The Report of the 16th Finance Commission (Chair: Dr. Arvind Panagariya) was tabled in Parliament on February 1, 2026 for the five-year period between 2026-27 and 2030-31 [Report Summary].
by Shrusti Singh | On 27 Feb 2026 India's policy of reserving certain products exclusively for small-scale industries (SSI) aimed to promote the labour-intensive sector and promote employment. However, this policy was criticised for h...
by Rahees K A | On 19 Feb 2026 Tribute to Ela Bhatt, the visionary leader of marginalised women
by Vibhuti Patel | On 10 Nov 2022 India’s hockey performance, men’s and women’s, at Tokyo is remarkable in significant ways and may well be a portent of things to come. It's a fitting celebration of the life of Keshav Dutt, hockey vet...
by | On 20 Sep 2021 Only someone with the clout of a world champion, the purse of one of the top-paid athletes of the world, and the influence of a millennial social media celebrity can afford to take on the antiquated a...
by Vidya Subramanian | On 06 Jun 2021 Our industry has an overall 90:10 gender split in leadership positions. The ratio is improving in pre-media, publishing and media. Can we do more to address the gender imbalance in the industry? [Fir...
by | On 08 Mar 2021 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 Participation of citizen in local governance is a key component for good governance. It extends the citizens’ role beyond that of a voter . It ensures a more equal distribution of power and resources...
by Kedar Diwan | On 21 Feb 2021 Fisher unions and farming communities of Manipur, India, commemorated the 2021 World Wetlands Day (2nd February) at Tonoma Chingjin, Mamang Ching, Pumlen Pat - a wetland devastated by the Ithai Barrag...
by | On 05 Feb 2021 Based on primary data from a large household survey in seven districts in West Bengal in India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying low labor force participation of women. In particular, we try...
by | On 09 Jun 2020 The policy recommendations and demands about inclusion of women and marginalized groups in all aspects of life, including groups particularly vulnerable in many Asian countries such as women migrant a...
by | On 02 Jun 2020 Vidya Bal was a veteran feminist journalist, author and editor based in Pune. She was also a well-known social activist in the women’s liberation movement in India who dedicated her life to fighting f...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 24 Apr 2020 The draft New Education Policy offers challenges disguised as opportunit ies and progressive thinking, especially in terms of autonomy, the deeply troubling role of the private sector HEI, regulatory...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 27 Jul 2019 Does India’s newest health protection mission do more than create a ‘narrative’ on health care in a pre-election year? More importantly, is health care through insurance the best option for a country...
by | On 28 Feb 2019 This paper examines the availability and spread of private hospitals in the country to provide insights on the potential access to insured health services in GSHIS schemes. It uses three sets of infor...
by Mita Choudhury | On 20 Feb 2019 This paper takes an overview of the concepts and features of central bank money and private sector money and focuses on the actual performance of these types of money in selected advanced and emerging...
by Sayuri Shirai | On 18 Feb 2019 The paper reviews green markets, technologies, and practices with a focus on developing Asian countries, and offers a set of policy options to enable governments and development finance institutions t...
by Daniele Ponzi | On 29 Jan 2019 This study documents the frequency and characteristics of multi-product firms in Vietnamese manufacturing. The major findings are as follows. First, multi-product firms are larger, more capital-intens...
by Ha Thi Thanh Doan | On 29 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 contributes to the literature in two ways: First, it delineates a concrete application of DLTs in the field of green financing, which offers the potential to increase social welfare. Second...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 20 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 The aim of the paper is to contribute to the discussion on the role of multilateral financing in directly addressing gender-based violence; specifically, the ways in which infrastructure investments c...
by Tsolmon Begzsuren | On 29 Oct 2018 Lack of access to reliable information on environmental exposure limits opportunities for risk avoiding behavior, particularly in developing countries. Private markets could potentially play a role in...
by Ricardo Maertens | On 04 Oct 2018 This paper studies the optimal structure of procurement contracts between public and private sectors by mainly comparing two typical procurement types: traditional procurement and public–private partn...
by Hojun Lee | On 27 Sep 2018 This paper discusses public and private sector financing of infrastructure, and examines the factors driving infrastructure investment in this subregion. Using a panel of three large South Asian count...
by Shikha Jha | On 26 Sep 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 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 This paper analyzes a critical aspect of expanding private finance to infrastructure by examining the role of bank lending to public–private partnership (PPP) projects through the project finance moda...
by Vivek Rao | On 24 Aug 2018 Infrastructure development in Southeast Asia has been financed mainly by public funds, which leave wide gaps in majority of countries. Governments have tried to attract the private sector by offering...
by Fauziah Zen | On 16 Aug 2018 This paper develops a framework identifying channels through which economic gains can be derived from PPP arrangement. The framework helps derive an empirically tractable specification that examines h...
by Minsoo Lee | On 11 Aug 2018 This study attempts to understand the role of greater access to finance, i.e., stocks, bonds, and bank loans, in public–private partnership (PPP) investment in developing countries. Most developing co...
by Suk Hyun | On 10 Aug 2018 . This paper applies survival time hazard analysis to estimate how project-related, macroeconomic, and institutional factors affect the hazard rate of the projects. Empirical results show that governm...
by Minsoo Lee | On 25 Jul 2018 This study, an off-shoot of the third joint project of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies and Institute of Developing Economies, looked at the employment profile of adult women with disa...
by Christian D. Mina | On 03 Jul 2018 This report sets out to establish how well social enterprise really does address gender inequality and women's empowerment in Pakistan. It is part of a series of reports commissioned by the British Co...
by Mark Richardson | On 28 Jun 2018 India has experienced a remarkable proliferation of 48 Government Funded Health Insurance Schemes (GFHIS) from 1997 to 2018. The paper places the rise of this policy pathway in historical perspective....
by Ila Patnaik | On 15 Jun 2018 First published in 1999, this video interview of Mythili Sivraman, who was vice president All India Democratic Women's Association, with Gnani, Tamil journalist with English subtitles.Mythily speaks a...
by Gnani Gnani | On 04 Jun 2018 Despite the reportedly rapid growth of mechanization, as well as its
unique history in economic and social systems, information on the patterns of agricultural mechanization growth in Vietnam has bee...
by Hiroyuki Takeshima | On 28 May 2018 Jayshree Sengupta is a Senior Fellow (Associate) working with Observer Research
Foundation’s Economy and Development Programme. Her work focuses on the Indian
economy and development, regional coope...
by Jayshree Sengupta | On 25 May 2018 This paper is an evidence review of
how intersecting forms of inequalities influence women’s
political participation and representation at the local level in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
The r...
by | On 11 May 2018 Review of
Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self Defense Movement
By Wendy L Rouse
Sage Vistaar, 2018;
by | On 10 May 2018 This paper contributes to the debate on the relationship between public and private investment in India along the following dimensions. First, acknowledging major structural changes that the Indian ec...
by Girish Bahal | On 07 May 2018 This note shows that the argument of Šaljanin(2017) [Šaljanin, 2017. “Signaling through public antitrust enforcement―, Economics Letters 169, 4 - 6] that public antitrust enforcement complements...
by Madhuparna Ganguly | On 20 Apr 2018 India’s health sector is characterized by modest health indicators, a paucity of medical
financing schemes that have successfully scaled, high per capita out-of-pocket health expenditure,
and very l...
by | On 06 Apr 2018 This paper empirically examines the impact of differences in contract attributes on project outcomes. The hypothesis is to test whether better incentive structure and stricter administrative controls...
by Chandan Kumar | On 05 Apr 2018 This paper analyses the Indian PPP framework, including its bidding process and the standard concession agreement. The paper argues that the existing bidding method (i.e. premium/grant based method) c...
by Chandan Kumar | On 05 Apr 2018 This paper attempts to find the answer to this question. It examines the contract design of the Indian PPP road contracts and analyzes its strengths and weaknesses to avoid the opportunism or hold-up...
by Chandan Kumar | On 05 Apr 2018 To what extent do the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and
the World Bank remain central today and how much influence do they still wield in shaping
the global agenda? While...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 Trade facilitation measures improve the trading environment by reducing transaction costs
and thereby increasing the gains from trade. Although the use of trade facilitation measures
for tackling tr...
by Sanjana Joshi | On 28 Mar 2018 The 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 Ensuring Women’s their participation in the economy requires access to skills, technology and finance. India and Japan have supported such initiatives in Asia and Africa in the past, but a joint effor...
by Renana Jhabvala | On 15 Mar 2018 This report looks at global normative work, regional frameworks, and good country level practices, it provides an analysis of the most important aspects to be taken into consideration to successfully...
by Ombretta Tempra | On 09 Mar 2018 The paper examines a measure of self-reported evaluative wellbeing, the Cantril Ladder, and use data from Gallup to examine wellbeing over the life-cycle. It assesses the validity of the measure, and...
by Angus Deaton | On 07 Mar 2018 Existing studies of industrial workers are silent on the topic of sexual
harassment. At one level, this silence can be understood in relation to
workers’ priorities, which revolve understandably aro...
by | On 06 Mar 2018 The paper says that the Committee noted that synergy between the central and state policies will bring changes in women's healthcare.
by Nivedita Rao | On 06 Mar 2018 Microcredit is essentially utilised as the source of empowerment among
the poor women in both rural and urban areas of the Indian states. Based
on a panel of the Indian states for the period 2007 to...
by | On 27 Feb 2018 This paper evaluates the current status of the Indian Rupee as an international currency using the Chinn and Frankel (2008) framework, and explores the possibility of future Indian Rupee international...
by Shekhar Hari Kumar | On 27 Feb 2018 This paper says that micro finance is an emerging reality in contemporary development discourse and has come to occupy a significant place in financial intermediation in India.
by M.A. Oommen | On 27 Feb 2018 Through these studies it has been shown how often the plight of women and the impact of war on their lives had been ignored.
by Sona Drahonovská | On 22 Feb 2018 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 Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have stimulated fervent interest
from both the private sector and governments across the globe, as the possibility
of mass-produced consumer product m...
by | 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 This study aims to explore and identify circumstances related to the use of sexual violence by
armed groups, and by state forces in particular. The overall purpose is to contribute to an
understandi...
by Matilda Carlsson | On 20 Feb 2018 This systematic paper aimed to canvas the extent and impact of initiatives to reduce incidence, risk and harm from sexual violence in conflict, post-conflict and other humanitarian crises, in low and...
by Jo Spangaro | On 20 Feb 2018 The paper says that the term “violence against women” means any act of gender-based violence that leads to physical, sexual or psychological harm to women and girls
by Amnesty International AI, | On 20 Feb 2018 The paper says that women constitute only a quarter of the total labour force in India though they form nearly half of the Indian population.
by Martin Patrick | On 14 Feb 2018 This is a dreamy and populist Budget talking high numbers while missing out on empirical realities. The irony is that, looked at closely, it has neither pleased the free market theorists nor has it do...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 09 Feb 2018 This report explores how fostering gender diversity at the firm level can be good for business.
by Ruchika Joshi | On 08 Feb 2018 What happens when a female sports reporter is sexually harassed?
Working in sports media seems glamorous. But what happens when a female sports reporter is sexually harassed?
by | On 06 Feb 2018 This paper examines the institutional challenges facing the Indian Parliament. It argues that
over the years there has been a decline in the effectiveness of Parliament as an institution of
accounta...
by Pratap Mehta | On 05 Feb 2018 This paper is concerned with the way macro-economic strategies can affect the
incidence of poverty, especially among women, and also with the effectiveness of
various forms of government interventio...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 05 Feb 2018 Agriculture and allied sector has a critical role in ensuring food security, reducing
poverty and sustaining growth in India. To improve productivity in agriculture the
focus has been on the critica...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 The findings indicated that sport is a widely accessible activity for teens and that participants reap important benefits in health and education. Although sports remain the most popular extracurricul...
by Nicole Zarrett | On 31 Jan 2018 The tenth chapter of Economic Survey 2018 has sown that investments in social infrastructure and human development has paid off well. The policies and schemes have also been mentioned in detail. The g...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 31 Jan 2018 The paper also indicate that the revision is effective to increase the eligible firms' profits by 3.5 percent, compared to the ineligible firms.
by Lee Woong | On 30 Jan 2018 Budget analysis entails analysis and assessment of budget from the lens of marginalised sections
of population with the objective of prioritisation of public
expenditures and collection of revenues...
by Happy Pant | On 17 Jan 2018 A 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 focuses on public investments to improve food security can be placed into five broad categories.
by Livia Bizikova | On 18 Dec 2017 In this paper, we study the impact of ethnic fragmentation on the provision of private and public schools, separately. The distinction is made because the two types of schools have different objective...
by Bharti Nandwani | On 13 Dec 2017 This paper seeks to lay bare the contours and consequences of the relationship between paid work and unpaid care work for women in low-income households, in order to better understand the relationship...
by | On 12 Dec 2017 This Policy Note presents current statistics on female representation in key leadership positions in the Philippine government and industry.
by Clarissa C. David | On 12 Dec 2017 This study discusses the socio-economic, cultural, religious and institutional factors that sustain abuse conducted against women.
by Ayesha Qaisrani | On 24 Nov 2017 The Chhattisgarh Irrigation Development Project (CIDP) aimed to
increase agricultural productivity, improve rural livelihoods, and reduce
poverty by improving irrigation delivery, enhancing agricult...
by | On 22 Nov 2017 The 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 The sexuality of the disabled person has largely been ignored. If it is
at all acknowledged, then it has been largely through a ‘medical lens.
The understanding of sexuality not only as a personal d...
by Renu Addlakha | On 17 Nov 2017 Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are seen, in particular by the Government of India, as a mechanism to improve the performance of utilities and generate efficiency gains in the delivery of water ser...
by Asian Bank | On 15 Nov 2017 Using the random assignment of illiterate women to an adult literacy and numeracy program – Tara Akshar – in Uttar Pradesh in north India, the attempt is made to gauge the effect of adult education on...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 03 Nov 2017 This paper examines whether and to what extent, additional stigmatization adversely affects the use of reservations for higher education or jobs. The quantitative analysis is based on a primary survey...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 03 Nov 2017 The paper undertakes an evaluation of the laws governing wages in India, identify their shortcomings and offer suggestions for improvement. In doing so, it analyzes the provisions in the relevant ILO...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 01 Nov 2017 The ‘Balancing unpaid care work and paid work: successes, challenges
and lessons for women’s economic empowerment programmes and
policies’ research project within the Growth and Equal Opportunities...
by Mubashira Zaidi | On 31 Oct 2017 How do public–private collaborations enable secure and inclusive rural economies? Alongside private sector investment, government provision of infrastructure, research and extension services and suppo...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 31 Oct 2017 Study finds that both groups of IPOs outperforms on first trading day, as average initial market adjusted returns of SOE and non-SOE IPOs are 27.65 percent and 22.53 percent respectively.
by Henna Malik | On 30 Oct 2017 At the core of the argument for crèches, lie the notion of a child’s vulnerability and the shared responsibility of the parents and the State to ensure his/her protection. But how far have we managed...
by Nimish Sany | On 16 Oct 2017 The report narrates that threefold increase in percapita income in urban areas is expected during this period of time.
by S.V. Ranganath | On 12 Oct 2017 The report says that, Karnataka is the second most arid state in the country.
by Mohd. Ali | On 11 Oct 2017 The paper examines the issue of resource adequacy for Right to Education (RTE) by estimating the resource requirement for universalization of elementary education across twelve Indian States. Using RT...
by Sukanya Bose | On 05 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 paper examines the ill-health experience of women, and whether it has been adequately explored in a socio-cultural context from a gender perspective. A deeper understanding of the wide ran...
by Annapuranam Karuppannan | On 14 Sep 2017 The focus of this paper is on the political history of modern Gujarat, which has been an intriguing one. The paper identifies and discusses in the broad landscape of Gujarat’s politics three notable d...
by Tannen Neil Lincoln | 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 This paper examines the nature, changes and factors responsible for issues and problems faced by the sugarcane growers and sugar mills in India. This paper is based on the latest available secondary d...
by Abnave Vikas B. | On 12 Sep 2017 This Policy Note analyzes the role of wage and attitudes toward gender roles within the family in determining the time allocated to housework.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 08 Sep 2017 The policy commitment to preventing and reducing undernutrition was reaffirmed by the Budget 2014-15 speech of the Finance Minister, which stated that - “A national programme in Mission Mode is urgent...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 08 Sep 2017 It is widely accepted that people migrate to seek better living opportunities, and migration experiences affect life conditions considerably upon return. Research focused on gendered perspectives has...
by Özge Bilgili | On 28 Aug 2017 BRICS is a hot topic today. It is the new “kid” or the next big thing in global governance and in macro economics today. Set up in 2009, in the aftermath of 2008 global financial crisis with four coun...
by Shubha Chacko | On 22 Aug 2017 This paper quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities that women face in the organized sector of the Indian Labour Market.
by Biju Varkkey | On 21 Aug 2017 The report, Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in South Asia- Evidence for Interventions in the Health Sector, Women’s Collectives and Local Governance Mechanisms, is based on a systemic review of l...
by Rohini Prabha Pande | On 18 Aug 2017 Will women benefit from the rapid automation and digitisation that is set to change the world of work as we know it? How can we ensure that women’s economic interests are brought into focus, and that...
by Becky Faith | On 16 Aug 2017 The Monsoon Session of Parliament concluded on August 11, 2017. The session had 19 sittings. During the session, a
new President of India was elected, as was the Vice-President, who is Chairman of Ra...
by Kusum Malik | On 16 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 The Comptroller and Auditor General of India submitted a report on the electrification projects in Indian Railways (between 2013-14 and 2015-16) on July 21, 2017. Trains on Indian Railways are hauled...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 07 Aug 2017 It has been well recognized that a well-developed corporate bond market complements a sound banking system in providing an alternative source of finance to the real sector for its long-term investme...
by Securities Board of India | On 04 Aug 2017 With a focus on Northeast Indian experiences and a comparative look at Nepal, this project addresses the role of women in local governance and politics, particularly within the context of peace and se...
by Calcutta Group | On 04 Aug 2017 Women’s SHGs increasingly facilitate the
decentralized delivery of agriculture and nutrition
interventions around the world. Since their origins
in the microfinance revolution of the 1980s, SHGs
i...
by | On 04 Aug 2017 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 Over the last decade, gender gaps in the workforce, particularly those in leadership positions, have remained largely unchanged and progress has stalled, despite growth in the numbers of women acquiri...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 01 Aug 2017 The purpose of this research is to elucidate and analyse the underlying thinking behind the CFE strategies in order to determine potential gaps that could arise as the strategies are implemented in po...
by Tan Tai Loong Alex | On 01 Aug 2017 The international community is increasingly aware of the negative impacts of child marriage on a wide range of development outcomes. Ending child marriage is now part of the Sustainable Development Go...
by Quentin Wodon | On 31 Jul 2017 For the 2017 G20, the German government has prioritized commitments to reducing the male and female employment gap by 25 percent by 2025, and increasing the quality of women’s employment. Investing in...
by John Ruthrauff | On 31 Jul 2017 An analysis of the impact of government borrowing from the scheduled banks on the credit to private
sector in Pakistan, using monthly data from 1998:M6 to 2015:M12. We find that a one percentage
poi...
by Sajjad Zaheer | On 31 Jul 2017 The main objective of the paper is to of add clarity to the debate over the economic effects of regulations like the CPP. It is shown that studies of the same regulation
using similar methodologies c...
by Noah Kaufman | On 28 Jul 2017 The article reviews the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training
interventions designed to increase the productivity and income of the poor; it includes the
subset of evaluation...
by Mayra Buvinic | On 28 Jul 2017 The current policy climate in India is rightly addressing the challenges of electric buses, providing an
environment to accelerate their adoption and implementation.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 27 Jul 2017 Previous studies have examined how demographic characteristics, education, culture, and labor policy suppress Indian women’s labor supply. However, not enough attention has been paid to the role of po...
by Lei Lei | On 27 Jul 2017 Bangladesh has experienced massive urbanisation in the last few decades with a staggering growth of seven millions slum dwellers. About two million people live in the slums of Dhaka city. Most of the...
by Polin Kumar Saha | On 26 Jul 2017 Delivering accessible, inclusive and high-quality health services in India is both technically challenging and politically complex. India’s public health services have been highly decentralized for mo...
by Brendan Halloran | On 26 Jul 2017 The project provided preventative and curative services, including access to immunization, reproductive health services, limited curative care, nutrition-related services, community outreach on health...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | 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 report provides outlines of business models relevant to pursuing the renewable energy and energy efficiency targets adopted by the five Greater Mekong Subregion countries: Cambodia, the Lao People...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jul 2017 This study was undertaken under ABMI. It addresses two key questions: (i) Why is local currency bond financing not more widely used for infrastructure projects in ASEAN+3? and (ii) What can be done to...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Jul 2017 The Monsoon Session of Parliament is to be held between July 17 and August 11, 2017. There will be a total of 19 sittings. The agenda for legislation includes 18 Bills for consideration and passing. 1...
by Kusum Malik | On 17 Jul 2017 The report discusses the most recent projections pertaining to climate change and climate change impacts in Asia and the Pacific, and the consequences of these changes to human systems, particularly f...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 The results of this study can be used to strengthen the institutional and statistical capacities of Viet Nam to routinely collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate internationally comparable FSIs tha...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jul 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 While women constitute up to 37 per cent of the agricultural workforce, their status is not recognised. Statistics do not collect suicides of women farmers as land is seldom registered in their names....
by | On 16 Jun 2017 The paper narrates that the risks are tilted to the downside as tightening US monetary policy may heighten financial volatility, further moderation in the People’s Republic of China could spill over i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jun 2017 Book Review of We Are All Revolutionaries Here: Militarism, Political Islam and Gender in Pakistan, By Aneela Zeb Babar; Sage Yoda Press, Pp.196, Rs 695.
by Meena Menon | On 12 Jun 2017 This report assesses the extent to which inclusive business models promote women's economic empowerment. Examples come from the inclusive business portfolios of the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-A...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 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 Myanmar's transport sector institutions are currently ill adapted to the new situation. Although government reform attempts have been in the right direction, more is needed to shape a strong basis for...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 02 Jun 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 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 An important reason for this dichotomy between agriculture and non agricultural sectors is that the former is a state subject under the Indian Constitution placing the burden of implementation of refo...
by Ramesh Chand | On 18 May 2017 The present paper focuses on the first and internationally the largest mode of dispute resolution, that is, Arbitration. However, prior to looking at how arbitration functions in the country, it would...
by Bibek Debroy | On 17 May 2017 The objective of this report is to help governments and multilateral institutions assess and integrate ID systems into their development activities. The intended audience includes government policy ma...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 The paper narrates that the bond market in Hong Kong, China has for some time been a significant market place for issuers and investors in both domestic and foreign currencies. The range of product of...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 The paper narrates that as local government units (LGUs) have strived to carry out the responsibilities and activities devolved to them by the 1991 Local Government Code, they have explored and availe...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 This report updates by presenting infrastructure investment needs for all
45 DMCs from 2016 to 2030, the final year of the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals. Two sets of estimates are pre...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 May 2017 This study contributes to a growing body of research demonstrating that adoption of
internationally available and well-proven energy efficiency measures can improve the
effectiveness, sustainability...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 The paper analyse data from two recent NSSO surveys to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher educatio...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 02 May 2017 Decent work, the core mandate of the ILO, is defined as productive work for women and men in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.Decent work involves opportunities for work that:...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 17 Apr 2017 Throughout their working lives, women continue to face significant obstacles in gaining access to decent work. Only marginal improvements have been achieved since the Fourth World Conference on Women...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 14 Apr 2017 GST also known as the Goods and Services Tax is defined as the giant indirect tax structure designed to support and enhance the economic growth of a country. More than 150 countries have implemented G...
by | On 13 Apr 2017 Who is the public health system actually catering to, if not these vulnerable women and children of the riverine islanders who actually are in dire need of these services? Do they not come under the M...
by | On 10 Apr 2017 Increasing water scarcity is expected to impact food production and the livelihoods of millions of farmers in semi arid developing countries over the next decades. Multiple studies project that this a...
by | On 22 Mar 2017 The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, shaped by both public and private sectors and the voices of civil society, was adopted by world leaders two years ago as a blueprint for making our world m...
by | On 16 Mar 2017 The Chameli Devi Jain Award for an Outstanding Woman Journalist for the year 2016 was given to independent journalist Neha Dixi on March 1, 2017, at a function at the Indian International Centre, Delh...
by | On 09 Mar 2017 This paper explores the “Bill of Rights” in the Justice Verma Committee Report as an analytical framework for gender budgeting in justice. Gender budgeting in justice, as a public good, needs effectiv...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 03 Mar 2017 Agriculture sector as a whole has developed and emerged immensely with the infusion of science and
technology. But this latest emergence is not capable of plummeting the ignorance of women labour as...
by Mun Mun Ghosh | On 01 Mar 2017 The report captures the importance of shaping macro-economic policies so they support inclusive growth, and ensuring that women entrepreneurs have access to technology and finance. It also highlights...
by | On 21 Feb 2017 It is now well-accepted among policy makers that the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene is a basic human right. Yet, millions of people lack access to basic toilet facilities, which anecdotal...
by | On 15 Feb 2017 Encrypting communications enhances privacy and the security of information services. This, in turn, incentivises innovation in the ICT sector and contributes significantly to the growth of the interne...
by | On 02 Feb 2017 The study attempts to highlight some of the major hurdles in Delhi’s
governance and fiscal policy in ensuring the safety of women in public spaces. Though violence
against women is widespread and oc...
by Kanika Kaul | On 27 Jan 2017 Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally represen...
by | On 24 Jan 2017 This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal
spending. Gender budgeting is an approach to budgeting in which governments use fiscal
policies and ad...
by Janet G Stotsky | On 23 Jan 2017 The Election Commission recently announced the poll schedule for the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. In this context, data on the composition of the 16th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (2012-...
by Jhalak Kakkar | On 10 Jan 2017 Cross-national empirical studies of corruption commonly find that nations in which women play a greater role in economic and public life suffer less corruption. This finding has been controversial in...
by | On 10 Jan 2017 This short paper aims to highlight the important role women have and can play in economic development. It addresses three questions: what is the evidence base to support investing in women? What are t...
by | On 04 Jan 2017 This work is a contribution, first, toward measuring and characterizing
some features of rural clientelistic institutions and then toward
exploring its impact on household access to an employment sc...
by Anindya Bhattacharya | On 30 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 This note lists the legislative business planned by Parliament and compares it with the actual performance during Winter Session 2016.
by Kusum Malik | On 19 Dec 2016 Winter Session 2016 has been one of the least productive sessions for both Houses in the last 15 years, with repeated disruptions on the issue of demonetisation of currency. While eight Bills were int...
by Kusum Malik | On 19 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 This study estimates the impact of incumbency on re-election prospects of parties and candidates in India, between 1977 and 2014, for Lok Sabha elections. Regression discontinuity design is used to es...
by Aditi Singhal | On 05 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 India is committed to solve many problems that it is facing today. the human condition can improve more
here in the next two decades than anywhere in the world. And the benefit, to
India and to the...
by Bill Gates | On 30 Nov 2016 Taking note of the limitations and challenges pertaining to gender budget exercise, the
Government of Karnataka has set up a Task Force constituting of academics working in this
area to review the p...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 29 Nov 2016 The State of Kerala in 2012 through a notification stopped issuing new permits
to inter-district buses in Kerala while exempting state run Kerala State
Transport Corporation. This was the beginning...
by Madhu Sivaraman | On 28 Nov 2016 Women workers are found in certain activities traditionally falling within the male domain. This is particularly the case for landless women who largely belong to the hardcore poor group. It indicates...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 This article focuses on Chinese female rural migrant workers. Based on the survey data collected in Anhui and Sichuan provinces of China, the article investigates gender aspects of Chinese rural-urban...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 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 This brief reports on findings from four country studies and a companion macroeconomic study calibrated using an average Asian economy. Almost 28% of the world’s working-age women are accounted for in...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Nov 2016 This 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 This paper examines four time phases beginning with the period after independence up to mid-2000 in order to trace a timeline for work and family research in the Indian context. As compared to work-fa...
