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Practices of Clean Milk Production, Management and Decent Work in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
(2022-10)
This study aimed at determining the factors influencing clean milk production in Faisalabad, the third-largest city of Pakistan with more than three million inhabitants. A semi-structured pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect data following a snowball sampling approach. Interviews with each 60 semi-commercial small-scale (SCSS), commercial small-scale (CSS) and commercial large-scale (CLS) peri-urban milk producing households (HH) keeping mixed herds of cattle and buffalo were carried out during February and ...
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Explaining the Financial Exclusion of the Urban Poor through the Lens of Othering: A Case Study in Bengaluru, India
(2022-12)
Financial inclusion has historically played a large part in the Indian state’s plans for the country’s financial system. However, large sections of the Indian population still lack access to the banking system and formal credit. Existing literature on the issue tends to use a quantitative lens and focus on the rural sections of the country. Therefore, the innovation of this paper lies in the fact that it uses a qualitative approach to the problem and, using Bangalore as a case study, finds that the Othering of the ...
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Social Upgrading in Global Agricultural Value Chains: What impacts labour relations in fruit production in the Brazilian Northeast?
(2022-12-15)
The paper aims to analyse the impacts on social upgrading in the two main fruit-producing areas of the Brazilian Northeast – Açú-Mossoró and Petrolina-Juazeiro. The concept of decent work deficit was elected as a guideline for the theoretical background, as many authors have applied it to address social upgrading in a more objective way. The paper has adopted the time series econometric analysis to identify possible structural breaks in the formal workers’ demand per hectare for the two regions. The main results ...
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Determinants and Forecasting of Female Labour Force Participation Rate in India: Testing of Feminization U hypothesis
(kassel university press, 2020-06)
Greater involvement of women within the labour force has economic and social impact. The Female Labour Force Participation Rate (FLFPR) for India remains appallingly low at around 27%, while the male labour force participation rate has been 79.9%. In India, during 1990–2016, the FLFPR (% of female population age 15+) showed a declining trend.
In this paper, the determinants of FLFPR for India have been estimated using regression analysis for the time period 1990–2016. Data on all the relevant variables have been ...
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Crop Insurance and Risk Mitigation: Experiences from India
(kassel university press, 2016)
Crop losses due to various reasons, particularly because of extreme weather situations, is a common phenomenon in agriculture and can prove to be catastrophic in the numerous rain fed fields of backward regions. It is against this backdrop that the development of sustainable mitigation strategies, one of them being crop insurance, comes into picture. It is worth noting in this context that agriculture insurance is under developed in developing countries and a World Bank study (2010) reveals that many state sponsored ...
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Women’s empowerment for sustainable rural livelihoods:
(kassel university press, 2018-12)
Agricultural interventions are designed on certain assumptions of empowerment that do not necessarily address the livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women’s voices expressing their understanding of empowerment and its relation to existing gender orders. Using primary data from the Upper East and Northern Regions in Ghana, we explored women and men’s notions of the processes and outcomes of empowerment. We began by understanding the ...
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Social Sustainability Challenges and the Role of Middle Managers
(kassel university press, 2021-02)
Over the last decades, the ready-made garment (RMG) industry in Bangladesh has experienced a remarkable economic growth becoming the backbone of the country’s economy. Nevertheless, the industry is still faced with unsustainable business practices that threaten to hinder the sector’s progress in the future. Among others, these include long working hours, unhealthy work environment, restricted ability of workers to organize, gender-based discrimination and shortage of skilled workforce, in particular mid-level managers. ...
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The rational of minimum wages
(kassel university press, 2021-03)
Leaving labour markets to the market mechanism with flexible wages is the worst thing that can happen as the result would be a permanent destabilisation of the price level and an explosion of inequality—both of which adds to the instabilities of capitalism. Guarantee of minimum wages can play an important role to contain the destabilising potential of labour markets. They can add to the stability of price level development and help establish a type of wage dispersion preferred by society. Minimum wages do not lead ...
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Überregionale Potentiale lokaler Innovationsimpulse
(kassel university press, 2012)
Technische und soziale Innovationen gelten als Schlüssel zur Energiewende: Sei es die Erzeugung und Nutzung von Ökostrom, die Beteiligung von Bürgern an Bürgersolaranlagen oder der Bau von Bioenergiedörfern – in den vergangenen zehn Jahren konnten sich verschiedene Neuerungen im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien auf dem Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ausbreiten und damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Klimaschutz leisten. Doch wo und unter welchen Bedingungen werden zunächst kleine und lokal begrenzte Innovationsimpulse ...
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Care Extractivism and the Reconfiguration of Social Reproduction in Post-Fordist Economies
(kassel university press, 2019-04)
This paper suggests the concept of care extractivism as a space- and time-diagnostic tool to international political economics in post-fordist societies. Analogous to resourceextractivism, care extractivism depicts the intensified commodification of social reproduction and care work along social hierarchies of gender, class, race and North-Southas a strategy to cope with a crisis of social reproduction. Extractivist policies result in the creation of a cheap reproductive labour force.The paper analyses the current ...