techniques to drought, the study conducts an innovative long-term assessment of drought risks in Andhra Pradesh, India, and … suggests strategies to reduce their impact, under several economic, drought management and climate change scenarios. The …

This report presents the impact and lessons learned from the Andhra Pradesh Drought Adaptation Initiative (APDAI). The …

objective of this report is to promote the mainstreaming and integration of climate related risks in India's development …

The study objectives were designed to enhance the state's capacity to assess long-term effects of drought and increase … resilience to drought risks at state, district, and community levels. The process for development of study objectives featured … extensive consultation with affected sectors, and with state and national programs that aim to address the effects of drought …

explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during … at the beginning of the survey period by 2004. This all-India trajectory masks widely varying trends across states …

"This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the … key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank … 6,000 households in India undertaken by the authors. The main findings and implications of the paper are as follows …

Since the early national plans, successive governments in independent India have emphasized the link between improving … India's poor, the overwhelming majority of whom are concentrated in rural areas, motivated the nationalization of commercial … dominant players in the formal rural finance market. Yet, the vast majority of India's rural poor, still do not have access t o …