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Mitigating Climate Change Through Agriculture
Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2011
Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food security and climate change. Agriculture plays a … significant role in both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing issue for agriculture and food security in … the next decades. At the same time, agriculture is part of the solution in mitigating climate change: by both reducing and …
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Natural Resource Conservation, Use and Sustainability in Drylands
Alagh, Yoginder - eSocialSciences - 2007
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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Tamil Nadu Budget 2008-09
Government, Tamil Nadu - eSocialSciences - 2008
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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Sustainability of Indian Agriculture: Towards an Assessment
Rao, V.M. - eSocialSciences - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699187
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Who’s Going Broke? Comparing Growth in Healthcare Costs in Ten OECD Countries
Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Hagist, Christian - eSocialSciences - 2005
Government healthcare expenditures have been growing much more rapidly than GDP in OECD countries. For example, between 1970 and 2002 these expenditures grew 2.3 times faster than GDP in the U.S., 2.0 times faster than GDP in Germany, and 1.4 times faster than GDP in Japan. How much of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699256
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Predicting Indian Business Cycles: Leading Indices for External and Domestic Sectors
Dua, Pami - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper evaluates the real-time performance of the growth rate of the DSE-ECRI Indian leading index for exports for predicting cyclical downturns and upturns in the growth rate of Indian exports. The index comprises the 36-country real effective exchange rate and leading indices of...
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New issues in Indian macro policy
Shah, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2008
For many decades, macro-policy in India was conducted in an environment with five key elements: Agricultural shocks rather than a conventional business cycle; A closed economy; deeply distortionary tax policy coupled with a fiscal crisis; financial markets that lacked speculative price discovery,...
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Detection and Forecasting of Islamic Calendar Effects in Time Series Data: Revisited
Rao, Nasir Hamid; Bukhari, Syed Kalim Hyder; Jalil, Abdul - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper is an attempt to revisit the pioneering work of Riazuddin and Khan (2002). A complete business cycle has been elapsed (2002-2010) since their study, so there is need to review the results with additional information. This revisited attempt, based on a theoretically specified...
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Predicting Recessions and Slowdowns: A Robust Approach
Dua, Pami; Banerji, Anirvan - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper defines business and growth rate cycles and describes the importance of key coincident indicators and reference chronologies, following reflections on the definition of a recession. The robustness of turning point forecasts based on the indicator approach to business and growth rate...
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The Financial Accelerator: An Emerging Market Story
Hussein, Shah; Saeed, Amna; Hassan, Amer - eSocialSciences - 2011
In support of the financial-accelerator theory, evidence is found on countercyclical price-cost banking margins …
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