislation for conservation and forestry and their judicial
interpretations, as well as from the increasing onslaughts of
globalisat...
by Shyama Prasad Rout | On 29 Aug 2006 Abstracts of the theme: The theme of the stream would be the investigation, from a critical legal perspective, of the social and legal construction of disability from a
human rights perspective.
by Shilpaa Anand | On 29 Aug 2006 The purpose of the paper is to ask how family law texts, as regards rural divorce, have obtained there own particular structure and form. The author concentrates on the rural divorce cases.The purpose...
by Malcolm Voyce | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper will focus in particular on (a) Revenue
generation and associated concerns (b) Attracting and retaining quality
faculty (c) Law school management and (d) International Positioning. I
wil...
by Sachin Malhan | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper will examine the network of consitutional and penal
provisions on the question of social exclusion and will explore the
implications of these realities for an understanding of criminology...
by S.R. Sankaran | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper analyses the implications of this Abducted Persons (Recovery and Restoration) Act of 1949 not with the intention of discussing its legal merits, but rather, to indicate that in the exercise...
by Ritu Menon | On 29 Aug 2006 The objective of this research paper is to approach the debates on
indigenous/tribal identity in international law deploying the framework
of subaltern studies in South Asia with a view to, first, c...
by Rajat Rana | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper will map the developments that led to the integration of
gender into the international human rights law discourse and examine
how the language of ‘violence’ and ‘respectable victimhood’ (...
by Oishik Sarcar | On 29 Aug 2006 The paper examines aspects of the contents of contemporary international laws
that are threatening the legitimacy of public international law as well
as International Commercial Law.
by Gbenga Oduntan | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper will begin by reviewing the political assumptions of the nature of
citizenship underlying T.H. Marshall’s argument for ‘social rights’; it will
provide a critique of human rights discours...
by Michael Neocosmos | On 29 Aug 2006 The relationship between itinerant and sedentary communities has
become increasingly problematic in modern times.. The many strands from science, myth, religion, official ethnography which went into...
by Meena Radhakrishna | On 29 Aug 2006 Using ethnographies of persons situated in cruising spaces, this
paper argues that there are limits on the power of subjectivation that
section 377 bears; that one’s entry into sociality can occur t...
by Mayur Suresh | On 29 Aug 2006 The upward harmonization through TRIPS, the TRIPS Plus provision in
various bilateral and free trade agreements is resulting in the global
spread of the enclosure with nation states acting as guaran...
by Krishna Ravi Srinivas | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper will examine the relationship between distributive justice,
associational rights and the use of conspiracy in the law, underscoring
the potential of this nexus to erode constitutional and...
by K.G. Kannabiran | On 29 Aug 2006 Intersectional analysis is required if the approach to women’s equality
in Northern Ireland/ the North of Ireland is to benefit the most
marginalized women and thereby improve the prospects of build...
by Eilish Rooney | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper engages with the literature on intellectual property rights by adopting an evolutionary economist’s approach to the study of technologies.
by Dwijen Rangnekar | On 29 Aug 2006 The main purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the central importance of legal reform within the context of second generation reforms. Unfortunately, this area is usually seen as peripheral to...
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 19 Aug 2006 This paper models how the evolving field of pharmacogenomics (PG), which is the science of using genomic markers to predict drug response, may impact drug development times, attrition rates, costs,and...
by John A. Vernon | On 17 Aug 2006 The day has arrived when the legislative machinery of the State needs to respond to the industrial and market forces. There are clear signals coming from the judiciary, which now seems to be less acti...
by Durgambini A. Patel | On 17 Aug 2006 Rather paradoxically the promotion of intellectual property rights, aimed at solving the incentive problem, might actually hinder innovation. This paper engages with this literature by adopting an evo...
by Dwijen Rangnekar | On 17 Aug 2006 In this paper I argue that United Nations norm standard setting, as a
form of geodisability of knowledge which delimits and denotes the
kinds of bodies known as disabled, is a technology for reining...
