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This paper attempts to explain the provision of social security in the fisheries sector of Kerala State in south India. It enumerates the salient achievements and the problems faced by the state in providing concrete social security measures for fishworkers. They were a section of Kerala society...
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The relative role of economic growth vis-a-vis public action in raising living standards in developing countries has been a point of contention for quite some time now. The arguments on both sides are usually based on some estimated relationship between indicators of living standard and other...
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tradition of measurement of inequality that follows from this conceptualisation have not paid adequate attention to the need for …
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The Planning Commission constituted, in September 1989, an 'Expert Group' to consider methodological and computational aspects of estimation of proportion and number of poor in India. [Planning Commission].
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This paper assesses the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture covering a cross section of crops, seasons and regions based on existing literature. The study notes that the impact of climate change will vary across crops, regions and climate change scenarios. [ISEC Working Paper 277]....
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in Rajasthan, a state with one of the highest infant mortality rates in India. Urban poverty is significant in Rajasthan … with a fifth of the urban population living below the poverty line and in slums. Increasing numbers of poor migrants in … search of employment contribute to the rising levels of urban poverty in cities such as Jaipur, where the present study is …
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catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.†The program and the districts are evaluated over time …
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include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …
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? What are the major issues regarding the nutritional basis for poverty measurement highlighted in academic and policy … how did the Indian approach, official in particular, to defining and measuring poverty originate and evolve over time …
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apparently intended to address other social issues such as poverty reduction, social/human development or community development …
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