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Doubling agricultural growth in Uttar Pradesh: Sources and drivers of agricultural growth and policy lessons

Verma, Smriti; Gulati, Ashok; Hussain, Siraj - 2017

Landslide victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in state assembly elections of Uttar Pradesh in March 2017 offers a golden opportunity to change the face of UP's agriculture and thus the fate of millions that depend on it. UP with a population of more than 220 million is the most populous state...

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Unleashing Bihar's agriculture potentia: Sources and drivers of agriculture growth

Hoda, Anwarul; Rajkhowa, Pallavi; Gulati, Ashok - 2017

Bihar's agricultural development in the latest 10 years between 2005-06 and 2014-15, presents a mixed picture. Agriculture growth was around 4.7 per cent, which was above the national average of 3.6 per cent and in the latest five years, its performance was even more commendable, with an average...

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Transforming agriculture in Odisha: Sources and drivers of agriculture growth

Hoda, Anwarul; Rajkhowa, Pallavi; Gulati, Ashok - 2017

Odisha is one of the poorest states in the country, with around 36 per cent of the rural population living below the poverty line. Ninety one per cent of poverty in Odisha is rural and more than 60 per cent of its workforce is engaged in agriculture. During the five years from 2010-11 to...

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Making rapid strides - Agriculture in Madhya Pradesh: sources, drivers, and policy lessons

Gulati, Ashok; Rajkhowa, Pallavi; Sharma, Pravesh - 2017

Agriculture growth in Madhya Pradesh (MP) during the decade long period of 2005-06 to 2014-15 was around 9.7 per cent per annum, which is the highest growth rate registered in agriculture by any major state of India over a ten year period. The last five years have been even more spectacular:...

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Public job-creation programs: The economic benefits of investing in social care? Case studies in South Africa and the United States

Antonopoulos, Rania; Kim, Kijong - 2011

This paper demonstrates the strong impacts that public job creation in social care provisioning has on employment creation. Furthermore, it shows that mobilizing underutilized domestic labor resources and targeting them to bridge gaps in community-based services yield strong pro-poor income...

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Taxes and Benefits: Two Distinct Options to Cheat on the State?

Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2005

’s decision on claiming unjustified subsidies (e. g. by underreporting income) exists so far. Employing Austrian survey data we … show that the basic attitude towards avoiding taxes (tax morale) and claiming unjustified subsidies (benefit morale) have … economic approach, by alternative theories or simply by more opportunities to cheat on the state by unjustified subsidies in …

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Internationaler Handel und multifunktionale Landwirtschaft: Ein Agrarsektormodell zur Analyse politischer Optionen und Entscheidungsunterstützung

Weber, Gerald - 2003

The WTO agricultural negotiation round of Doha has the aim to cut down export subsidies, to improve market access and … and production solely on the basis of world market prices, but should react to policy incentives like subsidies. ... …

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Network formation with local complements and global substitutes: The case of R&D networks

Hsieh, Chih-sheng; König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong - 2017

, mergers and acquisitions and subsidies in the context of R&D collaboration networks. …

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Are religions for sale? Evidence from the Swedish church revolt over same-sex marriage

Bengtsson, Niklas - 2017

Religious leaders sometimes condemn progressive social norms. In this paper, I revisit David Hume's hypothesis that secular states can "bribe" churches into adopting less strict religious doctrines. The hypothesis is difficult to test due to reverse causality: more liberal theologies may attract...

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Can non-fiscal incentives like reverse job work revive the SEZs? The case study of gems and jewellery sector in India

Mukherjee, Arpita; Rahman, Nida; Mukherjee, Eshana - 2023

Organization's (WTO) Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM). In March 2018, the United States of America (USA … subsidies. Globally, many countries have designed WTO compliant fiscal incentives and are offering non-fiscal incentives like …

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