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Undoubtedly, poverty reduction has become a front-burner issue in development and business agenda. Since its announcement and defense by its advocates as a potent weapon against poverty, the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) concept has been bedeviled by controversies. A major controversy is whether...
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New forces are at work in the agricultural sector: the growth of markets and private entrepreneurship, the changing global demand for food and other agricultural products, the rise of multinationals, and the expansion of integrated food chains. To realize the potential benefits, the public...
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The major objective of the study was to come up with illustrative success stories as well as failures to give lessons on ICT interventions in the area of rural livelihoods and their impact in Tanzania. The key issues addressed in this study were: 1) common ICTs used by the rural poor in Tanzania;...
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This paper explores whether child labourers come from, not only the poor, but also the poorest households in Bangladesh or not. The paper also tries to explain what determines the participation of children in labour force. A comparison has also been made between macro statistics and micro survey...
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Financial inclusion is one of the top most policy priorities of the Government of India. Ever since the UPA government …, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has taken a proactive role in ushering the enabling environment for expediting financial … branchless, which have mushroomed in India for last few years, the changes in regulatory environment and customer expectations …
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usage in rural India and the demonstrated success of a few projects that deliver information and transactional services … Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) in India.Examples of some existing m-Government applications that push down information to a … the whole of India. Some suggestions on how the project can be scaled up are discussed.With the launch of the National e …
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the poor and the unemployed is increasing day by day. India including our state i.e. West Bengal is not outside the …
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markets. This paper describes a case study of a dairy cooperative, AMUL, in western India that has developed a successful … India to become world's largest producer of milk …
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identified for logistic regression modelling; India, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.Logistic regression modelling identified …
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In India it has been observed the weaker section has always been kept away from the banking fold because of their lower … awareness and the availability of financial services is very less in the rural parts of India and especially to the weaker …
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