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 Women and girl children spend considerable time to collect water for meeting the domestic needs of the households in rural areas of many developing countries. Thus, scarcity of water can have dispropo...
by | On 25 Oct 2016 While remarkable progress has been achieved during the past decade protecting the health and rights of women and adolescent girls in humanitarian settings, the growth in need has outstripped the growt...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 21 Oct 2016 India has experienced rapid economic growth, a decline in fertility rate, introduction of employment generation programs and policy shifts towards women empowerment in recent years. Yet, a striking fe...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 The puzzling decline in female labour force participation in India in the context of high economic growth has recently generated considerable academic interest. Increasing educational enrolment by wom...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children’s current learning gaps, rather than following an over-ambitious uniform curriculum, can lead to significant learning gains. In this stu...
by Esther Duflo | On 18 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 “Men, Masculinities and Climate Change: A Discussion Paper” aims to establish a rationale for understanding boys’ and men’s multiple roles in climate change by conducting an analysis of masculinities...
by | On 13 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 Gender differences in occupations account for a sizable portion of the persistent gender pay gap. This paper examines the relationship between the demand for long hours of work (as proxied for by the...
by | On 10 Oct 2016 Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging trend throughout the developing world,
and it is especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than...
by Xinxin Wang | On 10 Oct 2016 It is generally recognised that poverty is experienced differently according to their gender, age, caste, class and ethnicity and within households. Income levels, food security and indeed life choice...
by | On 05 Oct 2016 The most popular imagery that the 16th Lok Sabha election campaign projected was of good governance
and development. What does this mean for communities that lie on the margins of
body politics? Are...
by Shilp Shikha Singh | On 05 Oct 2016 It is the multi-layers of health providers that make health care possible. It is therefore important that we address the job security of the workers in the National Health Mission.
by Kavita Bhatia | 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 Migration is a complex issue which has been a subject of keen interest for many years to sociologists, anthropologists, demographers, economists and political scientists. The migrants who work out of...
by | On 29 Sep 2016 Black women in current cohorts ages 50 to 72 years have lower employment than similar white women, despite having had higher employment when they were middle-aged and younger. Earlier cohorts of older...
by Joanna Lahey | On 28 Sep 2016 the role of institutional innovations
and subsidy policy interventions in the diffusion of micro-irrigation across
the state in the recent years. While the first part makes a comprehensive
review o...
by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati | On 26 Sep 2016 India can substantially increase her production and yield in
pulses with a strategic emphasis on research in public and private sector, expanding irrigation
infrastructure, provision of MSP to pulse...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 23 Sep 2016 A large literature attempts to identify factors that contribute to gender differences in performance and in the decision to compete. We exploit a highly competitive environment in which elite-female a...
by Erica G. Birk | On 22 Sep 2016 the 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 The Indian steel industry has made a rapid progress on strong fundamentals over the recent few years. The industry is getting all essential ingredients required for dynamic growth. The government is b...
by | On 19 Sep 2016 The Olympics is an elite arena where a handful of the world’s most talented athletes compete, but the Games are also a snapshot of current trends. Women’s gains in the Olympics have tracked trends in...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 There is a closing of the gender gap in many parts of the world in terms of female access to education and enrolments at various levels of secondary and tertiary level. The World Economic Forum recent...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 Food insecurity and under-nutrition remain pressing problems in the developing world. Despite their direct contribution to food production, small-scale farmers and their households are disproportionat...
by Steve Wiggins | On 06 Sep 2016 This article is about India's role in reducing food price volatility in the world. India has come a long way from a ‘ship to mouth existence’ to a country that is ready to confer legal right to food t...
by M. S. Swaminathan | On 02 Sep 2016 Many developing countries have made progress in political openness and economic management but still struggle to attract private sector investments, at least outside of narrow, resource-based enclaves...
by Alan Gelb | On 01 Sep 2016 There are many states in India which have high number of women entrepreneurs. There are states which have many policies to encourage women entrepreneurs.
by Lakshmi Priya | On 30 Aug 2016 The primary purpose of this policy brief is to expose the dangerous aspects of the Bill before Parliamentarians who must consider the potential harms to be caused by this Bill to our food and farming...
by Shubhi Sharma | On 30 Aug 2016 This report continues documenting the narrative of violence and displacement in
Chhattisgarh in the name of development, by reporting on the findings of the encounter
killings and sexual violence in...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 30 Aug 2016 According to MSME Ministry’s Annual Report for 2015-16, MSME sector in India today is
a network of 51 million enterprises providing employment to 117.1 million persons and
contributing 37.5 per cent...
by S.S. Mundra | On 29 Aug 2016 Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are a backbone of the Philippine economy. One
factor that hinders the growth of these enterprises is their difficulty in accessing finance from
banks and o...
by Gary V Maningo | On 19 Aug 2016 Women farmers around the world are taking the lead in putting crop and varietal conservation and diversification strategies into practice as a way to strengthen local climate change adaptation capacit...
by | On 17 Aug 2016 The Monsoon Session of Parliament concluded on August 12, 2016. The session had 20 sittings, during which various
Bills were passed, including a Constitutional Amendment Bill enabling the levy of a G...
by Kusum Malik | On 16 Aug 2016 The pressure fiscal expansion exerts on the economy via credit markets in Pakistan is analysed.
Melina and Villa (2014) is extended by allowing government to compete with the private borrowers (firms...
by Sajawal Khan | On 16 Aug 2016 This paper presents new data commissioned from the research consultancy CE Delft on the greenhouse gas emissions footprints and water scarcity footprints of major food commodities. The data demonstrat...
by Oxfam International | On 16 Aug 2016 Increasing women’s participation in paid employment is a fundamental step towards women’s economic empowerment and improving development outcomes. The benefits of increasing women’s labour force parti...
by Somali Cerise | On 12 Aug 2016 Private equity funds hold assets that are hard to value. Managers may have an incentive to distort reported valuations if these are used by investors to decide on commitments to subsequent funds manag...
by Gregory Brown | On 12 Aug 2016 A Bill to further amend the Maternity Benefit Act, 2016. The 44th session of Indian Labour Conference, has recommended for enhancing maternity leave under Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 from existing twe...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment GoI | On 12 Aug 2016 Women as bearers and nurturers of children provide the foundation for generating future citizens for the country and labourers for the economy. In addition to reproductive or care work, women also con...
by | On 12 Aug 2016 Women’s ties with pregnancy and child rearing and the failure of employers and policymakers to deal consistently with this issue exacerbate the difficulties women face in the economy. Women continue t...
by | On 12 Aug 2016 The Preliminary Report and the draft National Medical Commission Bill, 2016 is placed for seeking public opinion. Please send comments/suggestions/feedback on the draft bill latest by 31st August, 201...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 11 Aug 2016 The present study is an effort towards the effective implementation of
this welfare piece of legislation for women and deals with employer’s
perspective on sexual harassment, existing mechanism for...
by Shashi Bala | On 10 Aug 2016 Persistent hunger and malnutrition is a problem affecting millions of people globally, the majority of whom are women and girls. Food and nutrition insecurity is a political, economic and environmenta...
by Bridge Cutting Edge Programme | On 09 Aug 2016 SIDS underscore social development as one of the three dimensions of sustainable development key to ensuring results are achieved for most vulnerable and disadvantaged. Small island developing states...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 09 Aug 2016 This paper captures the payment gap by integrating labor market performance with that of family decision making practices. We conjecture that women from patriarchal families are earning less than men...
by Sukanya Sarkhel | On 04 Aug 2016 This paper highlights the major hindrances in providing a robust referral transport service in
Delhi, under the Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram.The study analyses the socio-economic
parameters and...
by Suresh Sharma | On 03 Aug 2016 There has to be evidence in the policy dialogue. Some may believe that all it takes to convince the body politic of the necessity to choose one policy over another is to present the evidence, complete...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | 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 he United Nations General Assembly agreed a resolution proclaiming the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition from 2016 to 2025. The resolution aims to trigger intensified action to end hunger and eradicate...
by United Nations (UN) | On 20 Jul 2016 This brief presents an overview and analysis of the opportunities, risks and vulnerabilities for women migrants and refugees. It describes the realities of women migrating around the world, and specif...
by | On 19 Jul 2016 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the Monsoon Session between July 18 and August 12, 2016. There will be a total of 20 sittings. The agenda for legislation includes nine Bills for consideration...
by Kusum Malik | On 18 Jul 2016 Gender-based inequalities translate into greater value being placed on the health and survival of males than of females. In India, examples of health and population indicators that are driven by gende...
by | On 15 Jul 2016 This Evidence Report seeks to understand the health and other impacts of slum women’s access to sanitation through the Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach. It also examines the process thro...
by | On 15 Jul 2016 This paper view to locating the growing concern with women’s economic empowerment within its growth research programmes. Inclusive growth,
as defined by IDRC, is growth which ensures opportunities fo...
by Naila Kabeer | On 13 Jul 2016 The study was conducted in the Bangalore Urban district comprising of nine educational blocks. Forty-five schools were selected across nine educational blocks to conduct the primary research for the s...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 12 Jul 2016 The paper shows that the female entrepreneurs in Pakistan are very important to economic and social development but they are facing serious troubles. Women’s entrepreneurship, properly exploited, has...
by Salman Khalid | On 12 Jul 2016 In the existing narratives the wider colonial contexts of institutionalization of western science
and medicine and growth of curative medicine, changing patterns
of education and health services for...
by Sujata Mukherjee | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper aims to present an overview and analysis of the current investment landscape in Cambodia, as well as its impacts on people and the environment. It is hoped that the information ...
by Mark Grimsditch | On 01 Jul 2016 The rise of mixed methods approaches to development-oriented research has brought new attention to qualitative research methods. This paper describes the use of qualitative approaches to illuminate ge...
by | On 29 Jun 2016 This Handbook contains special provisions and
package of assistance which women farmers can claim
under various on-going Missions/ Submissions/ Schemes
of DAC & FW, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 29 Jun 2016 The slowdown in credit growth has been largely because of stress in the public sector banking and not because of high interest rates. As such, what is required is a clean-up of the balance sheets of p...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 29 Jun 2016 Current paper aims to understand how the governments in different
parts of the world have leveraged upon the private sector to achieve specific
educational goals. The idea here is not to recommend o...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 29 Jun 2016 Several residential schooling strategies exist for girls in the publicly funded school system in India. However, there is no definite policy on residential schooling in general or for girls in particu...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 28 Jun 2016 This study has done a test as to what degree anthropometric measurements are useful and efficient in predicting birth outcome of pregnancy and also to determine the quantitative associations of anthr...
by Samiran Bisai | On 27 Jun 2016 In this paper investigates the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument that well functioning credit markets would ref...
by Sumon Kumar Bhaumik | On 27 Jun 2016 This study is based on the fact that the implementation of the Act involves serious financial and governance challenges. Considering that different Indian states are at different stages of development...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 23 Jun 2016 This paper analyses some of the major financial and governance challenges for attaining universal elementary education following RTE norms. The focus is on Karnataka. The analysis of financ...
by | On 22 Jun 2016 This case study aims at presenting Tajikistan’s
perspective of, experiences with, and challenges
to foreign aid. The objective of the study is to raise
awareness about different dimensions of aid f...
by Rustam Aminjanov | On 20 Jun 2016 South Asian women and their status is being assessed here to highlight the similarities in the conditions faced by women despite the diversities stemming from class, religion, culture and locality. Th...
by Preeti Rustagi | On 20 Jun 2016 This paper assesses the proclivity towards refugee-related violence in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, using an original dataset. I show that the host’s attitude towards refugees depend on local fact...
by | On 17 Jun 2016 With the traditional system of the lady of the house looking after the older family members at home is slowly getting changed as the women at home are also participating in activities outside home and...
by | On 15 Jun 2016 The consultations highlight the high rate of penetration of the Nepal earthquakes response (97.5
per cent of consulted children acknowledged to have benefitted from relief assistance), likely
due to...
by Virgil Fievet | 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 This paper analyzes aspects of supply and demand for labour in India using National Sample Survey data for the years 1983, 1993-94, 1999-2000 and 2004-05. With the possibility of a ‘demographic divide...
by Jayan Jose Thomas | On 03 Jun 2016 This publication gathers a collection of twenty case studies that illustrate how Indian states are creating promising change to ensure the delivery of essential nutrition information, counselling, sup...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 03 Jun 2016 The Compendium of Good Practices in Training for Gender Equality aims to make both an empirical and an analytical contribution to the field of training for gender equality. The Compendium offers in-de...
by | On 31 May 2016 The Report details results from the 27 courses offered by the UN Women Training Centre. It also highlights the role of the Training Centre as a training resource hub by delivering training of trainers...
by UN Women | On 31 May 2016 Discrimination against women from or even before birth guarantees them a marginal role in Indian society, and ensures that they are poorer, less educated, and facing more unemployment and health risks...
by | On 31 May 2016 This writ petition was filed in the year 2006, praying for a direction to the respondents to constitute a high level committee with the participation also of the NGOs to investigate the occurance of t...
by Supreme Court of India | On 30 May 2016 The Unified Package Insurance Scheme will be implemented in 45 selected districts on Pilot basis from Kharif 2016 season. A farmer (both Loanee and Non- Loanee) can access to Banks whereas nonloanee f...
by Department of Agriculture & Cooperation GOI | On 30 May 2016 The gender wage gaps in Indian states and the wage gaps among educated people are shown.
by Lakshmi Priya | On 27 May 2016 The aim of the IT policy is:
1.To position Uttar Pradesh as the preferred IT/ITES investment destination in India
2. To leverage IT as an engine of growth for UP
3.To transform physical communit...
by Uttar Pradesh Government UP | On 27 May 2016 This report assesses the status of women in present-day Afghanistan, including the gains achieved with international support after the U.S.-led intervention in 2001. It examines gaps and challenges to...
by International Crisis Group | On 26 May 2016 The paper presents the first rigorous evidence of the effectiveness of a
computer-based adult literacy program. A randomized control trial study of TARA Akshar Plus, an Indian adult literacy program,...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 26 May 2016 In modern society, the possession of a personal official identification (ID) is critical to an individual’s access to government services, and social and economic programs. From voting to receipt of s...
by Michael Stahl | On 26 May 2016 This essay includes a review of major strategies for preservation of earth’s biodiversity including the biodiversity “hotspots,” “Wildlands Project,” and the “consensus” strategy. The essay includes a...
by | On 25 May 2016 Getting organized puts smallholders in charge. Through farmers groups, cooperatives and networks, forest and farm producers can help each other not only through marketing advantages and access to fina...
by Jeffrey Campbell | 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 paper examines the fiscal scene of Kerala, during the last one
and a half decades, by looking at the trends in receipts and expenditure.
It finds that a revenue led fiscal consolidation is the w...
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 20 May 2016 In an era of unprecedented human mobility, migration from and within the Asia-Pacific region has assumed gendered dimensions, with implications for migration flows, trends and patterns. Gender roles,...
by | On 19 May 2016 The policy guidelines were developed as part of the pilot project 'Incorporating Needs and Roles of Women in Water and Energy Management in Rural Areas in South Asia-Capacity Building in Rural Areas o...
by | On 18 May 2016 In this paper we will argue that India’s health policy needs to focus more on delivering those aspects of healthcare which are public or quasi-public goods to correct this balance, and to regulate and...
by Rahul Ahluwalia | 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 Using an audit experiment carried out on of India’s largest real estate websites, this study documents striking variations between landlords’ treatment of upper-caste Hindus, Other Backward Castes, Sc...
by Saugato Datta | 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 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 The Budget Session was originally planned to be held in two parts: from February 23 to March
16 and April 25 to May 13. However, at the end of March, the government decided to convert
these into two...
by Kusum Malik | On 17 May 2016 This study is a result of initiatives taken by the Planning Commission, Government of India, to investigate the multiple impact of drought in one of the India’s drought-prone states i.e. Gujarat. Drou...
by Anil Kumar Roy | On 11 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 The paper examines the impact of the initiative taken by an NGO -SelfEmployed
Women’s Association (SEWA)-in Ahmedabad, a city in western
India to impart knowledge about sexual and reproductive healt...
by Leela Visaria | On 05 May 2016 A bill further to amend the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957.
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 03 May 2016 This paper analyses the role of various trade and technology related factors in determining female employment intensity (FEI), in a panel of India's manufacturing industries for the perio...
by | On 02 May 2016 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 Population ageing has profound social, economic and political implications
for a country. The increasing number of older persons put a strain on health care
and social care systems in the country. O...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 25 Apr 2016 Maternity leave reduces neonatal and infant mortality rates in high-income countries. However, the impact of maternity leave on infant health has not been rigorously evaluated in low- and middle-incom...
by Arjit Nandi | On 22 Apr 2016 This paper presents a model for contextual strategizing and scaling up of interventions to accelerate the pace of reduction of child marriage, with particular reference to India, and within India with...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 18 Apr 2016 While Universal health coverage (UHC)is not new to India, it was only in 2011 that the government appointed a high level expert group to develop a strategy to achieve UHC. Many of the recommendations...
by Thiagrajan Sundararaman | 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 The report gives a detailed account of the education system in India.
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 05 Apr 2016 India’s public health system is in crisis, and has to grapple with multiple challenges. Moreover there have been competing perspectives regarding the medicalisation of birth and the experience of preg...
by Surabhi Sharma | On 04 Apr 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister Manish Sisodia.
by Manish Sisodia | On 29 Mar 2016 This paper formulates a conceptual category called the caste-gender system and tends to follow how the institution of caste operates in systematic complicity with discriminatory gender norms. It talks...
by Ritu Sen Chaudhuri | On 21 Mar 2016 Rural-urban linkages are both a cause and a consequence of socio-economic development. Though there is a vast volume of literature on this subject, there are quite a few gaps in our knowledge about th...
by RS Pundir | On 20 Mar 2016 This 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 Budget Speech by Finance Minister of Maharashtra
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 18 Mar 2016 Aid for Trade (AfT) flows have increased each year since 2006 in the region. And while regional aggregate trade costs continue to fall, many subregions continue to struggle with trade costs that are s...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2016 The Union Budget has failed to allocate substantiate funds. With less gender mainstreaming and with lack of assurance of safety to women the budget fails to make an impact in this regard.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 17 Mar 2016 The 8th Lecture of Krishna Raj Memorial Lecture Series On Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Sciences: ‘The Golden Rule: a remedy for decadence in global health’ By Dr Eric Suba
by ... CEHAT | On 16 Mar 2016 Budget speech of finance minister of Gujarat, Saurabh Patel.
by Saurabh Patel | On 16 Mar 2016 Developing countries continue to face substantial underemployment, working poverty and informality of employment across various regions. In particular, women are more likely to be affected by higher l...
by | On 15 Mar 2016 Over the last two decades, women’s significant progress in educational achievements has not translated into a comparable improvement in their position at work. In many regions in the world, in compari...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 15 Mar 2016 Inclusive business (IB) is a private sector approach to providing goods, services, and livelihoods on a commercially viable basis, either at scale or scalable, to people at the base of the pyramid by...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 14 Mar 2016 Controlling healthcare costs while promoting maximum health impact in the recipient countries is one the biggest challenges for global health donors. This paper views global health donors as the regul...
by Han Ye | On 14 Mar 2016 Random effects panel data analysis is applied to identify financial parameters that influence banks in India in complying with Basel I. The private sector and foreign banks are affected by credit risk...
by Sreejata Banerjee | On 13 Mar 2016 In this paper, considering the district level variations in literacy and other pertinent socio-economic variables we explore whether efficiency in education in district level enrolments is merely a re...
by Brijesh C. Purohit | On 11 Mar 2016 From sexual violence to socio-economic hardships, women have borne a disproportionate share of the burden in Myanmar’s decades-long civil war. As the country undergoes a protracted peace process, more...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper shows that a more accurate depiction of the development of China’s private sector is gained by considering the complex interaction between bottom-up and top- down processes. First, the pape...
by | On 09 Mar 2016 The debate on common property resource centres on issues of a particular strategy for managing it in order to cater to the growing demand for communities that depend on it and the economy at large tha...
by Jharna Pathak | On 09 Mar 2016 That social capital matters is an established fact in the social sciences. How different forms of social capital affect gender disadvantages in career advancement is less clear, however. Qualitative r...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 The reinstatement at TERI of a man accused of sexual harassment to the post of vice chair even as the case is pending is nothing short of cocking a snook at the law and the norms that came into being...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 05 Mar 2016 This Alert is the second in a series investigating the situation of women’s and children’s protection concerns in ASEAN. It aims to examine the domestic efforts that Indonesia and the Philippines have...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 The United Nations, in its new report The Globalization of Crime, underscored the urgency of combating organised crime. The report examines major trafficking flows of drugs, firearms, counterfeit pro...
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 Diversification of rural women from traditional crop based agriculture to high valued agricultural, allied and processing activities with emerging prospect merit considerable attention in context of w...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 02 Mar 2016 It presents a comprehensive analysis of the priorities and proposals in Union Budget 2016-17, focusing on social sectors (such as education, health, drinking water and sanitation, food security etc.)...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 02 Mar 2016 ‘Inclusive education’ policy has been introduced in India, however the concept is in its infancy This qualitative study analyses the case of children with disabilities studying in private inclusive sc...
by Ashima Das | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper provides a comprehensive description of the financial environment for households and small businesses in a defined geographical region. It develops a new, functional approach to financial a...
by Greg Fischer | On 29 Feb 2016 The reform of the tax administration has been recognized as a priority since the early 1980s and the report of the Tax Reforms Commission headed by Qamar-ul Islam, which had called the then Central Bo...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | 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 Has Narendra Modi re-set his political sights? What's there in the Budget?
by T.N. Ninan | On 29 Feb 2016 Land reforms require urgent attention in emerging market economies, and there is a vast body of literature that deals with the economic impact land reforms, especially land titling (Acemoglu et al., 2...
by Madalasa Venkataraman | On 27 Feb 2016 The issue of managing sub-national liabilities is not only an issue in the EU, but is also being a major concern in South Asia, China and Brazil as much of the public investment needed for sustainable...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 Given that public investment requirements far exceed available resources in most developing countries, there is a need to both channel public resources wisely and also best leverage the opportunities...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Dialogue Centre for Policy | On 25 Feb 2016 The present Status Paper for 2015-16 is fifth in this series and reinforces the Government’s commitment to keep the level of public debt within sustainable limits and follow prudent debt management pr...
by Ministry of Finance GOI | On 25 Feb 2016 Indonesia has experienced robust, sustained growth over the past 30 years, accompanied by swift socioeconomic change. However, Indonesian women have remained only moderately engaged in the labor marke...
by Simone Schaner | On 25 Feb 2016 This study looks at Indonesia’s commitments to multilateral trade agreements, and assesses policies adopted by the government to meet the criteria set by those agreements. Particularly, three sectors...
by Titik Anas | 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 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 The world’s biggest summit on environment and development in 20 years wrapped up last Friday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Has the outcome of Rio+20 managed to meet its promise?
by | On 20 Feb 2016 Based on her work experience in post-Katrina New Orleans and post-Sandy New York City, the Municipal Art Society of New York’s Director of Urban Resilience and Livability, Mary Rowe, discusses the rol...
by Mary Rowe | On 19 Feb 2016 This paper provides structural estimates of heterogeneous returns to work experience for Japanese married women. A dynamic model of labor force participation is used to account for dynamic selfselecti...
by Ken Yamada | On 19 Feb 2016 The consumption-leisure choice model implies that an exogenous change in tax rates will induce a change in labor supply. This implication is expected to be important to labor supplied by secondary ear...
by Ken Yamada | On 19 Feb 2016 Based on a survey of 1,268 firms in 12 Chinese cities, this paper empirically studies the effects of unions on three aspects of workers’ welfare, namely, hourly wages, monthly working hours, and pensi...
by Ninghua Zhong | On 19 Feb 2016 The chequered but ongoing political efforts to introduce a uniform Goods & Services Tax (GST) throughout India should actually be seen through a larger economic prism. The current sense of urgency, re...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 Jane Weru in this lecture highlights the plight of women and girls living in informal settlements in Nairobi, with special regard to the poor sanitation conditions prevalent in informal settlements in...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 The paper looks at the trends in nominal and real salaries of the Federal Government employees over the period 1990-2006. It examines the structural defects in the existing salary structure and the an...
by Faiz Bilquees | On 18 Feb 2016 In the upland areas of Southeast Asia, most smallholder farmers keep animals. Buffalo provide a traditional source of draught power for land preparation or transport, and animal manure is often used t...
by Research Consultative Group on International Agricultural | On 18 Feb 2016 Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and school-level inputs. In poor countries remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behin...
by Lisa Höckel | On 17 Feb 2016 Climate change demands new approaches to agriculture: farmers’ practices will need to change in order to adapt to and mitigate changing conditions. Gender is central to this change. Agriculture is a f...
by Sophia Huyer | On 17 Feb 2016 This paper examines the magnitude of public/private wage differentials in Pakistan using data drawn from the 2001-02 Labour Force Survey. Pakistan Labour Force Survey is a nationwide survey containing...
by Asma Hyder | On 16 Feb 2016 Japan has reached the limits of conventional macroeconomic policy. In order to overcome deflation and achieve sustainable economic growth, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) recently set an inflation target of 2...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper examines the road and railway links in Myanmar connecting northeast India on the one side with the rest of Southeast Asia on the other. It also discusses the importance of new deep-sea port...
by Hector Florento | On 16 Feb 2016 This study is an attempt to analyse the determinants of private investment in Pakistan over the period 1972-2005. The ARDL co-integration approach is employed to check the existence of a long-run rela...
by Farooq Pasha | On 15 Feb 2016 Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh is contributing significantly to commercial banks to promote women entrepreneurship in Bangladesh. Various helpful policies are initiated to promote
w...
by Bangladesh Bank BB | On 15 Feb 2016 in order to ensure the inclusion and social security of children, the Central government must pay attention to the concerns raised by Sates and the upcoming Union Budget must include some of the point...
by Kumar Shailabh | On 15 Feb 2016 Lower spread is a vital indicator of the efficiency and competition in the financial system and conducive to higher economic growth of a country via investment spending. In Bangladesh, the spread in t...
by Shamim Ahmed | On 15 Feb 2016 Corruption and bribery are complex transactions that involve both someone who offers a benefit, often a bribe, and someone who accepts, as well as a variety of specialists or intermediaries to facilit...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 An examination of the public pension and social security schemes in Pakistan reveals that the provision of regular pensions is limited to formal sector employees only. A number of social security sche...
by Naushin Mahmood | On 14 Feb 2016 This article examines three elements of the popular narrative of China’s involvement in the development of Afghanistan’s vast natural resource wealth. It argues that Chinese companies invested in Afgh...
