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Does Tourism Contribute to Local Livelihoods? A Case Study of Tourism, Poverty and Conservation in the Indian Sundarbans

Guha, Indrila; Ghosh, Santadas - eSocialSciences - 2008

This study examines the contribution of tourism towards improving the livelihoods of local people in a remote island village of the Indian Sundarbans.

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Rising Inequality With High Growth Isn't This Trend Worrisome? Analysis of Kerala Experience

Subrahmanian, KK; Prasad, Syam - eSocialSciences - 2008

The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth … under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality in income distribution in a way that … retards the progress in poverty-reduction. The empirical validity of this proposition is examined by tracing trends in per …

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Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World

Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2009

Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country governments. Letting domestic prices adjust to reflect the full change in international prices generates inflationary pressures and causes severe hardship for poor households lacking access to social safety nets....

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Political Clientelism and Capture: Theory and Evidence from West Bengal, India

Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013

There are relatively few theoretical models or empirical analyses of clientelism which analyse the sources and consequences of clientelism. Data from household surveys in rural West Bengal are used to analyse the political clientelism. [BREAD working paper no. 369]....

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Pro-Poor Targeting and Accountability of Local Governments in West Bengal

Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2006

A commonly alleged pitfall of decentralization is that poverty, socio-economic inequality and lack of political … spanning the period 1978-98. Higher poverty, land inequality and low caste composition of the poor was associated with …

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Analyzing Industrial Water Demand in India: An Input Distance Function Approach

Kumar, Surender - eSocialSciences - 2009

This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach and approximates it by a translog form. Duality between cost function and input distance function is exploited to retrieve information concerning substitutability and the shadow...

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Price Elasticity Estimates for Tobacco and Other Addictive Goods in India

John, Rijo - eSocialSciences - 2005

The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fteen per cent of the tobacco users who represent cigarettes smokers. Non-cigarette tobacco products used by the majority of tobacco users are largely out of the tax net. Analysis of the price elasticity of various tobacco...

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Mapping Exercise of Home Based Workers in Maharashtra

Gartenberg, Indira - eSocialSciences - 2012

Home-based work has a much wider scope of activity than the singular task of an individual working from his/her home. This essential service is tied in with a larger chain of forward and backward linkages that enable the value addition till the goods reach their final destination of sale. The...

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Interim Budget 2014-15

Chidambaram, P - eSocialSciences - 2014

Budget speech by 2014-15.

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Economic and Financial Outlook

Rajan, Raghuram G. - eSocialSciences - 2014

A picture about the macroeconomy that is, the world economy and the domestic economy is given. The two recent regulatory measures are given here. [FICCI/IBA Annual Banking Conference].

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