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Health, income inequality and climate related disasters at household level: reflections from an Orissa District

Narayanan, K.; Sahu, Santosh Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

select villages of Kendrapada district in Orissa state in India. The sample consists of 150 rural households. We try to link …

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Dynamics of Poverty and Food Insecurity in Orissa:Macro Analysis and Case Studies

MK, Sinha; P., Nanda; A., Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

households. Even though Orissa is virtually self-sufficient in food grains, there is a significant prevalence of food insecurity …

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URBAN INFORMAL MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN ORISSA - A CASE STUDY OF CUTTACK CITY

Panda, Bhagirathi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Promotion of the urban informal sector has become the new strategy of development in the developing economies. This paper attempts a study of some of the important characteristics of this sector in the city of Cuttack and compares it with that of the formal sector. The major strengths of this...

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In the Vacuum of Public Action Social Security in Orissa: A Long Way to Go

K P, Kannan; Pillai N., Vijayamohanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

critical appraisal of the historical development and experience of social security initiatives in Orissa, India. Unlike in the … conditions in Orissa has worked itself out to contribute to the high level of insecurity there. We argue that the failure of … Orissa was in its inability to develop the forces of organization and mobilization into its logical end of participatory …

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Determinants of Work Animal Density in Tamil Nadu: An Econometric Analysis

Dhas, Albert Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

From independence, size and composition of bovines in Tamil Nadu showed differential growth pattern. The total bovine population showed an increasing trend up to the early-Sixties and thereafter stagnant till the early Eighties. While the milch animal stock increased steadily, the work animals...

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Air pollution:a case study of a cashew nut factory

Rjumohan, A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Probably the first experience of the human beings from the impact of air pollution might have taken place when they built fires in poorly ventilated caves. Since then our planet Earth has suffered much from man-made pollution. Cashew nut processing involves the hazards of both air pollution and...

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Rural Poverty and Agricultural Development in Tamil Nadu

Dhas, Albert Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Tamil Nadu is basically an agricultural economy. Agriculture is the backbone of the development of the Tamil Nadu economy. The role of agriculture in shaping the economy could be reflected from the large proportion of population that depends on agriculture for their livelihood and the...

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‘One hen’ or ‘a basket of bangles’: women development and micro-credit in Tamil Nadu

Asalatha, B. P.; Pillai N., Vijayamohanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Tamil Nadu in India has a glorious tradition of recognizing the importance of empowering women over several centuries. The State fares reasonably well (above the all-India level) in terms of indicators such as female literacy, girls enrollment, female life expectancy, and women’s access to...

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Social Correlates of Health choices: A study in Rural Tamil Nadu

Kannan, Srinivasan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Social Network suggests that the decisions are not made in isolation but they are outcome of influence and confluence of social correlates (Srinivasan and Sharan 2005). They are products of consultations with other members of the community or the institutions. Many at times they happen mutually....

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Impacts of Watershed Development Programmes: Experiences and Evidences from Tamil Nadu

Kuppannan, Palanisami; Devarajulu, Suresh Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The overall performance of watershed development programmes has been examined in the state of Tamil Nadu. The impacts of major watershed development programmes have been outlined in terms of biophysical impacts, environmental impacts, socio-economic impacts and overall economic impacts. It is...

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