From scientific upheavals in the Early Modern to world wars in the twentieth century, Humanities has responded to the crisis and also reinvented itself in terms of methodologies and fields of inquiry....
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 15 Nov 2021 As an extraordinarily powerful individual, Naomi Osaka presents challenges to institutional power most of us can only imagine. If she worked in coordination with other top athletes across different sp...
by Jeffrey Montez de Oca | On 29 Jun 2021 Institutional repositories(IRs), if established in various universities, would help bring out the contributions by Indian researchers on the world map, especially in the field of Arts, Humanities, and...
by Shubhada Nagarkar | On 19 Feb 2021 In January 2019, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) tasked Professors Nirmala Menon (IIT Indore) and Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) with the following: To identify 10 grand challen...
by | On 18 Jan 2021 Constitutions and founding principles, including our own, were drafted by those who studied Humanities and its cognate fields, which helped them see far into the future. The plan and vision remains, a...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 07 Jan 2021 • 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 Can use the COVID-19 time to slow down, take stock and develop fresh approaches for the social sciences and humanities?
by | On 22 May 2020 For a COVID-19 like pandemic, the Achilles heel is an unsuspecting villain – rapid and global land use changes. The way governments, businesses and communities see, relate to and use land, not only in...
by | On 12 May 2020 Sudden eruption of migration crisis resulting from the out-break of COVID-19
again reminds us the urgency of the matter. This policy paper presents how our understanding
of migration and livelihood...
by R. B. Bhagat | On 08 May 2020 The current global health crisis is unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering, and upending people’s lives. But this is much more...
by United Nations (UN) | On 24 Apr 2020 This paper compares the additional gains from higher tax devolution in the post
14th FC period, with the additional burden due to the withdrawal of certain central schemes and the changes in the shar...
by Amarnath H. K. | On 30 Mar 2019 Along with the continuous development of the global economy, environmental deterioration has been widely recognized as a pressing issue nowadays, bringing environmental governance to the forefront of...
by Chun-Ping Chang | On 28 Mar 2019 World Report 2019 is Human Rights Watch’s 29th annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, draw...
by | On 27 Mar 2019 Over the coming decades, competition and conflict over land is likely to intensify with the growing pressures of climate change, population growth, increased food insecurity, migration and urbanizatio...
by Secretary-General United Nations | On 21 Mar 2019 This paper explores how these mechanisms - innovation, inclusion and efficiency – have been integral to microfinance operations in the past, and how innovations in digital technology may be yet anothe...
by Saon Ray | On 04 Feb 2019 The paper explored deep analytical issues such as the nature of the objective function to be optimized, planning horizon, choice of the discount rates, etc. No wonder, his book “Capital and Developmen...
by Vijay Kelkar | On 30 Jan 2019 Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IGFT) are, in theory, neither good nor bad for tackling gender inequalities. Fiscal federalism with asymmetry in revenue and expenditure assignments inevitably lead...
by Janet G. Stotsky | On 14 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 The current global warming trends are extremely likely to be the result of human social and economic activity since the middle of the 20th century (NASA 2018). Evidence of rapid climate change varies...
by Kunmin Kim | On 21 Nov 2018 Selfless activists like Mr. Pai teach us the importance of continuously interrogating the functioning of our democracy. The NPA issue has persisted for almost a decade. It has eroded the profitability...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 This paper examines how women’s participation in family decision-making is affected by land rights in rural areas in India. The 2005 Hindu Succession Act was legislated to protect women’s rights to an...
by Harold Glenn A. Valera | On 26 Sep 2018 The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) exercise in...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 05 Jul 2018 This paper evaluates the implementation of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) K to 12 Adjustment Assistance Program, established following the full implementation of the Enhanced Basic Educatio...
by Alex Brillantes | On 29 Jun 2018 This paper tests economic convergence across States in India by incorporating federal fiscal asymmetries and differentials in gross fixed capital formation at the state level. Using dynamic panel mode...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 15 Jun 2018 The PILER 2016 report on the Status of Labour Rights, sixth in the series, based on the secondary research, aims to present an overview of the status of labour and the issues in the year impacting lab...
by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) | On 14 Jun 2018 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 In India’s 85-year-long Test history, only four of the 289 male Test cricketers have reportedly been Dalits. While concrete steps have been taken to address a similar under-representation of non-white...
by | On 29 May 2018 Despite being key to theories of economic growth and the demographic transition, evidence on
how fertility responds to aggregate income change is mixed. We analyze economic growth and
fertility chan...
