The food security scenario in South Asia has witnessed rapid progress over the last few decades, yet nutrition outcomes, especially those related to women and children, have failed to keep pace. This paper contends that the role of women in providing...
This book addresses the question of how so much growth and technical change has occurred in Indian agriculture while the position of agricultural workers has remained relatively unchanged. Focusing on the employees, this study describes an area in...
Part of Book Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
Part of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries and Development Economics
We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the per capita consumption expenditure. Using quantile regressions, we find welfare hierarchy in occupations. The results suggest that, across the welfare distribution...
The nature of labour market in traditional rural societies has attracted a lot of attention in the recent years. One issue that has appeared particularly intriguing is the process of wage determination. After a good deal of theorising as well as...
Part of Book Wage Labour and Unfreedom in Agriculture
Part of Book Wage Labour and Unfreedom in Agriculture
Part of Book Wage Labour and Unfreedom in Agriculture
Part of Book Wage Labour and Unfreedom in Agriculture
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