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“jyotsna jha”

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  • Women’s Education and Empowerment in Rural India

    by Jyotsna Jha, Neha Ghatak, Niveditha Menon, Priyanka Dutta, Shreekanth Mahendiran ...
    This is a book about understanding women’s empowerment and pathways as well as roadblocks to women’s economic empowerment in rural India, as understood through an evaluation-based research of a state-funded social sector programme located in the education department – Mahila Samakhya (MS) – in Bihar, one of the socially and educationally most underdeveloped Indian states. The book presents ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Open and Distance Learning in Secondary School Education in India

    Potentials and Limitations

    by Jyotsna Jha, Neha Ghatak, Puja Minni, Shobhita Rajagopal, Shreekanth Mahendiran ...
    This book examines the state of the Open and Distance Learning (ODL)-based secondary education in India. ODL-based education has been a key resource for children in India who can neither cope with nor avail of regular schooling opportunities due to economic, health and disability, or other constraints.The volume uses large-scale empirical data collected from various Indian states and a sensitive ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Institutions and Public Policy for India’s Sustainable Development

    Perspectives on Governance, Technology, and Finance

    Edited by Sukhpal Singh, Jyotsna Jha, A. Indira, A.V. Arunkumar ...
    Sustainable development has emerged as an overarching concern globally. Given the challenges of climate change, national economies, especially in the developing world, face unsustainable levels and patterns of growth and development. This volume looks at how India’s sustainable development has progressed through institutional changes and public policy discourse. It studies the three pillars of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    The Enigma of Equity and Quality

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  • Basic Income

    A Transformative Policy for India

    by Mr Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala, Prof. Guy Standing, Soumya Kapoor Mehta ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional ... Read more

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  • Measuring Compliance

    Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention

    Edited by Melissa Rorie, Benjamin van Rooij ...
    Compliance, or the behavioral response to legal rules, has become an important topic for academics and practitioners. A large body of work exists that describes different influences on business compliance, but a fundamental challenge remains: how to measure compliance or noncompliance behavior itself? Without proper measurement, it's impossible to evaluate existing management and regulatory ... Read more

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  • Higher Education in India

    In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity

    Edited by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak ...
    India has a large network of around 634 universities and 33,000 colleges with 817,000 teachers spread across the length and breadth of the country.Despite its massive geographical reach, higher education in India has had its share of problems.This volume is a collection of essays which discusses these problems like inclusiveness and the impact of reservation on education, the problems of ... Read more

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  • Social Investment

    A New Zealand Policy Experiment

    Edited by Jonathan Boston, Derek Gill ...
    The idea of social investment has obvious intuitive appeal. But is it robust? Is it built on sound philosophical principles and secure analytical foundations? Will it deliver better outcomes?For almost a decade, the idea of social investment has been a major focus of New Zealand policy-making and policy debate. The broad aim has been to address serious social problems and improve long-term fiscal ... Read more

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  • Notes from Gandhigram

    Challenges to Gandhian Praxis

    by Sameer Banerjee ...
    In a critical departure from books that concentrate on Gandhi the person, Gandhian thought and Gandhism, Notes from Gandhigram focuses instead on the institutions and individuals that have adopted the Gandhian approach as a means of social transformation. It looks beyond the conceptual and symbolic into the concrete to determine whether Gandhi is passé, redundant or insightful. The relevance of ... Read more

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  • Diversity and Inclusion in Japan

    Issues in Business and Higher Education

    Edited by Lailani Alcantara, Yoshiki Shinohara ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Asia-Pacific Region
    Alcantara, Shinohara, and their contributors evaluate the current state of diversity and inclusion (D&I) within business and higher education in Japan, and the importance of D&I to the growth of Japan’s economy and the enrichment of its society.Japan is widely understood to be a homogenous and patriarchal society, and while this is changing and was never wholly accurate, it certainly faces ... Read more

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  • The Elementary Education System in India

    Exploring Institutional Structures, Processes and Dynamics

    Edited by Rashmi Sharma, Vimala Ramachandran ...
    This book focuses on the failure of elementary education since Independence, which is usually seen as the result of simplified phrases like 'lack of political will', 'because of poverty', etc. This book looks at the system as a whole: infrastructure, quality of teaching, privatisation, nutritional incentives, curriculum. It contains samples from two states namely Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. ... Read more

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  • Improving Learning Outcomes in Schools

    Understanding the Challenge of Quality in the Indian Context

    Edited by N. V. Varghese, Vrinda Sarup, Anuradha De, Amarjeet Sinha ...
    Series series Public Policy in India
    What does ‘quality education’ truly mean, and how can we ensure it is accessible to all children, regardless of their background? This book delves into these pressing questions, offering a comprehensive exploration of the challenges and opportunities within India’s education system.Why do millions of children in India attend school yet still struggle to acquire basic literacy and numeracy skills? ... Read more

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