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Cost and Time Overruns in Infrastructure Projects: Extent, Causes and Remedies
Singh, Ram - eSocialSciences - 2009
causal factors behind time and cost overruns. [CDE WP No. 181]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512430
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Public Private Partnership in Drinking Water Supply of Greater Mumbai
Rode, Sanjay - eSocialSciences - 2008
Demand for drinking water is continuously increasing over the period of time in Mumbai city but the supply is stagnant … drinking water. Drinking water has its values in terms of time, space, quality and quantity. With the help of Tobit regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696003
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Dynamics of Chronic Poverty: Variations in Factors Influencing Entry and Exit of the Chronic Poor
Bhide, Shashanka; Dhamija, Nidhi - eSocialSciences - 2010
India experienced high economic growth in the 1990s. Some earlier studies, which attempted to identify the influence of … factors over time were not analysed. This paper examines whether there has been change in the influence of factors such as … village level composition,household size and composition, and economic growth on poverty dynamics in different periods of time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673466
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Pilot Intervention of Improved Cook Stoves in Rural Areas: Assessment of Effects on Fuel Use, Smoke Emission and Health
Dey, Nepal C.; Ali, ARM Mehrab; Ashraf, Anik; Arif, Tahmid - eSocialSciences - 2012
This study aims to explore the impact of improved cook stoves (ICS) on fuel expenditure (consumption), smoke emission, and health of women (cook) in rural households of Bangladesh. In the follow-up survey (January-March 2010), 1,569 households, constituting of both who received ICS immediately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133255
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Labour Market in Urban Agglomerations: A case from an Indian Global City
Paul, G.D Bino; M, Krishna Krishna - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global cities. To capture the role of labour market in urban agglomeration, particularly pooling of labour and concentration of economic activities, the paper present a case study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319328
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Secondary Education in India: Determinants of Development and Performance
P, Geetha Rani - eSocialSciences - 2007
A review of development of school education in India reflects an expansionary phase of number of institutions and … development and performance indices at two points of time. And compared their movements from the 1990s to 2000-01/2003-04. [Paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170139
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The Economic Impact of Forest Hydrological Services on Local Communities: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India
Menon, Ajit; LELE, SHARACHCHANDRA; Patil, Ishwar; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
Building upon a larger research project at four sites in the Western Ghats of peninsular India, this study examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696001
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Community Management is Good for Forests: Results from a Field Experiment in India
eSocialSciences; South Asian Network for Development SANDEE - 2011
The study looks at the relationship between indigenous people and their forest homes using a novel field field experiments approach. [Policy Brief No. 48-10]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/uploads/documents/publication/906_PUB_Policy_Brief_48_Rucha.pdf].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002307
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Measures, Spatial Profile and Determinants of Dietary Diversity: Evidence from India
Das, Mousumi - eSocialSciences - 2014
dataset from India, analyzes the determinants of dietary diversity, which is measured using the Entropy Index. Heterogeneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969041
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Neighborhood and Agricultural Clusters across States of India
Chaterjee, Tirtha; Kumar, A. Ganesh - eSocialSciences - 2014
In this study how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture over the last four and a half decades are traced. Two features which stand out in our results are that not all geographical neighbours belong to the same cluster and clusters include both geographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969042