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    Adapting social security schemes to the challenges of a long life society: the Indian experience

    International Social Security Association, 2003
    This paper examines India’s social security problems in relation to its ageing population and offers suggestions of how this may become less of a burden.The paper demonstrates that there are at present several schemes for providing old age and survivors benefit to the people in India but their coverage is small.
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    Does informal credit provide security? rural banking policy in India

    International Labour Organization, 2001
    This paper addresses rural banking and credit policy in contemporary India and its effect on credit portfolios of rural workers. It explores major directions of rural banking and credit policy and indicators of performance of this activity in India since 1969, when 14 major commercial banks were nationalized.
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    Overcoming the Gender Digital Divide: Understanding ICTs and their Potential for the Empowerment of Women

    2003
    The "gender digital divide" is used to describe the existing inequalities and biases in access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by women and men. The fact that ICTs have so far been predominantly designed and created within male-dominated environments and that ICT policies are usually formulated by male policy-makers has contributed to this divide.
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    Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

    Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002
    This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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    Trade Intensification in Asia Economies: What it Means to Women's Work

    Women and Gender Institute, 2002
    This is the first in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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    Sustainable ecotourism and eco-enterprise opportunities in the Gulf of Mannar, Tamil Nadu, India

    Pro-Poor Tourism Partnership, 2002
    The aim of this study was to identify suitable ecotourism products and eco-enterprises that would provide income generation opportunities for local fishers in the Gulf of Mannar (GOM), Tamil Nadu.
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    Dynamics of people's participation in development: a study with special reference to women's participation in the local level planning in Kerala

    Eldis Participation Resource Guide, 2003
    This abstract summarises the issue and demographics of participation in local level planning in Kerala (as addressed in the main report (not online)) with particular emphasis on women.Findings include:one of the main motivations behind participation is that of solving local problems.
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    From cradle to grave - does foetal growth influence adult health?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    India is currently experiencing an epidemic of coronary heart disease and diabetes. Low weight and small size at birth are thought to increase the risk of developing these diseases in later life. So what steps can India take to improve foetal growth? Will bigger babies grow up with healthier hearts?
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    Southern ‘infopreneurs’ - budding Microsofts or forever small fry?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Indian software exports have grown by an annual 40 percent in recent years, as entrepreneurial firms have successfully met demands presented by downsizing, compliance with 2000, and the switch to the euro. India has shown that producing software can bring developing countries jobs, skills and income. Can other southern countries enter the market?
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    Targeting urban poverty in India - can NGOs and the state cooperate?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Amidst the seemingly inexorable growth of urban destitution, can NGO/state partnerships mobilise marginalised communities to reduce vulnerability? How can urban NGOs become more effective given resource limitations, asks a recent INTRAC study based on a two-year examination of ten NGOs in Ahmedabad.

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