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  Women workers and the politics of claims-making in a globalizing economy

  Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD), 2015

  This paper draws on empirical studies to examine how the politics of claims-making by women workers in the Global South have evolved in the context of increased globalisation.
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  Modi’s new foreign policy agenda and the implications for Africa

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016

  The third India–Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) took place in New Delhi in October 2015, just over a year after Narendra Modi became prime minister. Situating India–Africa ties within the context of India’s evolving geopolitical calculations, which see its strategic space being defined as stretching from the Suez to the Pacific, is likely to have a significant impact on the relationship.
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  Prospects of stronger economic cooperation between the ASEAN and India: implications for the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015

  This Policy Note explores the prospects and opportunities of a dynamic ASEAN-Indian trade and investment relation. Specifically, it analyzes the greater economic relation between India and the Philippines in the services sector, particularly in information technology and business process outsourcing (IT-BPO).
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  Agriculture and nutrition in India: mapping evidence to pathways

  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2014

  In India, progress against undernutrition has been slow. Given its importance for income generation, improving diets, care practices, and maternal health, the agriculture sector is widely regarded as playing an important role in accelerating the reduction in undernutrition.
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  Learning From the Past: Framing of Undernutrition in India Since Independence and Its Links to Agriculture

  Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2016

  Understanding policy debates from the past can help to explain and address the challenges of today. Agriculture can play an important role in the reduction of undernutrition in India. However, the nutrition-enhancing potential of agriculture remains underused.
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  Capabilities, costs, networks and innovations: impact of mobile phones in rural India

  Social Science Research Network, 2013

  India did not participate in the landline phone revolution but has seen an unprecedented growth in mobile phones, with over 919 million subscribers by the end of March 2012, making it second only to China in this sphere. The tele-density in rural India, where nearly 69 percent of the total population lives, grew from below 1 percent in 2000 to around 40 percent in 2012.
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  The Limited Impact of ICTs on Microenterprise Growth: A Study of Businesses Owned by Women in Urban India

  Information Technologies and International Development, 2011

  This article is presented as a response to the increasing need for rigorous impact assessment in ICT4D. The research reported here empirically examines whether ICTs enable microenterprise growth, to what degree, and under what conditions. We created two theoretical models that predict relationships between selected antecedents of ICT access, ICT use, and business growth.
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  Mid- and long-term plan for promoting innovation and sustainable economic growth in Uzbekistan

  Korea Development Institute, 2011

  The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a renowned UK economic research institute, chose Uzbekistan as one of the top ten countries expected to grow fast in 2011.
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  Bringing learning to light: the role of citizen-led assessments in shifting the education agenda

  Results for Development Institute, 2015

  As governments and donors focused on increasing access to education in the wake of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the issue of learning received comparatively little concerted attention.
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  Judicial activism as a tool for the actualisation of socio-economic rights in Nigeria: comparison with Indian and South African experience

  2015

  Due to the provisions in the 1999 constitution which gives room for judge’s activism, it is sometimes said that judicial activism is the most viable route for the actualisation of socio-economic rights for Nigerian citizens.

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