The focus of this paper is the suicide widow farmer-(small and marginal farmers, single women headed households) who depend on unsustainable agricultural based livelihoods. It is by interlinking agrarian crisis and ...

Theoretical literature in labour economics argues that employment protection legislation (EPL) has the potential to create rigidity in labour adjustment and, thereby, lead to sub-optimal allocation of resources in the ...

The present study aims to examine employment challenges in Nepal from an inclusive growth perspective and derive some important policy lessons. For that purpose, apart from examining employment and labour market ...

In the context of creating more and better jobs in Pakistan for a labour force that is growing at over 3 per cent per year the central issue the paper addresses is why the manufacturing sector has not served as a major ...

With the proposition that skills could be a key enabler in improving migration outcomes, this paper seeks to address two issues: to what extent skilling migrant workers figures as a policy concern in labour-sending ...

Nepal is now in a post-conflict period. As is well established, social exclusion perpetuated along gender, caste and geography lines 2 was one of the instrumental factors that causedthedecade long conflict from 1996to ...

There are many social protection programs in Sri Lanka targeting vulnerable groups such as the poor, elderly, disabled, children and women. These programs vary from cash and in-kind transfers to pensions, insurance and ...