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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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Marketing of Bt Cotton in India: Aggressive, Unscrupulous and False….
eSocialSciences - 2007
The paper examines the prevailing situation of Bt cotton marketing in India. It tells a story of how aggressive and unethical marketing practices are adopted for luring faemers into the Bt cotton trap in India.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487769
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Livelihood Risks and Coping Strategies: A Case Study in the Agrarian Village Of Cherumad, Kerala
Menon, Vineetha; Paul, Antonyto; Nair, K.N. - eSocialSciences - 2008
The various dimensions of livelihood risk as informed by a in-depth case study of an agrarian village namely, Cherumad …
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The Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2007
Sabha, Lok - eSocialSciences - 2008
A bill to provide for the rehabilitation and resettlement of persons affected by the acquisition of land for projects of public purpose or involuntary displacement due to any other reason, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. [Bill No.98, 2007].
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The Economic Impact of Forest Hydrological Services on Local Communities: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India
Menon, Ajit; LELE, SHARACHCHANDRA; Patil, Ishwar; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
tankbased agriculture in a downstream village. … link between stream flow, agricultural water use and economic returns to agriculture. The study attempts to simulate the …
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State of the Economy and Prospects: chapter 1
Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2012
Economic Survey-Chapter1. [Economic Survey]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp]
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Why was the Participation of Indian States in the Growth Turnaround so Patchy? Some Evidence Based on Robustness Analysis
Ghate, Chetan; Wright, Stephen - eSocialSciences - 2012
In Ghate & Wright Journal of Development Economics, vol. 99 (2012) pp 58–67, it was noted that there was considerable variation in the extent to which different Indian states participated in the Great Indian Growth Turnaround. In this paper it is investigated whether there was any...
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Village Development Boards (VDBs) in Nagaland
G, Karmakar K; D, Banerjee G - eSocialSciences - 2009
The article describes the constitution and functions of Village Development Boards (VDBs) in NAGALAND where VDBs are …
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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China
Miquel, Gerard Padro-i-; Qian, Nancy; Yao, Yang - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/366.pdf].
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Location Identification for Rapid Evacuation from a Disaster Site: A Case Study from KAPS
Roy, Debjit; Sharma, Anuj - eSocialSciences - 2014
affected area for our purposes, data on various aspects like distance of each village from the radiation source, its road … each village and its respective rallying post while providing the detailed evacuation route for each village. A resource … optimizing heuristic is proposed to allocate transportation resources to each village. …
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