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Developing and Testing a Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Financial Tool
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) represents a paradigm shift in the provision of safely managed sanitation services with a framework of three outcomes—equity, safety and sustainability. There are several sanitation financial tools, but none of these fully address all CWIS outcomes. Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Financial Tool (CWIS‐FiT) is
Camila Silva Franco +6 more
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Why Dowry Payments Declined With Modernisation in Europe but are Rising in India [PDF]
In contrast to most dowry oriented societies where payments have declined with modernisation, those in India have undergone significant inflation over the last five decades.This paper explains the difference between these two experiences by focusing on ...
Anderson, K.S.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers remain structurally excluded from the current agricultural finance system. Existing research in this area examines financial inclusion through fragmented environmental, social, and economic lenses, limiting system‐level understanding.
Vaibhav Aggarwal +2 more
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Caste as Community? Networks of social affinity in a South Indian village [PDF]
We examine three theories of caste and community using new data on social networks among residents of a south Indian village. The first theory treats individual caste groups as separated communities driven by the Brahmanical ideology of hierarchy based ...
Arora, Saurabh, Sanditov, Bulat
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Ensuring protection against caste discrimination in Britain: Should the Equality Act 2010 be extended? [PDF]
, 2016 : Section 97 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 requires the addition of caste to the Equality Act 2010 by secondary legislation as ‘an aspect of’ the protected characteristic of race; but despite being mandated, no secondary legislation ...
Dhanda, M., Waughray, A.
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Equity in Energy—A Critical Analysis of GESI and Energy Justice Narratives in Energy Transition
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The global energy sector is transitioning from conventional energy sources to cleaner and more sustainable alternatives; however, persistent structural and social barriers continue to undermine equity and inclusivity within this transition. This study examines how Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and Energy Justice (EJ) principles ...
Tharindu Dissanayake +4 more
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"Caste and Wealth Inequality in India" [PDF]
In this paper, we conduct the novel exercise of analyzing the relationship between overall wealth inequality and caste divisions in India using nationally representative surveys on household wealth conducted during 1991–92 and 2002–03.
Ajit Zacharias, Vamsi Vakulabharanam
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Mahatma Gandhi’s evaluation of the caste system as an element of the national independence movement in India [PDF]
, 1998 Castes still determine the social reality of India in many fields and affect politics more and more by functioning as vote banks which are decisive in elections.
Stein, Jürgen
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Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Affirmative Action in Local Elite Colleges and Subject Choice
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Women are largely underrepresented in STEM careers associated with higher labor market returns. This gender gap is even more stark in a context where societal biases are prevalent and female role models are lacking. This paper investigates the impact of an affirmative action (AA) policy implemented in an elite educational institution in India ...
Ritika Gupta
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