by Fiona Kumari Campbell | On 28 Jul 2006 Utilizing the critical theory of Drucilla Cornell and Costas
Douzinas, and looking back to the utopianism of Ernst Bloch, the paperI offers an
argument that acknowledges the limits of the law and th...
by Narnia Bohler-Muller | On 28 Jul 2006 However despite the enuniciation of ‘rarest of rare’, there has been no
decrease in the number of death sentences awarded by various courts. This essay shall attempt to chart the ‘hardening’ of the c...
by Bikram Jeet Batra | On 28 Jul 2006 This paper seeks to show how the absence of a feminist critique in the
traditional understanding of a ‘technical’ subject such as tax law has led
to a pedagogical crisis in the subject, and how the...
by M. Maithreyi | On 28 Jul 2006 This paper, based on analysis of experiential accounts and responses of persons all over the country, drawn from various backgrounds over a period of 15 years, will attempt to examine the ordinary and...
by Abha Singhal Joshi | On 25 Jul 2006 well into the twenty first century the legal structure
in its various manifestations continues to produce knowledge of the
homosexual as criminal. Equally of import is the role that the constitution...
by ARvind Narrain | On 25 Jul 2006 There is a profile that law students are expected to fit – proficient in
English, assertive, capable of dancing circles around most people in
terms of playing on words or logical reasoning for insta...
by Chinmayi Arun | On 25 Jul 2006 The quest for innovative ideas and practical solutions – rare for a meeting convened by the United Nations – was underscored in the six Dialogues, 13 Roundtables and more than 160 Networking Events. M...
by UN-HABITAT | On 13 Jul 2006 In convening the third session of the World Urban Forum in Vancouver, the United Nations Human Settlements Program has asked us to focus our attention on the Sustainable City and consider critical cha...
by Patricia L. McCarney | On 13 Jul 2006 A central challenge facing us here – how do we ensure that the issue of the urban poor, in particular, is given as much attention by the international
community, beyond speaking about it?
by L.N. Sisulu | On 13 Jul 2006 The reality of urban development is that commerce and industry are two of its core drivers. Without the full participation of the private sector in efforts towards sustainable human settlements, the p...
by Rob Sinclair | On 13 Jul 2006 Do we aspire to be a ‘global’ city like Shanghai, with all the spit and polish to attract foreign investors by the drove? Or can we aim to be a city with a sustainable plan for its development – one t...
by Kalpana Sharma | On 13 Jul 2006 The argument in this paper is in four parts: First, the author suggests that we can no longer treat cities apart from the regions surrounding them with which they are
intensively entwined. Second, t...
by John Freidman | On 13 Jul 2006 The cities of tomorrow are in poor countries, where the largest proportion of the population is below 25 years old and where young women are becoming particularly vulnerable. It is youth who will inhe...
by Kaveri Prakash | On 09 Jul 2006 The cultural demands made of women by migrant communities struggling to establish a new identity and the stereotypes of women of other races often promoted by host communities are important forces in...
by Delia Davin | On 07 Jul 2006 This consultancy reports on the social impact of large dams in Latin America, with a
specific focus on distributional and equity issues. It is based on the author's research on the binational Yacyret...
by Carmen Ferradas | On 01 Jun 2006 Decisions on infrastructure development that may be critical to people's health status are, however, made without proper consultation of health authorities and experts. When negative health impacts oc...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 01 Jun 2006 Bill No. CXV of 2005
A Bill to empower the State Governments and the Central Government to take measures to provide for the prevention and control of communal violence which threatens the secular fab...
by Ministry of Home Affairs | On 25 May 2006 The Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill, 2005 provides for (a) prevention and control of communal violence, (b) speedy
investigation and trials, and (c) rehabil...
by Parliamentary Research Service | On 25 May 2006 The science base in the developing world cannot be strengthened without access to the global library of research information. Currently, this is nearly impossible due to the high costs of journal subs...
