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Why women choose to give birth at home: a situational analysis from urban slums of Delhi
British Medical Journal, 2014Better understanding the factors influencing home or institutional birth among the urban poor is needed in order to enhance programme impact. This paper aims to measure the prevalence of home and institutional births in an urban slum population and identify factors influencing these events.DocumentIndia-Korea CEPA: an appraisal of progress
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and the Republic of Korea is the first such free trade agreement signed by India with an OECD country. It was signed in August 2009 after over three years of negotiations and came into effect on 1 January 2010.DocumentIndia approaches replacement fertility
Population Reference Bureau, 2015India’s population (currently at 1.3 billion) will exceed China’s before 2025 to make India the world’s most populous country. India’s annual increase of about 19 million people contributes more to the annual world population growth of about 89 million than any other country.DocumentSocial programmes and job promotion for the BRICS Youth
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2014Besides scaling up and improving the operationalisation of the initiatives designed to offer credit, work opportunities and vocational training to the youth, the BRICS nations, like all the nations of the globe, are faced with the pressing duty of finding means of including the youth productively in the labour market, in ways that genuinely represent the ambitions of this stage in the lifecycleDocumentPreliminary observations on social security and health care systems of the BRICS
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2015This summary provides some preliminary findings of research on social security and health care policies in the BRICS countries. Thus far, our research demonstrates some basic institutional information about the social security and health care policies of the BRICS countries, as well as about their complementary policy aims. Social security (old-age pensions):DocumentReviving the dialogue with Pakistan: a new agenda for India
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2015This paper argues that despite the recent downswing in the bilateral relations between India and Pakistan, there is currently an opportunity to reshape the mutual dialogue process and make it credible and productive.DocumentCleaning human waste: manual scavenging, caste, and discrimination in India
Human Rights Watch, 2014The 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.DocumentClean development mechanism – an opportunity to mitigate carbon footprint from the energy sector of India
Current Science, 2015This paper discusses the status and progress of Clean development mechanism (CDM) in India. Its main finding is that that CDM has significantly reduced the carbon footprint of the Indian energy sector.DocumentChina’s dams & regional security implications: an Indian perspective
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2015One of the characteristics of China’s “peaceful rise” has been its endeavour to control environment, demonstrated mainly by its dam-building policy. This paper underlines that China has been actively diverting river waters in its territory for different purposes.OrganisationAsia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF)
Asian Dalit Rights Forum as a collective of Dalit rights activists from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.Pages