by Erica Downs | 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 Intimate partner relationships which are self-arranged, non-marital and non-cohabiting have rarely been a part of the violence against women (VAW) discourse. Such violence comes into the limelight esp...
by Anjali Dave | On 14 Feb 2016 The aim of the present endeavour is to highlight these commonalities in the nature of the work and individual functioning and thereby adhere to the team spirit and democratic principles of the Special...
by Tata Institue of Social Sciences TISS | On 14 Feb 2016 The primary objective of this study is to understand if the strategy which was developed by and for the violated woman, is at all detrimental to her and her access to rights.
by Anjali Dave | On 14 Feb 2016 Private schooling in India has expanded rapidly in the past decade. However, few studies have looked at its implications for educational quality. Using data from the recently collected India Human Dev...
by Sonalde Desai | On 14 Feb 2016 This paper examines the impact of husbands’ migration on the lives of women left behind. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2005, we focus on two dimensions of women’s lives: women’s a...
by Sonalde Desai | On 14 Feb 2016 The findings of the study reveal that, across Nepal, there has been an increase in rural women’s workload rendering multiple effects on women’s health, income, safety, nutrition, violence against wome...
by Dibya Devi Gurung | On 13 Feb 2016 Budget is the major economic policy document of the government for a particular year and perhaps beyond. Therefore, it is imperative to study the processes, institutional mechanisms, and decision-maki...
by Muttukrishna Sarvananthan | On 13 Feb 2016 Two connected observations often loom large in discussions about marriage in India. The first is that marriage for women on the sub-continent often occurs at a relatively early age, and this is cause...
by Lester Andrist | On 13 Feb 2016 The now-frequent use of decision-making questions in household surveys has greatly enhanced our understanding of intra-household power relations. While much of the research interest in these questions...
by Mitali Sen | On 13 Feb 2016 This paper seeks to explain disparities in delivery care across districts by focusing on three factors: marriage and kinship patterns; district wealth; governance and quality services. It examines the...
by Sonalde Desai | On 12 Feb 2016 There is great regional variation on utilization of maternal health care services across India. While regional differences have long been established, why women in some states are more likely to utili...
by Sonalde Desai | On 12 Feb 2016 A comprehensive regulatory framework for the private sector is a prerequisite for a transparent, honest and just society: where regulation is weak, corruption risks grow strong. As the primary rule ma...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Corruption in the provision of basic services can have disproportionate and negative consequences for women and girls, compromising their own empowerment as well as the gender equality and development...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Financing efforts by countries to adapt to climate change will require enormous amounts of resources and investments, both from the public and private sectors. How climate financing is generated, gove...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Rice seed production, marketing, distribution situation in Bangladesh and India is not considered to be efficient. This has led to low availability and accessibility of modern varieties (MV) rice seed...
by Mahfuz Kabir | On 11 Feb 2016 To help lay the groundwork for successful multistakeholder collaborations for healthy living, the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Bain & Company, has produced the insights brief “Collabora...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 The Union Budget falls on February 29- this being a leap year. An online opinion poll on a leading media website reads: “Should Arun Jaitley prefer growth or fiscal deficit?” As India emerges as the...
by Tulsi Jayakumar | On 11 Feb 2016 The forthcoming union budget 2016-17 faces several fiscal challenges and it will be tough task for the government to provide positive signals to revive the private investment while pursuing the fiscal...
by Pratap Jena | On 11 Feb 2016 he present paper on Exceptions to Patent Rights in Developing Countries is a part of the efforts of the UNCTAD/ICTSD Project to contribute to a better understanding of the use of patent exceptions for...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Occupation is key in socioeconomic research. As in other survey modes, most web surveys use an open-ended question for occupation, though the absence of interviewers elicits unidentifiable or aggregat...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Bonus continues to be an important component of the pay mix of employees. This practice is followed by most of the organizations to keep employees committed, motivated and dedicated towards their orga...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 From 2012 to 2016, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the WageIndicator Foundation and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) are running the Labour Rights for Wom...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Our data shows that most women go to the private sector for most of their reproductive health needs. After our early interventions, eligible/BPL women began availing of the benefits of the Chiranjeevi...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 India has 8,928 urban areas or towns as per the Census 2011, 53 are cities or metros having more than 1 million population. Till date, we had taken for granted that several health indicators were wors...
by Dhruv Mankad | On 09 Feb 2016 The ‘theory and practice of change’ that the UHRC has been fortunate to learn from first hand is that organized slum women who are trained, mentored, and supported have a greater capacity to access go...
by Siddharth Agarwal | On 09 Feb 2016 Over the past four decades, the accumulation of policy legacies and public debt has led to a decline in fiscal flexibility in Germany and the United States. By applying an index of fiscal democracy to...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development is the flagship publication of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women. It is presented to the Second Committee of the General Ass...
by UN Women | On 08 Feb 2016 Launched in June of 2000, "Progress of the World's Women" is UNIFEM's biennial investigation of progress made towards a world where women live free from violence, poverty and inequality. The first iss...
by UN Women | On 08 Feb 2016 We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We fin...
by Øystein Hernæs | On 07 Feb 2016 We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expa...
by Dongshu Ou | On 07 Feb 2016 This report is based on research carried out in five Asia Pacific countries – China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. This document should serve as an instrument to help...
by Transparency International TI | 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 This Working paper studies the reservation policy of the Government of India with regard to – employment in government services, admission in educational institutions, and representation in legislativ...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 This article investigates the effect of jobs reservation on improving the economic opportunities of persons belonging to India's Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). Using employment data...
by Sriya Iyer | On 05 Feb 2016 One of the key strategic areas of Transparency International Bangladesh's research has always been the institutions of democracy and specialized pillars of governance and accountability, which constit...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 The growing body of WTO jurisprudence can help facilitate rules-based negotiations as a way of avoiding formal litigation more than ever before, and developing countries are now in a position to reap...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 The purpose of the Anti-Corruption Principles and Standards for Local Governance Systems is to provide clear guidance as to how to prevent corruption and deal with it when it occurs. Most of them appl...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 This study evaluates infrastructure investment and finance in Asia from a global perspective. It provides an overview on infrastructure needs and the various sources of private finance, globally and w...
by Georg Inderst | On 02 Feb 2016 In this report we take a look at strategic opportunities and barriers for action on under-nutrition, particularly for women and children in KP Province in the post-devolution context. We will assess u...
by Shehla Zaidi | On 02 Feb 2016 Global progress towards reducing undernutrition has been made through enlightened public policies, targeted development assistance, private sector actions and commitments from civil society. Yet every...
by Nicholas Alipui | On 01 Feb 2016 National pension provision in Asia/Pacific is very diverse. Nine economies have public schemes that pay earnings-related pensions. They are called “defined-benefit” (DB) schemes because the value of t...
by OECD Development Centre | On 01 Feb 2016 A gender analysis of the human rights situation is therefore necessary in order to understand the impact of the crisis on women and their livelihoods. In South Asia, there is an urgent need for engagi...
by Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural PWESCR | On 31 Jan 2016 There is a renewed consensus on the need to re-regulate international capital movements. But there is a collective action problem, which puts developing countries at a particular disadvantage. Countri...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Responding to the economic and financial crisis, a large number of countries introduced fiscal stimulus packages to support aggregate demand. These have been critical in avoiding the recession becomin...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The parliamentary general elections in 1977 was a watershed in the political landscape of Sri Lanka. The government that came into power mid-year sought a more liberalized and open economy, and hence...
by Nanda Abeywickrama | On 30 Jan 2016 In this paper, Prof. Tim Josling analyses whether an international scheme for targeted consumer food subsidies could represent a practical contribution to overcoming food insecurity in developing coun...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Is it a tit for tat play going on here between Congress and BJP?
by T.N. Ninan | On 30 Jan 2016 Parliamentary oversight is one of the cornerstones of democracy. John Stuart Mill asserted that the most appropriate tasks of a representative body are to : oversee and clarify the government actions,...
by BRAC University | On 30 Jan 2016 The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially d...
by Sabina Alkire | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper reviews the party declarations, election manifestos, party structures and level of women's presence within five different political parties as mentioned above. The election manifestos and co...
by . BRAC | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper explores how these perceptions and narratives around women’s empowerment have evolved in Bangladesh from 2000 to date. It studies the concepts of women’s empowerment in public discourse and...
by Sohela Nazneen | On 30 Jan 2016 This handbook on “Social Work Intervention in Police Stations” attempts to document the experiences of Prayas social workers in handling cases relating to women, children, youth, mentally or emotiona...
by Prayas NGO | On 30 Jan 2016 Is leadership diversified in Asian corporate boardrooms? How is gender diversity in corporate leadership associated with financial performance? What is the magnitude of potential gain by allocating hu...
by Meijun Qian | On 30 Jan 2016 This report provides evidence from three quite different cities in ADB’s Central and West Asia region of the prevalence of women being harassed on public transport. It goes on to show the impacts of t...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jan 2016 The multilateral rules-based trading system has been crucial in helping states to cooperate and gradually open up borders to encourage trade and investment for development. It has contributed to tempe...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper analyse the situation of the women working in subcontracting
arrangements in the industry. In the analysis of value chains we found that women workers in all segments were not the direct...
by Jeemol Unni | On 28 Jan 2016 The purpose of this paper is not to look at the Japanese growth model, which has been well researched, but to look at women’s employment in the economic development of Japan. The questions that the pa...
by Uma Rani | On 28 Jan 2016 The paper argues that the difference in the mode of programme implementation between Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat exerts an influence on the function and performance of the local institutions created as...
by R. Parthasarathy | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper addresses the different firm level strategies adopted to face up to the pressures of competition by two industrial clusters in the highly industrialised state of Gujarat. The overwhelming p...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 Surat-a city in the western-most Indian state of Gujarat, is an important case study, especially for those municipalities attempting reform of public health services. This note takes Surat as a case s...
by Rajib Dasgupta | On 28 Jan 2016 In order to provide adequate and quality primary health care, a multi-layered network of public health infrastructure has been created right from the district to the village level. But Health for All...
by B.L. Kumar | On 28 Jan 2016 In order to provide adequate and quality primary health care, a multi-layered network of public health infrastructure has been created right from the district to the village level. But Health for All...
by B.L. Kumar | On 28 Jan 2016 South Asia's girls and women do not have the same life advantage as their Western counterparts. A human rights based approach may help to overcome gender related barriers and improve the wellbeing of...
by Omrana Pasha | On 28 Jan 2016 A basic premise of representative democracy is that all those subject to
policy should have a voice in its making. However, policies enacted by electorally accountable governments often fail to refle...
by Rohini Pande | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of
women’s leadership on policy decisions. Since the mid-1990’s, one third of Village Council head positions in India hav...
by | 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 paper, nonetheless, acknowledges that delivering these benefits would involve significant practical and political challenges. It concludes that if the challenges can be overcome and the mutual ben...
by Kodjo Osei-Lah | On 26 Jan 2016 Some innovations within the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) have demonstrated significant improvements in the nutritional status of children. This note discusses four such innovations, as...
by Ashi Kohli Kathuria | On 26 Jan 2016 India should comprehensively address its challenge of undernutrition. This includes, pursuing agricultural policies to strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages. This note suggests that agricultural p...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 26 Jan 2016 Despite the high contribution of urban areas to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), urban poverty and nutrition security in India remains a challenge. Poor infrastructure, high unemployment, poor state...
by M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper examines the agroforestry initiative adopted by the Government of Gujarat with the aim to enhance the incomes of tribal households facing numerous production constraints. The specific objec...
by Jharna Pathak | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper gives an overview of international migration from the state of Gujarat, the state with a long history of international migration and significantly large migrant population abroad. Even as s...
by Biplab Dhak | On 26 Jan 2016 The relationship between women’s access to credit and their empowerment is a theme that seems to have lost much of its sheen and sharpness during the phase of commercialization of microfinance in Indi...
by Tara Nair | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper examines how the decentralisation process has evolved over time in India from the ancient times through to the British regime to modern era. It focuses specifically on Panchayati Raj Instit...
by Madhusudan Bandi | On 25 Jan 2016 This study examines the relationship if any among economic growth (output), private sector credit and inflation in Bangladesh. In many developed and developing countries, private sector credit has pla...
by Sayera Younus | On 23 Jan 2016 This paper investigates the sensitivity of money demand to interest rates on treasury bills in Bangladesh with quarterly data for the period 1997Q4-2006Q4. A standard demand for money function is spec...
by Akhand Akhtar Hossain | On 23 Jan 2016 From 1 January 2015, the ‘YojanaBhavan’ on the busy Parliament Street (Sansad Marg) in Central Delhi sports a new name: NITI Aayog (Commission). This follows the official notification of the Governmen...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 After the heat and dust of the recent parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka, the accord between the country’s two main political parties for a ‘national unity government’ seems to offer the best chance...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 The briefing paper primarily focuses on violations of women’s and girls’ reproductive rights and right to be free from sexual violence arising from child marriage in six South Asian countries—Afghanis...
by Center for Reproductive Rights CRR | On 23 Jan 2016 Using the data available through the Sample Registration System, the present paper employs a decomposition methodology to analyse the transition in fertility in India and in 15 of major states for the...
by Alok Chaurasia | On 23 Jan 2016 The intention of this study is to get an indication of the trends and uses of private sector commercial borrowing from external sources in Bangladesh. In this paper, an overall picture of the private...
by Sayera Younus | On 23 Jan 2016 Alliances’ of public and private actors can play a crucial role in accelerating the transition to sustainable energy systems, and these groupings can be ‘engineered’. Based on research findings from I...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 While Indonesia's rank in overall ease of doing business improved in 2015 according to World Bank's worldwide competitiveness ranking, overall ease of doing business still ranks unfavorably compared t...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 This case study was undertaken to understand and document the experiences of the Valsad district. The researchers spent two weeks in Valsad collecting data. Interviews were conducted with functionarie...
by Climate Modelling Forum CMF | On 22 Jan 2016 In order to accelerate progress on undernutrition reduction we need to understand how the governance of nutrition programmes leads to successful outcomes. Based on evidence from six countries: Banglad...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 21 Jan 2016 This guidance aims to assist official data producers (national statistical offices and line ministries) in defining and meeting their digital preservation requirements and obligations. The recommendat...
by Nancy McGovern | On 21 Jan 2016 This discussion paper provides an analysis of the impact of these reforms on pharmaceutical R&D in India. It looks into the context in which the reforms were introduced, the nature and trends of R&D e...
by Reji K Joseph | On 21 Jan 2016 The Standing Committee on Human Resource Development is currently examining the subject 'Role
of Private Sector in Higher Education'. In this context, an analysis of the role of the
private sector...
by Apoorva Shankar | On 20 Jan 2016 With the twin objectives of improving health and education of the poor children, India has embarked upon an ambitious scheme of providing mid day meals (MDM) in the government and government-assisted...
by Satish Deodhar | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper provides an overview of key issues relating to the achievement of gender equity in education, laying out some of the contradictions and tensions in donor discourse and policy efforts, and p...
by Ramya Subrahmanian | On 19 Jan 2016 This working group on Disadvantaged Farmers, including women is one of the key working groups for defining agricultural policy in the Twelfth Five Year Plan. Eighty-three percent of India’s farmers cu...
by Bina Agarwal | On 19 Jan 2016 In the limited literature on gender and climate change, two themes predominate – women as vulnerable or virtuous in relation to the environment. Two viewpoints become obvious: women in the South will...
by Seema Arora-Jonsson | On 19 Jan 2016 Two important policy shifts occurred with the period of
economic reforms: one, the sharp reduction in the controlled drug list leading to significant increase in
drug prices, and second, the introdu...
by Gita Sen | On 18 Jan 2016 We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration a...
by | On 15 Jan 2016 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set the agenda for the attainment of universal literacy by 2015 primarily to be delivered by the state sector. This agenda tends to ignore the significant private s...
by | On 15 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 In this brief review of recent approaches relevant to climate smart agriculture (CSA) programs, the researcher presents ideas on why emerging CSA policies and plans lack the attention to gender that w...
by Sonja Vermeulen | On 14 Jan 2016 This study, relying primarily on qualitative data from Côte d’Ivoire, examines how income allocation and intra-household dynamics affect household resilience during the lean season. Its findings indic...
by Elizabeth Kiewisch | On 14 Jan 2016 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 This learning brief synthesises lessons drawn from CARE’s Adaptation Learning Programme for Africa (ALP), which has been supporting vulnerable communities in sub-Saharan Africa to adapt to the impacts...
by Webb J. | On 13 Jan 2016 Millions of job seekers in South Asia, including many tribals, are forced by lack of local employment opportunities to migrate towards urban areas. This fieldwork-based study aims to understand specif...
by Rajib Dhar | On 13 Jan 2016 In this paper, an attempt has been made to understand the general, reproductive, and mental health status of migrant women from Kerala who stay in the working women’s hostels. The present study is bas...
by R. S. Reshmi | On 13 Jan 2016 Mental health is an important component of the total positive health and is interwoven closelywith the physical and physiological dynamics of the human body. Migrant population, being a non-native pop...
by Reshmi R S | On 13 Jan 2016 This article traces the different elements that explain and help understand the phenomena of declining child sex ratios in India along with the debates on the subject, with specific focus on urban loc...
by Preet Rustagi | On 13 Jan 2016 The medical profession in India has experienced major changes in terms of woman participation in medicine. In the last few decades, the number of women joining medicine has revealed a noticeable growt...
by Rituparna Dutta | On 13 Jan 2016 This paper examines the changing work profiles of women in the South Asian region, with all elements of contradictions, in terms of doubling their burdens or empowering them. Are the newer avenues for...
by Preet Rustagi | On 13 Jan 2016 The following is a report based on PUDR’s repeated visits to
Atali and its interactions with Muslim and Jat families over the last four
months.
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 13 Jan 2016 India has highly populated states and a highly devolved budget; in fact, over half of all India’s public expenditures are through state budgets, including a large share of development expenditures on...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 13 Jan 2016 Discrimination against women and girls carries a high development cost. This third edition of the SIGI captures and measures gender-based discrimination in social institutions- social norms, practices...
by OECD Development Centre | On 13 Jan 2016 This Overview Report on Gender and Migration takes a broad approach to migration – it looks at the gender dynamics of both international and the lesser-researched internal migration and the interconne...
by | On 13 Jan 2016 The international community has advanced in reforming the international aid system. Such reform comes at a time when there is a renewed skepticism about aid effectiveness and when the crisis sheds new...
by José Alonso | On 11 Jan 2016 The latest ruling by the Supreme Court of India against the government’s project of the National Judicial Appointments Commission has further stirred a public discourse on the best means to have the b...
by Vinod Rai | 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 | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper tries to analyse the effects of TRIPS on public welfare in the context of the pharmaceutical sector. It takes a closer look at the policies of some developing countries and their usage of t...
by Deeparghya Mukherjee | 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 This work examines the influence of reforms in the 1990s regarding the agricultural development in India. Many studies have analysed the impact of these reforms but most of them focused on foreign tra...
by Marion Künzler | On 08 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 Water samples were collected from groundwater sources used by the communities residing in several settlements around the UCIL factory. These sources included handpumps, tubewells and one open well. A...
by | On 06 Jan 2016 A recent survey done by Vikas Bharati, an Unnao-based voluntary organization, revealed that 35%, 47.8% and 60.3% of children were affected with dental fluorosis, in Junior High School, Thana, Janta Sh...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 06 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 paper discusses the tensions between the feminisation of migration and the domestic roles women typically assume, including unpaid care work. It then examines issues related to health of migrants,...
by | On 06 Jan 2016 This section analyses the records maintained at the Special Cell,
between 1990-1997, in the city of greater Mumbai. As per the
procedural requirements at the Special Cell, women are supposed
to sub...
by Anjali Dave | On 05 Jan 2016 This study examines the nature of violence faced by lesbians in Indian society. Although there has been substantial theoretical and practical work on violence against women in India, the manifestation...
by Bina Fernandez | On 05 Jan 2016 This note compares the legislative business planned by Parliament and compares it with the actual
performance, during the Winter Session 2015.
by Kusum Malik | On 05 Jan 2016 Based on the Asia Foundation’s , "Afghanistan in 2006: A Survey of the Afghan People." , the papers in this volume analyze survey data on the opinions and perceptions of Afghans towards government, pu...
by | On 02 Jan 2016 This report presents findings from a study undertaken to understand the barriers that inhibit access to HIV services for women. Two different scenarios were studied - female sex workers and wives of m...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Jan 2016 This document clearly informs about the possible strategies that can be applied for the implementation of the NRLM. The publication not only incorporates outputs of the discussions on NRLM design but...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Jan 2016 Myanmar is expected to grow at least 6.8% per year in the coming years. Accompanying this growth will be an increase in demand for infrastructure services, including ICT-related services, both for co...
by Kee-Yung Nam | On 01 Jan 2016 A study of how PPPs have been employed by ADB developing member countries in Asia and the Pacific identified seven initiatives that adopted the underlying principles of PPP in developing and deliverin...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 01 Jan 2016 This study examines the differential effects of the unemployment rate at labor market entry,defined as the time of leaving school, on subsequent wages across gender and race using the National Longitu...
by Ayako Kondo | On 01 Jan 2016 Recurrent episodes of civil unrest significantly reduce the potential for economic growth and poverty reduction. Yet the economics literature offers little understanding of what triggers civil unrest...
by Patricia Justino | On 30 Dec 2015 We study urban, private sector Chinese employers’ preferences between workers with and without a local permanent residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board. We find...
by | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor f...
by Delia Furtado | On 30 Dec 2015 Improving physical connectivity between South and Southeast Asia has long been recognized as a key element in promoting greater trade and investment linkages within the region. As an island economy, S...
by Dushni Weerakoon | On 29 Dec 2015 A new feature of international migration for work is the increase
in the numbers of overseas women migrant workers, which in
countries like the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka exceed
the numbe...
by | On 28 Dec 2015 This note presents data regarding Parliament’s productivity during Winter Session 2015.
by Kusum Malik | On 26 Dec 2015 The main objective of this paper is to give an overview of the most commonly used housing policies and to illustrate their economic impact. To facilitate the analysis, we first introduce a simple two-...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 24 Dec 2015 Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the biggest food producers, they earn only one-tenth of the world’s income and own less than 1% of the world...
by | On 23 Dec 2015 This report explores how best to implement effective land reform, based on past experience in less-developed and transitional economies. The authors discuss the potential benefits of land reform, fact...
by | On 23 Dec 2015 Right to Information Assessment and Advocacy Group (RaaG) came into existence, in 2008 when a group of RTI activists, researchers and academics got together to create a group dedicated to the ongoing...
by | On 23 Dec 2015 This paper examines whether an increase in women’s time in agriculture adversely affects maternal and child nutrition, and whether the lack of women’s time in reproductive work leads to poorer nutriti...
by SOPHIE THEIS | On 22 Dec 2015 Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require high levels of productive private and public sector investment, which in turn requires a suitable investment climate. This paper provide...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 Public sector service delivery in India is notorious for its low coverage, poor quality and high corruption. This is in striking contrast to the political commitment to inclusive development, and the...
by Yamini Aiyar | 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 report analyses the current regulatory framework of higher education in India and highlights areas that require important policy reforms in order to encourage greater private participation. This...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 21 Dec 2015 Tabled by V. Narayanasamy, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, in Lok Sabha in December 2011, The Right of Citizens for Time Bound Delivery of Goods and Services and Redre...
by Amit Chandra | On 21 Dec 2015 The paper reports on existing incentive structures in a sample of government and private schools in Delhi and elicits teachers’ perspectives on factors which motivate them. It is found that performanc...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 Study on the needs and conditions of women workers in Delhi
must begin its enquiry with the initial problem of poor availability of employment or access to economic activity/work for women in the cap...
by Neetha N | On 21 Dec 2015 Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a global women’s health concern; uterine prolapse (UP), one of the five types of POP, has significant prevalence in Nepal. Studies indicate that over 600,000 women in Ne...
by Sherrie Palm | On 18 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 Budget Private Schools (BPS) are privately-run schools that charge very low fees, operating among the poorer sections of the society and have become relevant to the education discourse of India. This...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 18 Dec 2015 The DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a nu...
by Barnett I. | 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 This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is ke...
by Khalid Sekkat | On 16 Dec 2015 The paper looks at the basic characteristics of female domestic workers, gaps in minimum wage coverage, compliance, and the extent of minimum wage violations. Presenting empirical evidence on labour m...
by | On 16 Dec 2015 Research around the world has demonstrated the important role that education plays in the empowerment of girls and women. Providing girls with a quality education can help prevent early marriage, prev...
by Musammat Badrunnesha | On 16 Dec 2015 The disadvantaged and marginalized groups in Nepal, and particularly women and Dalits, face grave hurdles to acquire post secondary education. Lack of educational access has deprived the rural and m...
by Pramod Dhakal | On 15 Dec 2015 The study finds that micro hydro (MH) has significant impact on reduction in fuel wood consumption. Communities are more inclined to harvest fuel wood from government forest. These led to the promotio...
by Bishwa Koirala | On 15 Dec 2015 The SkyShares model helps policy-makers explore a range of diffe ent policy scenarios. It enables users to relate a target limit for temperature change to a global emissions ceiling; to allocate this...
by Owen Barder | On 11 Dec 2015 The “Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009: Who Answers to Women?” demonstrates that one of the most powerful constraints on realizing women's rights and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (...
by | On 07 Dec 2015 The immense social, economic and environmental consequences of climate change and loss of essential ecosystems are becoming clear. Their effects are already being felt in floods, droughts, and devasta...
by | On 07 Dec 2015 This Sunday Column is about having simple safety initiatives and improvements to make your workplaces safe. With the recent incident of a woman print entrepreneur murdered in her workplace in Delhi, i...
by Noel D'Cunha | On 06 Dec 2015 This report argues that what is urgently needed is a tested but far from fully exploited approach to funding forest conservation: pay-for-performance transfers, under which public (and private) funder...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 03 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 The paper examines educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962-1991. We find that educational persistence, as measured by the regression co...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 01 Dec 2015 An important element of the socio-economic impact of HIV is
how it disproportionately affects women and girls, in terms of
their vulnerability to infection, constrained access to services
and the a...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Dec 2015 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the Winter Session between November 26th and December 23rd, 2015. The legislative agenda includes 19 Bills currently
pending in Parliament for consideration an...
by Kusum Malik | On 25 Nov 2015 The Global Gender Gap Report quantifies the magnitude of gender based disparities and tracks their progress over time. While no single measure can capture the complete situation, the Global Gender Gap...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 24 Nov 2015 Post-7th Pay Commission recommendations, the pay being offered now should not be a disincentive for public-spirited people with ability. Can the government afford this hike?
