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The Effects of Democratization on Public Goods and Redistribution: Evidence from China
Yao, Yang; Bravo, Monica Martinez; Miquel, Gerard Padro i; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
This study investigates the effects of introducing elections on public goods and redistribution in rural China. A large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551149
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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the study assessed the multifactorial drivers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945234
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Asserting The Rights of The Toiling Peasantry For Water Use: Movement of the Dam Oustees and the Drought Affected Toilers In South Maharashtra
Phadke, Anant - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper describes in some detail, an important, innovative movement in recent years, of the dam-oustees and the drought affected people in south Maharashtra, to assert their right to influence the policy about dams and water use. The successful attempt of this movement to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699046
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Will Neoliberal Policies Resolve Water Sector Dilemmas? Learnings from Maharashtra and Gujarat
K, Viswanathan P - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper examines how the neoliberal policies have influenced the water sector reform policies and interventions in India, particularly, in the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. In doing so, the paper tries to engage with three questions: a) what are the national and state-level responses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009390662
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945360
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Spatial Convergence and Growth in Indian Agriculture: 1967-2010
Chaterjee, Tirtha - eSocialSciences - 2014
that infrastructure like roads, irrigation, electricity aid in growth and so do quality of human capital. Hence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945378
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NAC Concept Paper-A Note On Agriculture And Irrigation
Rao, C.H. Hanumantha - eSocialSciences - 2005
in Agriculture and Irrigation: (1) Augmentation of water resources for irrigation; (2) Conservation of irrigation water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341655
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Rural Non-Farm Employment in India: Access, Income, Farm, Poverty Impact
Lanjouw, Peter; Shariff, Abusaleh; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - eSocialSciences - 2007
Attention has been paid to the significance of the non-farm sector in the rural Indian economy since the early 1970s. The importance of earnings from secondary non-farm occupations is not well documented. In this paper an attempt is made to assess the contribution of the nonfarm sector across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341711
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When it Rains on the Sand Dunes
Baindur, Meera - eSocialSciences - 2007
A desert journey, from a pool where both humans and camels drank, to a bavadi then to a water tap in Khaba village has some valuable lessons about the ground realities of the social forces around water.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341723
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Irrigation, Agrarian Change and Local Politics: in South Telengana, 1960-1996
Kumar, V. Anil - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper deals with the impact of irrigation on agrarian change and local politics in the period, 1960 to 1996 in the … from canal irrigation, strengthened the position of the dominant castes/classes, small and middle peasantry continued to … points to a policy implication: irrigation alone, without agrarian reform, cannot lead to progressive change and for more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341738