by Leslie Chan | On 25 May 2006 This paper explores some of the challenges ahead in terms of strengthening civil society networks working for ethical globalisation and in turning their shared vision of ethical globalisation into an...
by Maureen Leen | On 23 May 2006 Women's Equality in Transition: Intersectionality in Northern Ireland's/ North of Ireland's Equality Legislation
Women have been invisible in mainstream analyses of the Northern
Irish conflict. The...
by | On 23 May 2006 Any exercise in mapping the current status of any social science discipline is a mammoth task, as it involves the normative concerns as well as the personal perceptions of the sociologist who treads t...
by Paramjit S Judge | On 16 May 2006 Communications matter but we have to be careful how we communicate, lest the wrong message is received. How well has this book communicated this truth?
by T.C.A. Srinivasa Raghavan | On 15 May 2006 The budget 2006-07 proposals in health care fell well short of India’s march towards achieving Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), the National Health Policy (NHP) goals and fully operationalising the...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 09 May 2006 The question of matriarchate as female dominance, remains unresolved. While non materialist anthropologists dismissed it outright, socialist scholars accepted it as a stage in social evolution. If mat...
by Maithreyi Krishnaraj | On 09 May 2006 What are the critical areas in social science research and intervention which might require systematic attention to ethical issues? A national level consultation on ‘ Ethics in Social Science Research...
by Sunita Bandewar | On 09 May 2006 The debate, on affirmative action seems to be focusing on the meaning and relevance of merit and efficiency. It is being conveniently forgotten that merit is a cognitive ability, the power to perceive...
by Prashant Negi | On 05 May 2006 Connecting People and Places
by Deelopment Studies Association | On 27 Apr 2006 This paper outlines the Fund-Bank analytical frameworks and presents a critical appraisal indicating the importance of both demand and supply constraints in the countries undertaking Fund adjustment p...
by Brigitte Granville | On 27 Apr 2006 The argument of the White Paper are
Basically robust, but could be improved
Long-term determinants of prosperity
•Relatively less emphasis on openness
•More emphasis on incentives to invest
Short...
by Adrian Wood | On 27 Apr 2006 In order to understand criminal legislation, one needs to refocus
from criminal legislation to its most modern form, the code ─ by
turning one's historical attention to the significance of cri...
by Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky | On 27 Apr 2006 Description of the Streams and Workshops
by NALSAR University of Law | On 27 Apr 2006 On November 28, 2003, roughly 300 grassroots activists, people affected by
large dams and representatives from NGOs gathered in a small village in Rasi
Salai district in Northeast Thailand. They met...
by Susanne Wong | On 25 Apr 2006 *The IUD: An Important Method with Potential
Programmatic challenges and safety concerns have held back IUD use
in many countries.Most recent research finds that serious complications
are rare with...
by | On 25 Apr 2006 While Asia’s success in growth and poverty reduction is to be greatly welcomed, and should be analysed for the lessons it has for other countries, the policy discourse should take on board three key p...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 21 Apr 2006 In Kerala, malaria had been eradicated as early as in 1965. But imported malaria used to occur even thereafter; and indigenous malaria showed signs of resurgence from 1969 onwards. Recently an increas...
by S.Rema Devi | On 20 Apr 2006 On April 3, 2006, an independent commission on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), innovation and public health presented its report to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The report was commissioned...
by | On 14 Apr 2006 The main objectives of the Bill are: (a) to introduce a single statute relating to food, and (b) to provide for scientific development of the food processing industry. The Bill aims to establish a sin...
by M. R. Madhavan | On 14 Apr 2006 The urgent task ahead is the reduction of the visible inequalities in
education, health and housing, thus contributing to a broad based evolution of human capabilities. As for the macroeconomic envir...