by | On 08 May 2018 The World Development Report 2018 (WDR 2018)—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the timing is excellent: education has long been critical to h...
by World Bank [WB] | On 04 May 2018 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 The report presents a rigorous statistical analysis across space and time, using the available
national data.
by National Planning (NPC) | On 13 Apr 2018 This report recalls and builds on the recommendations made in EJF’s 2015 report Pirates and Slaves.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 10 Apr 2018 Taiwan has one of the world’s largest DWFs, with over 1,800 vessels flying the Taiwanese flag
operating across the world and hundreds of Taiwanese-owned vessels flying other flags.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 09 Apr 2018 This article presents a historical review of national community health worker (CHW) programs in
India using a gender- and rights-based lens. The aim is to derive relevant policy implications to
stem...
by Kavita Bhatia | On 06 Apr 2018 The report says that the Bunkar Samiti was establised to create a common platform for sustainable livelihoods.
by National Alliance Risk Reduction (NAADRR) | On 05 Apr 2018 The report says that the opportunities they have and the choices they make determine the course of human development—nowhere more so than in Asia-Pacific, home to half the world’s population.
by Thangavel Palanivel | On 03 Apr 2018 This study investigates empirically how human capital, measured by educational attainment,
is related to income distribution. The regressions, using a panel data set covering a broad
range of countr...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 The conventional theory of human capital developed by Becker (1962) and Mincer (1974) views education and training as the major sources of human capital accumulation that, in turn, have direct and pos...
by Zafar Mueen Nasir | On 29 Mar 2018 The issue of global labour standards has been at the forefront of both regional and
multilateral trade negotiations over the past two decades, and will likely remain high on the
agenda of future tra...
by | On 28 Mar 2018 This 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 We examine the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in middle-income countries based
on cross-country panel data for the period 1975–2014. We find that TFP growth contributed signific...
by | On 23 Mar 2018 The present study was undertaken to review the pilot implementation of the programme and its uptake by beneficiaries, in order to provide data to the DWCD, before scaling up the programme to all distr...
by Centre for Budget and Policy Studies CBPS | On 23 Mar 2018 The Preamble to The National Medical Commission Bill, 2017 lays down its
mission statement, which is to provide for a medical education system that ensures
availability of adequate and high quality...
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 PILER 2015 Report on the Status of Labour Rights, fifth in the series, based on secondary research, aims to present an overview of the status of labour and the issues in the year impacting labour...
by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) | On 21 Mar 2018 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 explores the faith context of
displacement and settlement for the Sikh and
Christian Afghan refugees and Muslim Rohingya
refugees in Delhi. It examines the foundation of
community faith...
by | On 09 Mar 2018 This report looks at global normative work, regional frameworks, and good country level practices, it provides an analysis of the most important aspects to be taken into consideration to successfully...
by Ombretta Tempra | On 09 Mar 2018 From IPod to I Pad, millions of electronics goods have rolled out of China, the global
manufacturing hub. India’s share of global electronic product market is less than 3%.
Taiwan had $72 billion of...
by A S Rao | On 07 Mar 2018 This paper examines critically the awards of the recent Finance Commissions (FCs) in the specific context of the ongoing work of the Thirteenth Finance Commission (13FC).
by K.K. George | On 28 Feb 2018 The paper argues that the Thirteenth Finance Commission has got to find its own track if it does not want to remain as a pale shadow of its constitutional self. It should ignore those terms of referen...
by K.K. George | On 28 Feb 2018 Delhi is one of the most polluted cities in the world, especially in the winter months from October - January. These months coincide with the religious festival of Diwali. It is argued that air qualit...
by Dhananjay Ghei | On 27 Feb 2018 The end of the Cold War in 1989 did not, as had been expected, bring about a reduction in armed conflicts. More than two thirds of the poorest countries in the world are in conflict regions. The natur...
by Austrian Development Agency (ADA) | On 21 Feb 2018 This article focuses on rape as a weapon of war, the sociological impacts of which can be widespread and long-lasting. This is especially due to the ensuing terror and disruption to livelihoods, relat...
by AMSA Global Health | On 21 Feb 2018 The report described the level and cases of gender based sexual violence during the armed conflict and proved that both the warring parties were involved in such heinous acts. It also showed the letha...
by Institute of Human Rights Communication, Nepal (IHRICON | On 21 Feb 2018 India's claim that all human rights violations are redressed stands sharply refuted by the report of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) which in its report to UPR2 stated that AFSPA remains i...
