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Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017). [Planning Commission, GOI]. URL:[http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/12thplan/pdf/vol_1.pdf].
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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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This study explores the three way linkage between weather variability, agricultural performance and internal migration in India at state and district level using Indian Census data.[MSE].
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Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and...
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Agriculture as a source of growth was sorely neglected in the early development strategies of the currently developing … countries. Realisation of this shortcoming prompted public policy in these countries to encourage agriculture by various means … pertaining to Indian agriculture for the period 1967-68/1999-00, covering 7 major 'annual' cash crops cultivated across 16 major …
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This paper provides a synthesis of the experiences of six countries (Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico, and Nigeria) in enhancing food security of their population. Approximately 46 per cent of the undernourished people in the world live in these six countries, which together account for 43...
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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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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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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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Sheds light on the realities of girls' health and wellbeing in developing countries, on the links between the health of girls and the prospects for their families, and on the specific actions that will improve health prospects for millions. This report describes the most prevalent and serious...
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