Sökning: "Andhra Pradesh India"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 uppsatser innehållade orden Andhra Pradesh India.

  1. 1. Dialling up women farmers’ empowerment vis-à-vis agriculture: Exploring the effects of mobile phones in rural India

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Författare :Vanessa Berghoff; [2021]
    Nyckelord :agriculture; agricultural development; agricultural transformation; India; feminisation; farmer; women farmer; gender equality; empowerment; rural livelihoods; rural development; mobile phones; mobiles; smartphones; technology; ICT4D; ICT4Ag; mixed methods; quantitative methods; qualitative methods; case study; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Despite women being the backbone of the agricultural sector in India, the patriarchal agrarian system poses major obstacles and challenges specific to women farmers with consequences well beyond the individual. This research aims to explore how mobile phones can empower rural women vis-à-vis agriculture. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Impact of Public Employment on Child Labour and School Attendance: Evidence from a Social Protection Programme in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Ida Lindström; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Public Employment Programme; Child Labour; School Attendance; Difference-in-Differences; Propensity Score Matching; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : To address child labour, research discusses the potential of social protection programmes. This thesis therefore examines the unresolved impact on child labour and children’s school attendance of its household members’ participation in the public employment programme MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Mikrolån i Indien : Regelverket och dess effekter

    Magister-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Handelshögskolan (from 2013)

    Författare :Maria Lind; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Microcredit; Regulation; India; Women Empowerment; Mikrolån; Regelverk; Indien;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the thesis is to study microcredit regulation in India, how it is designed, and how it affects the borrowers. Since microfinance institutes (MFIs) often claim that microcredit is a tool for empowering women, the impact on women has been studied in particular in the thesis. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Female Education and Gender Inequality - A study of Indian children´s enrolment and future outcomes

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Författare :Emelie Jönsson; Tina Nikkhoo; [2017-07-03]
    Nyckelord :India; son preferences; gender inequality; gender gap; income shock; education; enrolment; income; health;

    Sammanfattning : The objective of this thesis is to investigate the educational gender inequality and the differences among boys’ and girls’ educational attainment and outcomes in India. India is considered to be the most fast growing economy in the world but there are still major gaps between men and women, already apparent at young ages. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Women’s perception of participation in NREGA, empowerment as a process of change. : A comparative Minor Field Study between two villages in Andhra Pradesh, India

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Maxine Olausson; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Empowerment; India; NREGA; women; Dalit;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a comparative analysis between two villages in India, examining personal accounts from participants in the world’s largest anti-poverty programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). The analysis is based on an eight-week field-study in Andhra Pradesh, which was financed through a Minor Field Study Scholarship by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). LÄS MER