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Reframing the Climate Debate
Sharan, Vivan - eSocialSciences - 2014
There is perhaps only one broad certainty in the contemporary debate on climate change: not only does climate change affect different nations and communities differently, but the responses of individual stakeholders and institutions are also quite different, primarily because of their different...
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Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) - Sabla
eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2012
A new comprehensive scheme, called Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls or Sabla, merging the erstwhile Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY) and Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls (NPAG) schemes has been formulated to address the multi-dimensional problems of Adolescent Girls...
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Cost of Providing Sustainable Water,Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Services: An initial assessment of LCCA in Andhra Pradesh
Reddy, V Ratna; Batchelor, Charles - eSocialSciences - 2010
Using information in the public domain and data from a pilot study, this paper argues that adoption of life-cycle cost approaches (LCCA) could play a significant role in rectifying this situation by providing a framework for identifying and plugging gaps in the present pattern of expenditure. It...
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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the …
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Compensating Wages for Occupational Risks of Farm Workers in India
P, Indira Devi; Shanmugam, K R; Jayasree, M. - eSocialSciences - 2013
risks. Interestingly, the use of protecting gadgets reduces the risk of health damages that emphasizes the necessity of …
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What is the (New) Deal with Fragile States?
Naudé, Wim - eSocialSciences - 2012
Poor governance and lack of state capabilities in around 45 countries pose a threat to global security and development. The involvement of the international community is required to help these states break out of their low development– high-conflict traps. Recent years have seen a number...
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Non-financial Reporting – What, Why and How - Indian Perspective
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011
The importance of non-financial reporting in the overall assessment of a company's performance, its risk-return trade … National Conference on “ Non-Financial Reporting and Risk Management for Financial Institutions in Indiaâ€, Mumbai]. URL …
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Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India
Topalova, Petia; Cole, Shawn; Gene, Xavier; Tobacman, Jeremy - eSocialSciences - 2011
Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? Why don’t financial … agricultural production risk. [BREAD Working paper No.33]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/303.pdf]. …
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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 experiment in an environment where the informal risk sharing network can be …
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Privatized Retirement And how the Current Crisis has Worsen Worker’s Losses
Gripp, Camila - eSocialSciences - 2009
The debate around retrenchment of pension systems became really popular in the 1990’s after the pioneering experience of Chile in 1981.The disastrous outcomes of the Chilean reform were widely known by the 2000’s although no relevant steps backwards were taken. This paper analyses...
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