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School Libraries and Language Skills in Indian Primary Schools: A Randomized Evaluation of the Akshara Library Program
Borkum, Evan; He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L. - eSocialSciences - 2012
A randomized evaluation of a school library program on children’s language skills is conducted. The program had little impact on students’ scores on a language test administered 16 months after implementation. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than...
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Odisha Budget 2013-14: Part 1 Agriculture
Government, Orissa - eSocialSciences - 2013
Budget presented by Shri Prasanna Acharya. The first part contains the Agriculture Budget.
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Institutional Credit in Rainfed Areas: District Level Analysis in Southern States
S, Satyasai K J; Premi, Sohan - eSocialSciences - 2014
disadvantaged in terms of access to credit. Within the dryland areas too inter-personal inequalities in access to credit linkage … know the pattern of institutional credit availed across the districts. The paper is based on the secondary data on … institutional credit taken for agriculture purposes collected during input surveys conducted by Agricultural Census Division …
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Agricultural Productivity and Credit- Issues and Way Forward
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011
Certain trends in agricultural productivity, agricultural finance are outlined. Recommendations for improving agricultural productivity are given here. [Address at The National Seminar on Productivity in Indian Agriculture at CAB, Pune]. URL:[http://rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_SpeechesView.aspx?Id=596].
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Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured
Mobarak, A. Mushfiq; Rosenzweig, Mark - eSocialSciences - 2012
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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The EU-India FTA in Services and Possible Gender Impact in India: Concern Areas
Sengupta, Ranja; Sharma, Ashotosh - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper studies the impact of services trade liberalization under the currently negotiated EU-India FTA on women’s lives in India and tries to delineate the concern areas. Relevant sectors of interest are also studied with the two indicators; employment and access, in view. Some gender...
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A Status Report on India’s Financial System: A view from the Standpoint of Intermediation and Risk Bearing
Chakrabarti B.B.; Mohanty, Mritiunjoy - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper seeks to analyse and discuss the impact of financial reform and related institutional change on the process of financial intermediation. In effect reforms stood the earlier quantity driven model on its head. The attempt was to de-segment markets and remove asset and liability...
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Impact Assessment of CFPR/TUP: A Descriptive Analysis Based on 2002-2005 Panel Data
Sulaiman, Munshi; Rabbani, Mehnaz; Prakash, Vivek A. - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper looks at the overall performance of the CFPR/TUP programme using the 2002 baseline survey and 2005 repeat survey. All the topics covered in this study could be analysed more deeply, but that is beyond the scope of this paper. Our goal here is to present a descriptive overview of the...
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Self-help Co-operatives, Deposit Mobilisation and Supply of Credit
Sahu, Gagan Bihari; Das, Biswaroop - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper is aimed at exploring as to how such co-operatives (i) function and deal with members while delivering micro finance; (ii) mobilise funds, and (iii) get shaped and reshape the contents of members’ participation in them. Qualitative and quantitative data collected from the offices...
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A Simple Model of the Financial Crisis of 2007-9 with Implications for the Design of a Stimulus Package
Basu, Kaushik - eSocialSciences - 2009
rational-expectations, microeconomic model of why the local crisis escalated into a general freeze in credit flows. It then …
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