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Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture (focus on Food Security) in Asia-Pacific Region
Dev, S. Mahendra - eSocialSciences - 2011
The objective of this paper is to identify climate change related threats and vulnerabilities associated with agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity). The paper analyses the connections between the nature of human action...
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Tamil Nadu Budget Speech: 2012-13
Government, Tamil Nadu - eSocialSciences - 2012
Speech of Thiru O. Panneerselvam, Hon’ble Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for the year 2012-2013 to the Legislative Assembly on 26th March, 2012. [Government of Tamil Nadu]. URL:[http://www.tn.gov.in/budget/budgetspeech_e_2012_2013.pdf].
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Chronic Poverty in South West Madhya Pradesh: A Multidimensional Analysis of its Extent and Causes
Shah, Amita; Sah, D.C. - eSocialSciences - 2011
The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time … in India are also chronically poor in terms of duration as well as severity (Mehta and Shah, 2002). Economic growth … poverty measured in terms of average expenditure of the households. Thus, incidence of poverty in India declined from 52 per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321501
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Promoting Sustainable Agriculture: Experiences from India and Canada
Shah, Amita; S, Puttaswamaiah; Manns, Ian - eSocialSciences - 2009
Agriculture sector, world over, has experienced a phenomenal growth since the mid-twentieth century. The growth, driven by Green Revolution technology, has made a significant dent on aggregate supply of food grains, ensuring food security to the growing population. The next stage of agricultural...
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Girl Power in Agricultural Production: How Much Does it Yield? A Case-Study on the Dairy Sector in India
Sneyers, Astrid; Vandeplas, Anneleen - eSocialSciences - 2013
productivity in India, based on evidence from a household-level dataset which was collected in 2008 in 50 villages spread over 5 … districts in Andhra Pradesh, a state in the South of India. [LICOS Discussion Paper 341/2013]. …
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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 …
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Rejigging the Elephant Dance
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2011
India's development challenges. The India growth story was thrown off track by the global financial crisis which …
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Between Citizens and Institutions: The Dyamics of the Integration of Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Hyderabad
Huchon, Agnes; Tricot, Guillaume - eSocialSciences - 2008
The purpose of this study is to review the changes that have taken place recently in water supply and sanitation services and examine the role of various stakeholders involved in urban governance in this sector. [CSH Occassonal Paper N 22/2008].
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A Review of India's Industrial Policy and Performance
Burange, G; Yamini, Shruti - eSocialSciences - 2011
When India’s industrial policy chronicle is reviewed, it is found that the country has mainly followed three regimes after independence. These are the planned or controlled period till the end of the 1970s, the limited liberalization period of the 1980s and the post-reform period...
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State-Led or Market-Led Green Revolution? Role of Private Irrigation Investment vis-a-vis Local Government Programs in West Bengal’s Farm Productivity Growth
Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip; Kumar, Neha - eSocialSciences - 2009
, extension services, and infrastructure investments) in the growth of farm productivity in West Bengal, India between 1981-95. A …
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