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The education motive for migrant remittances: theory and evidence from India
Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2017This paper analyses the impact of anticipated old age support, provided by children to parents, on intra-family transfers and education. The authors highlight an education motive for remittances, according to which migrants have an incentive to invest in their siblings’ education via transfers to parents, in order to better share the burden of old age support.DocumentPopulation aging in India: facts, issues, and options
Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2016India, one of the world’s two population superpowers, is undergoing unprecedented demographic changes. Increasing longevity and falling fertility have resulted in a dramatic increase in the population of adults aged 60 and up, in both absolute and relative terms.DocumentIndian economy and demonetisation: way forward
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2017The delegalisation of the two highest value currency notes announced by Indian government on November 8th 2016 has created an impact on the economy at a scale which no other piece of policy has rivalled for a long time. This brief tlooks at the rationDocumentPopulation aging in India: facts, issues and options
Program on the Global Demography of Aging at Harvard University, 2016India, one of the world’s two population superpowers, is undergoing unprecedented demographic changes. Increasing longevity and falling fertility have resulted in a dramatic increase in the population of adults aged 60 and up, in both absolute and relative terms.DocumentEmergence of LoCs as a modality in India’s development cooperation: evolving policy context and new challenges
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2016Development cooperation is an integral part of India’s foreign policy and India has been extending cooperation to its fellow developing countries even before its independence in 1947.DocumentMake in India: state of manufacturing India
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015There has been considerable disquiet among Indian policymakers and analysts at the poor performance of the manufacturing sector. The share of manufacturing in GDP is much lower in India than in China and has been almost constant over the past decade or so.DocumentICT and employment promotion among poor women: how can we make it happen? Some reflections on Kerala's experience
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2008This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this context, this paper examines an interventionist ICT policy undertaken by Kudumbasree (an innovative women based participatory programme)DocumentGlobalisation lived locally: new forms of control, conflict and response among labour in Kerala, examined through a labour geography lens
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2009With the support of the labour geography framework, this study tries to analyse how the economic geography of capitalism is shaped by the spatial practices of labour.DocumentThe deluge of debt: understanding the financial needs of poor households
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2009This paper discusses the financial lives of poor households. It examines the different sources of income and expenditure of the poor households residing in a coastal settlement in Kerala. The method of financial diary for data collection is adopted for the study. The sample size is 13.DocumentA study of National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in three Grama Panchayats of Kasaragod District
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2009The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is a historic legislation passed by the Government of India in September 2005. It was enacted in order to address the crucial issues of unemployment and poverty in rural India. The NREGA guarantees a hundred days of unskilled employment to each household in every financial year at an equal wage rate for both male and female workers.Pages
