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Urbanization in India: Evidence on Agglomeration Economies
Mitra, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL: [http://fgks.in/IndexServer/tifac/article/141.pdf]
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Understanding NREGA: A Simple Theory and Some Facts
Sinha, Uday Bhanu; Mukherjee, Diganta - eSocialSciences - 2010
agricultural productivity. Data on food prices tend to support our finding to some extent. …
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Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion
Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - eSocialSciences - 2011
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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Agricultural Productivity and Credit- Issues and Way Forward
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011
agricultural productivity are given here. [Address at The National Seminar on Productivity in Indian Agriculture at CAB, Pune]. URL …Certain trends in agricultural productivity, agricultural finance are outlined. Recommendations for improving …
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Global Warming and Agriculture: New Country Estimates Show Developing Countries Face Declines in Agricultural Productivity
Cline, William R - eSocialSciences - 2009
impact at the country level, especially in the developing world. The stakes for world agriculture, with special attention to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528414
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Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture (focus on Food Security) in Asia-Pacific Region
Dev, S. Mahendra - eSocialSciences - 2011
agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity). The paper analyses … agriculture and better human development outcomes. Broadly, it examines the impact of climate change on rural livelihoods …, agriculture, food security. It discusses the options for adaptation and mitigation and requirements for implementation at local …
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Rejigging the Elephant Dance
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2011
India's development challenges. The India growth story was thrown off track by the global financial crisis which engulfed virtually every country in the world. We recovered from the crisis sooner than other countries, but the growth rate is yet to reach the pre-crisis level. There is widespread...
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Land Acquisition for Industrialization and Compensation of Displaced Farmers
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasing in land from a private owner or local … agricultural productivity. Eciency considerations are shown to re- quire farmers be over-compensated in the event of conversion. …
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The Potato’s Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment
Qian, Nancy; Nunn, Nathan - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas is being exploited, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Their results show that the...
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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel
Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three...
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