by Working Group on Human Rights (WGHR) | On 21 Feb 2018 The paper says that putting the matter differently, the price-system plays multiple roles: it acts as a signal for the use of available resources for producing at any particular point on the Productio...
by Prabhat Patnaik | On 19 Feb 2018 The paper says that despite high levels of literacy, near universal enrolment in elementary education, high levels of social and human development, why could Kerala not transform itself into a prosper...
by Jandhyala Tilak | On 14 Feb 2018 The current dynamic within the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has driven the
Council in certain cases to function more closely in accordance with normative standards,
as well as with the reality on t...
by | On 12 Feb 2018 The report says that the fact that transnational spread of disease does pose a threat to national security, is well entrenched now.
by Animesh Roul | On 09 Feb 2018 FY2018 budget, the budget for final year of the intensive reform period set in the Fiscal Consolidation Plan,
continues to pursue both economic revitalization and fiscal consolidation.
by | On 09 Feb 2018 The report says that investment in human capital is a prerequisite for a healthy and productive population for nation building.
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 The paper ends with a discussion of the implications of possible shift in China's overseas development finance strategy since 2011.
by Oh Ah | On 31 Jan 2018 The tenth chapter of Economic Survey 2018 has sown that investments in social infrastructure and human development has paid off well. The policies and schemes have also been mentioned in detail. The g...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 31 Jan 2018 National Parks in India are highly vulnerable due to excessive pressure on their ecosystems as a
result of growing population and high dependency of forest dwellers on these resources. This
has led...
by Syed Ajmal Pasha | On 24 Jan 2018 Contemporary India is witnessing a wide number of micro-level social movements struggling
against industrialisation, big dams and other similar development projects. This paper looks at the
tribal m...
by | On 24 Jan 2018 The paper also examines the Indian narrative on the Arctic and argues that it is important to monitor the evolving developments in the Arctic region.
by Vijay Sakhuja | On 24 Jan 2018 The brief says that invention of nuclear weapons, the ultimate among the three weapons of mass destruction, has given rise to completely novel conditions that have fundamentally affected the concept o...
by Animesh Roul | On 22 Jan 2018 The article discusses the devastating effect of Ebola outbreak and challenges in terms of combating this lethal disease.
by Anshu Joshi | On 18 Jan 2018 An "Impact Assessment Study of the Digital Saksharta Abhiyan under National Digital
Literacy Mission” was initiated in November 2016 by Centre for Innovations in Public
Systems (CIPS), Hyderabad, Te...
by Centre for Innovations in Public System | On 16 Jan 2018 A selective survey of recent papers in the area of technological change, automation and employment is presented. The objective is to convey analytical ideas and the empirical evidence that have inform...
by K. V. Ramaswamy | On 16 Jan 2018 This paper examines dimensions of inequality including labour market inequalities and discusses public policies needed for reduction in inequalities. It discusses both inequality of outcomes and inequ...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 16 Jan 2018 The present study seeks to examine the issue of human rights violations in the border areas of countries in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region. It is in an effort to...
by | On 12 Jan 2018 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 The paper narrates about the proceedings that were centered on a wide range of community level risk reduction efforts that are effectively reducing vulnerabilities as well as influencing development p...
by National Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction NADRR | On 10 Jan 2018 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 Self-reliance is, by definition, about individualised responsibility for social wellbeing and economic security. This idea drives urban refugee livelihood programmes, in India and beyond, as aid organ...
by | On 22 Dec 2017 This paper 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 Fifty-five years after China and India fought a war over an ill-defined “colonial” border in 1962, war clouds have gathered again during this monsoon season on the contested Himalayan ridges and valle...
by Anirudh Deshpande | On 14 Dec 2017 The paper provides an overview of the methodologies used by the Indian
Planning Commission in the past 30 years. Using the Planning Commission poverty line, the paper computes poverty and inequality...
by | On 13 Dec 2017 The paper narrates that the inclusive growth requires boosting incomes of workers currently in agriculture, either by shifting them to better-paying jobs outside agriculture or raising wages within ag...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 13 Dec 2017 Asia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world’s poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated war...
by Asian Bank | On 23 Nov 2017 The study adopts a qualitative approach to understand the power dynamics and draws out conclusions from a wide variety of stakeholders regarding the issues at hand.
