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Slower Growth in China: How Much of a Drag on the Global Economy?
Dyck, Steffen - eSocialSciences - 2011
China’s expected growth slowdown - from 10.3 per cent yoy in 2010 to 8.9 per cent this year and 8.3 per cent in 2012 …, potential speed bumpers ahead that might lead to lower-than-expected growth in China and an assessment of how this could in turn …
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Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research
Blattman, Christopher; Miguel, Edward - eSocialSciences - 2009
macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the impacts of civil war on economic growth worldwide is given. This paper seeks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543100
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Neighborhood and Agricultural Clusters across States of India
Chaterjee, Tirtha; Kumar, A. Ganesh - eSocialSciences - 2014
mechanization, infrastructural support, deviations from normal rainfall and price differences, higher are the chances that they will …
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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - eSocialSciences - 2014
The effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages are analysed over the course …
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - eSocialSciences - 2013
Newly-available Indian panel data is used to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall …
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Agricultural Insurance in India: Problems and Prospects
Bhende, M J - eSocialSciences - 2012
The challenges of providing insurance to Indian agricultural sector in a manner that is both meaningful and sustaining. Critical assessment of the existing initiative and present possible options for improvement are presented. [NABARD Occasional Paper No. 44]....
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Shocks, Economic Growth and the Indian Economy
Kar, Sabyasachi; Bhattacharya, B B - eSocialSciences - 2011
developed that evaluates the impact of two domestic shocks (rainfall shortfall and fiscal profligacy) and three external shocks …
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Public Investment in Agricultural and GDP Growth: Another Look at the Inter Sectoral Linkages and Policy Implications
Pandit, V N; Mani, Harish; Balachandran, G - eSocialSciences - 2011
public investment for agriculture on the stable growth of this sector as well as of the entire economy. [Working Papaer 201 …
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Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India
Topalova, Petia; Cole, Shawn; Gene, Xavier; Tobacman, Jeremy - eSocialSciences - 2011
and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product, designed to hedge a major source of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323952
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Developing Incentive Based Mechanisms for Watershed Protection Services through Participatory Hydrological Studies
Sen, Debashish; Gupta, Rajesh; Agarwal, Chetan; Bambam, … - eSocialSciences - 2010
Peoples’ Science Institute (PSI), Dehradun and Winrock International India (WII), Gurgaon jointly initiated participatory hydrological studies in two micro-catchments that is, the Bhodi-Suan and Kuhan catchments that lie in the Changer region of Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh from...
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