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Are Embankments a Good Flood-­-Control Strategy? A Case Study of the Kosi River
Somanathan, E - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper makes a first pass at evaluating embankments. Using two years or more of data from 504 households in 28 villages in the floodplain of the Kosi river in north Bihar, a comparison of the agricultural output, wage incomes, unemployment, and other indicators of well-being between villages...
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Monetary Incentives to Reduce Open-Field Rice-Straw Burning in the Plains of Nepal
Pant, Krishna Prasad - eSocialSciences - 2014
In southern Nepal, rice straw burning in open fields is common practice. This is problematic because biomass burning …
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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel
Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low …-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three successive rounds of the Nepal LSMS corresponding to 1995, 2003 and 2010, while other … is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal between 1995 and 2010.[BREAD …
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The Impact of Climate Change on Rice Prduction in Nepal
Karn, Prakash K. - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper examines the sensitivity of rice yield in Nepal to changes in climate variables and the magnitude of …
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The Economic Cost of General Strikes in Nepal
Shrestha, Min Bahadur; Chaudhary, Shashi Kant - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper reviews the key aspects of general strikes and analyses the economic cost of such strikes in Nepal. Data …
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Effect of Introducing an ‘Afternoon Pay Clinic’ on Service Utilization and Cost Recovery
Shrestha, Mahendra Pd. - eSocialSciences - 2008
The Chhetrapati Family Welfare Center (CFWC) in Nepal provided comprehensive family planning and maternal and child …
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Budget of Nepal 2011-12
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal - 2012
Budget speech by Nepal Finance Minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.np/publication/speech/2011/pdf/budgetspeech_english.pdf]. …
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Labour Migration and Remittances in Uttarakhand
Jain, Anmol - eSocialSciences - 2012
The type, volume, and mode of transfer of remittances in Uttarakhand is analysed. The impact of remittances, in terms of both financial flows and transfer of new skills and the perceptions in relation to poverty, development, and gender are studied. The study focused on the hill state of...
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Trans-boundary River Basins in South Asia: Options for Conflict Resolution
Chintan, Gopal Siwakoti - eSocialSciences - 2012
India's trans-boundary riparian policies affect four countries - Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh - on three … south - Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam - on five river systems - the …
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Comparative Analysis of Inflation in Nepal and India
eSocialSciences; Nepal Rastra Bank Research Department NRB - 2011
Inflation data for the past few years (August 2007 to October 2011 of Nepal and August 2007 to July 2011 of India for … extended by a report (IMF Country Report No. 11/319, November 2011- Nepal: Selected Issues) of International Monetary Fund (IMF …) have also been referred. [NRB Study Report]. URL:[http://red.nrb.org.np/publications/study_reports/Study_Reports--Comparative_Analysis_of_Inflation_in_Nepal …
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