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Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets : Optimum Compensation and Workers' Welfare

Basu, Arnab K. - 2011

The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, stabilize agricultural production and reduce rural-urban migration. This paper, models the impact...

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Recovery Performance of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies in India : An Assessment

Mazumder, Rabin - 2014

Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having direct contact with the rural people and meet their...

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Forced Off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China

Mu, Ren - 2017

Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...

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Looking Back on the Lessons of 'Higher Education and Developing Countries : Peril and Promise': Perspectives on China and India

Bloom, David E. - 2016

focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …

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Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy : Evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe - 2020

farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …

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Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2019

Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation …

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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

Bloom, David E. - 2013

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …

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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth

Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010

This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative price of industrial products, but has a limited effect...

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Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions

Wu, Steven Y. - 2009

This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD...

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Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan - 2009

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in income from aid projects among the farmers. These results support the claim that positional...

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