Introduction: Framing Economic Exclusion

Introduction: Framing Peripheral Interaction

In everyday life, we perform several activities in our periphery of attention. For example, we are aware of what the weather is like and we can routinely wash our hands without actively thinking about it. However, we can also easily focus on these activities when desired. Contrarily, interactions with computing devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers, usually require focused attention...

Framing the Health Workforce Agenda Beyond Economic Growth

The fourth Global Forum on Human Resources (HRH) for Health was held in Ireland November 2017. Its Dublin declaration mentions that strategic investments in the health workforce could contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth and are an imperative to shared prosperity. What is remarkable about the investment frame for health workforce development is that there is little debate about the ty...

Economic Exclusion and Poverty: Indian Experience of Remedies against Exclusion

Executive Summary This paper develops an understanding of caste-based economic exclusion and its consequences on poverty of excluded groups, and discusses Indian government strategy against exclusion/ discrimination and policy for empowerment. The caste system as an economic organization is based on the division of persons in social groups (castes) with fixed and unequal economic rights. Compul...

Introduction to Economic Analysis

Introduction: Recuperating economic anthropology

‘Transforming Economies, Changing States’ were the themes of the annual conference of the Australian Anthropological Society, held in Canberra at the Australian National University from 30 October to 2 November 2007. We were fortunate that our keynote speaker, Prof. Anna L. Tsing, addressed both conference themes directly in her stimulating address entitled ‘Beyond Economic and Ecological Stand...