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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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controversial, transport history. Such a strategy would not merely bring the discipline into line conceptually and methodologically … technologies, the renewed historiography would have something of relevance and value to say to these other fields. …
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supporting this act of racism and racial discrimination. The government of Bangladesh must bring an end to such racist policies …
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This paper is concerned with some aspects of the way one particular railway occupation – that of locomotive driver – has been perceived in Great Britain from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th. The occupation of locomotive driver is one of the most significant within the railway...
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The railway accident as an agent of traumatic experience occupies an important place in the history of mid- and late …
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Multilateral agencies and economists with much influence have been urging laissez-faire in agriculture. While success with the rich countries has been minimal despite the commitments under the WTO, many poor countries with much agricultural potential in the long run have been coaxed to adopt...
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The present paper analyzes the possibilities of Traditional Chinese Medicine to become a perfect medicine.
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A historical survey of transport to demonstrate that transport has always been recognised as of paramount importance for the wellbeing of the whole community, that a combination of collective and individual enterprise has always been needed to make transport systems work, and that developments...
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This essay briefl y examines some of the diverse developments of social medicine as an academic discipline and its links to political conceptualizations of the role of medicine in society. The author then analyses the possible future directions open to the discipline in the Anglo-American...
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The history and evolution and the factors underlying the success of primary education in Kerala. [CDS WP 189]. …
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