Articles by Devaki Jain

At the Asian Social Forum, as at the World Social Forum and other gatherings, the need for strong sovereign states, the need to rebuild the state, to address politics would appear to be central. Also, the difficult negotiations within the diverse groups and locales to find 'political' consensus - to deal first with the big rogue state, the father of all rogue states, and then their own rogue states. Only then can the enormous street confrontations, the valiant successes of people's movements on the ground, push back this new hegemony, the Bush power.

Devaki Jain There are many inadequacies in the composition of indices especially the gender development index and the gender empowerment measure presented in the Human Development Report, 1995. This paper addresses the issue of valuation of work, a crucial element in the presentation of evaluative indices. On the basis of a field study of the time use of individuals in rural households, it raises^he question whether time itself may not be a more appropriate measure for evaluating work, especially in the context of assetless women workers.

the state Government had done nothing to implement its assurances. After, meeting Koshak Bakula and P Namgyh who called on her in Delhi in the first week of February, the Prime Minister has deputed an official observer' group to look into the complaints of the Ladakhi people against the Jammu and Kashmir Government and particularly "those relating to police lathi charge on peaceful demonstrators".