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Nov 2015 This paper makes the case that the growth trajectory of the Indian economy in the post-1991 liberalization period is characterised by an inherent source of instability in manufacturing and industrial...
by | On 20 Nov 2015 This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction between community gender norms and relative supply of madrasas (i.e. Islamic schools)....
by Zaki Wahhaj | On 16 Nov 2015 The report maps the workforce participation and aspirations of young women and girls from low income groups in and around four metropolitan cities of India and determines the barriers they face in rea...
by | On 13 Nov 2015 The documents states the Government's policy on Transgenders (TGs) its goals, objectives, approaches, implementation processes and highlights selected area of focus in Kerala' s socio-economic context...
by Social Justice Department Kerala | 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 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 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 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 Our tradition of debate in an environment of respect and tolerance. By upholding it, by fighting for it, the students can repay their teachers and your parents. And you will be doing our country a gre...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 03 Nov 2015 On 2 August 2015, the outcome document of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 was agreed by consensus by Member States. The outcome document will be presented to the Summit for adop...
by UN Women | On 30 Oct 2015 This study provides evidence of the association of violence on the reproductive health behavior of married women in rural India. The study explores the prevalence of different forms of domestic violen...
by | On 29 Oct 2015 Despite lack of infrastructure and facilities, studies over the past decade
has shown that learning outcomes in these schools are equal to or better than those of far more resourcefu...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 29 Oct 2015 This Report focuses on the economic and social dimensions of gender equality, including the right of all women to a good job, with fair pay and safe working conditions, to an adequate pension in older...
by UN Women | On 23 Oct 2015 The achievement of substantive equality is understood as having four dimensions: redressing disadvantage; countering stigma, prejudice, humiliation and violence; transforming social and institutional...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 This paper documents the pervasiveness of women’s lack of income security in old age across a large number of countries, but also points to a number of important policy measures that can be taken to a...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 This paper provides evidence on the effect of women directors on the performance of family firms with a
case study of India.
by Jayati Sarkar | On 16 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 The female workforce participation means the rate of percentage of female engaged in the total working population of a state or country. Women constitute an important part of the workforce of all over...
by Dr. Ananta Pegu | On 16 Oct 2015 E-retailing has exponentially grown in the past decade. Alongside, consumer
grievances have also started surfacing. The Consumer Protection Bill, 2015
addresses this by giving the right to the consu...
by Akhileshwar Pathak | On 15 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 India is the world’s second largest country in terms of total inhabitants. Further, out of a total population exceeding one billion, approximately 120 million are women living in poverty. India is one...
by | On 13 Oct 2015 A bill to provide for adequate protection of the interests of consumers and for prevention of unfair trade practices and for the said purposes to make provisions for establishment of the Consumer Prot...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | 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 covers various kinds of violence in
the private and public spheres faced by women in the four villages. It concludes with issues for further research and some policy suggestions.
by Shivani Satija | On 12 Oct 2015 Ten years of election watch in Bihar.
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 12 Oct 2015 Why does gender equality in the media matter? Because of the many influences that shape the way we see men and women, media are among the most powerful. Media shape our daily lives, infusing their mes...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 07 Oct 2015 Increasing women`s economic participation is not yet universally accepted despite three decades of global advocacy; and women empowerment and gender equality are still a work in progress. A mechanism...
by Lucita Lazo | On 07 Oct 2015 Research from South India suggests that climate change will affect
ground water availability with serious and negative implications
for agriculture. Any increase in temperature above a threshold of
...
by R. Balasubramanian | 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 In this report, MGI explores the economic potential available if the global gender gap were
to be closed. The research finds that, in a full-potential scenario in which women play
an identical role...
by Jonathan Woetzel | On 30 Sep 2015 This paper 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 The growing reach of the Internet, the rapid spread of mobile information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the wide diffusion of social media have presented new opportunities and enabled var...
by United Nations UN | On 28 Sep 2015 Social capital is often extolled as a benevolent resource, but resources can be applied to any number of ends. Using new data from the India Human Development Survey (N=41,544), the author examined so...
by Lester Andrist | On 28 Sep 2015 This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. It recognises that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions...
by United Nations UN | On 28 Sep 2015 The 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 Handbook is mainly for human rights practitioners who want to familiarise themselves with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and use the human rights fram...
by | On 23 Sep 2015 The paper attempts to address the problem of undernutrition in India and its adverse effects on children and adults. Today, food security concerns include not only the problems of physical availabili...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 This paper seeks to provide an overview of the complex and dynamic relationship between nutrition and growth, examine how different growth patterns lead to different nutritional outcomes, and identif...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 This planning commission report on Food Security deals with the changing consumption pattern for food in India and reviews some studies on demand and supply projections for cereals in India. It also e...
by Planning Commission | On 21 Sep 2015 This paper explores the spatiality and temporality of women’s decisions to navigate particular forms of paid work, through means of a comparative analysis of three different sites and forms of work—at...
by Sonal Sharma | On 21 Sep 2015 Review of Women in Terrorism: Case of the LTTE by Tamara Herath. Sage Publications 2015. pp. 264. Rs. 533/- ISBN-13: 978-8132106951.
by Ilina Sen | On 21 Sep 2015 This study explores issues surrounding the preservation and promotion of culture in the context of the secondary school English curriculum in Bhutan. The languages of Bhutan carry a rich and diverse t...
by | On 21 Sep 2015 This paper tries to map some of the major debates exploring the 'elephant‘ of India‘s failure to end hunger and malnutrition. The authors identify five main hurdles towards addressing the issue of hun...
by | On 17 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 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 "The problems of knowledge are central to feminist theorizing which has sought to destabilize androcentric, mainstream thinking in the humanities and in the social and natural sciences". The feminist...
by | On 14 Sep 2015 Domestic work remains one of the key occupations for many female migrants in Southeast Asia. As a low skilled, low-wage job with often inadequate legal protection, domestic work is an occupation that...
by | On 14 Sep 2015 This study examines the status of and trends in foreign investment inflow into the Indian hospital sector and highlights the emerging issues from 2000 to 2014, the era of liberalised foreign investmen...
by | On 14 Sep 2015 The leadership agenda for action released by Coalition for Sustainable Nutrition Security in India to promote policy, programme and budgetary focus on overcoming the curse of malnutrition. The Coaliti...
by Coalition for Food & Nutrition Security India | 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 Open and participatory budget making is imperative for good
governance; yet by international standards India fares badly
on this count. This article analyses the process of budget
preparation and...
by Vinod Bhanu | On 11 Sep 2015 The Global Gender Gap Report 2014 emphasizes persisting gender gap divides across and within regions. Based on the nine years of data available for the 111 countries that have been part of the report...
by | On 11 Sep 2015 Human trafficking is a large and growing problem, and sex trafficking is a particularly egregious form of contemporary enslavement of the most vulnerable: women and children. Yet a decade of anti-traf...
by Aditee Maskey | On 10 Sep 2015 Nepali society is highly stratified with many glaring inequalities among different socioeconomic groups. The worst positioned among them are Dalits. The caste system segregates Dalits from the rest to...
by | On 10 Sep 2015 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 This booklet presents a brief analysis of certain key sectors and themes related to the Health system in India on creating an integrated and comprehensive public health system that prioritizes people’...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan | On 09 Sep 2015 Domestic violence is identified as a public health problem. It is associated with adverse maternal health. This study examined the prevalence and determinants of domestic violence among women in urban...
by C.P. Prakasam | On 09 Sep 2015 Sanitation in India has to be improved. Women and children are the most affected due to the low sanitation. A check list is given to parliamentarians on how to improve sanitation in the country.
by Parliamentarian's Group for Children PGC | On 08 Sep 2015 - Gender equality is considered a critical element in achieving social and institutional change that leads to sustainable development with equity and growth. Inequalities between men and women manifes...
by | On 07 Sep 2015 This brief provides an overview of civil society in Myanmar. With a view to strengthening ADB cooperation with civil society organizations, the NGO and Civil Society Center periodically prepares repor...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Sep 2015 In any health system, the health worker determines the nature and quality of services provided. Data demonstrate that most health systems across the globe face nursing shortages, varying across region...
by | On 07 Sep 2015 This report focuses on three main issues – gender equality, maternal health and slums – which provide clear examples of how the MDGs and the targets set fall short of international human rights standa...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 31 Aug 2015 Over the past 15 years, important gains have been made in gender equality. Gender gaps in educational attainment have shrunk substantially. In fact, in many high-income countries, young women’s educat...
by Megan Gerecke | On 31 Aug 2015 If there is one thing the Census 2011 shows, it's that India will remain overwhelmingly Hindu forever
by T.N. Ninan | On 29 Aug 2015 This 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 This study aims to shed light on the industry that profits from the recruitment of women from South Asian countries into domestic work employment in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Banglad...
by Katharine Jones | On 27 Aug 2015 The labour market structure plays a vital role in chalking out the development and growth path of a country. The labour market polices, institutions, and patterns of employment in turn determine the s...
by Biju Varkkey | On 26 Aug 2015 This planning commission paper tries to examine some of the factors that have led to accumulation of excess food grain stocks and make policy prescription on how to deal with the problem of surplus fo...
by Arvind Virmani | On 25 Aug 2015 The present study on evaluation of the NREGA Scheme is intended to assess the impact of this scheme on the status of child care services at worksites of the NREGA, status of facilities available to wo...
by Madhuri Karak | On 25 Aug 2015 Uttar Pradesh is ranked second among Indian states in ‘crimes against women’, which includes rape, abduction, dowry-related deaths, mental and physical torture and sexual harassment (Government of Utt...
by Jerker Edström | On 25 Aug 2015 This note provides background data and analysis on what has been happening to aid flows and the resulting change in aid architecture. It is based on data taken from the OECD/DAC and on a review of the...
by Homi Kharas | On 25 Aug 2015 Until recently, most aid from rich to poor countries was transmitted through official bilateral and multilateral channels. But the rapid growth in private development aid from foundations, charities,...
by Homi Kharas | On 25 Aug 2015 Monsoon Session 2015 marks the end of the first year of the 16th Lok Sabha. This note looks at the participation of MPs in both Houses of Parliament over the last year. Participation in debates includ...
by Kusum Malik | On 25 Aug 2015 This paper finds that high-school leadership experiences explain a significant portion of the residual gender wage gap and selection into management occupations. The results imply that high-school lea...
by | On 24 Aug 2015 Bills Passed by Parliament during the Monsoon Session
by Kusum Malik | On 24 Aug 2015 This note presents data regarding Parliament productivity during Monsoon Session 2015. This session has been one of the least productive sessions in the last 15 years with repeated disruptions in both...
by Kusum Malik | On 24 Aug 2015 This Working Group report aims to study the advocacy programme in ICDS that would enable widespread and sustained community participation as result of a better understanding and appreciation amongst t...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 19 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 The development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are a vital role of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, because it contributes more than 90 % of country’s GDP and it can be found out both in...
by Nang Saw Nandar Hlaing | On 19 Aug 2015 This study examines the impact of commercial bank credit to the private sector on the economic growth in Nepal from supply side perspectives. The study has applied Johansen co-integration approach and...
by | On 17 Aug 2015 There are basic methodological and conceptual problems with recent research that ends up arguing that private school education is more effective than public education. Such findings have obvious polic...
by | 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 This publication highlights the relevance in India and the multiplicity of entry points of the right to the city as a vehicle for social inclusion and sustainable social development for Indian cities....
by Centre de Sciences Humaines CSH | On 12 Aug 2015 The health conditions and mobility patterns of female migrant workers are subjects that sit at the crossroads of multiple pressing issues, best understood in the context of social, economic and politi...
by Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women (GAATW) | On 11 Aug 2015 The emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a global component of business-society relationships has triggered many controversial debates in which CSR is either advocated as a source of...
by Damien Krichewsky | On 07 Aug 2015 The MDG Report 2015 found that the 15-year effort to achieve the eight aspirational goals set out in the Millennium Declaration in 2000 was largely successful across the globe, while acknowledging sho...
by United Nations UN | On 05 Aug 2015 The Human Papillomavirus vaccine "demonstration projects" conducted by a United States non-governmental organisation in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research were suspended by the...
by Amar Jesani | On 30 Jul 2015 In 2010, a civil society-led investigation has highlighted serious ethical violations in a trial of the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine on girls in Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh. The findings are p...
by Anjali Shenoi | On 30 Jul 2015 Domestic violence is recognised as a serious violation of women’s basic rights. Conventional economic models of domestic violence suggest that higher participation by women in the labour force leads t...
by Sohini Paul | On 30 Jul 2015 Data for 2014-15 shows that children under 14 years still account for nearly 25% of the total workforce in cottonseed farms in India. In 2014-15, a total of around 200,000 children below 14 years were...
by Davuluri Venkateswarlu | On 30 Jul 2015 This Policy note on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment is central to the attainment of the overarching goal of enabling poor rural women and men to improve their food security and nutrition, rais...
by International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD | On 29 Jul 2015 This paper deals with the phenomenon of witch-hunting among indigenous peoples in peninsular India. It looks at this phenomenon in a number of different contexts: the struggle over domination in the s...
by Shivani Satija | On 29 Jul 2015 This document compiles the explicit references to girls’
and women’s right to education in national reports and
is intended to serve as a practical tool for both advocacy
and monitoring. The factsh...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 22 Jul 2015 This Bill amends the principal Act passed in 2013. The Bill enables the government to exempt five categories of projects from the requirements of social impact assessment, restrictions on acquisition...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 This is a Bill to further amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the monsoon session between July 21 and August 13, 2015.
The legislative agenda includes 7 legislative Bills currently pending in Parliament for consideration...
by Kusum Malik | On 21 Jul 2015 When women personnel are incorporated in the profession of policing, there is a general assumption behind it that the presence of women makes the force sensitive to gender-crimes, and thus more effici...
by Santana Khanikar | On 09 Jul 2015 This report focuses on our rapidly urbanizing world and the poorest mothers and children who must struggle to survive despite overall urban progress.
This report presents analysis of health disparit...
by Save the Children | On 07 Jul 2015 Recent statistics show the majority of workers in developing countries earn their livelihoods in the informal sector. For this paper, a sample of 150 was randomly drawn from the membership database of...
by Poornima Chikarmane | On 06 Jul 2015 This case study is about an intervention by MSSRF for the development of livelihoods, as well as food and nutritional security, to address the issues of poverty and malnutrition among the women and ch...
by Chandrika C S | On 30 Jun 2015 The school education system needs a desperate overhaul. The human resource development minister in New Delhi be focusing on it too, in the middle of her other pressing concerns.
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Jun 2015 Increasing women`s economic participation is not yet universally accepted despite three decades of global advocacy; and women empowerment and gender equality are still a work in progress. A mechanism...
by Lucita Lazo | On 26 Jun 2015 The need for revision of the 1979 land legislation was being felt for a long time and hence the then Ministry of Agriculture started the work on it with the formation of a multi-sector committee in 20...
by Dasho Kinzang Dorji | On 26 Jun 2015 Intimate partner violence is increasing day by day and has become a matter of public health concern.
Methods: To estimate the prevalence of intimate partner violence during pregnancy, to find out th...
by | On 25 Jun 2015 In the context of increasing contribution of developing countries in world trade, an important question is whether trade can be used as an instrument to stimulate higher participation of women in the...
by Purna Banerjee | On 25 Jun 2015 This review of the published academic literature on internal and regional migration for domestic work shows a dearth of studies on internal migration for domestic work in South Asia. The existing lite...
by Priya Deshingkar | On 23 Jun 2015 Politicians have continued taking people for granted and managed to stay above the law.
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Jun 2015 The audit report on ICDS has revealed that the policy of universalization of ICDS Scheme remained unattained and the Scheme could not achieve the desired goals. Hence, controller and auditor general d...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 22 Jun 2015 The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 was enacted to give effect to the
Proclamation on the Full Participation and Equality of the...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 22 Jun 2015 On a hot summer’s day in 1982, while walking through a jungle path in
Bankura, West Bengal, anthropologist Narayan Banerjee asked an old
Santhal woman who was accompanying him to narrate her experie...
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 19 Jun 2015 Drawing upon the data from the recent period, this paper explores the relationship between
women’s involvement in microfinance programs and improvement in their empowerment status.
The significant d...
by | On 19 Jun 2015 Kerala has achieved good health indictors compared to other Indian states. In order to navigate the sector through the multiple challenges faced in the health sector Government of Kerala needs to arti...
by Health & Family Welfare Department Kerala | On 17 Jun 2015 The Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project aimed at expanding the coverage of improved water supply and sanitation facilities to poor and remote areas, and improving health and hyg...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jun 2015 The Social Welfare and Nutritious Meal Programme Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu has always ensured the welfare of the underprivileged sections of the society like destitute women, orphaned...
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 11 Jun 2015 This guide explains, in simple and easily understood language, the 1390 Budget Statement presented to Parliament by the Minister of Finance on 5 February 2011. The guide is designed to help the genera...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 11 Jun 2015 This paper is based on a critical literature review and looks into the implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) in India, with particular reference to the two states of Chhattisgarh and Gujarat....
by Madhusudan Bandi | On 09 Jun 2015 This research responds to the growing demand by mass organizations, for better documentation of women’s migration in India amid reports from activists of great increases in and new and more vulnerable...
by Indu Agnihotri | On 08 Jun 2015 This report consists of an overview of the secondary literature on the subject of gender biased sex selection in the Indian context. Its aim is to provide a road map for what has become an extremely w...
by Mary E. John | On 08 Jun 2015 In this study an earnest attempt has been made to understand the social and environmental aspects of mangroves in Gujarat state. The study has considered various issues of social, environment and econ...
by | On 08 Jun 2015 The paper attempts to analyze the trends in the organized sector employment of India for the period 1961 to 2010. It is found that the organized employment is in the state of decline, exhibiting a dow...
by G Burange | On 08 Jun 2015 This report of Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC) provides information and other inputs which are needed to develop policy and provide the right approach for ecological conservation and sustainable deve...
by Gujarat Ecology Commission Government of Gujarat | On 08 Jun 2015 The draft Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on September 7, 2011 is one of the most important legislations waiting for Parliamentary appr...
by Niranjan Sahoo | On 05 Jun 2015 This paper examines a number of questions that have a bearing on women’s employment in South Asia. The characteristic features of the region such as the predominantly rural, agrarian economy; patriarc...
by | On 04 Jun 2015 This report comprises two assessments. The first is a theoretical analysis of the prevention and reduction of statelessness under international laws. By acceding to the ICCPR and the ICSCER conventio...
by Charlotte-Anne Malischewski | On 02 Jun 2015 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 report points out the existence of a number of Government-sponsored schemes for promoting the social welfare of women and for achieving other goals such as poverty amelioration, reduction in maln...
by | On 25 May 2015 India has developed and tested various mechanisms and processes for more effective public-private partnerships in the roads sector, with the goal of achieving an optimal balance of value-for-money and...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 May 2015 The main purpose of this research was to find out
the mean difference between working and non-working women
in mental health and depression. The total sample consisted 80
women were taken. The rese...
by Dr. Yogesh A Jogsan | On 21 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 Standing Committee on Coal and Steel present this Thirty-Seventh Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on "The Coal Mines (Conservation & Development) Amendment Bill, 2012" relating to the Ministry of Coal. Th...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 14 May 2015 The intention of this paper is to examine the role of banks particularly the state owned and specialized banks in
promoting women entrepreneurship in Bangladesh. Women constitute almost half of the t...
by | On 13 May 2015 The Community Media Trust (CMT), based in Pastapur, Medak district, Andhra Pradesh is an exemplary community of women farmers who have taken full charge of their lives and environment. They have now e...
by Charumathi Supraja | On 12 May 2015 Media and its development have accompanied an
increase in the magnitude and complexity of societal
actions and engagements, rapid social change,
technological innovation and decline of some traditi...
by | On 12 May 2015 This paper takes into consideration of broad areas into consideration and the problems for youth employment should be viewed
as a larger macroeconomic issue of the state. Greater participation, invol...
by YouthNet Nagaland | 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 Committee are of the view that the disabled group in our country still remains an invisible group in the mind of policy makers.
A vast number of the disabled are excluded from the existing servic...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 11 May 2015 Public Accounts Committee (2014-15) present this Eighth report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on water pollution in India based on C&AG Report No. 21 of 2011-12, Union Government for the year ended March 2012...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 11 May 2015 Despite armed internal conflict and the global financial crisis, Sri Lanka has made remarkable progress in recent years, enjoying healthy economic growth and substantially reducing poverty. Moreover,...
by Halil Dundar | On 07 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 Jyotiben Trivedi, former Vice chancellor of SNDT Women's University: A personal Tribute
by Vibhuti Patel | On 04 May 2015 The papers objective is to provide statistical evidences in terms of measures of the outcome indicators of the MDG framework as could be available for the most current years have been used in this rep...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 29 Apr 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 This reports reflects development in the fields of population, Human development index, labour and houses, employment, prices, agriculture, industry.
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 24 Apr 2015 This paper discusses the problems with the much revised and much delayed Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, and how they may be addressed. A democratization of the land acquisitio...
by Prasenjit Bose | On 24 Apr 2015 This report however, also takes a step forward in trying to draw a balance between “needs” and “performance”. Given that poor administration or weak institutions in a recipient state can fritter away...
by Ministry of Finance | On 23 Apr 2015 This Five Year Plan document focuses on Social Sectors like Health, Education, Employment and Skill Development, Women’s Agency and Child Rights, Social Inclusion.
by Planning Commission | On 23 Apr 2015 The paper argues for increasing women`s economic opportunities in the APEC region and states that women`s participation in the economy is skewed toward micro and small enterprises and they are mostly...
by | On 23 Apr 2015 ARTICLE 19 and Digital Rights Foundation Pakistan have serious concerns about measures contained in Pakistan’s proposed Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (‘PEC Bill’). The Bill contains a number of...
by Article 19 | On 22 Apr 2015 This report entitled "Millennium Development Goals India Country Report 2015", which is the latest in a series of such reports since 2005, captures India's achievements and challenges in respect of th...
by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementatio GOI | On 21 Apr 2015 After 30 years of economic reforms, what is the comparative situation of men and women in the People’s Republic of China? How can we analyse the policies for promoting gender equality? Have inequaliti...
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 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 This report is designed to contribute to the growing body of research on gender issues in Afghanistan with a specific focus on identifying gains and losses over the past decade at both the macro and m...
by | On 01 Apr 2015 This Situation Analysis shows that females in Pakistan face discrimination, exploitation and abuse at many levels, starting with girls who are prevented from exercising their basic right to education,...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 01 Apr 2015 A special issue on issues concerning 'Water and Women' in India
by | 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 Budget for children is not a separate budget. It is merely an attempt to disaggregate from the overall allocations made, those made specifically for programmes that benefit children. This enables us t...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 24 Mar 2015 There is a growing realization that a strong and vibrant MSME sector characterized by high growth and continual innovation of products and processes can provide a strong foundation to economic and soc...
by Wadhwani Foundation | On 23 Mar 2015 Is education the best contraceptive? Using the multistate human capital projection model, the authors' analysis shows that the projected changes in India population vary depending on investments in ed...
by | On 19 Mar 2015 If women in the unpaid domestic employment categories were to be provided even part-time regular work, they would immensely contribute to the GDP. It is important to generate creative partnerships be...
by Bino Paul G.D | On 15 Mar 2015 The paper attempts to trace the origin and idea of Make in India through time and identifies what needs to be done to turn the Make in India mantra into a reality. Free market is the engine of growth...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 13 Mar 2015 The role of women has been changing over the years in various fields around the world like advertising, academics, politics, etc. Today 30 per cent of employees in the software industry are women. Has...
by Y L R Moorthi | On 13 Mar 2015 It is the budget brief of Gujarat state for the year 2015-16.
by Saurabh Patel | On 11 Mar 2015 Violence against women by an intimate partner is a major contributor to the ill-health of women. This study analyses data from 10 countries and sheds new light on the prevalence of violence against wo...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 11 Mar 2015 United Nation in its Millennium Summit in 2000 declared ‘Gender Equality and Women Empowerment’ as one among the
eight ‘Millennium Development Goal’ to be achieved by the year 2015. However these goa...
by | On 11 Mar 2015 The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement
(Amendment) Bill, 2015 was introduced in Lok Sabha on February 24, 2015 to replace an Ordinance. T...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 11 Mar 2015 This report explores how gender equality can contribute to food security. Its focus is on Asia and the Pacific, though developments in other regions are also referenced. The report describes the relat...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Mar 2015 Expanding women’s access to the labour market and enhancing their employability, apart from all its other impact, contributes to the GDP substantially. It is important to generate creative partnership...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 10 Mar 2015 The purpose of this primer is to assist newly elected Rajya Sabha MPs in navigating the Rules of Procedure of the Rajya Sabha. It has been organised in a manner that highlights the opportunities for p...
by | On 10 Mar 2015 Despite significant progress since the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, women continue to experience widespread discrimination and inequality in the workplace. Twenty years later the...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 09 Mar 2015 Union Budget 2015-16 fails to provide for the needs of the women in the country, with budgetary allocation for most women’s development schemes facing a steep reduction. This article reviews the budge...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 09 Mar 2015 The global strategy for women’s and children’s health reports the challenges on health and services provided to women and children around the world. It sets out the key areas where action is urgently...
by United Nations UN | On 03 Mar 2015 This publication highlights a range of pertinent issues primarily focusing on social sectors (such as education, health, drinking water and sanitation, food security etc.) and the responsiveness of th...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 02 Mar 2015 Gender Budgeting highlights that a government policy or intervention, if formulated and implemented without any attention to the gender-based disadvantages confronting women, might even end up reinfor...
by Pooja Parvati | On 26 Feb 2015 Gujarat Budget 2015-16.
by Saurabh Patel | On 26 Feb 2015 The ruling government’s Land Acquisition Ordinance is viewed with suspicion by most politically active groups, as well as the industry. Consent, compensation, relief and rehabilitation are some of the...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 25 Feb 2015 It is a well-known fact that children are not getting much attention in the Union Budgets. There are some schemes by the government for children. Many of them are not properly implemented or lack fund...
by Bharti Ali | On 25 Feb 2015 Equity and efficiency are two issues that arise again and again the area of infrastructure finance. If the financing of infrastructure projects is to be sustainable the private sector must be entruste...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 25 Feb 2015 This Brief has been written on the basis of the Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2014 which was introduced in Lok Sabha. It highlights the key issues and analysis in the Bill
by | On 25 Feb 2015 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the Budget Session between 23rd February and 8th May, 2015. There will be a recess between 21st March and 19th April when the Standing Committees will examine D...
by Kusum Malik | On 23 Feb 2015 Access to water and sanitation are strongly influenced by identities of caste, class and gender. The launch of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan presents an opportunity to address some concerns pertaining to...
by Kanika Kaul | On 19 Feb 2015 Despite the steps towards gender responsive budgeting, the budgetary allocations for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment show a decline. Not only has the magnitude of the gender budget a...
by | On 17 Feb 2015 The purpose of this paper is to explore current practice, speculate on future patterns of PPP and discuss how partnership can be leveraged in the development process. The paper seeks to view PPP exper...
by Andy Hall | On 16 Feb 2015 This paper focuses on the trends in health seeking behaviour of people and the cost of treatment by examining the National Sample Survey data pertaining to three rounds -1986-87, 1995-96 and 2004. Wit...
by Anil Gumber | On 13 Feb 2015 The Delhi Human Development Report, 2013, has been structured around the theme ‘Improving Lives, Promoting Inclusion’. This theme encompasses all the fundamental concerns of human development that is,...
by | On 05 Feb 2015 This documentary film lends a voice to those who have shared their experiences in Observer Research Foundation Mumbai's study "Toilet Torture in Mumbai's Slums: When will our political and administrat...
by Observer Research Foundation | On 04 Feb 2015 A large body of research has attempted to explore the links between women's autonomy and their uptake of reproductive health services in the South Asia region, but the evidence so far is inconclusive...
by Xiaohui Hou | On 04 Feb 2015 A look at Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and the amendments to it from the perspective to those who live close to the land.
by Usha Ramanathan | On 02 Feb 2015 This note presents an analysis of Parliament’s role of financial oversight and examines how to strengthen it. It highlights gaps and solutions to improve the existing structures affecting budgetary an...
by Apoorva Shankar | On 30 Jan 2015 Economic dependence of women is what gives rise to their subordination in society today. Hence to remove such subordination and to lay the foundation of equality women too must be made economically in...
by Rituparna Dutta | On 19 Jan 2015 Jashodhara Bagchi was a leading Indian feminist critic and a prodigious professor in her field. She was a scholar who voiced women's cause and worked for their empowerment. She also was chairman of...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 19 Jan 2015 Gender balance is increasingly seen as good for business. The growing participation
of women in the labour market has been a major engine of global growth and
competitiveness. And a growing number o...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 16 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 Expanding healthcare access is a critical priority for the Government of India and the private sector. Efforts to date have addressed numerous issues and much progress can be reported. Yet the gap bet...
by IMS for HealthCare Infomatics | On 24 Dec 2014 Bills Passed by Parliament during the Winter Session
by Kusum Malik | On 24 Dec 2014 There is reservation for women in Maharashtra in the local governments. But their number is less. A case study is given.
by Ruby Ojha | On 12 Dec 2014 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 Evidence from developing countries regarding the association between gender inequity and intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in women has been suggestive but inconclusive. Using nationally r...
by Mosiur Rahman | On 05 Dec 2014 Violence against women and girls is an unacceptable violation of basic human rights. It also is so widespread that ending it must be a global public health priority. An estimated one in three women is...
by UNAIDS . | On 01 Dec 2014 In India, efforts of the National AIDS Control Programme have been successful in reducing overall HIV incidence in the country by 50 percent with focused interventions with female sex workers (FSWs),...
by Population Council | On 01 Dec 2014 This study has used India Human Development Survey, 2005 to study
the factors influencing the Body Mass Index (BMI) of women between 20
to 40 years of age in India. BMI captures both undernutrition...
by Shikha Dahiya | On 28 Nov 2014 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 The exploitation of one human being by another is the basest crime. And yet trafficking in persons remains all too common, with all too few consequences for the perpetrators. Trafficking happens every...
by United Nations Drugs and Crime | On 26 Nov 2014 Differences between women and men in political and economic empowerment, education, and health risks are well-documented. Similar gender inequities in access to care and medicines have been hypothesiz...
by Anita K. Wagner | On 26 Nov 2014 This paper focusses on the current health profile of the state of Maharashtra, and its performance as against other growth driven states like Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. Using parameters such as birth rat...
by Manisha Karne | On 21 Nov 2014 This paper analyses poverty and calorific undernourishment in the Indian state of Gujarat, where high and market-led industrial growth has resulted in rapid economic improvement. The study is carried...
by Mely Caballero Anthony | On 21 Nov 2014 K.G.KANNABIRAN MEMORIAL LECTURE.
by Justice C.V. WIGNESWARAN | On 20 Nov 2014 The Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) is pleased to present Promoting and
Protecting the Rights of Migrant Workers: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions.