by Bhanoji Rao | On 11 Apr 2006 While critical perspectives on the budget are certainly necessary and are useful, they are not sufficient to produce the change necessary. For that we need to encourage civil society initiatives on en...
by Maithreyi Krishnaraj | On 07 Apr 2006 In tribute. A young friend’s warm narrative on the occasion of O.V. Vijayan’s first death anniversary.
by Kabani Mary Alex | On 07 Apr 2006 Media Studies is an emerging discipline in Asia and is of enormous significance at a time when many of the counties in this region which is witnessing struggles, both within the state apparatus and...
by Yasemin Inceoglu | On 07 Apr 2006 A vast body of theories of the media, known popularly as 'media theory', has evolved and developed into separate, distinguishable and often contesting paradigms with osmosis between the distinct schoo...
by | On 03 Apr 2006 Any intervention of the Left in the field of the dominant media must be guided by an adherence to politics and seek to fundamentally alter the relations of artistic production and make art more access...
by Arjun Ghosh | On 01 Apr 2006 The recent judgments and orders from various levels of higher judiciary indicate a drastic shift in their outlook and approach. A close look reveals two trends developing within the judiciary. Firstly...
by M.B.Rajesh | On 31 Mar 2006 This paper is a humble attempt to take an intellectual and political position while analyzing the 2004 election results in the context of neo-liberal regime in India and also tries to portray whether...
by Maidul Islam | On 31 Mar 2006 The paper examines the state of public sector hospitals, how they are being compelled to transform into profit churning units through reforms, and in the process alienating poor and the underprivileg...
by Bijoya Roy | On 31 Mar 2006 This paper presents some features of the contradictions in Andhra Pradesh’s economy today: the fast growth of IT and other technology-intensive industries in Hyderabad, and the alarming levels of dist...
by Jayan Jose Thomas | On 30 Mar 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 It’s healthy for news organizations to be much more open about their decision making than they have been in the past. But in response to relentless pounding from bloggers and other critics, is the tra...
by Rachel Smolkin | On 26 Mar 2006 Critical Perspectives on the Neo-liberal Regime in India
4–5–6 April 2006
Conference Room, Nehru Guest House, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Organized by Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia...
by LeftWord Books | On 25 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 Gender inequality in South Asia is an important policy issue; gender imbalances in
mortality have been of particular concern. Policy makers often argue that increasing the level of development and ac...
by Emily Oster | On 21 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 This statement following a workshop on ‘Hunger and Health: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue attended by a cross-section of India’s nutritional scientists, health professionals, public health specialists,...
by Workshop on Hunger and Health Interdisciplinary Dialogue | On 13 Mar 2006 The Budget is an important tool in the hands of state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. Budgets garner resources th...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 09 Mar 2006 'Mahinda Chintana' : Towards a New Sri Lanka
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 05 Mar 2006 Tax Proposals and Administration
Summary of Budget 2006
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 05 Mar 2006 Economic Review of Developments in 2005 and Prospects for 2006. Presented before the Budget for 2006.
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 05 Mar 2006 Wishing away a Condition: Issues of Concern in the
Control and Treatment of Leprosy - Jan Swasthya Sahayog(JSS)
How to Count the Poor Correctly versus
Illogical Official Procedures - Utsa Patnaik...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 04 Mar 2006 India has much to gain from the Nuclear Deal. But if India places its breeder programme under international safeguards, then its research will come under public scrutiny, exposing all of India’s advan...
by D.Raghunandan | On 28 Feb 2006 Social Sectors
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 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 The present paper argues that a comprehensive rural industrialisation/cluster
development strategy has to be designed within a broader regional development
perspective that does not fail to include...
by Keshab Das | On 20 Feb 2006 Although the French President has ordered Clemenceau to head back, the politics of toxic waste and its disposal remains as murky as ever. The workers at the Alang shipyard are the worst exposed to to...
by D.Raghunandan | On 20 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 The close relationship, a symbiotic one, between the media and the government of the day has long existed. In the run up to the Iraq war and afterwards, the Bush Administration and legislators in t...
by Yasemin Inceoglu | On 16 Feb 2006 Central Ethics Committee on Human Research (CECHR) was
constituted under the chairmanship of Honourable Justice Shri M.N.
