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Female's education, equality and empowerment has become one of the crucial issues in South Asian countries to examine the assumptions under which policies, programmes and projects are formulated towards this goal. Education contributes directly to the growth of national income by improving the productive capacities of the labour force. It is a key strategy for reducing poverty, especially in the South Asian region--India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, ...
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith develops a theory of psychology in which individuals seek the approval of the ‘impartial spectator’ as a result of a natural desire to have outside observers sympathize with them. Rather than viewing The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments as presenting incompatible views of human nature, most Smith scholars regard the works as emphasizing different aspects of human nature that vary depending on ...
The collection of papers in this book published in India and abroad, bring up a synthesis of Social Policy and Social Development. The author has demonstrated the heuristic power of these concepts giving a fresh orientation in personal and social welfare theory and its practical implications in developing and developed countries. This work is an ambitious, scholarly, and provocative, and hope it will stimulate researchers and professionals to execute researchers ...
Had Marx wished to produce a straightforward text of classical economics he could have done so -- and in fact he did. Two lectures delivered in June 1865, later published as Value, Price and Profit, give a concise and lucid precis of his theories about commodities and labour. So why is Capital, which covers the same ground, so utterly different in style? A clue can be found in one of the very few analogies he permitted himself in Value, Price and Profit, ...
In this book, an attempt has been made in reflecting the emerging trend of policy science in politics. Here we have also examined how does the scientific interpretation of political theory affect policy analysts or policy makers? We would argue with two alternatives. The first response of political theory remains a useful heuristic device which can guide our investigations and give us questions to ask and goals to achieve. A second approach to using political ...