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In this paper an overview of India’s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India’s technological capability and the role it has played in the process of India’s economic progress. [WP No. 227].
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This paper provides empirical evidence of the long- and short-term effects of political violence exposure on human capital accumulation. Using a novel data set that registers all the violent acts and fatalities during the Peruvian civil conflict, Leon exploit the variation in war location and...
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mechanization, infrastructural support, deviations from normal rainfall and price differences, higher are the chances that they will …
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The effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages are analysed over the course …
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Newly-available Indian panel data is used to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall …
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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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developed that evaluates the impact of two domestic shocks (rainfall shortfall and fiscal profligacy) and three external shocks …
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The crowding-in phenomenon together with inter-sectoral linkages is used in this paper to examine the effect of higher public investment for agriculture on the stable growth of this sector as well as of the entire economy. [Working Papaer 201]. URL:[http://www.cdedse.org/].
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and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product, designed to hedge a major source of …
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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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