Venkatachaliah by the then Director General, Dr. G.V. Satyavati to consider
...
by Indian Council of Medical Research | On 08 Feb 2006 Russia’s Gazprom, the world’s largest gas company, has precipitated serious tensions among the post-Soviet countries by sharply hiking gas prices this winter. Gazprom has been supplying gas to these c...
by R.G. Gidadhubli | On 07 Feb 2006 Review of: A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical Heritage by Karen Reeds. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2001. Pp 142; $ 45.
[Published on HNet, November 2005]
A State of Health, like C...
by Sandra Moss | On 06 Feb 2006 A number of contributions on cinema in the South. Articles on the making of a historical documentary by Gairoonisa Palekar, a student in South Africa, and on an important aspect of the movie industry...
by SEPHIS | On 02 Feb 2006 A new 18-country opinion survey sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found that "while majorities of citizens generally support the continued use of existing nuclear reactors, mo...
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 02 Feb 2006 Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30 ye...
by David M. Cutler | On 01 Feb 2006 Contents
Why we do not need to give Hepatitis B Vaccine for all newborns 1
Cost and Quality Issue in Hospital Care - Anant Phadke 4
Local Production of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu): Options - D. G. Shah 6...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 20 Jan 2006 Contents
Good Practices of the “Good Practice Study”! - Dhruv Mankad 1
Disbanding the CGHS 4
Involving Self-Help Groups in Reproductive Health - Rajani Ved 9
Women’s Narratives from Kashmir-3 - Za...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 20 Jan 2006 This paper addresses two sets of questions related to IT development and lessons to be drawn for other regions both in and outside India. Firstly, based on original fieldwork an additional argument t...
by Florian A. Taube | On 19 Jan 2006 This paper distinguishes the contribution of information and communication technology (ICT) sector to economic development by manufacturing and service activities in Karnataka State. Using the availab...
by M.R. Narayana | On 19 Jan 2006 Karnataka is the single largest producer of silk in the country.As an income generation activity,sericulture has been seen as part of anti-poverty efforts of both the state and central governments. Ho...
by Anand Inbanathan | On 19 Jan 2006 The paper presents an analysis of the reproductive health care services
available to women in rural areas in Karnataka, and the various factors
influencing them. Based on survey data on the status o...
by Poornima Vyasulu | On 19 Jan 2006 At the time of reorganization of states on the basis of the linguistic formula,
the territory that belonged to erstwhile state of Hyderabad was broken down
to three parts and annexed to Andhra Prade...
by P. N. Mari Bhat | On 19 Jan 2006 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 Despite great leaps in uncovering of knowledge, as well as extraordinarily skillful strategizing, neither has the value of women’s advisories to public policy been recognized; nor have the tools been...
by Devaki Jain | On 19 Jan 2006 In 2002 the government had formulated a new Drug Policy,
but the same could not be implemented due to litigation involving
it. As a consequence, the policy of 1994 continues to be in force.The
pr...
by Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals | On 16 Jan 2006 Organizations operate in the social milieu and therefore the socio-cultural factors greatly influence the organizational culture. The Asian societies are patriarchal in nature that gives superior posi...
by Sunita Singh-Sengupta | On 13 Jan 2006 This is a case study of the Yeshasvini Health Insurance Scheme for rural
farmers and peasants in Karnataka. The scheme, now in its second year of
operation, covers 2.2 million farmers and peasants w...
by Sarosh Kuruvilla | On 13 Jan 2006 It is puzzling how much the discourse of development has backed
away from the seemingly central question of rural poverty: land.
