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  • The Challenge Of Integrated Rural Development In India

    A Policy And Management Perspective

    by Gerald E Sussman ...
    In 1952, India launched a massive and enthusiastic effort to reach the 360 million people in its 550,000 villages with a national program of economic and social reconstruction. Known as Community Development, the program provided an innovative model of rural development for both Third World nations and the aid-giving countries of the West. Although the program achieved its goal of providing ... Read more

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    Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

    by Liza Weinstein ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar ... Read more

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  • Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

    by Dayabati Roy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes.Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses ... Read more

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  • Tata

    The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism

    by Mircea Raianu ...
    An eye-opening portrait of global capitalism spanning 150 years, told through the history of the Tata corporation.Nearly a century old, the grand façade of Bombay House is hard to miss in the historic business district of Mumbai. This is the iconic global headquarters of the Tata Group, a multinational corporation that produces everything from salt to software. After getting their start in the ... Read more

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  • A Manifesto For Change

    by V. Ponraj, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ...
    In 1998, a book was published that was surprisingly ahead of its times. It wascalled India 2020 and proposed that India could soon be one of the top fiveeconomies of the world. The nation had set off a series of nuclear tests andwas facing worldwide sanctions. A new government had taken charge, andthe economy was facing a tough time. It was not the best of times to predictthat India had it in her ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Nepal Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project

    Gender Results Case Study

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Gender Equality Results Case Studies
    Women in Nepal have long experienced poverty, social exclusion, and marginalization because of their gender, especially among ethnic minorities and low-caste groups. Between 2002 and 2013, the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Nepal developed and implemented the Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project to reduce poverty by empowering rural women and members of other ... Read more

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  • Dōwa Policy and Japanese Politics

    by Ian Neary ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    This book locates the development of Dōwa policy projects within their historical and political context, offering examples of human rights protection in a non-Western society.Charting Dōwa policy from its origins in the pre-war period to its revival after 1945 up to the turn of the 21st century, chapters in this study provide a social and historical review supplemented by detailed analyses of ... Read more

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  • Gender Mainstreaming Case Studies

    India

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Gender Equality Results Case Studies
    This publication is part of the commitment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to document gender equality results in its operations. It presents case studies in ADB priority sectors: urban development, rural infrastructure, and education. The case studies provide an overview of gender issues, design features, and implementation arrangements that contributed to achieving gender-related targets in ... Read more

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  • New Dimensions in Federal Discourse in India

    Edited by Rekha Saxena ...
    This book explores hitherto unaddressed dimensions in federalism studies in India. It traces continuities and changes in Indian federalism since independence and especially economic liberalization. Beginning with the 1990s, due to the emergence of multi-party system, coalition governments, change in judicial temper and the onset of privatization and globalization in the economy, there has been a ... Read more

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  • Aid, Technology and Development

    The Lessons from Nepal

    Edited by Dipak Gyawali, Michael Thompson, Marco Verweij ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Over the last 50 years, Nepal has been considered an experiential model in determining the effectiveness and success of global human development strategies, both in theory and in practice. As such, it provides a rich array of in-depth case studies in both development success and failure. This edited collection examines these in order to propose a novel perspective on how human development occurs ... Read more

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  • The Political Lives of Information

    Information and the Production of Development in India

    by Janaki Srinivasan ...
    Series series The Information Society Series
    How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.Information, says Janaki Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, she examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation. She presents three cases in India ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Enhancing Capabilities through Labour Law

    Informal Workers in India

    by Supriya Routh ...
    In 2002 the International Labour Organization issued a report titled ‘Decent work and the informal economy’ in which it stressed the need to ensure appropriate employment and income, rights at work, and effective social protection in informal economic activities. Such a call by the ILO is urgent in the context of countries such as India, where the majority of workers are engaged in informal ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD