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Abstract: The H IV/AIDS-infected people are still the most marginalised section of society. It is necessary to society’s awareness about the connection between the feminisation of global poverty and the socio- economic and religious dimension of AIDS. Women are increasingly…
Abstract: Self Help Groups (SHGs) are a blend of non-governmental organisations and groups of individuals organised together for tackling problems such as unemployment, medical issues, watershed management and livelihood generation. SHG formations largely include women as they are considered to…
Abstract: Slum rehabilitation with the participation of the state, private capital and slum dwellers, has become the norm in large cities like Mumbai , where land is scarce and very valuable. Slum rehabilitation schemes that involve resettling slum dwellers in…
Abstract: There is an increase in women’s labour force participation in urban and rural areas of India, especially, the non-farm or non- agricultural activities. The increase in women workers is also seen in the manufacturing sector, especially manufacturing for export.…
Abstract: The Millennium Development Goals explicitly acknowledge that gender roles can have a major impact on development, helping to promote it in some cases while seriously retarding it in others. MDG number 3 (out of 8 ) is specifically about…
Abstract: Unlike Kerala which is the most developed Indian State in terms of universal literacy, women’s literacy and education, infrastructural development, least infant and maternal mortality and overall quality of life, Andhra Pradesh is only still developing are several parameters…
Abstract: Globalisation with its resultant trade agreements and other global conventions have not benefited nor liberalised nor even improved the situation of people and women in particular, in the Sub-Saharan Africa. At best even the Governments who are ratifiers of…
R Abstract: Globalisation and the implementation of structural adjustment policies have resulted in an escalation of worldwide poverty which is felt most acutely by women. Globalisation has thus contributed to further subordination of women. Economic globalisation has brought new kinds…
Abstract: In India, in the past decade there has been considerable debate over the limits and possibilities of economic globalisation and opinions have been divided between diverse projections on the outcomes and the differential impacts of such neo-liberal economic…
Abstract: Gendering in Public Policies in pre and post 1975 India has had a major bearing on the development debates that began with critique of trickle-down theory in the sixties, ‘Marginalisation of Women’ thesis in the seventies, (WID Approach), ‘integration…