assess its relationship with public investment in agriculture. Amidst sizeable ups and downs, the magnitude and rate of … growth in private investment in agriculture has gained momentum from 2000s except in Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and … formation in farm business, is evident in agriculturally advanced states. Within agriculture, relatively higher investments in …

Pakistan performs poorly with respect to gender equality, women's empowerment, and other gender-related indicators. Few … studies in Pakistan measure the multiple dimensions of empowerment along which women are marginalized or disenfranchised … et al. (2012). The analysis is based on a sample of 2,090 households in the rural areas of Pakistan. Data used for the …

Irrigation is central to Pakistan’s agriculture; and managing the country’s canal, ground, and surface water resources … Policy Research Institute’s Pakistan Strategy Support Program (PSSP) is working to address these topics through high … policy landscape for agricultural water management in Pakistan, to better understand how to engage with stakeholders in the …

implementation in the rice-wheat belt of India speaks to PBI being a feasible and valuable complement to existing insurance products …

Bangladesh it is often assumed that women are less involved in agriculture, and therefore agricultural insurance might not be of …

drip irrigation is growing rapidly in India, adoption is low in neighboring Pakistan. The authors of this paper undertook a … Punjab, Pakistan. The nonrepresentative sample of adopters and nonadopters in the study districts identified a clear increase …. Aspirations to substitute wheat crops for fruits and vegetables were associated with a higher appreciation of the subsidy level …

household income rises. We study this question by evaluating the impact of Pakistan's Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), a …