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India’s Food Security Bill: A Waste or Win for the Hungry?
Trethewie, Sally - eSocialSciences - 2012
Home to over 25 per cent of the world’s hungry poor, India faces major food security challenges and the situation has barely improved in two decades. Will the National Food Security Bill that the Indian Parliament is expected to pass this month alleviate the country’s food...
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Semi-Feudalism and Perpetual Indebtedness
Krishnaji, N. - eSocialSciences - 2008
The implications of removing some of the restrictive assumptions of a model of semi-feudalism formulated by A.Bhaduri are examined. [WP no. 16].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699166
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Trends in Diversion of PDS Grain
Khera, Reetika - eSocialSciences - 2011
This article estimates the proportion of grain "diverted" from the Public Distribution System (PDS) to the open market …
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Reforming Foodgrains Management: Achieving Food Security with Cost-Effectiveness
Kumar, A. Ganesh; Gulati, Ashok; Ralph Cummings, Jr. - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper examines the efficacy of the current system of public foodgrains management and policies in promoting food security in the country. It argues that the system has outlived its usefulness, and that continuing with the same only stifles growth in foodgrains, with very little welfare...
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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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