Female work participation rate (FWPR) is low compared to other countries with similar levels of economic development and is inconsistent with the U-shaped feminisation hypothesis (Klasen and Pieters ...

In Bengaluru, domestic workers have organised with many organisations that are broadly of two forms—DW unions and labour non-governmental organisations—with discrete yet intertwined histories. The ...

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Women’s participation in the labour market is mediated by the gendered household dynamics of work and care. This is underscored by homeworking where women may choose to work from home because it ...

Research, action, and policy on gender and inequality pinpointed women’s unpaid work and economic dependence—along with the reification, naturalisation, and moral valorisation of the family and ...

In order to resolve the imbalance, institutions across the world use the population size criterion (PSC) (proportion of a state’s population in the total population of all states participating in ...

In this context, Kaldor opined that since savings are a prerequisite for rapid growth, it was important to concentrate income in the hands of a few people with a large marginal propensity to save.

Its profound effects are particularly evident in coastal areas, where the convergence of rising sea levels, shifting weather ...

More recently, Carlota Perez (2002) developed the Kondratieff model of long waves of technological change into that of ...

Philosophers and theorists have turned their attention to such growing global concerns while maintaining a dominance of perspectives and ideas which appeal to the “Western moral consciousness.” ...

There is a near-total collapse of the ideas of the welfare state, and after post-liberalisation, the individual is refashioned into a being solely responsible for their life circumstances. Therefore, ...

It examines the circulation of ideas in the age of European colonialism, and how Indian thinker-actors engaged, modified and ...