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Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing countries often receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and effects of, offering formal index-based rainfall insurance is studied through a randomized...
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and continuing evolution of SRI in India and presents SRI as an innovation in process and not as a completed product …. Farmers and other actors are continuously shaping it through their practice. Part II focuses on insights of the innovation … hightlights the implications for pro-poor innovation. …
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-blocks to innovation. In business women face gender bias in recruitment, sexual harassment in the workplace, and income … through a process of enabling social, health and political conditions that favour women. Since agriculture is increasingly …
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Most of 726 million rural populations in India is dependent on agriculture. Rice is the staple food of nearly 65% of … agriculture is in the dynamic path in transforming traditional mode of production to modern agriculture. The paper traces the …
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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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Economic Survey-Chapter1. [Economic Survey]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp]
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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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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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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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How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
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