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    India exclusion report 2013-14

    Centre for Equity Studies, 2014
    By consolidating and generating knowledge around exclusion, the India Exclusion Report seeks to inform public opinion and debate on these issues, and to influence the political class and policy makers towards more inclusive, just and equitable governance.It is hoped that the report will serve as a tool to support public action for the greater inclusion of disadvantaged and marginalised communit
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    Centre for Equity Studies

    CES was founded in August 2000 as an independent organisation engaged in research and advocacy on a range of social and economic justice issues in India.
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    A serene look at the SDGs

    Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2015
    Almost two years in the making, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed by UN member states in August 2015. Before they are called ‘ground breaking’, ‘momentous’ or ‘historic’, a dispassionate look at the SDGs may be warranted. Conceptually, the development agenda is becoming more holistic and the SDGs contain more areas of concern.
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    Cleaning human waste: manual scavenging, caste, and discrimination in India

    Human Rights Watch, 2014
    The practice of manually cleaning excrement from private and public dry toilets and open drains persists in several parts of South Asia. Manual scavengers are usually from caste groups customarily relegated to the bottom of the caste hierarchy and confined to livelihood tasks viewed as deplorable or deemed too menial by higher caste groups.
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    Global AgeWatch Index 2015: insight report

    HelpAge International, 2015
    The Global AgeWatch Index assesses the factors determining the social and economic wellbeing of older people around the world. As well as global analysis, this year the Index is focusing on the regions, hearing from older people themselves and looking at the widely varying geographic trends. It also includes data on ageing in the BRICS countries.
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    Dalits and the post 2015 develoment agenda: addressing the hidden apartheid of millions will be key to the success of the SDGs

    Asia Dalit Rights Forum, 2015
    The world over it has been clearly demonstrated that economic progress and stages of development have little impact on the continuum of inequalities. Consequently, Dalits, constituting 260 million people worldwide with the majority residing in South Asia, have fallen off the wagon of progress.
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    Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF)

    Asian Dalit Rights Forum as a collective of Dalit rights activists from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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    Justice under trial: caste discrimination in access to justice before special courts

    National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, 2014
    The experiences of one-and-a-half decades of monitoring and intervening in cases of atrocities have clearly shown the large hurdles that Dalit and Adivasi victims/survivors of atrocities face in the process of seeking legal justice.
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    Reducing economic inequality as a Sustainable Development Goal: Measuring up the options for beyond 2015

    New Economics Foundation, 2014
    This report argues that tackling economic inequality is a key factor in fighting poverty and climate change but that the issue being sidelined in global talks on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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    The contribution of female health to economic development

    Program on the Global Demography of Aging at Harvard University, 2015
    This paper analyses the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing it introduces a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which the authors allow for health-related gender di¤erences in productivity.

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