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Employment elasticity with respect to agriculture value added in South Asia has weakened in recent years. While crop â€¦ India in 1993 and 2004, we first review the changes in participation rates in farm and non-farm activities by gender, age â€¦ between farm and non-farm activities. Also, the welfare of self-employed in agriculture became more sensitive to rainfall â€¦
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This paper surveys the status of food security in the South Asian countries, particularly India. Particular attention â€¦ households who are poor, and iii) rural households who are undernourished. The paper then singles out five disconnects in India â€¦
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The fact that most environmental degradation occurs in developing countries shows that they face difficulties in implementing environmental policies. It is hence extremely valuable to take lessons from any instances of the successful implementation of an environmental policy in a developing...
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included, these must be balanced against potential costs. This report explores why agriculture is different from other sectors â€¦. Agriculture’s diffuse and diverse emissions are inherently difficult to measure. They also fluctuate in response to environmental â€¦ factors such as climate and biophysical characteristics. It is problematic to include the agriculture sector in the ETS, at â€¦
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Our analysis illustrates one pathway between agriculture and nutrition through production of nutrients by crop and size â€¦ as well as through livestock. As this pathway is subsumed in agriculture and nutrition studies focusing on anthropometric â€¦
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This paper has two main objectives. First, it computes capital flight (CF) through trade misinvoicing from India using â€¦ data from UNCOMTRADE, MIT Observatory of Economic Complexity and IMF E-library. India’s trade with 17 countries over the â€¦ least some of the failures of current macroeconomic policy in India could be attributed to CF. â€¦
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This article reviews key past trends in energy security from the perspective of both International Energy Agency members and the Asia Pacific over the past 30 years, and assesses future energy risks. Developments in energy efficiency, unconventional oil and gas, and stationary renewable energy...
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Using Census and NSS data this paper studies the evolution of Gender Bias (GB) in the age group 0–6 in India and its â€¦ until 2026. The paper also demonstrates that there are wide variations in GB across various states, even districts, of India â€¦
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relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951–2001) and those from NSS â€¦ over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women â€¦ bias in education and argue that for approximately half of India's children the Right to Education Act must involve â€¦
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In a recent study, Jensen and Miller (2011) propose a new measure of undernutrition, based on a calorie share of staples threshold. Among the merits of this measure are that (i) it dispenses with calorie norms, and (ii) relies on a behavioural approach to estimate this threshold. What our...
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