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    Child mortality in Maharashtra, India

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002
    This article examines official statistics on child mortality rates in Maharashtra, and compares them against an initial set of findings on child and infant mortality that also measured extent and causes of under-reporting of child deaths.
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    Economic reforms and industrial performance: an analysis of capacity utilisation in Indian manufacturing

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2002
    The paper examines the impact of economic policy on economic capacity utilization (CU) in Indian manufacturing sector over 1974-1998. CU captures the output gap between actual output and capacity output and is used as an indicator of industrial performance, the simulation of CU is a major reason why liberal reforms were introduced during the period studied.
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    Benefits and shortcomings of intellectual property rights for small scale farmers in developing countries

    Agricultural Information and Documentation Service for Development Cooperation, 2002
    Rafael Mariano from the Peasant Movement of the Philippines presents his case arguing that intellectual property rights, and more broadly science, have been co-opted by business interests (supported by the US) to strengthen their control over agricultural production and to open up new markets at the expense of small farmers and developing countries.In particular he argues: The 1991 Act
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    Are we not Peasants too? Land Rights and Women's Claims in India

    Population Council, 2002
    Do women have effective land rights in practice? Research and policy have only recently begun to engage with the need for women to have independent rights to fields of their own. What needs to be done? Four areas for action are identified with associated strategies: improve women's claims on private land (e. g. through gender equal inheritance laws); improve women's access to public land (e.g.
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    Civil society and governance: a research study in India: draft synthesis report

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    This synthesis report is a preliminary attempt to capture the nuances of interface between civil society and governance in contemporary India. It is divided into six chapters:chapter one provides a conceptual understanding of the twin terms - civil society and governancechapter two traces the history of civil society in India .
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    Textile workers struggle for health and safety in Ahmedabad: a case study

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    Unless textile mill workers are protected from the cotton dust which they are continuously exposed to, they are in danger of developing Byssinosis (or brown lung), first detected in the 18th century in workers working in the textile mills in Manchester, England.
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    Pratham - Mumbai Education Initiative: a citizen's effort for universalizing primary education in Mumbai

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    This case study is an attempt to delve into how different people and institutions in Mumbai came together in partnership to work for ensuring access to primary education for every child in the city, what strengthened this partnership and to what extent and in what manner the partnership moved forward to achieve this goal.
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    Civil society and governance case study of land distribution programme to Kol tribals in Chitrakot district Uttar Pradesh

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    The Kol tribals of Chitrakoot district live a life of abject poverty, exploitation and almost complete subjugation to the feudal landowners, locally known as Dadus. A local civil society organisation, the Akhil Bhartiya Samaj Sewa Sansthan (ABSSS) has adopted a multi-pronged approach to simultaneously address three sets of issues which it felt were crucial for improving the lot of the Kols.
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    Civil society and governance: from the vantage point of the pavement dwellers of Mumbai

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    The fundamental question asked by this study is: how does a group of subalterns, say the pavement dwellers, feature in the civil society argument? Being the most deprived and the most marginal among the urban poor, how do they relate to the urban space and to the politics of the city? Are they truly citizen-like agents or do they remain merely the object/target of state policy?
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    Fishermen's struggle against mechanised fishing in Kerala

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    The fisherfolk movement against mechanised fishing in Kerala depicts the struggle of the marginalised artisanal fishing community for their right and control over their traditional livelihood resources.

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