Caste

Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a style of life which often includes an occupation, ritual status in a hierarchy, and customary social interaction and exclusion based on cultural notions of purity and pollution. Its paradigmatic ethnographic example is the division of India's Hindu society into rigid social groups, with roots in India's ancient history and persisting to the present time. However, the economic significance of the caste system in India has been declining as a result of urbanization and affirmative action programs. A subject of much scholarship by sociologists and anthropologists, the …

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WIL: World Inequality Lab · 21 March 2024 English

First, while there is consistency in the use of the NSSO AIDIS across all papers, there is irregularity in terms of the use of rich lists, and when used, in …

lack of diversity in top management beyond upper-caste men.6 Pai and Vats (2023) find a “brutal power law authorities do not collect information on religion or caste on the tax returns. 31 Inclusion of wealth information various opposition parties have been demanding a caste-based census in India in the run up to the 2024 economic inequality with social factors, of which caste is undoubtedly most important. The state of Bihar Bihar recently conducted a socio-economic caste census and released some findings in the public domain.


CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 21 March 2024 English

Women play diverse roles in and exert major influence on popular movements against democratic erosion around the world, from Brazil to Hungary to India.

gang-rape of a Dalit girl by a group of “upper-caste” men with political backing similarly rocked Indian new alliance, the women’s movement and the anti-caste movement came together to lead a series of protests subsequent protests exposed the continuing feudal and caste-based sexual violence targeting the Dalit community as well as the political patronage that up- per-caste elites receive from the BJP. More recently, several


World Bank Group · 20 March 2024 English

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WEF: World Economic Forum · 20 March 2024 English

The concluding From pathways to as or are intimately familiar with the members of the practice section distils practical lessons and best communities that their products and services serve – …

power for specific groups (e.g. white, “higher-caste”).24 systems change/ Confronting interconnected Colonization. University of Mary Washington. 8 Caste-based discrimination in India is also considered


PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 19 March 2024 English

The appointment of Eduardo Massa as head of a large ministry that included the economy in July 2022 by President Alberto Fernandez was an attempt to place a politician with …

abuses on the part of what he calls the “political caste” of the last 100 years for causing the long Argentine Argentine decay. He intends to face down that caste and defeat it in order to ‘make Argentina great again’ Milei’s campaign against what he refers to as the “caste”—la casta. HOW DID ARGENTINA GET THERE? Javier Milei justify his discourse about what he calls the ‘caste’. In his narrative, Argentina’s decline has a birth


WHR: World Happiness Report · 18 March 2024 English

in Life Satisfaction Caste and Life Satisfaction We found a significant association between educational status and life satisfaction among Like in the case of social class, caste can older adults in India

estimating the extent arrangements, education, income, caste, religion, to which various sociodemographic, household variation in older adults’ life Tribe (ST), Scheduled Caste (SC), Other satisfaction explained by each predictor satisfaction Others 4,685 15.2 Not satisfied 1,421 4.6 Caste of household Neutral 5,248 17.0 SC-ST group 10,111 satisfaction among older adults. Financial status, caste, and rural residence also emerged as influential 6.5 2.2 Not satisfied 3.8 2.6 1836.82 (<0.001) Caste of household Neutral 5.2 2.4 SC-ST group 6.1 2.3


World Bank Group · 18 March 2024 English

Labourers • Women farmers and fishers • Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe Farmers and Fishers • Women


IFS: Institute for Fiscal Studies · 14 March 2024 English

This study was funded by the Department for International Development in the UK Government; the Tata Trusts through the Tata Centre for Development at the University of Chicago; the MacLean …

vulnerability reported in the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (2011), roughly 537 million persons. 7Our categories based on data from the Socio Economic and Caste Census of 2011 so as to cover a little over 500


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 14 March 2024 English

Universal health coverage is a widely shared goal across lower-income countries. We conducted a large-scale, 4-year trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India’s first national, public hospital insurance program, …

vulnerability reported in the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (2011), roughly 537 million persons. 7Our categories based on data from the Socio Economic and Caste Census of 2011 so as to cover a little over 500


GAIA: Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives · 14 March 2024 English

In this context, addressing the waste sector’s contribution to environmental and climate damage is critical and time-bound, and must follow the priorities established by the waste hierarchy – that is, …

basis of (but not limited to) race, ethnicity, caste, gender, disability, etc. Moreover, public Private working conditions for waste occupation, race, caste, etc., deplorable living workers and waste pickers


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