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2021 is the beginning of the ‘decade of action’ to realise the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. It is imperative that every single person understands the goals, becomes familiar with them and takes individual and collective action to realise them if we want to live a quality life.SDG 5 in particular talks about Gender Equality which in our view is central to the realisation of the SDGs. Unfortunately in India, women in leadership positions are not visible and the numbers do not stack up. We have less than 10% representation of women in the State Legislative Assembly, 14% in Parliament, about 24% in the formal labour force which is declining year on year. If you cannot see her, you cannot be her. This book aims to showcase the journeys of women leaders in their respective fields and also in the realisation of the 17 SDGs through their work. We have scientists, police women, judges and business entrepreneurs who have shared their failures and successes. Through their unique perspectives they have shared on how despite one’s backgrounds one can achieve one’s goals, overcome socio-cultural barriers and contribute to the collective good.
The Andean nation of Ecuador derives much of its revenue from petroleum that is extracted from its vast Upper Amazonian rain forest, which is home to ten indigenous nationalities. Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten have lived among and studied one such people, the Canelos Quichua, for nearly forty years. In Puyo Runa, they present a trenchant ethnography of history, ecology, imagery, and cosmology to focus on shamans, ceramic artists, myth, ritual, and political engagements. Canelos Quichua are active participants in national politics, including large-scale movements for social justice for Andean and Amazonian people. Puyo Runa offers readers exceptional insight into this cultural world, revealing its intricacies and embedded humanisms.
This report analyses the use of child labour[1] in the textiles and allied industries in India, and the drivers that lead to its prevalence. India, home to one-fifth of the world’s children, has the highest rates of child labour: an estimated 33 million children under the age of 18 are engaged in work in various sectors across the country, from domestic service and agriculture, to textiles and mining. The textiles and allied industries are the second largest employers in India after agriculture, with 40 million direct and 60 million indirect employees. As a traditionally labour-intensive industry—where flexible and low-cost labour has driven growth and pushed India’s global competitive...
The book’s 30 chapters are divided into three sections – international trade, economic development, macroeconomics and finance – and focus on the frontier issues in each. Section I addresses analytical issues relating to trade-environment linkage, capital accumulation for pollution abatement, possibility of technology diffusion by multinational corporations, nature of innovation inducing tariff protection, effects of import restriction and child labour, the links between exchange rate, direction of trade and financial crisis—the implications for India and global economic crisis, financial institutions and global capital flows and balance of payments imbalances. Section II consists of...
This book brings together a collection of papers on international trade and international finance, instead of treating the two as disjoint fields of study. The volume, while focusing on the recent developments and frontiers of research in international trade and international finance, also emphasizes the inherent integrated nature of the two subjects; some of the papers are overlapping across the two areas. A unique feature of the proposed volume is that it unravels some new issues in addition to re-examining certain old issues in a new perspective and thus covers wide ranging issues with an emphasis on policy. The book covers issues mostly relating to emerging market economies, which has in...
Ticktack, ticktack. Leandra und Davin läuft die Zeit davon. Eine Bibliothek voller Geheimnisse stellt sich als letzte Prüfung heraus. Im Kampf gegen die Zeit geht es allerdings nicht nur um das letzte magische Buch, nein, es ist auch ein Spiel um Leben und Tod. "Zur ewigen Treue seist du verbannt! Niemand wird brechen jenes Band. Die Ringe werden dich führen zu ihr, wenn zu groß wird deine Gier." Aber eines ist sicher. Wenn dir deine große Liebe genommen wird, spielt nichts mehr eine Rolle.
This market-leading textbook is one of the first in the field to examine strategic management in the context of the fashion industry, catering specifically for students hoping to work in the sector.
Contents: F Transmission Photoelasticity. Integrated Photoelasticity of the General Three-Dimensional Stress State; F Investigation of Three-Dimensional Axis-Symmetrical Problems by the Photoelastic Method; F Photoelastic Coating. Application of Photoelastic Coating at Connecting Points of Bus Undercarriage; F Investigation of Local Stresses in the Mast Frame Uprights of Fork Lift Trucks; F Photoelasticity. Application of Photoplastic Methods in the Field of Forming; Measurement of the Influence of Viscoelastic Response of Materials on Plates by Optical Methods; F Holographic Interferometry and Laser Metrology. Holographic Examination of Cracking in Concrete; F Moire and Optoelectronic Methods. Optical Methods of Strain Measurements Application to Study Biaxial Tension Specimens; F Application of Strain Gauges and Other Electromechanical Transducers.
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tem that allows garment workers a safe environment, a nursery for children and that the structural entity should be robust, adhering to the building and construction legislation. So, when fashion companies have such regulations in place, what possibly goes wrong?A collection of articles by fashion environmentalist- Runa Ray