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Economic Valuation of a Wetland in West Bengal, India
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In the Gangetic flood plain of West Bengal, wetlands are used for multiple purposes, and have significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these Multiple Use Systems (MUSs) are getting converted to single use systems due to economic and social pressure from dominant...
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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
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Services growth and convergence: Getting India’s states together
Shingal, ANIRUDH - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
India’s success story in services is well documented at the national level, but similar literature does not exist for … India’s states. In this paper, we bridge this gap in research by looking at India’s services growth at the sub … distribution. The first interesting finding is that even as per capita income is not converging across India’s states, per capita …
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The Structural Relationship Between Current and Capital Account Balance in India : A Time Series Analysis
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Jaydeep; Sinha, Tanaya - 2010
aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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Inclusive Development in Sericulture through Female Empowerment A Case Study in Malda District, West Bengal
Roy, Chandan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper explores the impact of women workers’ dominance in sericulture sector upon the process of inclusive development in the rural household sectors of West Bengal. Role of women in this artisanal silk sector has been historically evolved. Her patience, perseverance, caring attitude and...
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A simple chemical free arsenic removal method for community water supply - A case study from West Bengal, India
Sen Gupta, Bhaskar; Chatterjee, S.; Rott, U; Kauffman, H; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
scientists (www.qub.ac.uk/tipot) to remove arsenic (As) from groundwater in a village in West Bengal, India. Six such plants are …
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A study on the dropout problem of primary education in Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal, India
Roy, Chandan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The Right to Education (RTE) Act came into effect on 1st April 2010 in India, which ensures free and compulsory … education to every child between the ages 6-14 years. India is currently having 8.1 million eligible students who are dropouts …
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What is the role of female labour in Sikkim farming sector?
Dwivedy, Nidhi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
area of Sikkim in North- Eastern India, which covers broadly- gender participation/decision making in crop production and …
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