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Implications of Market and Coordination Failures for Rural Development in Least Developed Countries
Kydd, Jonathan; Dorward, Andrew - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper examines core features of poor rural areas, the nature of coordination problems faced by different potential economic actors, the impacts of these problems on markets and economic development, and the ways that these have been addressed or ignored in different policies and policy...
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Andhra Pradesh Budget Speech 2009-10
Pradesh, Government Andhra - eSocialSciences - 2009
Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
This report investigates how more and better jobs can be created in South Asia. It does so for two reasons. First, this region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world’s working-age (15–64) population over the next several decades. It is important to determine...
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Contribution of Services Sector in the Economy of Pakistan
Ahmed, Ayaz; Ahsan, Henna - eSocialSciences - 2011
The services sector has provided steady support to Pakistan’s economic growth. It share in GDP now stands a more than 50 percent. The paper analyses its continuation in the growth of the economy in general and the development of trade and genera tion of employment in particular. The study...
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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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Agricultural Development and Sources of Output Growth in Maharashtra State
Kalamkar, Shrikant - eSocialSciences - 2007
An attempt has been made to analyse agricultural growth and the contribution of various components to the overall output growth of the Maharashtra State for the period from 1961-62 to 1997-98. It is observed that the growth in area of major crops in the state revealed mixed trend. The future...
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WTO Agreements and Indian Agriculture: Retrospection and Prospects
Deodhar, Satish Y - eSocialSciences - 2007
-negotiation on Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) will also begin. It is time to take a retrospective look at what were the expected … the predictions of various macro-models about the gains to Indian agriculture and farmer were not unequivocal, their … structure, improvement in the terms-of-trade for Indian agriculture may be very limited. Whatever little improvement in terms …
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Productivity of Rural Credit: A Review of Issues and Some Recent Literature
Sriram, M S - eSocialSciences - 2007
It is argued that Indian agriculture is undergoing fundamental change wherein the technology and inputs are moving out … created a near-crisis in agriculture. The policy interventions have to be necessarily patient and holistic [IIMA WP]. …
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