Nati...
by Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions | On 17 Nov 2014 The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Sama Resource Group for Women and Health, Commonhealth and National Alliance for Maternal Health and Human Rights are shocked at the death of 11 women and the critical condit...
by Nivedita Menon | On 13 Nov 2014 To provide a framework for safer, faster, cost effective and inclusive movement of passengers and freight in the country thus enabling the mission of ‘Make in India’.
by Ministry of Road Transport and Safety GOI | On 13 Nov 2014 The recent decline in fertility in India has been unprecedented especially in southern India, where fertility is almost exclusively controlled by means of permanent contraceptive methods, mainly femal...
by Isabel Tiago de Oliveira | On 12 Nov 2014 Maharashtra’s multicultural milieu is marked by crucial contribution made by Muslims. The Sachar Committee Report, 2006 stated that the condition of Muslim in Maharashtra demands
special attention o...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 11 Nov 2014 Reliable data on mortality and morbidity among women of reproductive age group
are scarce in India. The present study is the Maharashtra component of a large multicentric task force study
on the c...
by Ragini Kulkarni | On 11 Nov 2014 Girls Gaining Ground (GGG) is a catalyst for empowerment, encouraging program participants to realize the “freedom of choice and action to shape one’s life, including the control over resources, decis...
by Amber Baker | On 11 Nov 2014 Two studies done at different times in two different
parts of Maharashtra on women who have been forced
out of the marital home or chose to walk out due to
violence, show that women’s expectatio...
by Seema Kulkarni | On 11 Nov 2014 This is the 5th chapter from the report 'Women and Men in India 2014' by CSO. This is shows the participation of women in India.
by Central Statistical Organization CSO | On 05 Nov 2014 Youth is a crucial time in life, as it is the time that young people start fulfilling their aspirations, assuming their economic independence and finding their place in society. In 2009, the key indic...
by Marina Baskakova | On 04 Nov 2014 This is the 4th Chapter of the report 'Women and Men in India' by CSO. Although women constitute a little less than the half of the economically active population, but their
contribution to economic...
by Central Statistical Organization CSO | On 03 Nov 2014 During the last decade, Bangladesh maintained a stable growth rate of around 6 per cent, and gross domestic product (GDP) doubled in the period 2000–12. Unfortunately, economic growth has not translat...
by Kazi Ali Toufique | On 31 Oct 2014 Inadequate infrastructure was recognized in the Eleventh Plan as a major constraint for rapid growth. The Plan had, therefore, emphasized on the need for massive expansion on investment in infrastruct...
by Geethanjali Nataraj | On 16 Oct 2014 Jobs are also at risk, due to cuts in public sector employment, traditionally a source of better-protected and more empowering work. The report recommends strategies to shift public policies away from...
by UN Women | 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 The impact on the Indian labour market of the slowing down of global economy is a complex issue. It is evident that women have become 'shock absorbers' in the overall functioning of labour market dyna...
by Michael Levien | On 14 Oct 2014 A staggering 2 billion people get so little essential vitamins and minerals from the foods they eat that they remain undernourished, according to the 2014 Global Hunger Index (GHI) being released toda...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 14 Oct 2014 Violence against Women and Girls: Lessons from South Asia examines the prevalence and factors associated with various types of violence against women and girls in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indi...
by Jennifer L. Solotaroff | On 25 Sep 2014 The Indonesian House of Representatives is due to pass a bill ending direct elections of local leaders, leaving the selection process to legislators in regional parliaments. Is such a move missing the...
by Jonathan Chen | On 25 Sep 2014 Using the case study of Indonesian women migrating as domestic workers to Singapore, this paper draws on a quantitative survey and qualitative in-depth interviews to examine the migration trajectories...
by Maria Platt | On 24 Sep 2014 Environmentalists are rightly alarmed that the NDA government is busy dismantling the environmental regulatory system in the country. Over the past two months, the media has reported that clearances f...
by Sunita Narain | On 22 Sep 2014 Based on the analysis of primary data collected from private engineering colleges from various parts of the country, the study gives a vivid account of the major issues and concerns of faculty in te...
by Sanjay Upadhyaya | On 19 Sep 2014 The objective of the study is to analyse the impact of provision of health care facilities on the child health status taking into account the utilization of these available facilities. The study offer...
by Runu Bhatka | On 19 Sep 2014 ‘India: Third and Fourth Combined Periodic Report on the Convention on the Rights of the Child’ is a product of extensive consultations with all stakeholders. The Report has been prepared after consul...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 15 Sep 2014 ICDS is one of the most critical programmes of the Government of India, implemented by Department of Women and Child Development. In course of several fieldwork in North Bihar the investigating team o...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 15 Sep 2014 UN Women’s report, “Hearts and Minds: Women of India Speak” acknowledges the “lived experiences” of women and girls in India at the grassroots level and ensures that the voices of those who remain soc...
by UN Women | On 15 Sep 2014 Statistics of participation of MPs in budget session 2014 is shown here.
by Mandira Kala | On 10 Sep 2014 In the Hindu Kush Himalayas, climate change is threatening the livelihoods of those directly dependent on agriculture and the natural resource base. Rural women are disproportionately vulnerable to th...
by Suman Bisht | On 28 Aug 2014 The 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 employment performance of the employment generation programs appears transitory and short
term. Although some programs exceeded the employment targets, it is not clear how these
numbers are tran...
by Marife M. Ballesteros | On 22 Aug 2014 The link between a lack of access to water and sanitation facilities and sexual violence against women is not well known and to date has received insufficient attention. This document attempts to hi...
by Shirley Lennon | On 19 Aug 2014 Suggestions for sections of the bill is given.
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 08 Aug 2014 An act to consolidate and amend the law relating to children in conflict with law and children in need of care and protection by catering to their developmental needs through proper care, protection a...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 08 Aug 2014 Are ostensibly demand-driven public programs less susceptible to political clientelism even when private goods are allocated? This is examined using expenditure data at
the local level from India’s N...
by Megan Sheahan | On 01 Aug 2014 Science has traditionally been a male preserve. Socio-religious prejudices kept science education out of bounds for vast majority of women in India. Even today underrepresentation of women in science...
by Paromita Ghosh | On 29 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 Union budget 2014-15 offers up old and new schemes but fails to address macro-economic and social causes of exploitation and subordination of women.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 18 Jul 2014 According to Census estimates, more than half the population of the country, 51.8 per cent, to be precise, is less than 35 years of age, while the population in the critical demography category of 18-...
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 16 Jul 2014 This
paper draws upon a selection of narratives from interviews with over
150 less skilled emigrant and returnee women workers from Trivandrum
district to argue that the conditions that structure i...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 14 Jul 2014 This report entitled “Millennium Development Goals (MDG) India Country Report-2014’ captures the achievements in India as of today under the eight MDGs which are to be achieved by 2015. The year 2014,...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 08 Jul 2014 Despite significant advances in education and political participation, women remain
underrepresented in leadership positions in politics and business across the globe. In many
countries, policy-ma...
by Rohini Pande | On 07 Jul 2014 This brochure describes, advocates and defenders of women’s and girls’ safety and rights, as well as international agencies, national policymakers and donors, need to understand the nature and magnitu...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 07 Jul 2014 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 As per census 2011, there are 289.48 lakh women and girls in the state of Gujarat, comprising 47.90 per cent of total population. “Gender Budget 2014-15” shows financial allocations for women in vario...
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 03 Jul 2014 This
paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex
ratio. Standard survey questions on fertility preferences ask the respondent her
desired number of children of...
by Seema Jayachandran | On 01 Jul 2014 The State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills is a first attempt to pull together a data and knowledge base on and of youth in urban India. The focus of the Report is youth...
by IRIS Knowledge Foundation IKF | On 25 Jun 2014 This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for
2004-05 and 2009-10 in rural and urban areas. It raises concern on increasing poverty risk and als...
by Srijit Mishra | On 23 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 Nine out of ten parliamentarians in India are men. Such dismal figures reveal the lasting grip of unfavourable social norms. Women’s disadvantage on a complex set of social and economic factors effect...
by Lucy Dubochet | On 17 Jun 2014 This ILO flagship report: (i) provides a global overview of the organisation of social protection systems, their coverage and benefits, as well as public expenditures on social security; (ii) followin...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 17 Jun 2014 The 2014 General Elections has marked its place in election history- one is the margin of victory witnessed which was the largest in the history of Indian democracy. The second factor unique this time...
by IRIS Knowledge Foundation IKF | On 06 Jun 2014 CEHAT is the first institution in India to have directly engaged with the public health sector to develop
a health-system based model to respond to sexual assault. This initiative, which began in 200...
by ... CEHAT | On 04 Jun 2014 Tribal community practices and cultures, particularly the lack of traditional restrictions on women’s work and labour, have indeed been a significant factor in
bringing larger proportions of tribal w...
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 02 Jun 2014 The study had examined the functioning of women representatives and Presidents of gram
panchayats in Karnataka, where reservations for these seats and posts have been in place for
nearly twenty year...
by Anand Inbanathan | On 02 Jun 2014 The term is feminisation of migration is misleading insofar as it suggests an absolute increase in the proportion of women migrants, when in fact by 1960 women already made up nearly 47 per cent of al...
by United Nations UN | On 26 May 2014 This report focuses on women in Qatar's domestic work sector. Amnesty International interviewed 52 women working as domestic workers in Qatar during research visits to the country. The bulk of the int...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 26 May 2014 Despite a wide range of reform initiatives in agricultural extension in India in the past decades, the coverage of, access to, and quality of information provided to marginalized and poor farmers is u...
by Motkuri Venkatanarayana | On 23 May 2014 One of the key challenges confronting organizations is to improve the talent pipeline of women in the organization. Anecdotal evidence from the IT industry in India appears to suggest that a number of...
by Vasanthi Srinivasan | On 23 May 2014 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 This paper examines the construction of female sexual desire in contemporary Indian advertising with a special emphasis on how young women of Delhi negotiate with issues in and around sexuality and co...
by Aakriti Kohli | On 13 May 2014 Drawing on interviews with 16 men and women in two age groups – fifties and twenties – and participant observation in adda sessions in an undergraduate college in contemporary Kolkata, this paper atte...
by Romit Chowdhury | On 13 May 2014 The report investigates migration in the context of demographic changes and trends in both growth and inequality. It also presents more detailed and nuanced individual, family and village experiences,...
by Jeni Klugman | On 06 May 2014 This research report, which examines the effects of research and development on productivity in India, finds that India is still benefiting from these investments. The report shows that the public ben...
by Robert E Evenson | On 29 Apr 2014 Dr. C.S.Lakshmi in conversation with Sudha Arora, held at Kirtan Kendra, Juhu, Mumbai on 25th Jan 2014. Part one.
by Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women | On 25 Apr 2014 Dr. C.S.Lakshmi in conversation with Sudha Arora, held at Kirtan Kendra, Juhu, Mumbai on 25th Jan 2014. Part two.
by Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women | On 25 Apr 2014 Dr. C.S.Lakshmi in conversation with Sudha Arora, held at Kirtan Kendra, Juhu, Mumbai on 25th Jan 2014. Part three
by Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women | On 25 Apr 2014 This paper proposes to explore “the issues of exclusion and inclusion in decentralized local governance institutions in India”. It also tries to explore how the marginalized groups are excluded in the...
by Dr. Dasarathi Bhuyan | On 14 Apr 2014 PUCL
through this statement, wishes to bring to the attention of the people of India, the serious
threat to democracy itself and the human rights challenges posed by the electoral alliances
and cal...
by People's Union of Civil Liberties PUCL | On 03 Apr 2014 This paper makes an attempt to incorporate bene ts from unpaid public services into
consumption decisions to arrive at more accurate measures of poverty and inequality. The
analysis is based on prim...
by Anders Kjelsrud | On 14 Mar 2014 The study seeks to understand women’s land rights by documenting how women acquire land, their feelings about tenure security to that land, exploring their knowledge of their land rights, and the exte...
by UN Women | On 14 Mar 2014 This report aims to assess the gap in demand and supply of finance, highlight the opportunity in serving women
entrepreneurs, and catalogue initiatives taken by financial institutions in access to f...
by International Finance Corporation | On 13 Mar 2014 The decade of the 1990s was marked by considerable deregulation of the industrial economy through delicensing and dereservations. The problem of sickness in small-scale industries is due to under-uti...
by Reddy . Koti | On 11 Mar 2014 As institutions of higher education engaged in teaching, research and the spread of
knowledge, (Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) are well placed to reflect on,
become sensitized to and oppose...
by University Grants Commission UGC | On 06 Mar 2014 CAO received a complaint regarding IFC’s investment in CGPL from Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan (MASS),
the Association for the Struggle for Fishworkers’ Rights ,
representing fisher people li...
by O ffice of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman CAO | On 26 Feb 2014 All too often blinded by the dazzle of development people and planners do not see the trail of destruction that accompanies new initiatives. It need not be that way. As the case of Adani Ports and SEZ...
by Yogi Aggarwal | On 26 Feb 2014 On September 14, 2012, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) constituted a Committee for inspection of Adani Port and SEZ Ltd., Mundra, Gujarat based on complaints received from Kheti Vikas...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 26 Feb 2014 Over its five year term, the 15th Lok Sabha was disrupted frequently and witnessed a decline in time spent on legislation and oversight of the government. Disruptions over the allocation of 2G spectru...
by Kusum Malik | On 25 Feb 2014 Vasudha Dhagamwar, legal activist and academician, passed away on February 10, in Pune.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 21 Feb 2014 Secure land rights are a critical, but often overlooked, factor in achieving household food security and improved nutritional status in rural areas of developing countries. This study evaluates the im...
by Florence Santos | On 17 Feb 2014 This paper is a limited attempt at sketching the history of a
prominent slum in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, using mainly the
memories of residents collected as oral narratives. [CDS Working pape...
by J Devika | On 07 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 Bound together by fraternal ties, the RSS and the various members of the Parivar share all pervasive ideas of ‘female virtue’ and the ideal of ‘Hindu family’ that serves to push aside a more comprehe...
by Namrata Ganneri | On 25 Jan 2014 In order to conceptualize the
transforming political and economic orders of today’s South
Asia, the perspective of contemporary history is taken. For this, Public-Private Partnership – which is bei...
by Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee | On 24 Jan 2014 This paper sheds light on the issue of internal migration for education and employment among the
youth. i.e those aged 15-32 years. The paper is a first step towards addressing the issue of whether
...
by Ajay Sharma | On 24 Jan 2014 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 Gender equity is one of the five drivers of change in the Asian Development Bank(ADB) Strategy 2020. ADB recognizes that without harnessing the talents, human capital and economics potential of women,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jan 2014 While security and women’s empowerment are both prominent development concerns, there has to date been little sustained analysis of the relationship between the two. An unexamined assumption appears t...
by Naomi Hossain | On 15 Jan 2014 There is a widespread belief that women are better at selecting gifts than men; however, this claim has not been assessed
on the basis of objective criteria. The current studies do exactly that and s...
by Monique M. H. Pollmann | On 27 Dec 2013 The law has to seek not only to make corruption painful and hurtful after the event, but to make corruption unnecessary, undesirable
and difficult to embark upon at the inception. Indeed many of such...
by Rajya Sabha | On 20 Dec 2013 We invite RESEARCH PAPERS FOR THE 2014 ISSUE. The last date for submission is 2nd January, 2013. Please send two sets of hard copies of your papers with the title RESEARCH HORIZONS 2013 on the envelop...
by Anonymous | On 18 Dec 2013 There are many misconceptions on what behavioral economics is. This is essay clearly says what is behavioral economics. [CGD essay].
by Matthew Darling | On 11 Dec 2013 The paper addresses the migration-development debate by developing a framework for understanding
who are the migrants, what they are sending back, and how these transfers are being utilised in the lo...
by Puja Guha | On 28 Nov 2013 Qatar’s population is growing at a truly staggering rate. Between August 2012 and August 2013 it grew by 10.5 per cent.
This growth is driven primarily by the recruitment of low-paid migrant workers...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 19 Nov 2013 This report aims at quantifying the magnitude of gender-based disparities that women face in the organized sector of the Indian labour market, and track their progress over time. The extent of the gen...
by Biju Varkkey | On 13 Nov 2013 This paper deals with the philanthropic between Indian migrants and the local community in
Gujarat from a homeland perspective. It is based on research in rural central Gujarat, one of the regions
i...
by Natascha Dekkers | On 05 Nov 2013 The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI), which reflects data from the period 2008–2012, shows that global hunger has improved since 1990, falling by one-third. Despite the progress made the level of hunger...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 16 Oct 2013 The gendered division of household labour, stigma attached to paid labour and status production
has precipitated withdrawal from paid work as a strategy to reduce the double burden of women. Upward s...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 09 Oct 2013 One third of the population of India are children below the age of 18 years. They are citizens of this country. Even though they do not vote, they have all rights as equal citizens of the country. How...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 07 Oct 2013 National Food Security Bill (NFSB) aims to make food easily accessible at affordable prices to people. But there are operational and financial difficulties in implementing this.
by Sweety Thomas | On 07 Oct 2013 This study is an attempt to examine the decentralized production of supplementary nutrition which has been instituted for the Integrated Child Development Services in
urban Maharashtra, specifically,...
by Natasha S. K. | On 04 Oct 2013 This study examines the differences between two major Mid-day Meal implementation models: the decentralized model where food is cooked and served within the schools premises, and the centralized model...
by Shankar Priya | On 01 Oct 2013 The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is responsible for providing infrastructure and
services in the metropolitan area. From January 18 to 21, 2013, it bulldozed 1,512 homes (42
blocks) and...
by PUCL Karnataka | On 30 Sep 2013 This paper estimates the short-and-medium-run effects of participating in a sub-
sidized vocational training program aimed at improving labor market outcomes of
women residing in low-income househol...
by Pushkar Maitra | On 30 Sep 2013 India has accorded the highest priority to combating malnutrition, since it remains persistently and unacceptably high, in spite of a multitude of efforts of the Government. The key issue is preventin...
by Planning Commission, India | On 27 Sep 2013 Review of 'Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India' by Padma Bhate-Deosthali, Sangeeta Rege, Padma Prakash, Routledge, 2013.
by Syna Soosan Abraham | On 19 Sep 2013 Review of
Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth, and the Courts by Dawn Rae Flood.: University of Illinois Press, Urbana;
2012. 272 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03689-7.
by Kathleen Cairns | On 13 Sep 2013 The Monsoon Session ended with the passage of Bills on food security, land acquisition, companies, and pension. During the session, significant time was lost due to frequent disruptions over issues su...
by Kusum Malik | On 12 Sep 2013 To advance Every Woman Every Child, a strategy launched by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNICEF and other UN organizations are joining partners from the public, private and civil socie...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 30 Aug 2013 The gains made since ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) are plenty, but the reality of children’s situation is disturbing on many counts calling for urgent and serious att...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 26 Aug 2013 The murder of Narendra Dabholkar is emblematic of the deep fear of knowledge and its democratization.
by Amit Sengupta | On 23 Aug 2013 There is a growing literary assessment of the ideology and practice of Asian capitalism. In Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke, the first two volumes of a projected trilogy of novels, Amitav Ghosh pano...
by Pankaj Mishra | On 10 Aug 2013 Al Jazeera Centre for Studies recently conducted an opinion poll, surveying 8,045 young men and women from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen regarding the views of the youth on their revolutions - how s...
by Al Jazeera . | On 08 Aug 2013 This policy outlines a very clear strategy of creating a large pool of land so that every family's right to land is fully honoured. The policy proceeds to suggest a just and equitable method of allott...
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 06 Aug 2013 The research on breastfeeding and breast cancer risk, it is clear that this has been a difficult area to study. If breastfeeding does lower risk, the level of protection is small and depends on women...
by Debbie Saslow | On 01 Aug 2013 Obituary: Veena Mazumdar (1927-2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 31 Jul 2013 Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is
facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically d...
by Ram Fishman | On 30 Jul 2013 List of current MLAs and MPs with self-declared serious cases that have been pending for more than 10 years. [NEW]. URL:[http://adrindia.org/sites/default/files/List%20of%20current%20MLAs-MPs%20with%2...
by National Election Watch NEW | On 30 Jul 2013 Obituary: Sharmila Rege (1964 to 2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 30 Jul 2013 With only a total land area of 30 million hectares and a population of 92.3 million growing at an average rate of 2.12 percent, how should the Philippines allocate a very scarce and important resource...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 24 Jul 2013 The National Food Security Bill is all set to become an Act/ordinance and give legal entitlement to the citizens of the country to food. However the Bill does not define what food security is; but sim...
by Mousumi Das | On 19 Jul 2013 To provide for promotion and development of sports and welfare measures for sportspersons, promotion of ethical practices in sports (including elimination of doping practices, fraud of age and sexual...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 12 Jul 2013 India’s high economic growth rate in the past decade has not been fully reflected in the health status of its people. According to the National Family Health Survey-3 (2005-06), 40% of children under...
by Dr. Devendra Kothari | On 02 Jul 2013 The basic objective of the Congress led- United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s proposed Food Security Bill is to address the acute problems of hunger and malnutrition in India. Despite of hav...
by Niranjan Chichuan | On 28 Jun 2013 Migration literature has always considered environmental constraints as one of the prime movers of populations, especially from dry regions, where water rather than land is the primary limiting factor...
by Amita Shah | On 28 Jun 2013 This paper provides a theoretical model of the impact of recession (income shock) on household's
child labor (CL) decision. Parental altruism is endogenized; as their choice of substituting child lab...
by Sahana Roy Chowdhury | On 25 Jun 2013 To affirm the Government’s commitment to the rights based approach in
addressing the continuing and emerging challenges in the situation of children, the
Government of India hereby adopts this Resol...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 13 Jun 2013 The performance of Indian States are analyzed across three critical sectors –
health, education and infrastructure are analyzed. An index is constructed for each using the Principal Component
Analys...
by Pranjul Bhandari | On 10 Jun 2013 Panelists discuss the issues arising out of interstate migrations and its impact on the overall economy. [youtube].
by NDTV NDTV Profit | On 04 Jun 2013 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 Minister for Food and Consumer Affairs K.V. Thomas introduced the amended National Food Security Bill in Lok Sabha on Thursday. The Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 22, 2011, to addre...
by Anonymous | On 27 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 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 The India Migration Bibliography covers over 3,000 books, research articles and reports written on the subject of internal migration, international migration and diaspora, related to India. The biblio...
by Chinmay Tumbe | On 15 Apr 2013 Review of the book Those who did not die: Impact of Agarian Crisis on Women in Punjab by Gursharan Singh Kainth.
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 15 Apr 2013 The State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills developed and produced by IRIS Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai on a commission from the UN-HABITAT Global Urban Youth Research Net...
by Padma Prakash | On 14 Apr 2013 The State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills is a first attempt to pull together a data and knowledge base on and of youth in urban India. The focus of the Report is youth...
by IRIS Knowledge Foundation IKF | On 11 Apr 2013 H.E Finance Minister’s Speech
for Mishrano Jirga. [Ministry of Finance, Afghanistan]. URL:[http://mof.gov.af/Content/files/HE%20Minister%20Speech%20to%20Mishranow%20Jirga-%20English%20after%20review....
