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Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2014

The current perspective on the flow of people is almost exclusively focused on permanent migration from poorer to richer countries and on immigration policies in industrial countries. This perspective needs to cede to a broader one that challenges the basic conception of physical rootedness in...

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Chronic Poverty in South West Madhya Pradesh: A Multidimensional Analysis of its Extent and Causes

Shah, Amita; Sah, D.C. - eSocialSciences - 2011

The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time …, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a result, a large proportion of the poor … poverty measured in terms of average expenditure of the households. Thus, incidence of poverty in India declined from 52 per …

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The Costs of Achieving the Millennium Development Goals through Adopting Organic Agriculture

Markandya, Anil; Setboonsarng, Sununtar; Hui, Qiao Yu; … - eSocialSciences - 2011

This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the costs of attaining the United Nationsâ€™ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It analyzes the costs of OA programs in four case studies: Wanzai, PRC; Wuyuan, PRC; Kandy, Sri...

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Indian Railway Budget 2009-2010

Banerjee, Mamata - eSocialSciences - 2009

Railway Budget 2009-10

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Grassroot Empowerment (1975-1990): A Discussion Paper

Banerjee, Narayana K - eSocialSciences - 2010

The discussion focusses on women in poverty their concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational …

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Post-Conflict Recovery: Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?

Addison, Tony - eSocialSciences - 2009

This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focus here is on the smaller countries emerging from civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than...

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Aid, Public Spending and Human Welfare: Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Gomanee, Karuna; Girma, Sourafel; Morrissey, Oliver - eSocialSciences - 2006

The paper addresses the issues of contribution of aids towards human development and the efficiency of such aids in poorer countries, assessing if there is cross-country evidence for an effective human development by financing public expenditures that increase welfare indicators.

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National Human Development Report 2001

Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2007

The process of development, in any society, should ideally be viewed and assessed in terms of what it does for an average individual.For any approach or development framework to be meaningful and effective in directing public policies and programmes it has to be anchored in a social context....

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Why is so Little Spent on Educating the Poor?

Addison, Tony; Rahman, Aminur - eSocialSciences - 2007

If the poor are to benefit from economic growth, then they need the skills that are in growing demand, and the capacity to raise their productivity as smallholder farmers and micro-entrepreneurs. Yet, the poor seldom receive a satisfactory education. Too little is spent on primary...

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Corporate Sustainability a Panacea for Growth: Values, Convictions and Acrions

Padmanabhan, G - eSocialSciences - 2014

positive. But at the same time, level of development of the country, poverty etc. also needs to be factored in while …

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