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Even though India has a clearly articulated commitment to ensuring universal primary education for its children, this goal continues to remain elusive. The woeful inadequacy of resources is one important factor, but of equal importance is the little understood phenomenon of wide and persistent differences in the spread of education across both regions and social groups within the country. Addressing this neglected dimension, this volume brings together scholars ...
This volume emerges out of an experience-sharing international workshop of concerned researchers and social activists drawn form nine developing countries. It contains papers on poverty alleviation programmes implemented in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Kerala (India), Egypt, Tanzania and Uganda. The programmes show the wide variety of strategies followed: checking environmental degradation with people’s participation, increasing agricultural production through ...
The book presents a bevy of papers on economic development issues examined from spatial and sectoral perspectives. The analyses range from the global to the local. Questions of equity--income distribution, conservation of the environment and gender justice--have recieved special attention. Equity questions are examined also in the national context with reference to educational subsidies. Efficiency issues are discussed using the example of the performance of the ...
This book constitutes an attempt to construct a profile of migrants from Kerala to the Gulf region, on the basis of an extensive of survey of return emigrants and their households. The purpose of this study was to understand the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the emigrants at the various stages of emigration process prior to emigration, during stay abroad and after return to Kerala, Another important aspect which is discussed is the costs and ...