Elaborate rules concerning its distribution, rights, regulation, prot...
by Ronald Herring | On 12 Jan 2006 This policy note aims to provide a constructive critique of the Bill and its provisions. It is divided into the following sections: Section I sets out the meaning and implications of the right to educ...
by Rohan Mukherjee | On 11 Jan 2006 This paper examines the evidence on the constraints that farmers face in participating in a programme evolved by 'somebody else' viz, ‘the government’, .
The paper begins with a discussion on the typ...
by G.Ananda Vadivelu | On 09 Jan 2006 The paper examines corruption in the institutions of local government in
Karnataka, using a Logit model. One of the arguments in favour of
decentralisation in developing countries is that it provide...
by V. Vijayalakshmi | On 09 Jan 2006 The objective of this paper is to unpack the dynamics of local governance in
Karnataka by studying the interaction between two sets of rural institutions,
(a) the formal, elected Gram Panchayats(GPs...
by Kripa Ananthpur | On 09 Jan 2006 There are strenuous difficulties in managing competing social groups,
segments and regions in the political landscape of Karnataka. These difficulties have been accentuated by touchy issues of status...
by Pamela Price | On 09 Jan 2006 How has the political leadership in Karnataka contributed to the state's economic developmet? In order to assess the role that the political leadership has played, the author examines the role of the...
by Gujjarappa Thimmaiah | On 09 Jan 2006 This paper examines changes that have (and have not) occurred – at the
village level in Karnataka where most or the state’s residents live, and at
higher levels when they impinge upon villages – sin...
by James Manor | On 09 Jan 2006 This paper attempts to delineate the dialectical relationship between feminism and philosophy, and begins by tracing the rise of feminist consciousness. This is because ideas do not exist in abstract...
by Veena Poonacha | On 04 Jan 2006 This Consultation Paper, being issued with a view to making recommendations to the Government under section 11(1)(a)(iv) of the TRAI Act, focuses on the need to bring about convergence in all aspects...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) | On 04 Jan 2006 Whatever the truth of the matter in the recent trial of Flying Officer Anjalli Gupa by the General Court Martial, there are many questions that may be raised on the fairness of the process and some of...
by Sqn Ldr BG Prakash | On 24 Dec 2005 There is sufficient evidence to show that early and good quality documentation of evidence is associated with positive legal outcome and hence this area of reform in medico-legal services need to be a...
by Amita Pitre | On 20 Dec 2005 Government healthcare expenditures have been growing much more rapidly than GDP in OECD countries. For example, between 1970 and 2002 these expenditures grew 2.3 times faster than GDP in the U.S., 2.0...
by Laurence J. Kotlikoff | On 16 Dec 2005 What are the constraints to efficient birth registration? How do people view the compulsory registering of births? This paper reports on a Readiness Assessment study on Universal Birth Registration...
by Alex George | On 11 Dec 2005 Until banking sector reforms were introduced in India in 1991, the emphasis in the credit provision through formal banking system was to meet the targets at the expense of the quality of credit and vi...
by Gagan Bihari Sahu | On 08 Dec 2005 Labour protection has largely failed as enterprise contribution to social protection. Much labour legislation does not apply to micro and small enterprises (MSE) ; those laws that do apply are complie...
by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) | On 08 Dec 2005 Even as some households are coming out of poverty, other households are concurrently falling into poverty. Poverty creation and poverty destruction are proceeding alongside. A bottom-up methodology...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 08 Dec 2005 The Supreme Court judgement of Augutst 12, 2005 on four questions regarding higher education in unaided educational institutions including quota and fee structure.
Q.1. Unaided educational instituti...
by Supreme Court of India | On 08 Dec 2005 This paper looks at the effects of WTO/TRIPS and pharmaceuticals on women. The focus is on the poor and women. The first part of the paper tries to show the linkages between the idea of intellectual p...
by S Srinivasan | On 27 Nov 2005 In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the
West -- as high as 1.07 in China and India, and even higher in Pakistan. A number of authors (most notably Sen, 19...
by Emily Oster | On 27 Nov 2005 There is a growing need to a more institutionalized economic arrangement in East
Asia. East Asia Economic Community might be an ideal form of such institution.
