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Green revolution: Indian agricultural experience – a paradigm for Eritrea
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Food problem became more severe after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, presenting a series challenges to … India’s agricultural sector. Even during good harvest years, food imports remain high. A large segment of people were poor …. To mitigate these problems, India adopted farming strategies under the “Green Revolution” in the mid 1960s. The …
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Productivity and Convergence in India: State Level Analysis
Kumar, Surender; Managi, Shunsuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Total factor productivity plays an important role in the growth of the economy. Using recently available state level data over 1993 and 2005, we find widespread regional variation in productivity changes. In the beginning of the liberalization era, improvement in technical efficiency contributes...
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Rain, Rain, Go Away? The Investment Climate, State Business Relations and Firm Performance in India
Vinish, Kathuria; Natarajan, Seethamma; Raj, Rajesh; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
factor productivity (TFP) for formal sector firms in India for the years 2000-01 and 2004-05 and find support for this …
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Total Factor Productivity in Indian Agriculture: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Saikia, Dilip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The productivity growth in agriculture is both a necessary and sufficient condition for the development of the sector as well as the economy. This paper has reviewed the different methodologies of measuring the total factor productivity (TFP) and focused on some of the important issues such as...
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A critique of the green revolution in West Pakistan
Amjad, Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1972
This paper analyses the distinct features of the “Green Revolution” in the context of Pakistan’s impressive agriculture performance in the 1960s. It points out to the “conflicts, social unrest and tensions’ it generated and draws lesson in the framing of a future agriculture policy.
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Some socio-economic consequences of the green revolution
Pisani, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The green revolution has, since the ‘60s, been the subject of lively debate among the international scientific community not only with regards to its technical aspects but, and above all, for socio-economic impacts it caused. The article starts with the analysis of the development theories for...
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The pioneers of the green revolution as forerunners of today's ecological and biotechnological revolutions
Țapu, Codrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper presents the milestones of the Green Revolution, outlining its role in the development of today's sustainable and biotechnological agriculture, as well as Romanian contribution. In order to do this we used the material found in papers and books on the research in agriculture from the...
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When business meets aid: analysing public-private partnerships for international development (Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper 28)
Callan, Margaret; Davies, Robin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
International development agencies are increasingly looking to business as a partner in achieving development outcomes. Engaging business in development has become a central plank of many countries’ aid policies. However, the potential of public-private partnerships for development is still...
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Why inferential statistics are inappropriate for development studies and how the same data can be better used
Ballinger, Clint - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to highlight the widely ignored but fundamental problem of ‘superpopulations’ for the use of inferential statistics in development studies. We do not to dwell on this problem however as it has been sufficiently discussed in older papers by...
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Assessing the Millennium Challenge Corporation as a Model for Foreign Assistance Reform
Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This study assesses the effectiveness of different administrative models of US foreign assistance, with a unique focus on one that hypothetically channels more DFA-administered funds through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The study finds several limitations with this model, and so...
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