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 10 Apr 2013 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 This document lays down ethical principles and guidelines to inform counselling practice in the best interest of the client. Ethical principles include Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-maleficence, Veracity...
by ... CEHAT | On 08 Apr 2013 In the paper there is a use of nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemen...
by Farzana Afridi | On 07 Mar 2013 Justice Usha Mehra report on Delhi gang rape case, Railway Budget, Union Budget were the important highlights on this months. [PRS]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/announcements/monthly-policy-review-26...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 02 Mar 2013 There is lack of clarity and concepts in the Economic Survey. The Survey has not covered many topics which it was expected to cover.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 02 Mar 2013 The case of Bhubaneswar vending zone perfectly qualifies the theme of making market
work for the poor. This is a pioneering lead taken to develop an exclusive market for the vendors
which presents a...
by Randhir Kumar | On 01 Mar 2013 The budget offers no programme for job creation or any substantive policy measures to contain inflation that continues to erode the real wage while it commits itself to cash transfers and cuts in subs...
by Gautam Mody | On 01 Mar 2013 Based on the last four rounds of NSS data the study explores some dimensions of women’s labour market participation across social groups. [CWDS Occasional Paper No.59]. URL:[http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPa...
by Neetha N | On 01 Mar 2013 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 A bill to protect the rights of urban street vendors and to regulate street vending activities and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto [PRS India]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.obill, rg...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 27 Feb 2013 In spite of several programmes in the country to reduce undernutrition, India continues to have a large number malnourished women and children. In the coming Budget the government has to make some eff...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 26 Feb 2013 The present study is an attempt to analyse the
labour market of unorganized saleswomen (working in the registered as well as unregistered shops) in
Ernakulam District, Kerala.
by Martin Patrick | On 25 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 According to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, most of the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Report (21st Report) on the Companies Bill, 2009 have been accepted by the Government...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 12 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 The Companies Bill, 2009 was introduced on August 3rd 2009. The Standing Committee presented its
report on August 31st 2010. The central government withdrew this Bill in the winter session of 2011. I...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 11 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 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 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 Journalism in South Asia is facing many challenges with physical security being a major issue in most of the region. Several countries may have improved relatively due to decisions to reduce the risks...
by International Federation of Journalists IFJ | On 04 Feb 2013 There are relatively few theoretical models or empirical
analyses of clientelism which analyse the sources and consequences of clientelism. Data from household surveys in rural West Bengal are used t...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 14 Jan 2013 Legal mechanisms to achieve justice should factor in the challenges and roadblocks of its implementation, structural or otherwise, right from the stage of planning and framing the law. Law can be expe...
by D Manjit | On 08 Jan 2013 This paper proposes a theory of the origins of India’s caste system by explicitly recognizing
the productivity of women in complementing their husbands’ skills. Its interesting to know the emergence...
by Chris Bidner | On 04 Jan 2013 Review of the book 'Migration of Women Workers from South Asia to the Gulf' By Rakkee Thimothy, S.K. Sasikumar, UN Women, 2012
by R. S. Reshmi | On 24 Dec 2012 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 study was conducted in 25 neighborhoods and 5 zones of the Ahmedabad
Municipal Corporation (AMC). A total of 50 sanitation workers were interviewed and
through them the condition of their famil...
by Ashish Mishra | On 05 Dec 2012 To reduce child under nutrition in India, convergence from various sectors are required. The framework notes that issues related to convergence must be resolved in relation to three major steps in the...
by Rajani Ved | On 16 Nov 2012 What are the response of voters to candidates who have reported that they have criminal charges against them? A analysis within the framework of a simple analytical model which assumes that criminal c...
by Bhaskar Dutta | On 02 Nov 2012 Home-based work has a much wider scope of activity than the singular task of an individual working from
his/her home. This essential service is tied in with a larger chain of forward and backward lin...
by Indira Gartenberg | On 16 Oct 2012 The Mid-Term Appraisal (MTA) reviews the experience in the first three years of the Plan and seeks to identify areas where corrective steps may be needed. The chapter presents a broad overview of the...
by Planning Commission | On 05 Oct 2012 Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries?
A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked
to h...
by Prashant Bharadwaj | On 04 Oct 2012 A bill to establish an Authority and such other regulatory bodies for regulation of radiation
safety or nuclear safety and achieving highest standards of such safety based on
scientific approach, op...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 01 Oct 2012 The Lok Sabha (the Lower House of the Parliament) has, on 3 September 2012, passed the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2012 (Bill). The Bill now r...
by Trilegal Bulletin | On 01 Oct 2012 The National Food
Security Bill, 2011 was
introduced in the Lok
Sabha by the Minister of
Food, Consumer Affairs
and Public Distribution on
December 22, 2011. The
Bill was referred to the
Stand...
by Sakshi Balani | On 28 Sep 2012 This 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 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 Little business was transacted in the Monsoon Session of Parliament as protests over the CAG audit
of coal block allocations regularly disrupted proceedings. Both houses fell significantly short of t...
by Devika Malik | On 12 Sep 2012 The policy processes of the policy on ‘Nurse practitioners in midwifery’ (NPM) are described. The policy aims to educate and create a new cadre of competent midwives in the government hospitals as an...
by Sharma Bharati | On 03 Sep 2012 The focus of this study is to see how equitable the access and utilisation
of health services are among married women in Pakistan. It examines the
changes in the pattern of maternal health care prac...
by Naushin Mahmood | On 20 Aug 2012 A bill to provide protection against sexual harassment of women at workplace and for the
prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment and for
matters connected therewith or incidental...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 17 Aug 2012 Improving maternal and newborn health in low-income settings requires both health service and community
action. Previous community initiatives have been predominantly rural, but India is urbanizing....
by Neena Shah More | On 17 Aug 2012 Commonly known as the Whistleblower's Bill, it seeks to establish a mechanism to register complaints on any allegations of corruption or wilful misuse of power against a public servant. The Bill also...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 17 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 Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is increasing and is a risk for type 2 diabetes. Evidence supporting screening comes mostly from high-income countries. Prevalence and outcomes in urban Viet Nam ar...
by Jane E Hirst | On 03 Aug 2012 Is there an impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India.
Using state level variation in legal changes to women's property rights, it is shown that better property
righ...
by Siwan Anderson | On 02 Aug 2012 Drawing on secondary data, insights and ideas from an all-India consultation meet
at NIAS, four regional / zonal consultations, data from a project in Chamarajanagar district (Karnataka),
and select...
by P Veerbhadranaika | On 01 Aug 2012 Traditional analysis of gender wage gaps has largely focused on average gaps between men and women, and mean wage decompositions such as the Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) decomposition method. To answer the q...
by Shantanu Khanna | On 26 Jul 2012 Obituary: Mrinal Gore (1928-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 23 Jul 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 Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflec...
by Stephen Howes | On 16 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 Over the last few decades India has emerged as an economic giant. In 2000 the Special Economic
Zone (SEZs) policy became part of a strategy to maintain high growth and promote India’s manufacturing
...
by Ebba Mårtensson | 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 Review of the book From Individual to Community: Issues in Development Studies--Essays in Memory of Malcolm Adiseshiah by Nandan Nawn.
by Nandan Nawn | On 05 Jul 2012 In 2007, the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out the Aarogyasri health
insurance to reduce catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.” The program...
by Victoria Fan | On 05 Jul 2012 Afghanistan is
an example of a ‘‘fragile state,’’ characterised
by a government that lacks the
capacity to provide core services and basic
security to its population. Improving health
care within...
by Peter Ventevogel | On 22 Jun 2012 Are there substantial changes in the relationship between women and engineering in recent times? This is a fascinating question to explore especially since it has been so little studies especially in...
by Sreelekha Nair | On 11 Jun 2012 This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China’s urban labor market
using the 2009 survey data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies. Several estimation and
decomposition meth...
by Biwei Su | On 01 Jun 2012 Shallow groundwater with high arsenic concentrations from naturally occurring sources
is the primary source of drinking water for millions of people in Bangladesh. It has resulted in a
major public...
by Imran Matin | On 28 May 2012 For a long time, sending countries have been the focus of efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). However, in recent years, destination countries such as Singapore have also stepped up their e...
by Pau Khan Khup Hangzo | On 23 May 2012 Parliament met for the Budget Session between March 16 and May 22 with a three-week recess in April. Both Houses met for 35 days each. A special sitting was convened on Sunday, May 13 to commemorate 6...
by Rohit Kumar | On 23 May 2012 The objective of this paper is to place in the public domain various facets and dimensions of black money
and its complex relationship with the policy and administrative regime in the country. The pa...
by Ministry of Finance | On 22 May 2012 Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 22 May 2012 The wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures
required of all candidates since 2003 are studied. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points hi...
by Raymond Fisman | On 18 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 On May 13, 2012 Parliament completes 60 years since its first sitting. To mark the occasion, a special sitting
of both Houses has been organised on the day.
Recently, there has been much public scru...
by Rohit Kumar | 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 objective of the study was to review media coverage (print ) related to HIV/AIDS in three states (Gujarat, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh) in order to determine the gaps in reporting. [CCMG Working Pa...
by Biswajit Das | On 10 May 2012 Enrolments in engineering in Kerala increased from about 2800 in 1991 to about 28,000 in 2008. The study analyses whether this increase in potential supply of engineers has resulted in actual supply o...
by Sunil Mani | On 25 Apr 2012 This study examines the contribution of Bt cotton adoption to long- term average cotton yields in India using a panel data analysis of production variables in nine Indian cotton-producing states from...
by Guillaume P Gruere | On 25 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 National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy reaffirms the commitment of the Government of India to provide integrated services for holistic development of all children, along the con...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 20 Apr 2012 Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to
developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s,
but foreign brides...
by Daiji Kawaguchi | On 16 Apr 2012 Speech by Amit Mitra, Minister of Finance. [Government of West Bengal]. URL:[http://www.wbfin.nic.in/writereaddata/Budget_Speech/2012_English.pdf].
by West Bengal Government | On 13 Apr 2012 Budget Speech by Minister of Finance. [Government of Gujarat]. URL:[http://financedepartment.gujarat.gov.in/budget12_13_pdf/FM_Speech_English_Part_A_Final.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 12 Apr 2012 Budget speech by Finance Minister. [Ministry of Finance, Malaysia]. URL:[http://www.treasury.gov.my/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2008%3Abajet-2012&catid=87%3Acatbajet-tahunan&Itemid=19...
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 29 Mar 2012 The poverty line deviates from the reality. The government's redefinition is a good thing, but the danger is it won't go far enough. [BS Weekend ruminations]. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/ind...
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget for the year 2012-13. [Government of Maharashtra]. URL:[http://maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/english_speech_part_I.pdf].
by Maharashtra Government | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget speech by the Finance Minister of Bhutan. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bt/downloads/Budgetreport2012.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Bhutan | On 22 Mar 2012 Major shifts in the policy initiated in the electricity sector are well documented, only then the effect of the policy change can be analyzed, especially from the point of view of laying down future p...
by Planning Commission | On 19 Mar 2012 The food security Bill's focus ignores changes in agriculture and eating habits. [BS editorial]. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ninan-notremembered-country/467874/].
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Mar 2012 What the Budget of India, 2012-13 has got for children? [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13_0.pdf].
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Mar 2012 The Minister of Railways, Dinesh Trivedi, presented the
Railways Budget 2012 to Parliament on 14th March. In
his address, he commented on the performance of
Railways in 2011-12 and laid out his bud...
by Rohit Kumar | On 16 Mar 2012 Budget 2012-2013
by Dinesh Trivedi | On 14 Mar 2012 The report reviews the status and performance of agriculture, especially
during the last two decades, and also presents what could be the way forward, given
our objectives of accelerated growth, inc...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 14 Mar 2012 The report includes a specific recommendation to
categorically have a statutory provision imparting genuine independence to the CBI
by declaring, for the first time, that it shall not be subject, on...
by Rajya Sabha | On 14 Mar 2012 BUDGET SPEECH 2011-2012 by
DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHAIKH, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and
Planning & Development.
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 12 Mar 2012 Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in
India. Estimates suggest that more than 25 million women are
"missing". Sex selection at birth and the mistreatment of
young g...
by Siwan Anderson | On 09 Mar 2012 Time is an important economic resource that can be spent in a variety of
ways. Diverse demands on a person’s time may reach a point where the
individual may be categorized as time poor. Time poverty...
by Najam us Saqib | On 09 Mar 2012 The changing nature of tax policy in developing countries over the last 30 years is reviewed and studied the factors determining the level and structure of tax revenues in such countries and how such...
by Roy Bahl | On 07 Mar 2012 Budget speech by Nepal Finance Minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.np/publication/speech/2011/pdf/budgetspeech_english.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal | On 06 Mar 2012 Discussion on the human rights violation of under trial prisoners.
by Ranesh Chandra Majumdar | On 06 Mar 2012 A
bill
to regulate public procurement with the objectives of ensuring transparency, fair and equitable treatment of bidders, promoting competition, enhancing efficiency and economy and safeguarding...
by Ministry of Finance | On 24 Feb 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 Review of the book 'Riots and After in Mumbai: Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliation' Meena Menon, Sage Publications India, 2011, Pp 267 + xcii, Rs. 595/-
by Irfan Engineer | On 17 Feb 2012 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 There is an uneven geographical distribution of health workers. The shortage of health workers is compounded by the fact that their skills, competencies, clinical experience, and expectations are ofte...
by Nandini Dube | On 14 Feb 2012 Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved
understanding of the role of economic development in affecting gender differences in the
trends in, levels of, and retur...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 13 Feb 2012 This study investigates the relationship between saving, investment and economic growth
for India over the period 1950-51 to 2007-08. The literature on the role of saving in promoting
economic growt...
by Ramesh Jangili | On 09 Feb 2012 This paper looks at some key entry points for agriculture to influence nutrition and suggests policies for
nutrition-sensitive agricultural development, within the current policy framework. In additi...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 07 Feb 2012 The paper discusses some of the main human
rights areas of concern within Malaysia,
over the years. [Working Paper Series No. 12]. URL:[http://www.ieas.unimas.my/images/stories/hirmanritom.pdf].
by Mohammad Hirman Ritom Abdullah | On 07 Feb 2012 The 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 This paper examines the functioning of Parliaments in Bangladesh, India,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka1 in order to gauge the extent of openness and access
from the point of view of both Members of Parliam...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 31 Jan 2012 This essay examines the trajectory of India?s fiscal policy with a focus on historical trends, fiscal discipline frameworks, fiscal responses to the global financial crisis and subsequent return to a...
by Supriyo De | On 31 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 Production costs and crop incomes in drought years are analyzed to test a simplistic theory of risk based
on first principles. A mixed-methods framework is employed to draw inferences by combining da...
by Sarthak Gaurav | On 24 Jan 2012 The release of many high-profile political prisoners by Myanmar’s government has been applauded by the international community. Many obstacles to reform still exist, but they are not the usual suspect...
by Kyaw San Wai | On 24 Jan 2012 The pilot study is situated within the framework of understanding the functioning of the private sector in regards to policy and access to health care for the poor. It attempts to understand and explo...
by SAMA .. | On 22 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 present paper explores the nexus between gender-energy-poverty, highlights areas of gender
concern, and suggests actions. It is analyzed how women from rural areas and low income
households are...
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 19 Jan 2012 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 This article examines the relationship between women’s economic and social
empowerment in the context of extreme poverty. It is based on the findings of primary
fieldwork on the char islands of nort...
by Lucy Scott | On 11 Jan 2012 Many Sri Lankan companies, particularly in the food processing sector, do
not have adequate management systems in place to control and dispose
solid waste. In order to address this challenge, a new...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 09 Jan 2012 Affirmative action, especially in the form of reservation policies, to address the issues of inclusion and equity has been in place in India for a long time. Through these policies higher participatio...
by Rakesh Basant | On 09 Jan 2012 The recent global financial crisis (2007-09) has clearly highlighted the gravity of high financial inter-connectedness within the financial system. In the Indian context, this brief study attempts to...
by Karunagaran A | On 05 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 Even though it would be considered politically premature by both the Congress and the BJP – it may be best to think in terms of fresh elections. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ni...
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 Jan 2012 The year in Parliament was characterised by frequent disruptions and protests over a host of issues.
The issue of the establishment of a Lokpal prompted both disruption as well as intense debate.
A...
by Rohit Kumar | On 02 Jan 2012 The financial implications of the food security bill can be questioned. But the
Bill proposes to protect the citizens from hunger and improve the nutritional intake of women and children.
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 30 Dec 2011 This note lists the legislative business planned by Parliament and compares it with the actual
performance during the Winter Session. [PRS Note]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/administrator/uploads/ge...
by Kusum Malik | On 30 Dec 2011 A
bill
to provide for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring
access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a
life with dignity...
by Lok Sabha | On 30 Dec 2011 Major differences between the Lok Pal Bill 2011 and the Lok Pal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011.URL: [http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Lok%20Pal%20Bill%202011/Major%20differences%20between%20the%20Lok%...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 28 Dec 2011 The bill as passed by Lok Sabha. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Lok%20Pal%20Bill%202011/Lokpal%20and%20Lokayuktas%20Bill%20as%20passed%20by%20LS.pdf].
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 28 Dec 2011 Review of the book Workers, Unions and Global Capitalism: Lessons from India,
Rohini Hensman,
Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2011, pp. xix + 415
by Sharit Bhowmik | On 27 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Economic Reforms and Social Exclusion: Impact of Liberalization on Marginalized Groups in India', by K S Chalam, Sage Publications, New Delhi, India.
by Rajesh Komath | On 26 Dec 2011 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 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 The paper attempts to empirically test a naïve version of what is rather
stylistically termed as “feminisation of poverty”, using the sub-sample of
female -headed households (FHHs) from two househol...
by Umer Khalid | On 21 Dec 2011 The recommendations that follow take
cognizance of the extraordinary opportunities that
India offers – and the possibility for India to take a
lead in introducing a well-designed UHC system that
i...
by Planning Commission | On 15 Dec 2011 The public sectors of different countries are shaped by many factors, but they share common challenges. Those challenges make public sector performance management more complex than it is in the privat...
by Louise Ross | On 14 Dec 2011 The three year journey of the G-20 Heads of Government Summit from Washington in 2008 to Paris this November is signified by two markers of the depth of the global capitalist crisis. First, that the c...
by Louise Ross | On 14 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat' by
Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala, and Uma Rani
Routledge India, 2010 216 pages.
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 12 Dec 2011 How often do our State Assemblies meet? Do MLAs get enough opportunity to scrutinize Bills? Are all budget demands discussed on the floor of the House? PRS studied the work done by 13 State Assemblies...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 07 Dec 2011 Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move towards more people-ce...
by Emmeline Skinner | On 03 Dec 2011 The MHTF–PLoS Collection in
2011–12 will focus on quality of maternal
health care, as it is clear that such a focus
is now a global imperative [9]. The quality
of maternal health care is highly va...
by Samantha R Lattof | On 02 Dec 2011 The Pension Fund Regulatory
and Development Authority Bill,
2011 was introduced in the Lok
Sabha by Mr. Pranab Mukherjee,
Minister for Finance on March
24, 2011.
The Bill was referred to the
St...
by M. R. Madhavan | On 01 Dec 2011 Invited Presentation at the Seventh Play the Game Conference in Cologne, Germany. The author reviews media coverage of women in sports and concludes that media is an essential part of producing, repr...
by Annie Sugier | On 01 Dec 2011 The Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 1, 2010. The Bill was introduced by the Minister of Law and Justice. The Bill was referred to the Stand...
by Anirudh Burman | On 30 Nov 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 Fifth Anusandhan Trust’s Krishna Raj Memorial Lecture Series on Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Sciences was held on January 5, 2011. The speakers were Dr. K. Srinath Reddy (Chairperson o...
by Hansa Thapliyal | On 29 Nov 2011 The Fifth Anusandhan Trust’s Krishna Raj Memorial Lecture Series on Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Sciences was held on January 5, 2011. The speakers were Dr. K. Srinath Reddy (Chairperson o...
by Hansa Thapliyal | On 29 Nov 2011 The Fifth Anusandhan Trust’s Krishna Raj Memorial Lecture Series on Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Sciences was held on January 5, 2011. The speakers were Dr. K. Srinath Reddy (Chairperson o...
by Hansa Thapliyal | On 29 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 Torture in India series have been instrumental for bringing national and international spotlight on torture in india. The Government of India regrettably has been reluctant to address torture. It draf...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 21 Nov 2011 This report presents the results of the deliberations of the
Task Force. Section one provides
the
background.
Section
two
presents
the
status
of
the
implementation
of
March
2010
recomme...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment MoL&E | On 18 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 Sexual harassment is a global issue. In a recent case in Mumbai, two young men, Keenan Santos (24) and Reuben Fernandez (29) were stabbed on 20 Oct 2011 while confronting some unknown men eve-teasing...
by Indira Gartenberg | On 14 Nov 2011 Among the cities in Kerala, Kozhikode (Calicut) has the highest
crime record followed by Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum).
The Kerala State Economic Review (2008) showed that atrocities
against wome...
by SAKHI Women's Resource Centre SAKHI | On 11 Nov 2011 This paper evaluates the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) as a framework for measuring development and, subject to qualifications arising from that evaluation, assesses how India is doing in terms o...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 11 Nov 2011 This paper examines the socio-economic condition of women in India. The paper begins by delving into different forms of violence faced by women in India,
giving special attention to the work sphere a...
by Susana Barria | On 09 Nov 2011 Common man faces day-to-day hassles with regard to delivery of public services and corruption in service delivery.
Currently inadequate institutionalised mechanism to address these problems. Lok Pal...
by Department of Administrative Reforms Public Grievances | 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 With the exception Brander and Drazen (2008), who use a comprehensive cross-country
database consisting of both developed and developing countries, the hypothesis that rapid
growth helps incumbents...
by Poonam Gupta | 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 This study focuses on gender equality and democratic governance in the five largest states of the South Asian region, namely, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Beginning with a general...
by Seema Kazi | On 20 Oct 2011 Review of the book 'Population, Gender and Reproductive Health'.
F Ram, Sayeed Unisa and T V Sekher (eds.), Rawat publications, 2011, 416 pp, Rs 925
by K.S. James | On 20 Oct 2011 Book review 'The Green pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia' by
Keya Acharya and Frederick Noronha (eds)
Sage, 2010, page 312, Rs 395.
by Vrijendra | On 19 Oct 2011 Women workers In India constitute one third of the total workforce. Majority of these
women are engaged in the un-organized sectors such as agriculture, construction,
domestic services etc. The over...
by Bharat Jyoti BJ | On 18 Oct 2011 A bill to provide for development of sports in India, coordination of
national teams for participation in international events, fair
and transparent functioning of autonomous sports bodies and
welf...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 17 Oct 2011 The Indian national program of agriclinics and agribusiness centers, started in 2002, aims to provide farmers with a reliable alternative to the private input dealer by subsidizing technically trained...
by Claire J Glendenning | On 14 Oct 2011 This paper examines
some of the explicit as well as not so explicit trends in relation to women’s
employment in India from 1993-94 till 2009-10 and argues that they indicate a
grave and continuing...
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 10 Oct 2011 While there is much written on the youth bulge in developing countries, little is being done to address the problems of the elderly. And yet demographically, it is this section that is showing high gr...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 10 Oct 2011 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 The Optional Protocol (OP) on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of
Children in Armed Conflict was ratified by India on November 30, 2005, and is
in effect since December 30, 2005. This is t...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 29 Sep 2011 This paper is undertaken to examine various aspects of farm level adoption of Bt cotton in Gujarat as well as explore issues relating to environment and non-tariff barriers affecting the cotton trade...
by N. Lalitha | On 27 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 A review of the various issues related to gender and poverty and examine the relationships between gender and various indices, including the human development index (HDI), the gender inequality index...
by Midori Aoyagi | On 22 Sep 2011 The paper examines the farm level performance of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of paddy cultivation as against the traditional method. The role of NGOs in raising awareness among farmers...
by Jharna Pathak | On 22 Sep 2011 The paper analysis the current situation of corruption in India, the protests against it, the role of NGOs and the Lok Pal Bill
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | 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 The Optional Protocol (OP) to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography was ratified
by India on September 16, 2005. This is t...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 16 Sep 2011 A
Bill
to provide for food and nutritional security, in human life cycle approach, by
ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices, for people to
live a life with dign...
by Department of Food and Public Distribution Fcamin | On 14 Sep 2011 This 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 performance terms, the house fell significantly short of its initial plan. Proceedings were marred by disruptions – first on the issue of corruption and the detention of Anna Hazare, and later on t...
by Rohit Kumar | On 09 Sep 2011 A
bill
to ensure a humane, participatory, informed consultative and transparent process for land
acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities
and urbanisa...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Sep 2011 This note lists the legislative business planned by Parliament and compares it with the actual
performance during the Monsoon Session. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/administrator/uploads/general/13154...
by Kusum Malik | On 08 Sep 2011 Over 160,000 people died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The correlates of
survival are examined using data from the Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery
(STAR), a population-representative...
by Elizabeth Frankenberg | On 06 Sep 2011 The project aimed to
find the reasons for bottlenecks in the present system that deprive the
tribal community of the benefit of schemes. Five villages from each block have been selected to
make tot...
by Maharana Pratap Adhyayan Evam Jan Kalyan Sansthan Jaipur | On 02 Sep 2011 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 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 A note comparing the key features of the Lok Pal Bill, 2011 introduced on August 4, 2011 and the Bill prepared by civil society representatives in the Joint Drafting Committee. URL:[http://www.prsind...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 26 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 Production is often affected by environmental conditions. For example, rice harvests might be
damaged by infiltration of saline water from neighboring shrimp farms, fish catch might be reduced
by th...
by Jeffrey Vincent | On 24 Aug 2011 The HPV vaccine is being proposed as a mandatory measure to be introduced in the public system to control the spread of cervix of the cancer. The pros and cons of the proposal.
by Gopal Dabade | On 24 Aug 2011 This paper draws on the experiences of
the Far East Economic Crisis in 1998 and argues that: (1) the poor depended heavily
on bonding social capital during the Crisis, but the crunch-point beyond wh...
by Sam Wong | On 22 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 This paper, exploring primary data collected from 1510 women domestic workers in
Mumbai, evidently brings out that domestic work as a feminine occupation in a global
city like Mumbai is a epitome of...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 08 Aug 2011 Parliament meets for the Monsoon Session between August 01 and September 08, 2011. There will
be a total of 26 sittings.
The agenda for government Bills includes 35 pending Bills for consideration...
by Kusum Malik | On 01 Aug 2011 Information and Communication
Technology (ICT’s)
bring lot of opportunities to women in the work situations and small business.
Teleporting, flexi time and work from home arrangements are some of t...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 29 Jul 2011 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 Bill intends to create a framework for prevention and control of communal and sectarian violence. It also aims to provide relief to victims of such violence. URL:[http://nac.nic.in/pdf/pctvb_amend...
by | On 22 Jul 2011 The Bill intends to create a framework for prevention and control of communal and sectarian violence. It also aims to provide relief to victims of such violence. URL:[http://nac.nic.in/pdf/pctvb_amend...
by | On 22 Jul 2011 In the states of Assam and Meghalaya the ICDS project has been in operation since 1980. Assam and Meghalaya have a total of 26,000 AWCs of which 2,218 are located in seven districts of Meghalaya and t...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 19 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 A bill to provide for the establishment of the institution of Lokpal to inquire into allegations of corruption against certain public functionaries and for matters connected therewith. URL:[http://www...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 19 Jul 2011 The module is designed based on the guidelines of the Scheme prepared by Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD),
Government of India as a reference and converts information from the guideline...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 15 Jul 2011 Using sex identity theory, the paper studies the impact of feminine identity and soft influence tactics on leadership styles, specifically task oriented and participative. Earlier researchers have doc...
by Asha Kaul | On 13 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 New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data ana...
