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Report on Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector
NCEUS, NCEUS - eSocialSciences - 2012
This Report is focused on the informal or the unorganized economy which accounts for an overwhelming proportion of the poor and vulnerable population in an otherwise shining India. It concentrates on a detailed analysis of the conditions of work and lives of the unorganized workers consisting of...
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Inequality, Corruption, and Competition in the Presence of Market Imperfections
Dutta, Indranil; Mishra, Ajit - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper they analyze the relation between inequality, corruption and competition in a developing economy context … inequality can lead to an increase in corruption along with greater competition. [Research Paper No. 2005/46] …-input costs which they could avoid by bribing inspectors. Due to information asymmetry and wealth inequality, the credit market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752768
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Women, Work and Insecurities in India
Unni, Jeemol; Rani, Uma - eSocialSciences - 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 flexibalisation process world over has no doubt created new jobs, most of them informal, but they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528140
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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism
Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341789
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Determinants of Trade Misinvoicing
Shah, Ajay; Gupta, Abhijit Sen; Patnaik, Ila - eSocialSciences - 2010
. Capital account openness, differentials in interest rates, political stability, corruption, indebtedness and the exchange rate …
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Political Clientelism and Capture: Theory and Evidence from West Bengal, India
Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 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 to analyse the political clientelism. [BREAD working paper no. 369]....
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Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Female Teachers
Muralidharan, Karthik; Sheth, Ketki - eSocialSciences - 2013
, annual panel data set on learning outcomes in rural public schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh is anlaysed. [BREAD …
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Graduating to Globalisation: A Study of Southern Multinationals
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila; Demirbas, Dilek - eSocialSciences - 2010
probit models, examining two key hypotheses using firm level panel data from India. First, it is tested whether there are …
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Approach Paper: Vulnerabilities of Women Homebased Workers`
Mazumdar, Indrani - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper focuses on homebased women workers and discusses the specific issues of their vulnerability as women and as workers, in the framework of their basic citizenship right to economic and social justice and equality. The class of more privileged educated professionals who might be working...
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From Local to Global and Informal to Formal: Entering Mainstream Markets
Nanavaty, Reema - eSocialSciences - 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 now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains a local and an informal economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008679111