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Body Mass Index, Participation, Duration of Work and Earnings under NREGS: Evidence from Rajasthan

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, Manoj K. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

Despite its evident importance relatively little is known about links between Body Mass Index (BMI) and participation … paper attempts to fill this void and examines the association between BMI and participation in, duration of employment in …

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Is There a Case for the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India? Some Recent Evidence

Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2004

Overall participation in the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in Maharashtra (an Indian state) fell sharply over the … rise in participation in subsequent years, it was dampened by a change in the composition of the EGS. Specifically … official explanation for the decline in EGS participation in recent years in terms of expansion of farm and non-farm employment …

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An Integrated Assessment approach to linking biophysical modelling and economic valuation tools

Kragt, Marit Ellen; Bennett, Jeffrey W.; Jakeman, Tony - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

Natural resource management (NRM) typically involves complex decisions that affect a variety of stakeholder values. Efficient NRM, which achieves the greatest net environmental, social and financial benefits, needs to integrate the assessment of environmental impacts with the costs and benefits...

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An Integrated Assessment approach to linking biophysical modelling and economic valuation tools

Kragt, Marit Ellen - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

Natural resource management (NRM) typically involves complex decision problems that affect a wide variety of stakeholder values. Efficient NRM that achieves the greatest environmental, social and financial net benefits, necessitates assessments of the environmental impacts, costs and benefits of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478986

Revegetation of Regent Honeyeater habitat in the Capertee Valley: a Cost-Benefit Analysis

Greyling, Tertius; Bennett, Jeffrey W. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

This study considers the costs and benefit of the Regent Honeyeater Project in the Capertee Valley over the past 10 years. The benefits are estimated using choice modelling and the costs are based on project expenditure and forgone agricultural production. A comparison of the benefits and costs...

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Protecting the Booroolong Frog in the Namoi Catchment: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Greyling, Tertius; Bennett, Jeffrey W. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

The Booroolong frog project in the Namoi Catchment represents an environmental investment to protect the species and around 10.7 kilometres of its habitat in the catchment. The project’s benefit-cost ratio (BCR) of 8.6 indicates that the benefits outweigh the costs by a significant margin. The...

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of the protection of Malleefowl in the Lachlan Catchment

Greyling, Tertius; Bennett, Jeffrey W. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

A cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of an investment in the protection of malleefowl and associated native vegetation in the Lachlan Catchment’s central-west yielded a benefit-cost ratio of 1.4. The CBA is based on project expenditures over the past four years coupled with benefit estimates from a...

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