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  • Getting to Work

    Unlocking Women's Potential in Sri Lanka's Labor Force

    by Jennifer L. Solotaroff, George Joseph, Anne T. Kuriakose, Jayati Sethi ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Countries and Regions
    Sri Lanka has shown remarkable persistence in low female labor force participation rates—at 36 percent from 2015 to 2017, compared with 75 percent for same-aged men—despite overall economic growth and poverty reduction over the past decade. The trend stands in contrast to the country's achievements in human capital development that favor women, such as high levels of female education and low total ... Read more

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    A Transformative Policy for India

    by Mr Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala, Prof. Guy Standing, Soumya Kapoor Mehta ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional ... Read more

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  • Unshackling India

    Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival

    by Ajay Chhibber, Salman Anees Soz ...
    As India enters its seventy-fifth year of independence, conventional policy is unlikely to combat the breadth of its economic challenges. Across a range of areas-human capital, technology, agriculture, finance, trade, public service delivery and more-new ideas must now be on the table. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only cost India many lives and livelihoods, it has also exposed major structural ... Read more

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  • One Illness Away

    Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty

    by Anirudh Krishna ...
    Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are concurrently falling into chronic poverty. This book presents the first large-scale examination of the reasons why people fall into poverty and how they escape it in diverse contexts. Drawing upon ... Read more

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  • Bhutan

    Gender Equality Diagnostic of Selected Sectors

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Country Gender Assessments
    Bhutan has experienced extraordinary change since the 1960s when it opened itself to the world and started the process of planned development. It has transformed itself from a subsistence economy into a middle-income country with rising human development indicators. Yet progress comes with new challenges. These include differences in living conditions and opportunities between rural and urban ... Read more

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  • The Challenge Of Youth Unemployment In Sril Lanka

    by Vodopivec Milan; Gunatlilaka Ramani; Mayer Markus ...
    Sri Lanka has long been regarded as a model of a successful welfare state in a low-income setting, yet it has not succeeded in creating a suffi cient number of "good jobs" for the increasing number of young people. Hence, young Sri Lankans perceive their country as an unjust and unequal society, in which mainstream institutions have failed to address inequalities in the distribution of resources, ... Read more

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  • The Last Mile

    Turning Public Policy Upside Down

    by Amarjeet Sinha ...
    Series series Public Policy in India
    The Last Mile explores the gaps and dichotomy between drafted policies and their implementation, and the last mile challenges which often make public services inaccessible to the poorest and most vulnerable sections of society. It provides an in-depth overview of the dynamics between communities, research and consultation and the implementation of policies for development.Rich in empirical data ... Read more

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  • Changing the Indian Economy

    Renewal, Reform and Revival

    Edited by Rama P. Kanungo, Chris Rowley, Anurag N. Banerjee ...
    Changing the Indian Economy: Renewal, Reform and Revival explores the fact that post-Modi India is witnessing unprecedented socioeconomic change, truly labeled as Modi's Mantra and his attempts to morph the Indian economic landscape. India is using an intelligent economic process for its renewal and growth, however, in a recent study by Nomura, 2016, The Japanese Financial Services firm, it is ... Read more

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  • Role of Media In Indian Democracy

    by A.K. Singh ...
    The study Urban poverty and life in slums, thus, is not seen as a situation in which there exist only losers and by which no winners could possibly emerge. Rather, the phenomenon of urban poverty and slum living may be seen as a spectrum along which there exist to varying degrees opportunities to beak out of a situation, even if one is born into it ... Read more

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  • Family Change and Housing in Post-War Japanese Society

    The Experiences of Older Women

    by Misa Izuhara ...
    This book explores the experiences of older women in post-war Japanese society through analysis of their family and housing histories. Three broad themes - family relations, welfare systems and housing - were chosen to highlight issues surrounding the changing role and position of women in the family and society. A qualitative approach is used to address a gap in the literature and to illustrate ... Read more

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  • Migrants and Machine Politics

    How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness

    by Adam Michael Auerbach, Tariq Thachil ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
    How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanizationAs the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by ... Read more

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  • Poverty in India

    by S. N. Verma ...
    This book about Poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have a third of the worlds poor. ... Read more

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