"Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to discourage son …

impact evaluation studies in water supply and sanitation in India (P144956)’ implemented by the World Bank’s Water and … in India and also facilitated data driven analytical work and capacity building. Specific contributions of the TA are the … challenges India is facing in water and sanitation access and the extreme complexity of the institutional systems for the …

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

"Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton … Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The … authors provide estimates of the potential economic impacts of (1) complete or partial removal of cotton subsidies and import …

"The authors provide estimates of the economic impact of initial adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton and of …, adoption of GM cotton varieties by other developing countries-especially in Sub-Saharan Africa-could provide even larger … remove cotton subsidies and import tariffs globally. "--World Bank web site …

"The Zambian cotton sector went through significant reforms during the 1990s. After a long period of parastatal control …, a process of liberalization in cotton production and marketing began in 1994. These reforms were expected to benefit … the dynamics of the cotton sector and the dynamics of poverty and evaluate to what extent cotton can work as a vehicle for …

"The authors examine the price linkages among polyester (the dominant chemical fiber), cotton (the dominant natural … cotton and polyester prices, well above the co-movement observed between these two prices and prices of other primary … commodities. b) Crude oil prices have a stronger effect on polyester prices compared with cotton prices. c) Price shocks …