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 08 Jul 2011 The two day consultation on access to health care of vulnerable groups in Mumbai
was organised by the Mumbai chapter JSA. Vulnerable groups taken are people
living in institutions, queer women, sex...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan | On 08 Jul 2011 The paper presents gender-based violence and theories its causes and correlates; it then reviews global information on the prevalence of gender-based violence against women and its health consequences...
by SAKHI Women's Resource Centre SAKHI | On 05 Jul 2011 The study was conducted across 261 private hospitals from 10 districts of Maharashtra, Nashik, Nandurbar, Pune,
Satara, Thane, Ratnagiri, Osmanabad, Aurangabad, Amravati and Gadchiroli. Greater Mum...
by Padma Deosthali | On 01 Jul 2011 Broken Mirrors: The Dowry Problem in India by Robin Wyatt and Nazia Masood,Sage, Publications, 2010, 244 pages and costs 350/-
by Praveena Kodoth | On 02 Jun 2011 This toolkit is designed to train individuals and civil society on how to conduct a child centered budget analysis to support their advocacy work and to hold state accoutable for the fulfilment of chi...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 02 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 This paper examines the relationship between women’s vulnerability to poverty and their management of domestic natural resources. It finds that gendered experiences of poverty often derive from discri...
by Jessica Espey | On 01 Jun 2011 In recent years, a number of private foundations and organizations have launched ambitious initiatives to support promising entrepreneurs in developing countries, on both a for-profit and not-for-prof...
by Ben Leo | On 01 Jun 2011 Under the new industrial policy announced in 2002 and the export-import policy announced
thereafter, SEZs have been sought to be created in several parts of the country for promoting
industrial pr...
by Chetan Vaidya | On 26 May 2011 The Ministry of Women and Child Development has nodal responsibility to advance the rights and concerns of women and children and promote their survival, protection, development and participation in a...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 20 May 2011 This report provides an overview of the Women and Livelihoods events held by PWESCR in collaboration with organisations involved in the Gender Equality Coalition of the Human Dignity and Human Rights...
by PCESC R | On 20 May 2011 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 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,
applicable to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) since October 1996,
requires States parties to take...
by Moana Erickson | On 13 May 2011 Microfinance programmes are known for their potential to generate income and employment and alleviate poverty in developing countries. They are considered for an important approach to poverty alleviat...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 13 May 2011 The paper is part of a broader study of the human rights of women who migrate or are
trafficked to Hong Kong for the purposes of working in the commercial sex industry.
The study is being conduct...
by Robyn Emerton | On 12 May 2011 The investment climate of a region reflects the location specific factors that provide opportunities and incentives for firms to invest, create jobs, and expand. A good investment cl...
by Errol D'souza | On 11 May 2011 Depending upon the criterion of ownership (whether private or public/social), infrastructure may be classified into: (i) social infrastructure or social overhead capital and (ii) private infrastru...
by S.K. Mishra | On 11 May 2011 The trafficking of women for the purposes of prostitution into certain parts of Asia, in particular into Thailand, India and Japan, is now relatively well-documented. However, there is very little in...
by Robyn Emerton | On 11 May 2011 In India, today too, majority of educated women are unaware of their true self and still stuck in the process of self realisation. Moreover, there are some women who are aware of their self, their rig...
by Sachin S. Bhumbe | On 09 May 2011 Great novelists through their writings placed the history of the Indian national and social awakening movement in literature.The context of this article is great three novels of three great littérat...
by Sarmistha Ghoshal | On 09 May 2011 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 This paper presents the agenda of the second session of the first Parliament of Bhutan. URL: [http://www.nab.gov.bt/show_forms.php?var=4]
by National Assembly of Bhutan | On 09 May 2011 This paper presents the agenda of the third session of the first Parliament of Bhutan. URL: [http://www.nab.gov.bt/publication/9Final%20Agenda%20for%203rd%20session%20of%20First%20Parliament.pdf]
by National Assembly of Bhutan | On 06 May 2011 Direct support to private firms in developing countries constitutes a large and growing share of multilateral development banks’ financial activities. This trend contrasts with the advice MDBs gave de...
by Guillermo Perry | On 05 May 2011 This paper presents the agenda of the fourth session of the National Assembly of Bhutan. URL: [http://www.nab.gov.bt/publication/104TH%20SESSION%20AGENDA.pdf]
by National Assembly of Bhutan | On 05 May 2011 This paper presents the agenda of the fifth session of the first parliament of Bhutan. URL: [http://www.nab.gov.bt/publication/11Agenda%20for%205th%20session.pdf]
by National Assembly of Bhutan | On 04 May 2011 This paper presents the agenda of the sixth session of the first parliament of Bhutan. URL: [http://www.nab.gov.bt/publication/126TH%20SESSION%20AGENDA.pdf]
by National Assembly of Bhutan | On 03 May 2011 Two of the key highlights of the training
were: the absence of counselling services, especially for women in Kashmir given
the nature and scale of violence and; the denied right of conflict affected...
by ... CEHAT | On 29 Apr 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 The Task Force visited 45 villages across 17 states and held state and regional level consultations to understand from women and men farmers, bankers, civil society, academicians, planners, activists,...
by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Devt NABARD | On 27 Apr 2011 In this study, two types of aid transfers - boats and houses are examined- that were made to
rehabilitate tsunami-affected fishery households in Sri Lanka. The goal is to investigate the
distributio...
by Asha Gunawardena | On 20 Apr 2011 The NYP 2010 is a step forward from the earlier Policy
formulated in 1988 and, later, in 2003. It reaffirms commitment
of the nation to the holistic development of the young people of
the country....
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 19 Apr 2011 The result of 2011 census of India is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up;
family size is stabilizing. But there is one grim exception- India’s already skewed infant sex rati...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 15 Apr 2011 The agitation led by Anna Hazare has focussed on the formation of a Lok Pal to address the issue of
corruption. Some data on the existing systems of identifying and prosecuting cases of
corruption a...
by Rohit Kumar | On 13 Apr 2011 This note is intended as a brief guide on how the budget papers are organised, and how to find the exact information that a reader wants (expenditure on a particular scheme of interest, or total budge...
by Avinash Celestine | On 12 Apr 2011 The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill, 2011
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 08 Apr 2011 An
attempt has been made in this paper to analyse the financing pattern of
Indian corporate sector during 1990-2009. This paper further seeks to
identify the pattern of resource mobilisation of Ind...
by P L Beena | On 08 Apr 2011 A bill to provide for the establishment of the institution of Lokpal to inquire into allegations of corruption aganist public functionaries and for matters connected therewith.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 08 Apr 2011 In January 2011, the government formed a Group of Ministers, chaired by Shri Pranab Mukherjee to suggest
measures to tackle corruption, including examination of the proposal of a Lok Pal Bill.
by Kaushiki Sanyal | On 08 Apr 2011 The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination, applicable to Hong
Kong since October 1996, requires States parties to take steps to address all forms of
violence against women. Th...
by Andrew Byrnes | On 06 Apr 2011 Following behind other jurisdictions, Hong Kong tabled its post September 11th anti-terrorism legislation for first reading on April 17, 2002. The United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Bill (herein...
by Simon N.M. Young | On 05 Apr 2011 The Government of Chhattisgarh is firmly committed to capitalise on its ‘new State
advantage’. The State has taken a conscious decision to do away with past
legacies and to adopt a fresh approach to...
by Government of Chhattishgarh | On 30 Mar 2011 A comprehensive assessment of the multiple benefits of mangrove ecosystems and their
restoration efforts in Gujarat is made. The study is important and contextual as there are very
limited empirical...
by P.K. Viswanathan | On 29 Mar 2011 The Hong Kong government continues to invoke the 1976 reservation to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) entered by the United Kingdom government in relation to Hong Kong....
by Seren S.T. Tang | On 29 Mar 2011 The scheme would facilitate improving both qualitative and
quantitative aspects of skill development in Mission Mode by harmonizing
efforts of Central / State Governments as well as private sector t...
by Planning Commission, India | On 28 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 Current Status of the Bill: Pending URL:[http://prsindia.org/uploads/media/children%20against%20sexual%20offences.pdf].
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 25 Mar 2011 A
BILL
further to amend the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961. URL: [http://prsindia.org/uploads/media/Institute%20of%20Technology%20Bill%202010.pdf].
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | 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 It is widely recognized that women bear a heavy
burden in conflict and post-conflict societies, both directly through violence
perpetrated against them and their families, and as survivors attemptin...
by Robert Zuber | On 23 Mar 2011 A structure for the green venture fund (GVF) and explain the design rationale, operating principles and key parameters for two funds of funds for technology innovation and deployment is proposed. Some...
by Darius Nassiry | On 16 Mar 2011 World hunger is prevalent yet receives relatively less attention compared to poverty. The MDGs have taken a step to address this with the resolution of halving the number of starving people in the wor...
by Basudeb Guha Khasnobis | On 16 Mar 2011 Dhaka, like so many other cities in South Asia, is
struggling to cope with traffic congestion and air pollution.
This policy brief examines the economic costs associated
with illness caused by traf...
by Tanzir Ahmed Chowdhury | On 15 Mar 2011 Sakhi Women’s resource centre has been addressing this issue of safety in public spaces of Trivandrum city through surveys, public meeting with officials, and collaborating in the training for bus con...
by SAKHI Women's Resource Centre SAKHI | On 10 Mar 2011 During the past one decade, the concept of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) has gained much prominence in healthcare sector in India. The foremost objective of such partnerships has been to improve th...
by Muraleedharan VR | On 09 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 This paper we make an attempt to understand and analyze the budget from a gender perspective. The paper looks into the different areas of allocations, how far it is ‘pro woman’ budget or a ‘gender re...
by Aleyamma Vijayan | On 08 Mar 2011 This study focuses on the nature of safety violence in Delhi, the perceptions of safety among women and
men, infrastructure to redress their causes and their outcomes. URL: [http://wcd.nic.in/].
by Society for Development Studies | On 08 Mar 2011 Comments can be sent to animalwelfareact2011@gmail.com by March 20, 2011.
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 07 Mar 2011 This Explanatory Note highlights the rationale and major considerations
that form the basis of the NAC proposals on food security. It supplements (i) the NAC
recommendations on food security relea...
by National Advisory Council NAC | On 04 Mar 2011 The development of private enterprises in the PRC has its own specific
background. During the 1950s, the old Chinese capitalist economy
essentially died out with the establishment of the PRC and the...
by Toshiki Kanamori | On 04 Mar 2011 Budget speech 2011-2012 by Pranab Mukherjee.
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 01 Mar 2011 Private investors respond to risk return tradeoffs. The policy
environment and regulatory framework significantly influence risk as
well as return in the power sector. Power sector reform and policy...
by Anoop Singh | On 22 Feb 2011 While there are many path-breaking elements in the Programme document, the stress is on a top down programme that leaves little room for accommodating regional needs. Nor is there much emphasis on enc...
by Syam Prasad | On 15 Feb 2011 This policy brief examines hedge funds, private equity funds, and innovative financial products, particularly collateralized debt obligations and asset-backed securities, including their overall struc...
by Peter Morgan | On 08 Feb 2011 Privatization is analysed in a general equilibrium model of a small, tariff-distorted,
open economy. There is a differentiated good produced by both private and public
sector enterprises. A reductio...
by Arghya Ghosh | On 04 Feb 2011 The key features of Indian finance is summarised. With
a growing savings rate and a growing share of private corporate capital forma-
tion, and with a high growth rate of GDP, Indian finance is rapi...
by Ajay Shah | On 03 Feb 2011 The objective of the study is to examine the impact of rising food prices and financial crisis on the
impact of women and children in India. It identifies the pathways for dealing with the effects of...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 31 Jan 2011 Through over a century-long history, the women’s movement in India has been engaged with law as an
instrument with which to negotiate women’s rights. To a great extent this strategy has been successf...
by Centre for Women's Development Studies | On 31 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 BRAC WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) programme was initiated in 150 upazilas in three
phases (50 in each phase) aiming to improve water, sanitation and hygiene conditions in rural
Banglades...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 21 Jan 2011 This Policy Brief discusses whether
Bangladesh should continue to pursue
a national food security strategy based
on self-reliance or return to its earlier
policy of food self-sufficiency through
...
by Uttam Kumar Deb | On 17 Jan 2011 This population-based cross sectional survey was done in four maternal, neonatal and child health
(MNCH) intervention districts (N=4,800 households) and two control districts (N=2,400
households). D...
by Shumona Sharmin Salam | On 12 Jan 2011 The costs of skilled maternal and newborn care are major obstacles to
access. This cross-sectional study of 1,200 married women, who had a
live birth in the previous year, analyzed the costs incurre...
by Mohammad Nasir Uddin Khan | On 31 Dec 2010 Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper investigates the link
between female status and food security. Employing three different indicators of female
status – husband’s an...
by Mohammad A. Razzaque | On 29 Dec 2010 This study looked at the process of forming of Village Organizations (VOs) by BRAC. BRAC
organizes the poor by initiating the institution building process through which the formation of VOs
takes pl...
by Manzurul Mannan | On 29 Dec 2010 Report of a training workshop for health care providers on responding to violence organised by the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT), Mumbai.
by Yavnika Tanwar | On 28 Dec 2010 The objective of this study was to identify and understand the problems
faced by women-headed households. The study was undertaken with two assumptions: (1) a support
system is in place which ensure...
by Naomi Hossain | On 28 Dec 2010 This study explores the effect of women’s involvement in BRAC’s income and health development
activities on the nutritional status of their children aged 6-72 months. MUAC measurements of 1,518
chil...
by Masuma Khatun | On 23 Dec 2010 Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) is a BRAC programme targeting the ultra poor households in various locations in the country. This programme targets the women of the bottom decile...
by Rafiath Rashid | On 22 Dec 2010 This study attempted to evaluate the working of the Central Government Health
Scheme (CGHS) and Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) by
assessing patient satisfaction as well as the issue...
by Sukumar Vellakkal | On 21 Dec 2010 This paper uses data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey 2 (2003/2004) to find
evidence to whether children are less likely to work and more likely to attend school in
a household where the mothe...
by Milla Nyyssölä | On 20 Dec 2010 This is a guidelines for health professionals on methods and need of counseling and helping the victims of violence.
by ... CEHAT | On 20 Dec 2010 Dilaasa, Crisis Centre for Women is the first hospital-based crisis centre in India
designed to respond to the needs of women facing violence within their homes and
families. The Centre is a joint i...
by Padma Deosthali | On 17 Dec 2010 List of Bills passed, withdrawn, introcuced and pending during the Winter Session
by Kusum Malik | On 14 Dec 2010 The report is a study of possibilities for the institutionally disabled entrepreneurs to raise capital from private players like venture capitalists and micro-finance institutions.
by Mallika Chawla | On 13 Dec 2010 Much of development policy is geared toward increasing investment and creating the conditions that allow
private capital flows to take the place of development assistance. The renowned development s...
by John Simon | On 10 Dec 2010 Many studies simply demonstrate that there is paucity of
empirical data, research findings and literature on the status of
children dependent on prostitutes in Uttar Pradesh. Thus, it is
imperative...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 02 Dec 2010 The paper analyzes the the dynamics of gender balance in the corporate world. It examines the present scenario of leadership in this sector and the reasons of lack of female leaders.
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 30 Nov 2010 This is a ready reference for organizations, youth policy practitioners and young people to the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY), its 15 priority areas and their corresponding proposals for...
by United Nations UN | On 29 Nov 2010 The private sector plays a significant role in delivering health care to people in developing countries. By some estimates, more than one-half of all health care—even to the poorest people—is provided...
by (Centre for Global Development) Advisory Faculty | On 26 Nov 2010 Gujarat, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu were the
major contributors to the growth acceleration in India after 1991-92. Although the
Regional Disparity may increase tempor...
by Ravindra H. Dholakia | On 25 Nov 2010 This paper analyses the determinants of fixed investment in the
Indian Private Corporate Manufacturing sector for the period 1973-2002,
using Annual Survey of Industries Data. It is argued that econ...
by V.R. Prabhakaran Nair | On 16 Nov 2010 Structural Adjustment is aimed at altering the Incentive framework for private enterprise so as
to bring it to the centre stage of domestic economic activity. The prime mover for investment
and grow...
by D. Narayana | On 08 Nov 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 list put out by Forbes India says that India has 69 dollar-billionaires. That gives the country a near 7 per cent share of the world’s billionaires (said to total 1,011), whereas its share of world...
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Oct 2010 This study analyzes the determinants of stress in public-private partnerships (PPPs) in
infrastructure investment. While project failures seldom occur, there are many stresses that
hinder success. O...
by Renato E. Reside, Jr. | On 27 Oct 2010 The
perspective of global commodity chain or GCC framework and social
embeddedness are used to understand the organizational and social linkages in the
embellishment production network in garment i...
by Jeemol Unni | On 21 Oct 2010 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 The major objectives of the current evaluation study was to understand the approach
and strategy for the implementation of Hill Area Development Programme (HADP) and analyze the "impact‟ of the...
by Planning Commission, India | On 20 Oct 2010 This brief shows how three of the biggest donors to global HIV/AIDS programs can go beyond their stated commitments to address gender inequality and more effectively combat HIV and AIDS.
by Christina Droggitis | On 20 Oct 2010 The paper examines the potential impact of
wages and assets created under NREGS on local economies and discusses
policy implications for ensuring realization of the potential. The specific
objectiv...
by Amita Shah | On 18 Oct 2010 This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) three-
decade-long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of
finding work and income for n...
by Reema Nanavaty | On 15 Oct 2010 This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order
which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the
economy and leaves th...
by Rehman Sobhan | On 13 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 The context for this paper is the interaction between a rm that produces and processes durable pollution and a regulator charged with the tasks of (a) employing a mandated technology to process the p...
by Sudhir A. Shah | On 05 Oct 2010 This study examines a range of crossborder infrastructure development issues related to the
Asian countries. Despite active pursuit of private investment in infrastructure by most
developing count...
by Prabir De | On 01 Oct 2010 This is an attempt to understand the characteristics of private
hospitals and the equity in accessing their services, using secondary data
available for the period 1986-2004. The data indicates that...
by T.R. Dilip | On 30 Sep 2010 This paper looks into the proliferation of privately-formulated environmental product standards and analyses whether Indian industry has a legal recourse under the WTO dispute settlement mechanism if...
by Samir R. Gandhi | On 30 Sep 2010 An issue that has attracted surprisingly little notice is the size and growth of the trade deficit. Even more worrisome is the flat trajectory for exports — which escapes notice because comparisons ar...
by T.N. Ninan | On 24 Sep 2010 This paper takes a look at the women urban industrial labour force in India. [Working Paper No. 127]
by Leela Gulati | On 24 Sep 2010 Development within the framework of economic reforms is often equated to growth
rates which are highlighted as the only solution to all problems – be it poverty,
unemployment or inequalities based...
by Neetha N | On 21 Sep 2010 This study makes an attempt to examine living environment and health status of women and children in slum and non-slum areas of selected metropolitan cities in India. The selected metropolitan cities...
by Chandra Sekhar | On 17 Sep 2010 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 Long before Independence, the theme on which Gandhiji wrote repeatedly, was the
need to improve the status of Indian women. He drew attention to the fact that the
woman was ‘not only.... condemned t...
by Lotika Sarkar | On 14 Sep 2010 The importance of Women's Organisations for bringing women within reach of the
development process is a recognised policy for women's development in India. However,
nature and functional role of suc...
by Narayan K. Banerjee | On 14 Sep 2010 This paper addresses gender equity in parents‘ educational investments in children in a
context of rising school attendance in rural Bangladesh. Our premise is that in addition to factors
such as sc...
by Sajeda Amin | On 13 Sep 2010 Whether the outcome of bargaining over wage and employment between an incumbent firm
and a union remains efficient under entry threat is examined. The workers\' reservation wage is not known to the
...
by Rupayan Pal | On 10 Sep 2010 This paper provides an analysis of demographic and health surveys of Private-Public Mix in Women and Health in Low-Income countries. As always the Demographic and Health Survey is a very valuable sour...
by Supon Limwattananon | On 31 Aug 2010 During the past one decade, the concept of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) has gained much prominence in healthcare sector in India. The foremost objective of such partnerships has been to improve th...
by Vangal R Muraleedharan | On 23 Jul 2010 Health economists have traditionally quantified the burden of vector-borne diseases (such as chikungunya and dengue) as the sum of the cost of illness and the cost of intervention programmes. The obje...
by Dileep V. Mavalankar | On 21 Jul 2010
This paper explores how socio-economic, especially socio-religious affiliations, and demographic characteristics of individuals influence participation in higher education (HE). It argues that ap...
by Rakesh Basant | On 16 Jul 2010 Although a lot of scholarly attention has gone into issues concerning women
for more than three decades, little work has been done on the evolution and
functioning of institutions1 that have been cr...
by Sadhna Arya | On 16 Jul 2010 The world over, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, private sector units were of a laissez-faire
variety i.e., the private sector was completely free of state interference. Private enterprise...
by Anupriya Singhal | On 16 Jul 2010 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) seems to have decided, somewhat belatedly, to fight for its own autonomy. Well, it’s better late than never, and there is much to recommend in the suggestion by RBI to...
by T.N. Ninan | On 14 Jul 2010 The paper discuses the water supply system in Delhi. It highlights the facts work done by the Delhi Jal Board, the role played by private water suppliers in Delhi, the effects of indiscriminate extrac...
by Shivani Daga | On 14 Jul 2010 There has been tremendous progress over the last decade in the development of health products for neglected
diseases. These include drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for malaria and tuberculosis, whi...
by Thomas J. Bollyky | On 08 Jul 2010 The paper provides information about the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Bill and also discuses some issues related to this bill.
by Shruti Rajagopalan | On 06 Jul 2010 Capitalizing on recent estimates of infrastructure financing requirements in Asia, this paper frames a scenario for infrastructure development in the region and estimates the external effects of infra...
by Fan Zhai | On 30 Jun 2010 The paper is a analysis of the street vendors of Vadodara and the Gujarat Government's attitute towards them.
by Nimisha Srivastava | On 29 Jun 2010 This paper explores the modification of a discourse in the context of emergence of social movement from a single issue professional campaign through a framework of Habermasian communicative action the...
by Muhammad Anwar | On 22 Jun 2010 In this paper there is an attempt to bring in some theoretical analysis on the development process and women's roles in it as seen and advocated by the women's movements and later on by the State and...
by Aleyamma Vijayan | On 22 Jun 2010 Pakistan has historically received large volumes of aid but it has also faced an increasingly difficult task of aid coordination. In 2007, Pakistan received more than U.S.$2.2 billion in Official Deve...
by Abdul Malik | On 18 Jun 2010 The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) conducted a factfinding
visit from 17th to 19th December 2007, to Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) and
Khammam (Andhra Pradesh), in order t...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 18 Jun 2010 The experiences of introducing the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence (SAFE) kit, which is developed to ensure correct collection of evidence in two public hospitals in Mumbai, to examine the provisions...
by Jagadeesh N | On 17 Jun 2010 The Equal Remuneration Act in India was enacted to prevent discrimination between
workers on grounds of gender. The preamble to the act describes it as:
An Act to provide for the payment of equal re...
by Aditi Kavarana | On 16 Jun 2010 The ultimate goal of this paper is to derive inspiration from Coase Theorem and the Japanese model of Keiretsu to empower the producers and suppliers of fish – namely, the fisher folk and to place the...
by Samar K. Datta | On 09 Jun 2010 This paper on the basis of fieldwork in the region of North Gujarat tries to analyze the
perceptions among various sections of the farmers and examines whether the subsidy is
pro-poor in nature. The...
by Vidyut Joshi | On 07 Jun 2010 his article (the first in a two-part series) evaluates the nature and scope of executive controls over primary legislation in India and Pakistan. A Parliament, in a representative democracy, is the pr...
by Shubhankar Dam | On 05 Jun 2010 Review of Women Work and Health: Current Concerns,
Amita Sahaya and Sunita Kaistha (Editors).
Published by The Women Press, New Delhi-110007 in association with
Women Work and health Initiatives (...
by Ruby Ojha | On 03 Jun 2010 We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent l...
by Quy-Toan Do | On 02 Jun 2010 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 The discussion focusses on women in poverty their
concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational approach for their mobilization
and empowerment. Maximum emphasis has been placed on...
by Narayana K Banerjee | On 17 May 2010 This paper attempts to question the state of ‘women community” at large with situation
depicting the growing rate of crime, oppression and subjugation which is historically
unprecedented and its re-...
by Chitra Mishra | On 03 May 2010 Empowerment of women has emerged as an important issue in recent times. The economic empowerment of women is being regarded these days as a Sine-quo-non of progress for a country; hence, the issue of...
by Sathiabama K | On 19 Apr 2010 This study attempts
to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and
suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic poli...
by Roopam Singh | On 08 Apr 2010 Girls and Girlhoods at the Threshold of Youth and Gender-A Vacha Initiative
By Vibhuti Patel (ed.), The women Press, Delhi, Pp 505, Rs 1595/-
by Usha Thakkar | On 01 Apr 2010 The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is,
domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) a...
by Deepita Chakravarty | On 25 Mar 2010 This paper seeks to analyse the present situation of the bus transport system in Delhi and addresses the question of how privatising bus transport system in Delhi would make the present scenario of De...
by Shailly Arora | On 17 Mar 2010 Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 05 Mar 2010 Budget speech by finance minister of Karnataka
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 05 Mar 2010 This study attempts
to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and
suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic poli...
by Roopam Singh | On 04 Mar 2010 In this paper, an attempt is made to enquire into the politics of the government and
business relation and how it affects the industrial development in general and expansion
of manufacturing sector...
by Alivelu G | On 02 Mar 2010 Female work participation in West Bengal is one of the lowest among all
the states in India. However, it varies widely across the state’s 341
blocks. An analysis of some block level characteristics...
