Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
New Forms of Urban Governance in India
Shifts, Models, Networks and Contestations
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
This work looks at the impact of decentralization on local governance arrangements and citizen participation in urban democracy processes in India. To analyse the various issues, it includes case studies from the major cities throughout the country.
New Forms of Urban Governance in India: Shifts,...
More Effective Communication
A Manual for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2000
Effective communication skills have become essential for professionals who wish to achieve the desired levels of performance in today`s increasingly competitive business environment. This practical guide will help professionals to communicate skilfully and persuasively.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
A comprehensive analysis of the diverse experiences of migration in contemporary India.
This volume addresses the impact of migration on society, highlighting the interlinkages between individual and societal aspirations. It interrogates the role of the state and non-state agencies involved...
Unfreedom and Waged Work
Labour in India's Manufacturing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
Unfreedom and Waged Work: Labour in India’s Manufacturing Industry provides an update on the debates relating to the work and welfare of industrial labour in India. Concentrating on factory workers in India’s organized manufacturing industry, the study analyses, on the basis of official statistics...
China’s Transformation
The Success Story and the Success Trap
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The book provides insights into the economic and social transformation that China has undergone from 1979 to the present.
Based on the author’s research in China for over three decades, China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap shows how its ‘reform and open door’...
Multi-level Forest Governance in Asia
Concepts, Challenges and the Way Forward
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A fresh look and comparative perspectives from various Asian countries on multi-level forest governance.
This book presents the remarkable diversity of policy implementation in forest resource management in 14 Asian countries: five in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan),...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2007
This important book is a dialogue on the theme of partition and its far-reaching sociological implications for communal patterns, generational dynamics and individual lives. While the governing imagery of partition is drawn from the context of India and Pakistan, the analysis compares similar processes...
Towards a New Poverty Agenda in Asia
Social Policies and Economic Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
This book describes the role of social policy in the context of globalization and rapidly changing economies and societies in Asia. It compares the social policy experience of a number of countries with a focus on comparing East Asian (China, Indonesia, Vietnam), and South Asian (India, Bangladesh,...
The Leadership Odyssey
From Darkness to Light
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Odyssey of Leadership is filled with great uncertainty and is taken by only a few. It takes an exceptional effort to rise from being a good leader to a great leader. This book provides a unique roadmap for leaders and office bearers in all walks of life, aspiring to become great leaders.
Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia
Beyond SAFTA
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia: Beyond SAFTA examines the distinct development dichotomy that exists in South Asia and tries to find a workable solution to bridge this gap. In spite of rapid economic growth since 1980, there is extensive poverty and inequality in South Asia. This dichotomy...
Maharashtra Human Development Report 2012
Towards Inclusive Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The present Maharashtra Human Development Report (MHDR) 2012 keeps the spirit of the Eleventh and Twelfth Five Year Plans of ‘faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth’ at the core of its analysis. MHDR 2002 was the state’s first effort in focusing on the prevailing human development scenario...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Equity in education is well recognized as central to achieving inclusive growth and development. The second in the series initiated by the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education of the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, India Higher Education Report 2016 focuses...
Bridging the Social Gap
Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Bridging the Social Gap: Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment addresses four interrelated issues. It conceptualises exclusion-linked deprivation of excluded and indigenous groups in Indian society and elaborates the concept and meaning of social exclusion in general, and of caste-, untouchability- and...
Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS
Exploring Politics of Women’s Health in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
What has been the role of the Indian state in providing health-care facilities to women with HIV/AIDS?
Looking at the issue from a gender and human rights perspective, the book discusses provisions taken by the government in providing health care to patients in India while also examining how...