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Cabinet Approves Bill to Protect Children Against Sexual Crimes
Chauhan, Chetan - eSocialSciences - 2011
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a watershed bill to protect children below the age of 16 against sexual offences …
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Asset Creation and Local Economy under NREGs: Scope and Challenges
Shah, Amita; Jose, Sunny - eSocialSciences - 2010
especially watershed development; and (c) draw policy implications. The analysis is exploratory in nature and it draws upon the …
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Escaping Poverty: The Ralegan Siddhi Case
Mehta, Aasha Kapur; Satpathy, Trishna - eSocialSciences - 2010
Poverty remains to be the most important development issue facing India with an estimated 301.72 million Indians (27.5 percent) living below the poverty line in 2004-2005. In 1975, Ralegan Siddhi was just another drought prone, poverty stricken village, but it has had much success in poverty...
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Sustaining Rural Livelihoods in Fragile Environments : Resource Endowments or Policy Interventions? (A Study in the Context of Participatory Watershed Development in AP)
Reddy, V Ratna; Reddy, M. Gopinath; Reddy, Y. V. Malla; … - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper primarily assesses the status of rural livelihoods in fragile environments with diverse resource endowments and policy interventions. Livelihood assessment was carried out using the sustainable rural livelihoods (SRL) framework in the fragile regions of Andhra Pradesh. Qualitative and...
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Idealistic Images of Watershed Development- Constructive Engagement with Critiques on the Common Guidelines
S, Saravanan - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper identifies the idealistic images driving the watershed programmes as a major stumbling block in sustainable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341827
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Common Guidelines for Watershed Development Projects
GOI, Government of India - eSocialSciences - 2008
This is an initiative by the Planning Commission to formulate “Common Guidelines for Watershed Development Projects … in order to have a unified perspective by all ministries.These guidelines are therefore applicable to all watershed … development projects in all Departments / Ministries of Government of India concerned with Watershed Development Projects. …
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Book Review: Tales of the Displaced in India’s North-East
Talukdar, Ratna Bharali - eSocialSciences - 2008
Review of: Internal Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of the UN’s Guiding Principles Edited by Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Samir Kumar Das, Sage Publicatons, New Delhi; November 2004; 364 pp; Rs 695 (hardback).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250426
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Deforestation in the Himalayas: Myths and Reality
Baland, Jean Marie; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2014
Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil erosion, major river basins, and livelihoods of poor households living near the forests. Public discussions of the problem are frequently dominated by widely held beliefs...
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Climate Variability and Internal Migration: A Test on Indian Inter-State Migration
Dallmann, Ingrid; Millock, Katrin - eSocialSciences - 2013
Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological indicators of climate variability, based on the standardized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945457
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Shifting Cultivation and its Alternatives in Bangladesh: Productivity, Risk and Discount Rates
Miah, M. A. Monayem; Islam, S. M. Fakhrul - eSocialSciences - 2008
This study evaluates the economic feasibility of replacing shifting cultivation (Jhum) with settled agriculture and new soil conservation technology based on an assessment of the farmers’ risk and corresponding discount rates in the Khagrachari hill district of Bangladesh.
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