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 26 Feb 2010 Railway Budget 2010-11.
by Mamata Banerjee | On 25 Feb 2010 The paper studies the socio-economic impact of the shift of slum dwellers to new rehabilitation site of Chandivali. It also discuses the issue of availability and choice of employment as a key driver...
by Damien Vaquier | On 18 Feb 2010 India is currently negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union, which includes not
only liberalization of commodity trading, but also a wide range of chapters including deep services
...
by Ranja Sengupta | On 17 Feb 2010 This paper aims to examine the policy debates on women's education and highlight some of the
basic issues affecting the progress of women's education since the introduction of planned
development in...
by Balaji Pandey | On 08 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 This paper examines the health services provided by Reliance Industries in the village,
Motikhavadi, which comes under the Special economic Zone- Jamnagar to scrutinise the
role of the state, especi...
by Shilpa Jadhav Bhakre | On 22 Jan 2010 The essay is begun with a reference to a television programme on one of the Hindi
news channels - titled Burqe me Atankvad which was telecast sometime in mid-2005. The complex and turmoil-ridden and
...
by Vasanthi Raman | 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 In this paper, we seek to make a twofold contribution. On outcomes, we focus on manufacturing exports as well as on manufacturing output both in the aggregate and in selected sectors. On policy, the i...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 19 Jan 2010 The Indian media has wrongly compared Bihar's (that is, 11.03per cent) average annual growth during the period 2004-05 to 2008-09 with that of Gujarat (that is, 11.05per cent). While the media has quo...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 14 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 Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component
projects under the RACHNA program, INHP-II and Chayan. Of the two, the INHP interve...
by CARE India | On 24 Dec 2009 Kerala’s success in human development demonstrated that efficient functioning of government
health care delivery system opens the doors of prosperity for the poor and vulnerable sections
of the popu...
by Varatharajan D | On 21 Dec 2009 Climate change is one of the most important issues of the next
decades and has the potential to severely impact societies,
economies and human wellbeing.
by Caio Koch-Weser | On 16 Dec 2009 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 is an attempt to explore the meaning and significance of political
participation within (a) the conceptual framework of democratic citizenship and
(b) debates surrounding representative d...
by Anupama Roy | On 10 Dec 2009 This paper examines these difficulties of regulation in the context of spread of unapproved
transgenic Bt cotton seeds in India. This paper also examines the impact of the cultivation of approved and...
by Bharat Ramaswami | On 08 Dec 2009 The objective of the study is to find out the primary reason to encourage public
private participation in health care delivery system in Uttar Pradesh and the study
also aim to analyse UPHSDP -a Wor...
by Bibi Ishrat Jahan | On 07 Dec 2009 This paper presents some of the findings of our recent study on women’s representation and participation in panchayats. Some of the findings of the study (Buch; 1999) of women in panchayats after the...
by Nirmala Buch | On 04 Dec 2009 This document is at the behest of KMVS and is an effort to hold up a mirror to their journey. It is a documentation of their history, context, evolution, and experiences since its emergence in 1989. A...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 01 Dec 2009 This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and explores policy options for strengthening their livelihoods through a combinatio...
by Amita Shah | On 27 Nov 2009 Hemlata James is the principal of the Government middle school in Haat Pipaliya in Madhya Pradesh and is credited with making the school one of the best in the area: since she has taken over the numb...
by Rinchin Rinchin | On 26 Nov 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 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 In this paper the diverse dimensions of gender development are examined using
individual indicators for the districts of the western region of India. The western
region for the purpose of this study...
by Preet Rustagi | On 24 Nov 2009 This document highlights the results and associated processes from Chayan’s
implementation experience under the RACHNA program. The programmatic
framework, designed for low-prevalence contexts in In...
by CARE India | On 20 Nov 2009 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 Sheds light on the realities of girls' health and wellbeing in developing countries, on the links between the health of girls and the prospects for their families, and on the specific actions that wil...
by Miriam Temin | On 17 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 Chiranjeevi Yojna is considered to be a successful PPP model and has also received a prestigious Asian Innovations Award by the Wall Street Journal. It is a flagship scheme of the Gujarat state mi...
by Akash Acharya | On 13 Nov 2009 A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features a...
by Indian Trust for Innovation and Social Change ITISC | On 12 Nov 2009 Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) developed by UNDP need to be recast to realistically capture the gender gaps in development
and empowerment in the Third Wo...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 10 Nov 2009 This joint paper attempts an unusual collaborative approach that offers an understanding of the problems that registered nurses of India have faced. Through this paper, the problem of ‘social status’...
by Sreelekha Nair | On 10 Nov 2009 Before 1997, women experiencing sexual
harassment at workplace had to lodge a complaint under Indian Penal Code,
1860, ss. 354 and 509. But the Supreme Court, applying Convention on the
Elimination...
by Mahalaxmi Tiwary | On 09 Nov 2009 If a private sector partner goes wrong on business assumptions, it should not be the government or the consumer who pays
by T.N. Ninan | On 09 Nov 2009 This review paper provides the background to research that will take place in four country case-studies
to examine these issues. A key focus of this paper concerns government's capacity to fulfil the...
by Sara Bennett | On 09 Nov 2009 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 The methodology had two parts - secondary data analysis and a descriptive cross sectional study. Secondary date analysis was carried our using a sample of 1,028 men and 1,028 women in the reproductive...
by Pratibha Esther Singh | On 16 Oct 2009 BRAC health programme (BHP) initiated a pilot maternal, neonatal and child
health project (MNCH) in Nilphamari in 2006 to improve the health status of
women of reproductive age including neonates an...
by Shahnawaz Mohammad Rafi | On 15 Oct 2009 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 In this paper, with empirical data, the Capabilities Approach to identify
'conversion factors' that are not typically addressed in the utility approach is used.
The two approaches are juxtaposed to...
by Jeemol Unni | On 01 Oct 2009 Private practice in the health sector was re-introduced from 1980, when China began its economic reform from a planned economy to a market economy. But today the total number of private sector provide...
by Ying Bian | On 30 Sep 2009 A situational analysis of recording and reporting maternal deaths in
Gandhinagar district, Gujarat, India and to suggest improvements in the system for reporting and recording maternal deaths based o...
by Tapasvi I Puwar | On 23 Sep 2009 This handbook on child protection will help Panchayat Raj members to understand the actions they can take to protect children resulting in better convergence of programmes and increased allocation of...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 16 Sep 2009 This paper estimates respective roles of private investments in irrigation and local
government programs (land reforms, extension services, and infrastructure investments)
in the growth of farm prod...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 14 Sep 2009 The study attempts to examine the impact of remittances on macroeconomic activities (private consumption and investment) and its implications on economic growth in India for the period from 1966-67 to...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 01 Sep 2009 The focus is on the social discrimination trap, which highlights the ways in which men and women’s, girls and boys’ experiences of poverty differ in important ways. It is also discussed how understand...
by Tim Braunholtz Speight | On 01 Sep 2009 This paper analyses the pattern of growth observed in the city economy of
Ahmedabad, a metropolitan city in the industrially developed state of Gujarat. The
growth of this city is placed in the cont...
by Jeemol Unni | On 17 Aug 2009 This study tried to bring together the experiences of different approaches to incentives followed by six NGOs in the states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Issues deal...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 11 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 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 The introduction of the Target Free Approach (TFA) has been a major policy shift in
the health and family welfare programme of India. This study reviewed the process of
change in the implementation...
by B L Kumar | On 17 Jun 2009 The poverty scenario in Gujarat is marked by three features: (1) low incidence of poverty (2) spatial concentration and (3) adoption of targeted policy for poverty reduction. One of the important high...
by Amita Shah | On 16 Jun 2009 The paper is an attempt to review critically the association between women’s paid work and empowerment in India. As a prelude, the author seek to assess the extent of women’s participation in paid wor...
by Sunny Jose | On 15 Jun 2009 There has been an increase in the demand for infrastructure services and opening up of the infrastructure sector for private investment. As a result, a large number of financial intermediaries and pri...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 15 Jun 2009 The paper contours of a feasible design of VAT in India. It also takes on board the various alternatives proposed. It looks at the issues that need resolution and the options available for resolving t...
by R.Kavita Rao | On 12 Jun 2009 This paper deals with the nationalist discourse in Maharashtra spanning over forty years. This discourse argued that educating women and non-Brahmins would amount to a loss of nationality. The nationa...
by Parimala V Rao | On 11 Jun 2009 Widespread discontent among the people has plagued the Indian polity for sometime now. It has often led to unrest, sometimes of a violent nature. Over the years, statutory enactments and institutional...
by Expert Group Planning Commission | On 06 Jun 2009 Many NGOs occupy a space between public and private sector organisations, and the papers in this special issue demonstrate that the mechanisms required for effective accountability by these NGOs are u...
by Kalpana C Satija | On 06 Jun 2009 Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) is crucial for preventing maternal deaths for which the policy has been to establish First Referral Units (FRUs). Twenty seven facilities from 6 districts from each adm...
by Raman Parvathy | On 03 Jun 2009 This essay mainly examines the relationship between feminism and nationalism as a point from which it looks at South Asian feminist scholarship. The historical circumstances in their respective countr...
by Uma Chakravarti | On 03 Jun 2009 An important aspect that is often highlighted in the context of economic reforms, is the translation of labour market changes into defining or redefining gender relations and empowerment of women. In...
by Neetha N | On 03 Jun 2009 This paper is 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 While in the era of globalization, millions of women got paid employment in labour-intensive industries in developing countries, they still face precarious working conditions. Women rights violations...
by Franziska Humbert | On 01 Jun 2009 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 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 A large scandal hit company has found a buyer despite the matter that its accounts were all fictious.
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Apr 2009 2009 Budget speech
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 20 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 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 Budget speech of finance minister
by Orissa Government | On 13 Mar 2009 Examines whether there are any funds for children related activities.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Feb 2009 In today’s developing world the vast majority of water and electricity services are provided by public utilities. Rather than asking “who should provide the services”, the authors adopt a financing po...
by Daniel Platz | On 09 Feb 2009 An attempt has been made to discuss various aspects of unpaid household work such as its treatment in the system of National Accounts, and the methodologies of its valuation. With the help relevant da...
by R N Pandey | On 09 Jan 2009 The present study assess association between physical violence during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes. A cross sectional study using McFarlane's Abuse Assessment Screen (AAS) was done. A syst...
by Dipty Jain | On 06 Jan 2009 The study examines the impact of aggregate government
expenditure and its two broader components such as revenue expenditure
and capital expenditure on the growth rate of output in the Indian contex...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 22 Dec 2008 This is a continuation of an earlier paper (2005) by the author which dealt with policy implications based on the work done by CPRC in India. There is no map of chronic poverty in India, but have an a...
by N C B Nath | On 16 Dec 2008 This paper addresses some key policy issues relating to the micro and small enterprises in India during the reforms period. A close look into the definitional changes in terms of the criterion of inve...
by Keshab Das | On 16 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 Tomotaoes which are produced in Gujarat, north west India are small, so the growers were not organized enough to raise funds to sponsor research at public R&D institutions in the area. That task was t...
by Girja Sharan | On 25 Nov 2008 The present paper tries to empirically examine the changing profile of distribution and ownership of livestock across different regions of India and specifically for Gujarat. Besides, primary data col...
by Amita Shah | On 21 Nov 2008 What does citizenship mean to poor and socially excluded people? How do their views help us understand and analyse what 'inclusive' citizenship means?
by Naila Kabeer | On 20 Nov 2008 Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based
indicators provided by the United Nations Development Program. Population share of the
genders enter the formulation of t...
by Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan | On 18 Nov 2008 The 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 study tries to understand the main causes of tank degradation and the complex interrelationships among poverty, private coping mechanisms and community coping mechanisms that affect tank performa...
by Balasubramanian R | On 17 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 The first section of this essay considers the personal narratives of suffering and growth of the
Tarini Bhavan workers and inmates. The second section analyses the ideological contours of the
reform...
by Bagchi B | On 16 Oct 2008 The paper carries the reader across and over great spans of space and time, with an Indian feminist woman academic journeying back to seventeenth-century ancien regime France, to 1770s Scotland, to 17...
by Bagchi B | On 01 Oct 2008 This article presents the findings of a survey conducted in 2000 in the Calcutta
Municipal Corporation (CMC), where quotas – 33 per cent of seats - for women have been implemented since 1995. [CSH Oc...
by Stephanie Tawa Lema-Rewal | On 30 Sep 2008 The paper investigates the role of economic factors in the enrolment decision at the
higher education level in India. The study concludes that the rate of
participation of women is in a disadvantage...
by Sugeeta Upadhyay | On 29 Sep 2008 Recognising the dearth of detailed analyses of economic and environmental performance of traditional water harvesting systems (TWHS) meant exclusively for domestic use, this paper enquires into the re...
by Keshab Das | On 26 Sep 2008 This paper attempts to examine the trends in the shift from underweight to overweight and identify the major determinants of the co-existence of ‘double burden’ of malnutrition among women of reproduc...
by P Ramesh | On 19 Sep 2008 A broad overview of the achievements and progress made by the Indian
banking sector in the last two decades and the emerging frontiers of the Indian banking system, in the post-reform era. [Address d...
by Leeladhar V | On 11 Aug 2008 In our analysis, attempts have been made to quantify the proportion of births attended by health workers other than doctors, nurses and midwives in order to show the proportion of births conducted by...
by World Health Organisation WHO | On 08 Aug 2008 Review of
In An Outpost of the Global Economy: Work and Workers in India's Information Technology Industry.
Edited by Carol Upadhya and A.R. Vasavi;
Routledge, London, New Delhi;
2008.
by Rahul De | On 06 Aug 2008 Eleventh Five Year Plan 2007-12
by Planning Commission, India | On 06 Aug 2008 In this study an attempt is made to examine the equity aspect due to
reforms in the banking sector at sub-regional level in the state of Andhra Pradesh
covering the period 1985 to 2004. [CESS WP 68]...
by K S Reddy | On 04 Aug 2008 Women's Reservation Bill
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 24 Jul 2008 The purpose of this study is to review the changes that have taken
place recently in water supply and sanitation services and examine
the role of various stakeholders involved in urban governance in...
by Agnes Huchon | On 15 Jul 2008 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 The paper tell the story of women in Nellore, Anantpur districts of Andhra Pradesh who came together, saved one rupee each day and used it for their production and consumption purposes. They started b...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 19 Jun 2008 The paper reviews the impact of Globalization on developing economies workers in informal economy and gender implications on the process. Globalization created some insecurity for the workers in infor...
by Jeemol Unni | On 05 Jun 2008 Successive governmental commissions have held that Gujjars do not meet the criteria for inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes. The Gujjar protest has ramifications beyond the States where they live. If th...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 28 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 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 09 Apr 2008 This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this contex...
by Mohanan Pillai P | On 25 Mar 2008 Traditionally private consumption expenditure estimated by the two agencies differed. Factors attributed to the differences include coverage, reference time frames and concepts and methods of estimati...
by Joice John | On 20 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 The problematic areas in child feedoing, particularly the poor infrastructure for the Anganwadis was highlighted. The consensus was that despite all these shortcomings there must be an expansion of A...
by Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute SSMI | On 13 Mar 2008 Highlights of budget 2008-09 presented by the Finance Minister
by Government of Karnataka Ministry of Finance | On 11 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 Report of the committee of concerned citizens formed by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Gujarat to enquire into the facts related to the police firing on the Adivasis demonstration on t...
by Ghanshyam Shah | On 02 Mar 2008 The Bill seeks to amend the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961.
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 28 Feb 2008 Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be c...
by Rae Lesser Blumberg | On 20 Feb 2008 The present study based on Gujarat provides interesting insights on medical abortion. Based on interviews with a few chemists, drug industries and the service providers, maladies in the provision of m...
by Leela Visaria | On 11 Feb 2008 This manual is intended to help local governments to uphold the human rights of women, by involving them in identifying their needs and with their participation, to find possible solutions and move to...
by Aleyamma Vijayan | On 04 Feb 2008 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 Recent DHS data is used to document trends in schooling and adolescent reproductive behaviors among adolescents and then to explore the potential implications of rising school attendance rates for ado...
by Cynthia B. Lloyd | On 01 Feb 2008 A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agenci...
by Nicholas M Fisk | On 30 Jan 2008 The first phase of private sector involvement in FM radio broadcasting was launched by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India vide its notification in year 1999. Based on the ex...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 11 Jan 2008 World AIDS Day, the annual December 1 commemoration, first took place in 1988 under the auspices of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. At that time there was no idea about HIV treatment b...
by PLoS Medicine | On 11 Jan 2008 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 11 Jan 2008 Some of the historical milestones of the Indian women's movement and some of the challenges for the future are pointed out. Such questions are vital, for the current fluid socio-economic and political...
by Veena Poonacha | On 27 Dec 2007 With the re-election of Narendra Modi and the BJP will the current disarray in the party give way to strong optimism to strive for power at the centre?
by Ram Puniyani | On 24 Dec 2007 One of the principal mechanisms through which inequality is reproduced is language, specifically the language used as the medium of instruction. The
learner’s mother tongue holds the key to making sc...
by Carol Benson | On 21 Dec 2007 The presentation shows the consequences of child marriage, how to prevent child marriage. [Power Point Presentation].
by Geeta Rao Gupta | On 19 Dec 2007 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 Whether energy use drives economic growth or vice versa in the Indian context during the period 1970-71 to 2004-05 is examined. Utilizing the Granger causality test, the study suggests that it is the...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 17 Dec 2007 To examine the functioning of Gram Sabha and participation of tribal communities therein to asses the status of self governance under the “Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) A...
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 14 Nov 2007 The success of an immunisation programme in any country depends more upon local realities and national policies. This is particularly true for a huge and diverse developing country such as India, with...
by Yennapu Madhavi | On 12 Nov 2007 The tragedies and discrimination that happen in our country in the name of caste shows that there is a beast in all of us.
by T.N. Ninan | On 06 Nov 2007 In a remote tribal village of Kandhamal District of Orissa, where there there are visible signs of empowerment of women due to the formation of SHG in the village. The confidence level of women, who...
by Pradeep Baisakh | On 05 Nov 2007 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 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Oct 2007 The 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Constitution of India were made with an
express objective or purpose of restoring power back to people by legally
encouraging “local self-governance”. At the same...
by A.K. Shende | On 08 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 The Reserve Bank had constituted an internal working group to review the existing access criteria and suggest changes that may be adopted for access to Payment and Settlement Systems. The Group has pr...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 05 Oct 2007 A research framework is proposed that needs to be pursued in order to achieve RCH goals in time bound manner. It is being argued that need for additional research inputs largely stems from the current...
by Dinesh Agarwal | 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 Hands-on training in qualitative research in the context of health, nutrition and development. The training included all major steps in qualitative research: deciding objectives, designing tools, data...
by Shubhada Kanani | On 28 Sep 2007 This report is based on the visit of the team to various affected villages and other areas in Gujarat and interviews with the victims and other villagers of these areas. There are a number of other vi...
by Act Now for Harmony and Democracy ANHAD | On 26 Sep 2007 COMMENTARY
US Designs on South Asia 2
123 Agreement 4
Srikrishna Commission 8
Karbi Killings 10
Dalit Atrocity in UP 11
FEATURE
Land Struggle and State
Repression in AP 12
UPDATE
Khammam an...
by Liberation | On 20 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 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 NABARD is a key participant in the micro finance sector and has been closely associated with one of the two prevailing modes i.e. SHG-bank linkage mode of delivery of micro finance services. The devel...
by Mukul Asher | On 04 Sep 2007 Examples of various initiatives for e-governance from Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are given. The application of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology in different sectors can impr...
by T.N. Ninan | On 04 Sep 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Aug 2007 Allocation of local public good over three jurisdictions with individuals with heterogeneous tastes, in a model with democratic institutions and majority rule. The nature of electoral uncertainty, the...
by Santhanu Gupta | On 16 Aug 2007 The Micro Financial Sector (Development and Regulation) Bill,
2007 seeks to promote the sector and regulate micro financial
organisations (MFO).
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural D...
by Ministry of Law | On 08 Aug 2007 India’s good economic performance and friendlier ties with important countries that have been either distant or hostile, is achieved by a leader with whom the country can feel at ease. But Dr. Manmoha...
by T.N. Ninan | On 06 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 A regulator should promote social entrepreneurship and tap into the considerable expertise existing in the micro-finance sector. The aim should be to lower transaction costs and generate savings in re...
by Mukul Asher | On 30 Jul 2007 The educated and socially empowered Asian Woman is the key to improving the nutrition and mental acuity of young children and that improvement sets in motion lifelong prospects for heightened learning...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 24 Jul 2007 The effects of the inflows of private foreign capital on some major macroeconomic variables in India are analyzed using quarterly data for the period 1993-99. Cointegration test and The Granger Causal...
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 11 Jul 2007 Higher education in state funded universities has quietly deteriorated over the past decades. Little effort is being made to change the structure of education, its content or even the processes by wh...
by P.S. Neelam | On 07 Jul 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 06 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 Purdah, Haren Pandya Verdict, MP Freedom of Religion Bill, Misdirected Hyderabad Investigation/ Special Religious Zone
Concerns: Communal Violence Bill
Other regular sections
by Secular Action Network SAN | 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 The poor women in developing countries are burdened with the dual responsibility of taking care of housework and the need to supplement household income to meet the subsistence needs. The on-going fle...
by Uma Rani | On 05 Jul 2007 The PDS programme in Gujarat since the formation of the State in 1960 is reviewd and comments are given briefly upon its effectiveness in delivery. The food security issue for the poor is also address...
by Sudarshan Iyengar | On 04 Jul 2007 This is an attempt to investigate gender issues in the mining sector in India with a view to understand how these issues impact on Sustainable Development imperatives in the mining industry as part of...
by P. Nayak | On 14 Jun 2007 A comparison between PSBs and their private sector counterparts based on measures of efficiency and productivity that use quantities of outputs and inputs. Efficiency measures a firm’s performance rel...
by TT Ram Mohan | On 04 Jun 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 The main objective of this paper is to present for wider discussion in civil society groups, in India and abroad, the key features of Karnataka’s maternal health situation. Rather than provide conclus...
by Centre for Budget and Policy Studies CBPS | On 24 Apr 2007 This paper examines the benefits that accrue to households by financial empowerment of women, but also laments the need for more radical approaches to counter what might seem like inertia to fully eng...
by Irene KB Mutalima | On 17 Apr 2007 The global trend of informalisation of women’s work is also evident in what is commonly known as artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) practices. Women constitute a large segment of workers in the in...
by Kunthala Lahiri-Datta | On 08 Apr 2007 Gujarat started the scheme of Mid Day Meal Scheme in 1984 and was the only State after Tamil Nadu to start it so early. The objective was to provide one meal a day to students studying in primary clas...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 30 Mar 2007 The bill tells us about the child's right to free and compulsory education which is of equitable quality. The reposibility of the state, reponsibility of the schools to give education, entry age, repo...
by Pratham Pratham | On 30 Mar 2007 While new schemes like reverse mortgage on houses show a measure of some serious thought going into the structuring of programmes for the elderly, the Union Budget 2007-08 falls short of comprehensive...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 21 Mar 2007 The Budget does not sufficiently recognize the need for re-balancing the role of the state and the market, and of the public and the private sectors for managing increasingly complex economic and stra...
by Mukul Asher | On 07 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 List of Bills passed, withdrawn, introcuced and pending during the Winter Session.
by M. R. Madhavan | On 23 Feb 2007 Theoretical literature identifies two variants of crowding out in an economy–real and financial. The real (direct) crowding out occurs when the increase in public investment displaces private capital...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 17 Feb 2007 Despite the importance of this issue for the design of institutions around the
world, little is known about the relative performance of women as policy makers, about their impact on child development...
by Lori Beaman | 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 This keynote address of the conference on Natural Resource Conservation Use and Sustainability in Drylands, focuses mainly on some new concepts of resource assessments in dry areas, some recent debate...
by Yoginder Alagh | On 30 Jan 2007 The Seventh National Conference of the Women’s Movements in India was unique in several ways. For one, women’s groups worked relentlessly over the last eight years to make this conference happen. Sinc...
by Meena Gopal | On 16 Jan 2007 Following the Supreme court judgement on election reforms including the mandate to the election commission to disseminate all information provided by the candidate to the people, a large number of non...
by E. Venkatesu | On 10 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 The effect of randomized reservations of Pradhan (chief executive) positions in West Bengal local governments (panchayats) for women and members of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) following t...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 27 Dec 2006 A commonly alleged pitfall of decentralization is that poverty, socio-economic inequality and lack of political competition allow local elites to capture local governments. This hypothesis is empirica...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 27 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 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 The present study attempted to assess the performance of Fisherwomen's self
help groups (SHGs) in Tamil Nadu . Primary data required for the study were collected from 725 fisherwomen SHG members repr...
by R. Jayaraman | On 03 Dec 2006 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 An action plan to emplement World Bank's strategies.
by World Bank | On 08 Nov 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 The paper is a study with the purpose of exploring the flood time position of citizens in Surat city and to check aspects associated with flood warning system of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC). The...
by Akash Acharya | On 21 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 If one might attempt a hypothesis, it would be that India’s communist parties would like to adjust to the reality of the day by giving up their old identities and becoming social democratic parties, b...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 preliminary critique of the Draft Approach Paper to the Eleventh Five Year Plan released recently by the Planning Commission was submitted by the representatives of six women’s organizations on the 11...
by Sudha Sundararaman | On 19 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 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 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 *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 The reality of caste representation in the corporate sector may not be out of line with what the government would like.
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Apr 2006 Ensuing changes in the socio-economic structures and policies have a gender dimension and differentially impact on men and women. Prevailing ideas about gender relationships create an unequal access f...
by Veena Poonacha | On 21 Apr 2006 While the last 15 years have seen a flowering of enterprise because of the opening up of the Indian economy, today’s more open trading and investment system (which allows the big international players...
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Apr 2006 While the last 15 years have seen a flowering of enterprise because of the opening up of the Indian economy, today’s more open trading and investment system (which allows the big international players...
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 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 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 tries to examine the sustainability aspect of the rate of growth (rog) in recent years, designated as ‘the second phase of liberalisation’. This paper is based on the Keynesian framework wh...
by Anamitra Roychowdhury | On 29 Mar 2006 This study on agricultural wages shows that states like West Bengal and Gujarat have performed well in providing gender equal wages to men and women. Kerala’s performance in maintaining gender equal w...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 26 Mar 2006 To give effect to the financial proposals of the Federal Government for the year
beginning on the first day of July, 2005, and to enact and amend certain laws:
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, | On 15 Mar 2006
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 27 Feb 2006
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | 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 Review of 'The Economics of Elementary Education in India: The Challenge of Public Finance, Private Provision and Household Costs' edited by Santosh Mehrotra;
Sage, New Delhi; 2005, pp.328.
by P. Geetha Rani . | On 20 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 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 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 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 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 A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 years is urgently needed. Such a Paper should take stock of the present and require...
by P. Radhakrishnan | On 07 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 Judges comments and excerpts from the award winning essays by Rashmi Goutham, Stella MAris College, Chennai Deepti, Women's Christian College, Chennai S. Padmapriya, Madras University Meera Ganapathy...
by Nadnini Voice for the Deprived | On 26 Nov 2005 The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) is a highly prestigious award for science and engineering (S&E) graduate students. This paper uses data from 1952 to 2004 on...
by Richard B. Freeman | On 22 Sep 2005 The research focuses on experiences of involuntary childlessness among women and men and societal perceptions of the state of childlessness. A significant aspect of the research is the gendered unders...
by Bhamini Mehta | On 17 Sep 2005 The following note touches upon some broad features and is not intended to go into details of each although in some places these may have been touched. Among other things, the SSA requires planning to...
by Madhav Chavan | On 12 Sep 2005 The years of turmoil in the Kashmir valley have resulted in a breakdown of the state machinery, especially the health infrastructure, with the breakdown of peripheral facilities and the migration of d...
by Zamrooda Khanday | On 10 Sep 2005 This paper attempts to assess the research done in the field of industrial sociology during the period 1987 and 2002. Only published work have been noted. The review does not cover unpublished M. Phil...
by Sharit Bhowmik | On 01 Sep 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 There is no doubt that the supine parliamentary democratic system has been snuffed out and autocratic monarchy restored in Nepal. Hence the questions arise: How could the limited bourgeois democratic...
by Baburam Bhattarai | On 29 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 PFRDA
1) Current provision of Pensions in India
2) Why review Pension Systems?
3) Governments’ Initiatives
4) New Pension System (NPS)
5) Present Status
6) Why PFRDA Bill?
7) Some clarificatio...
by Anonymous | On 28 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 Second Generation Reforms (SGR) has become the new buzz-word around policy circles. In fact, a few governments (Central government included) have gone ahead and proclaimed that they have already initi...
by Anonymous | On 19 Aug 2005 Gender discrimination manifests itself as violence in the family, community, and society. It takes the forms of female foeticide, female infanticide, abuse of the girl child, social harassment, mental...
by Celine Sunny | On 16 Aug 2005 The frequency with which ‘innocents’ are charged, sometimes even convicted only to be let off later is alarming. Fortunately, the Supreme Court has demanded an impartial and speedy enquiry into the Ge...
by Harsh Sethi | On 08 Aug 2005 The research discussed in the report revisits the notion of access to health care in Koppal, an economically disadvantaged district in northern Karnataka. This issue is important to households experie...
by Aditi Iyer | On 08 Aug 2005 An Ordinance 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 sc...
by Government of India GOI | On 06 Aug 2005 Violence against women is a universal phenomenon cutting across age, culture, caste, religion, and socio-economic status. It occurs in various forms, daily. Of these, domestic violence is almost ubiqu...
by Tejal Barai Jaitly | On 05 Aug 2005 |