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India's Development Called Backwards for Women

27 apr 2005, archived in jsaws

The National Commission for Women, a government body in New Delhi, collaborated with the Institute for Socio-Economic Development, a research group based in Orissa, to produce a report, which began in 2003 and was released in January 2005. Their recent research, which looked at development projects in four parts of the country that have witnessed large-scale projects found that women are often displaced and suffer disproportionately due to systemic inequities... Read the full article: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/