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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...

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Multisectoral Approaches to Addressing Malnutrition in Bangladesh : The Role of Agriculture and Microcredit

World Bank - 2012

agriculture sector and microcredit programmes in Bangladesh and around the world, how they were implemented and to the extent … the potential role of interventions in the agriculture sector, including existing evidence on the impact of such …

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Agriculture, food security, and rural development

2010 - 1. publ.

Contributed articles presented at the inception meeting of Economic Division in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance in collaboration with Asian Development Bank in New Delhi on 2-3 September 2003 on agricultural policy programmes in India supported by ADB furthered through...

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Food in the 21st century : from science to sustainable agriculture

Shah, Mahendra M. - 2000

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Regional Trade in Food Staples : Prospects for Stimulating Agricultural Growth and Moderation Food Security Crises in Eastern and Southern Africa

World Bank - 2012

This report focuses on growing trade in food staples in the Southern and Eastern African region of Africa as one of the largest growth opportunities available to African farmers. This paper examines the impact of regional trade in food staples, both for maintaining farmer incentives in surplus...

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Basic Agricultural Public Expenditure Diagnostic Review : Ghana's Ministry of Food and Agriculture

World Bank - 2014

Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), with an aim towards realizing food security and poverty reduction. This Agriculture …

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From Agriculture to Nutrition : Pathways, Synergies and Outcomes

World Bank - 2007

agriculture and nutrition outcomes. The report identifies a number of developments in agriculture and nutrition that have … transformed the context in which nutrition is affected by agriculture. The relationship between agriculture and human nutrition is … food supply and food demand. Expanding agriculture's purview and capacity to embrace those contributing factors and …

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Agriculture in Bangladesh : A Note on Food Security by Enhancing Productivity

World Bank - 2013

incomes of small and marginal farmers requires promotion of commercial agriculture and agri-business opportunities through: (a … administrative capacity of the institutions responsible for agriculture extension, research, food procurement, water management, and …

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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...

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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...

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