Similar Search Results

Improving child nutrition outcomes in India : can the integrated child development services be more effective?

Das Gupta, Monica - 2005

"Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large public spending on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program, of which the major component is supplementary feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522553

Is skill-biased technological change here yet? : evidence from Indian manufacturing in the 1990

Berman, Eli - 2005

"Most high and middle-income countries showed symptoms of skill-biased technological change in the 1980s. India-a low income country-did not, perhaps because India's traditionally controlled economy may have limited the transfer of technologies from abroad. However the economy underwent a sharp...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522439

Credit constraints as a barrier to technology adoption by the poor : lessons from South Indian small-scale fishery

Gine, Xavier - 2005

"It is generally recognized that the adoption of a new technology plays a fundamental role in the development process. However, the benefits from the introduction of the technology may be unevenly distributed among the population, especially if the markets do not function properly. While the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522535

The World Bank Group and the global food crisis : an evaluation of the World Bank Group response

2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394012

The World Bank Group and the global food crisis : an evaluation of the World Bank Group response

World Bank - 2014 - Online-Ausg.

.25 a day, equivalent to 22.4 percent of the developing world population. In addition, the Food and Agriculture Organization … crisis. The Bank also scaled up lending for agriculture and social protection to support the building of medium … GFRP -- The GFRP Lending Portfolio -- Evaluation Findings -- Coordination -- 3. Bank Group Support for Agriculture to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012685886

Political institutions, inequality, and agricultural growth : the public expenditure connection

Lederman, Daniel - 2006

"This paper brings together the literatures on the political economy of public expenditures and the determinants of economic growth. Based on a new dataset of rural public expenditures in a panel of Latin American economies, the econometric evidence suggests that non-social subsidies reduce...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522158