However, the road is still long and...
by A Damuri | On 23 Nov 2005 Inherenet weaknesses in AFTA and AEC and the need to counter regionalism in other parets of the world are some of the important reasons for evolving an East Asian Community. However, there are severa...
by Joseph Yap | On 23 Nov 2005 The concept of ‘agricultural biotechnology’ covers two main categories of activities, one of which is characterised by genetic modification using recombinant DNA techniques (GM-technology), while the...
by A. Indira | On 22 Nov 2005 The development process in the present context where economic and governance reforms are emphasized tends at times to by-pass the concerns of the marginalized and the voiceless. It is precisely to bri...
by V. Anil Kumar | On 19 Nov 2005 The present paper examines contract farming and its situation in India on the basis of nature of contracts, nature of contract growers, practice and implementation of contract farming and techniques,...
by Sukhpal Singh | On 11 Nov 2005 Cost effective policies allow minimising the compliance costs associated to
reaching a desired environmental quality target. In this paper a conceptual model has been developed to examine the complia...
by Rita Pandey | On 11 Nov 2005 Equality before the law in a democracy is a matter of right. It is not a subject of charity or magnanimity, but an entitlement strictly afforded to one and all. To ensure proper access to justice nume...
by Ketan Mukhija | On 17 Sep 2005 The Indian Constitution assigns specific tax and expenditure responsibilities to the
Centre and States. In practice, however, the Centre often operates in the sphere of
the States. For instance, it...
by Naresh C. Saxena | On 09 Sep 2005
by KETAN MUKHIJA | On 08 Sep 2005 In many countries, the authorities turn a blind eye to minimum wage laws that they have themselves passed. But if they are not going to enforce a minimum wage, why have one? Or if a high minimum wage...
by Arnab K. Basu | On 01 Sep 2005 The National Common Minimum Programme of the Government, among other things, seeks to give complete legal equality for women in all spheres, by enacting a new legislation that gives equal rights of ow...
by Lok Sabha | On 31 Aug 2005 The recommendations contained in the Report are aimed at suggesting changes in the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 so that women get an equal share in the ancestral property. With a view to giving effect...
by Law Commission India | On 31 Aug 2005 The earliest legislation bringing females into the scheme of inheritance is the Hindu Law of Inheritance Act, 1929. Subsequently, the Hindu Women's Right to Property Act, 1937 brought significant chan...
by Parliamentary Standing Committee Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice | On 31 Aug 2005 Introduced in the Rajya Sabha Monsoon Session, 2005. Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 deals with devolution of interest of a male Hindu in coparcenary property and recognises the rule of d...
by Minister Law and Justice | On 31 Aug 2005 This note takes stock of relevant gender aspects of contemporary personal laws and land legislation in Kerala, sums up the shift to marriage as the dominant site of property relations for women; and i...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 31 Aug 2005 Concerned with the question of gender equity in access to and retention in science education and careers, this study has contacted about 149 women scientists and 147 women students across a broad spec...
by Veena Poonacha | On 29 Aug 2005 She will always remain a role model for many of us--- a competent professional and a compassionate thinker who believed in ushering in social change that can reorganise inequalities in India.
by Sujata Patel | On 26 Aug 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 A Bill to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the poor households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financia...
by Anonymous | On 19 Aug 2005 The importance of IPR in the Indian economy will have to be understood properly. Tomorrow’s wars will be fought not by conventional weapons, guns, missiles and so on, but in the knowledge markets with...
by R A Mashelkar | On 08 Aug 2005 MBOPs and the case of Northeast Brazil The Rural Poverty Reduction Program
by Edward Bresnyan, Jr | On 30 Mar 2005 |