by Sadaf Liaquat | On 23 Nov 2017 The paper uses a six-year panel of 6,500 students at three international schools in a major city in north China to estimate how fluctuation in ambient PM2.5 over the preceding fortnight impacts daily...
by Haoming Liu | On 20 Nov 2017 The study will use data from 1980-81 to 2015-16 in this regard and employ Johansen cointegration to investigate the long run relationship.
by Syed Ahmed | On 20 Nov 2017 This paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural a...
by | On 20 Nov 2017 The papers says that there is a need to invest in educational sector to maximize the human capital, which not only helps in economic growth but also contributes to economic development of the country.
by Syed Kazmi | On 17 Nov 2017 The study discusses the problems Pakistan may face in near future in the hands of Pakistani volunteers fighting in Syria.
by Rubab Syed | On 16 Nov 2017 This study is part of a global research effort entitled Consultations with the Poor, designed to inform the World Development Report 2000/1 on Poverty and Development.
The research involved poor peop...
by | On 07 Nov 2017 The report says that current capacity of 4 million workers per annum is grossly inadequate.
by Shri Ranganath | On 03 Nov 2017 The paper reviews an emerging body of literature on the design and evaluation of current or recent governance interventions in countries with ongoing violent conflict, recovering from conflict or at s...
by Patricia Justino | On 31 Oct 2017 Female foeticide because of preference for boys over girls for a host of reasons is gigantic in India. According to the estimates of Asian Centre for Human Rights, during 1991 to 2011, a total of 25,4...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) | On 26 Oct 2017 The report shows that the rationality arguments used to establish the existence of
subjective probabilities depend essentially on the identification of acting-as-ifyou-believe and actually believing.
by Asad Zaman | On 26 Oct 2017 The report narrates that for societies, it spurs innovation, strengthens institutions, and fosters social cohesion.
by World Bank [WB] | On 04 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 The report narrates that the diversity of smugglers has been examined in the academic and grey literature.
by Marie McAuliffe | On 25 Sep 2017 The 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 The paper discusses the nature and extent of non-farm activities in India using India Human Development Survey unit record data. An exercise carried out to understand the determinants of income from n...
by Meenakshi Rajeev | On 11 Sep 2017 The paper suggests certain measures to reduce the conflicts across conservation, livelihoods and forest rights. National Parks in India are highly vulnerable due to excessive pressure on their ecosyst...
by Subhashree Banerjee | On 07 Sep 2017 Tamil Nadu is the eleventh largest state by area and the sixth most populous state in India with 75 million as per the 2011 census. The state was ranked sixth among the states in India according to th...
by S.Irudaya Rajan | On 06 Sep 2017 This paper aims to show that the level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections generating negative effects on economic growth. We expand the model presen...
by Bogang Jun | On 28 Aug 2017 Social partners, sensibilisation, monitor, training, employees’, employment, trade unionists, problem, evaluation, transparency.
by Szilvia Borbély | On 21 Aug 2017 The impacts of climate change on global temperatures profoundly affect people’s ability to sustain their livelihoods as well as their health; both of these dimensions in turn influence the migration o...
by International Organisation for Migration | On 18 Aug 2017 The Report explores who has been left out in the progress in human development and why.
by Selim Jahan | On 16 Aug 2017 Forest and conservation policy in Southeast Asia is now at yet another crossroads. Despite decades of efforts, the challenges ahead remain formidable. These challenges include: (i) continued deforesta...
by Gary Bull | On 08 Aug 2017 The report narrates the recent global financial crisis demonstrated the shortcomings of the frameworks to handle the failure of large and systemically important financial institutions, also known as “...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 08 Aug 2017 Over the last ten years or so it have begun to see public lobbying over moral and cultural issues such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) rights, Sanctity of Life issues including aborti...
by Johannis Bin Abdul Aziz | On 02 Aug 2017 The compendium details the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of the different technology options, and also describes the different types of systems formed as a combination of the technolog...
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 28 Jul 2017 This document provides a list of sanitation tools; organisation of the same based on their specific
features; and factsheets corresponding to every tool, which cover the objectives, descriptions,
ad...
by Shramana Dey | On 27 Jul 2017 The report says that Cambodia’s growth in the last 20 years has been remarkable and the lives of its people have improved substantially. But low-cost labor advantages on a narrow economic base have dr...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 Jun 2017 The report narrates that the related technical assistance has focused on infrastructure management, financial and private sector development, preparations for regional economic integration, and region...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Jun 2017 |