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  • Understanding Women's Empowerment in South Asia

    Perspectives on Entitlements and Violations

    Edición de Asok Kumar Sarkar, Satyajit Das Gupta ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book unravels the juggernaut of academic and civil society perspectives and issues relating to women's empowerment. Drawing upon contributions from serving and retired academics with substantial experience of NGO-run women's care and justice activities, it seeks to generate new ideas and insights on the problematic of a knowledge enterprise involving several hugely intractable entitlements ... Leer más

    $197.99 USD

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  • An Uncertain Glory

    India and its Contradictions

    de Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen ...
    When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj. The growth of the Indian economy quickened further over the last three ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • One Illness Away

    Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD

  • Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor

    Sex Work and the Law in India

    de Prabha Kotiswaran ...
    Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers' rights. In this book, Prabha Kotiswaran asks how we might understand sex workers' demands that they be treated as workers. She contemplates questions of ... Leer más

    $34.59 USD

  • The Grammar of Caste

    Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India

    de Ashwini Deshpande ...
    Is the caste system disappearing? Are traditional hierarchies being replaced by competing equalities? Do globalization and liberalization automatically result in diminishing disparities? Are modern labour markets intrinsically meritocratic and efficient? Challenging the dominant discourse and demolishing various myths, this book provides answers to these and other critical questions on caste in ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Women in 'New Nepal'

    Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries

    de Seika Sato ...
    Series series Nepal and Himalayan Studies
    This book brings rarely voiced lives and experiences of women in Nepal to light and combines rich ethnography with discourse analysis. Multifaceted and critical, the volume situates its narrative in the profoundly transformative period after the turn of the century when ‘New Nepal’ was rising on the horizon and sheds light on Nepali women’s experiences in multiple sites, crossing class and ethnic ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Role of Media In Indian Democracy

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Human Rights and the Third World

    Issues and Discourses

    de Subrata Sankar Bagchi, Arnab Das, Marie-Luisa Frick, Clarence J. Dias, Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Sayan Bhattacharya, Agus Wahyudi, Dip Kapoor, Ram Puniyani0, Debi Chatterjee1, Pranta Pratik Patnaik2, Semahgn Gashu3, Pawan Dhall4, Tushar Kanti Saha5, Francis Machingura6, Anuradha Saibaba Rajesh7, Satyabrata Chakrborty8, Dipankar Sinha9, Subhasis Mukhopadhyay0, Scott Simon1, Awi Mona2 ...
    Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World: 1. Whether alternative ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Persistence of Poverty in India

    Edición de Nandini Gooptu, Jonathan Parry ...
    What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem. In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume points out that in order to understand poverty one must take into ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Public Policy in India

    de Bidyut Chakrabarty, Prakash Chand Kandpal ...
    This textbook is a comprehensive, student-friendly guide to public policy in India. It highlights the critical aspects of public policy-making and its implementation by contextualizing it in the Indian historical and modern-day perspective.Public Policy in India:• Provides lucid explanations of theoretical aspects of public policy and its practice in the Indian context;• Captures the complexities ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Capturing Institutional Change

    The Case of the Right to Information Act in India

    de Himanshu Jha ...
    Series series Institutions and Development in South Asia
    Institutions are norms that undergird organizations and are reflected in laws and practices. Over time, institutions take root and persist as they are path dependent and thus change resistant. Therefore, it is puzzling when institutions change. One such puzzle has been the enactment of the Right to Information (RTI) Act in India in 2005, which brought about institutional change by transforming the ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Recognition of the Rights of Domestic Workers in India

    Challenges and the Way Forward

    Edición de Upasana Mahanta, Indranath Gupta ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book brings together a set of contributions that examine the complexities associated with domestic work by highlighting not only the legal issues but also exploring the social, psycho-social, economic, and cultural dimensions of domestic work. The book aims to ignite a collective effort towards ensuring decent work for domestic workers and facilitate a public debate on their rights. It ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD