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Protocol for a systematic review: interventions to improve the labour market situation of adults with physical and/or sensory disabilities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Campbell Collaboration, 2013Efforts to promote development and poverty reduction have not always adequately included disability; for example, disabled people are not included explicitly in any of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets and indicators.DocumentGender Wage Gap in the Last Ten Years: A Case Study of India
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014Can India achieve its goal of becoming the next superpower without empowering women? While India is poised to become a powerful global player in the coming years, the paper argues that India is one of the worst places in the world to be a woman.DocumentImpact of conditional cash transfers on maternal and newborn health
Center for Global Development, USA, 2013Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase health service utilisation among the poorest, but little is written on the effects of such programs on maternal and newborn health.DocumentGender equality observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean. Annual report 2012: a look at grants support and burden for women
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2012Indicators of economic autonomy are posing the greatest public policy challenge.DocumentLocal skill concentrations and district employment growth: A Spatial simultaneous equation approach for India
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014Employment data available for India specify only total number of workers (including self-employed and those with regular and casual jobs) in a given year. The focus of this paper is to explore the role of spatial distribution of skills in explaining differential growth rates of employment across Indian districts between the years 2001 and 2011 by using data from Census of India.DocumentMGNREGA works and their impacts: A Rapid assessment in Maharashtra
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was notified on September 5, 2005 and implemented in three phases covering all districts over time. Although the focus is on augmenting wage employment, it is ambitious in scope and aims to accomplish a number of things.DocumentCreating youth employment in Asia
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014Several countries in the Asia-Pacific region are experiencing demographic changes. Over 60 per cent of the world's youth live in Asia and the Pacific, which translates into more than 750 million young women and men aged 15 to 24 years. They represent a key asset for the countries of this region.DocumentAchieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2013Progress towards achieving the Goals has been slow, but far from uniform across Africa.DocumentPost - 2015 Development Agenda - India National Consultation Report: Women’s Associations Constituency
Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013The National Women’s Empowerment Mission (NWEM), as the convener of the women’s associations, organised consultations where conscious effort was made to ensure participation from the most marginalised communities including dalits, tribals, and Muslim women, the urban poor and other stakeholders.DocumentMen, masculinity, and community development in Kenyan slums
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014The field of men’s studies has been remarkably productive in generating new conversations and insights in relation to community development. But the bulk of existing research has ignored men’s direct views of manliness in relation to community development.Pages