Siddhartha Sarkar
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Promoting human security requires measures to protect people from disruptions to nations and households. It also requires addressing the many source of risk and vulnerability that affect poor people. The social development objectives of human development objectives of human development call for adequate levels of health, education, employment and social protection. Social development is a right in itself. It directly improves the lives of poor women and men, and ...
Promoting human security requires measures to protect people from disruptions to nations and households. It also requires addressing the many sources of risk and vulnerability that affect poor people. The social development objectives of human development call for adequate levels of health, education, employment and social protection. Social development is a right in itself. It directly improves the lives of poor women and men, and contributes to overall growth ...
Informal sector is an important feature of the most of the developing nations of Africa, Latin America and Asia. Women constitute a bulk in the large informal sector of the developing world. Naturally, they represent the bulk of the informal-sector labour supply. They work at a low wage rate less than what received by the male workers for the same work. Their job is insecure and thus unstable. They are generally restricted to low-productivity and ill-paid ...
The vulnerable women suffer from the larger level of bribes than the non-poor households. With the difficult economic conditions of tradition, a number of women no longer value edification as much as they did before the transition; their pinnacle priority is mere survival. In most ethnicity, women and men have differing roles and responsibilities according to socially defined division of labour based on gender. This gender discrimination is reflected in a variety ...
the informal economy is vertically stratified. The concept has sufficient flexibility and content to provide a suitable framework of anlaysis for the non-format sector. It is an imperative segment of the labour market in many developing and transition countries. Starting from complete neglect, then phenomenon of informal economic activity has grown to be a subject of study by many researchers, both governmental and non-governmental. The informal economy is a part ...
The concept of sustainability should not be restricted to covering simply sustainable use of natural environment for human purposes, rather should also comprise of a broader perspective on keeping up natural balances. These considerations affect the design of integrated system of environmental and economic accounting. The conventional system of accounts incorporate only those assets, which can be switched for money and, are used in the production of goods and ...
Women in general relative to men face unequal hiring standards, unequal opportunities for training, unequal pay for equal work, unequal access to productive resources, segregation and concentration in female sectors and occupations, different physical and mental working conditions, unequal participation in economic decision making and unequal promotion prospects. These factors negatively affect women's social status and their position in society relative to men ...
Gender is a development issue because social considerations are not easily incorporated into institutions such as policies, regulations, markets and organizations. This process is often referred to as the mainstreaming of gender in development institutions. Escalating economic resilience of the poor is largely about enabling women to realize their socio-economic potential more fully and improve the quality of their lives. Women are often in a disadvantaged ...
While the globalization process is a multifarious and multidimensional phenomenon, some of its most discernible and prominent aspects are economic in character. The world economy has become more unequal and integrated globally. That inequality is characterized by widening economic gaps between nations, but not necessarily within nations. This leads some economists to suggest a relationship between global economic integration and economic inequality. Increasing ...
Providing equal rights and access to resources and opportunities to women and girls is crucial to reducing poverty. Achieving gender equality requires a focus on both men's and women's roles. It is a strategy for making the concerns and experiences of women as well as of men an integral part of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally, and ...
The crucial role of gender in rural poverty reduction and sustainable development has recently gained much more attention it deserves in the development arena, while rights-based approach has initiated in some developing countries recognizes that support to indigenous women's claims to entitlements, enhancing their traditional knowledge systems, protection of their intellectual property rights and sensitivity to their culture, language and cosmogony can assist in ...