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    Technology policies and acquisition of technological capabilities in the industrial sector: a comparative analysis of the Indian and Korean experience

    Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2001
    This paper reviews the science and technology policy of India and Korea in a comparative perspective to draw relevant lessons for India. It shows that policies, strategies and structures of science and technology evolved under a planned development approach in both Korea and India.
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    Restructuring the Indian textile industry

    Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2000
    Employing about fifteen million people, India's textile industry is largely unseen, with the decentralised powerloom and handloom sectors accounting for the bulk of India's production and the downstream apparel and household textile sectors. The structure of the industry is as varied and deep-rooted as is its reform challenging and daunting.
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    WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing: impact on Indian textile & clothing industry

    Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2001
    With the phasing out of quotas in global trade in textile and clothing, while the world’s markets would become more accessible to competitive players, the ones not so competitive are at grave danger of being marginalised, if not completely wiped out. The author claims that in this sense, the quota phase-out from 2005 is an opportunity as well as a threat.
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    Distribution services: India and the GATS 2000 Negotiations

    Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2002
    This study examines India’s opportunities and constraints to trade in distribution services in the context of the ongoing GATS (General Agreement on trade in Services) 2000 negotiations.India is a small player in the global market for distribution services.
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    Operating on three wheels: auto-rickshaw drivers of Delhi

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003
    Auto-rickshaw operators, or Three wheeled scooter rickshaws (TSR) operators are being pushed to the edges of ‘illegality’ and invisibility’, as they face the brunt of a concerted attack by the administration and media for their supposed ‘venality’.
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    World Bank and India's economic development

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003
    In its 50-year partnership with India, the Bank concentrated on the growth objective through subscribing to the trickle down theory. Over the past five years, it has posited its initiatives on a plain of poverty alleviation, to which results are yet to be seen.
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    Gender and Community: Muslim Women's Rights in India

    University of Toronto Press, 2001
    Whereas the Constitution of India guarantees equality rights to all women, irrespective of religious affiliation, Muslim personal law, as applied in the India context, explicitly discriminates on the basis of an individual's sex and religion. Narain begins with an analysis of the historical development and contemporary expression of Muslim personal law within the Indian constitutional framework.
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    Altered images: understanding and encouraging corporate responsibility in India

    New Academy of Business, UK, 2001
    This report presents the results of a poll on corporate responsibility in India.
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    Peoples’ social movements: an alternative perspective on forest management in India

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    This paper reports on research that aimed to assess and understand the impact of peoples’ social movements in Madhya Pradesh on the forest management space. It analyses the extent of the influence these movements wield on the shaping of policies, plans and programmes which ultimately define the forest management space.
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    Gender differentials in adult mortality in India: with notes on rural-urban contrasts

    Centre For Economic And Social Studies, India, 2002
    This paper is a preliminary exploration of the trends and spatial variation in gender differentials in adult mortality in India, as also of the related rural-urban differentials. It pays particular attention to female mortality in two prime reproductive age groups 15 - 29 and 30 - 44.

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