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LETS Make it happen
a CED Backgrounder on Alternative Economics
by Rajni Bakshi
Price: Rs. 30/-  Pages: 44   Paperback Print 2003


Lets make it happen, is a plea for creating collective economic institutions including community currency, development of local markets and bio-mass based industry. It is a backgrounder on Alternative economics for activists and social workers, which says, TAMA: There Are Many Alternatives, to mainstream Globalisation and to an economics which continuously marginalises the poor


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Background to Globalisation
by Avinash Jha
Price: Rs. 150/-  US $10 outside India   Pages: 180   Paperback   Print 2000 Reprint 2001

Globalisation has intensified the domination of societies by considerations of economy and state power.   This book traces this trend from the beginnings of modern world and documents the emergence of the U.S.-led global system after the second world war.  The most visible aspects of globalisation today are the explosion of the financial markets and the so-called information revolution.

Also available in Hindi

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Changing the Stream
A Backgrounder on the Women's Movement in India
by Shubha Chacko
Price: Rs. 190/-  US $12 outside India  Pages: 163  Paperback  Print 2001

This publication outlines the nature and constituents of the Movement, as also its engagement with the State, with various institutions and its bid to influence and rewrite agendas. It captures the various strands that make up the women's movement and proceeds to look at where we are now before finally setting out some of the challenges facing us

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The Long and Winding Road
from Structural Change to Structural Transformation
A Backgrounder on NGOs and People's Movements
by Walter Mendoza and John D'Souza
Price:  Rs. 250/- [English] Rs.150/- [Hindi] US $ 15 outside India  Pages: 99 (Fulscap) Paperback  Print 2002

This book is written to bring to the reader the background of the key issues that concern NGOs and point to readings and references available at CED. This book is a part of a personal journey, an exploration, of what NGOs have been attempting to do during the past three to four decades

Also available in Hindi

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Re-building Our Lives :
A Backgrounder on the Right to Work in the Context of Post Tsunami Reconstruction

Price:  Rs. 25/- [English] Rs.25/- [Tamil]



Produced under :

Reconstruction for Development Centres (RDC):
A Collaborative information system for informed and participative reconstruction by
A&D, CED, Praxis, ISED and TNDTF funded by Foundation de France

Also available in Tamil

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What our Brightest Youngsters think !
In the Year 2006


A selection of Projects done by students

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Fishing in Troubled Waters
Increased fragility of an already precarious livelihood
Price:  Rs. 25/- [English] Rs.25/- [Tamil]

Developed around the adaption of an interview of John Kurien [professor, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala]

This is a Docpost Special on the livelihood issues of the traditional fishing communities. It contains a collection of articles and reports which have been organised and pieced together with a narrative.

The document may appear to be disjointed at times. This is a characteristic of such an output, since it contains materials needed by activists and communities, but is not in the nature of an academic research.

Produced under :
Reconstruction for Development Centres (RDC):
A Collaborative information system for informed and participative reconstruction by
A&D, CED, Praxis, ISED and TNDTF funded by Foundation de France

Also available in Tamil

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Net-working Together
Price:  Rs. 30/- [English]

A Companion volume to the film on the livelihoods of the Coastal communities and their fight against the global market hegemony

Produced under :
Reconstruction for Development Centres (RDC):
A Collaborative information system for informed and participative reconstruction by
A&D, CED, Praxis, ISED and TNDTF funded by Foundation de France


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Our Coast Our Right
Backgrounder on CRZ and Tsunami
Price:  Rs. 25/- [English] Rs.25/- [Tamil]
  • Government is the biggest violator
  • Coast is used as a free resource to increase private profit
  • Salient features of the M.S. Swaminathan Committee report
Also available in Tamil

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