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Kerala Fights Clock in ASEAN Free-Trade Deal
Devraj, Ranjit - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543132
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Consuming Lives, Consuming Landscapes:Interpreting Advertisements For Cafédirect Coffees
Wright, Caroline - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper explores the marketing strategies of Cafédirect, a company that pays a guaranteed price for coffee to Latin … commodity fetishism, the concern being to reveal the (unequal) social relations underlying conventional coffee production and to … present the consumer with the opportunity to transform such relations through the purchase of fairly traded coffee. In case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528351
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Impact of ASEAN-India FTA on India’s Plantation Commodities: A Simulation Analysis
Saini, Gordhan K; Veeramani, C. - eSocialSciences - 2010
selected plantation commodities (coffee, tea and pepper) in India. Partial equilibrium modeling approach (SMART model and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620631
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Gender Impact of Trade Reforms in Indian Plantation Sector: An Exploratory Ananlysis
K, Viswanathan P; Shah, Amita - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper examines the potential gender impacts of the trade reforms in plantation agriculture in the emerging context of the two prominent FTAs, viz. the Indo-ASEAN and the proposed EU-India FTA. [NRPPD Discussion Paper]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945249
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Book Review: Of Space and 'Spatialities'
Dantas, Anandi - eSocialSciences - 2010
Review of Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka. Catherine Brun and Tariq Jazeel (Editors). Sage Publications, New Delhi; 2009, 260 pp, Rs. 695.
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Liberalisation of Rural Poverty: The Indian Experience
Pillai, N. Vijayamohanan - eSocialSciences - 2006
A price rise signifies a fall in purchasing power, if there is no commensurate increase in income. Thus the pertinent … months of the reform period. It is argued that the phenomenal administered price inflation of food articles, thanks to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699007
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Agrarian Reform for a Liberal Pattern of Society? Karnataka's Land Policy and the New Dispensation
Herring, Ronald - eSocialSciences - 2006
It is puzzling how much the discourse of development has backed away from the seemingly central question of rural poverty: land. Elaborate rules concerning its distribution, rights, regulation, protection, utilities have multiple development objectives, but poverty alleviation, individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699223
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Poverty Dynamics in Rural Sindh, Pakistan
Lohano, Hari Ram - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) during 1986–91, were resurveyed in 2004–05 with minimal attrition.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512466
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Employment and Poverty in India: 2000-2005
Sundaram, K. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper is principally focused on the changes in the size and structure of work force and the changes in labour productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a sharp acceleration in work force growth, and, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487545
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Agricultural Growth and Rural Incomes: Rural Performance Indicators and Consumption Patterns
Balisacan, Arsenio M. - eSocialSciences - 2012
The present paper is part of a larger study on agricultural growth and rural incomes in the Philippines. This study examines the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms by which agricultural development changes the economic welfare of the various groups of population in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550443