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State of the Economy and Prospects: chapter 1
Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2012
Economic Survey-Chapter1. [Economic Survey]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp]
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Why was the Participation of Indian States in the Growth Turnaround so Patchy? Some Evidence Based on Robustness Analysis
Ghate, Chetan; Wright, Stephen - eSocialSciences - 2012
In Ghate & Wright Journal of Development Economics, vol. 99 (2012) pp 58–67, it was noted that there was considerable variation in the extent to which different Indian states participated in the Great Indian Growth Turnaround. In this paper it is investigated whether there was any...
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Understanding NREGA: A Simple Theory and Some Facts
Sinha, Uday Bhanu; Mukherjee, Diganta - eSocialSciences - 2010
A developing economy like India is often characterised by a labour market with demand and supply of labour and a wage that even if competitively determined may not be adequate for the poor household to reach their target income; what they consider as means of a decent living. Envisaging...
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Natural Resource Conservation, Use and Sustainability in Drylands
Alagh, Yoginder - eSocialSciences - 2007
This keynote address of the conference on Natural Resource Conservation Use and Sustainability in Drylands, focuses mainly on some new concepts of resource assessments in dry areas, some recent debates on organizational ideas on communities and their institutions; larger issues to place the...
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Tamil Nadu Budget 2008-09
Government, Tamil Nadu - eSocialSciences - 2008
Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March, 2008.
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Sustainability of Indian Agriculture: Towards an Assessment
Rao, V.M. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper presents a systemic framework to look at the prospects for sustainability of Indian agriculture. The … shaping the growth, efficiency and stability of agriculture. The domains are: Natural resources covering land, water, climate … prospects for agriculture are seen to depend in the final analysis not so much on nature or factors beyond control as on …
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One Planet to Share: Sustaining Human Progress in a Changing Climate
eSocialSciences; United Nations Development Programme UNDP - 2012
In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be done about it. Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human development, the Report argues that the option to grow now, clean up later no longer exists for...
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Rural Migration, Weather and Agriculture: Evidence from Indian Census Data
Viswanathan, Brinda; Kumar, K S Kavi - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study explores the three way linkage between weather variability, agricultural performance and internal migration in India at state and district level using Indian Census data.[MSE].
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Agricultural Outlook and Situational Analysis Report - January - March 2014
eSocialSciences; National Council of Applied Economic … - 2014
Accordingly, the agricultural outlook and situation analysis undertaken in this study refers to the main crop based food items: cereals (specifically rice, wheat, jowar, bajra, maize and overall coarse grains), pulses (gram, tur), selected fruits and vegetables (banana, potato, onion), sugarcane...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945228
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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the study assessed the multifactorial drivers of...
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