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Natural Resource Conservation, Use and Sustainability in Drylands
Alagh, Yoginder - eSocialSciences - 2007
This keynote address of the conference on Natural Resource Conservation Use and Sustainability in Drylands, focuses mainly on some new concepts of resource assessments in dry areas, some recent debates on organizational ideas on communities and their institutions; larger issues to place the...
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Tamil Nadu Budget 2008-09
Government, Tamil Nadu - eSocialSciences - 2008
Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March, 2008.
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Sustainability of Indian Agriculture: Towards an Assessment
Rao, V.M. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper presents a systemic framework to look at the prospects for sustainability of Indian agriculture. The … shaping the growth, efficiency and stability of agriculture. The domains are: Natural resources covering land, water, climate … prospects for agriculture are seen to depend in the final analysis not so much on nature or factors beyond control as on …
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Public Expenditure Benefit Incidence on Health: Selective Evidence from India
Chakraborty, Lekha; Singh, Yadawendra; Jacob, Jannet - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper attempts to analyse the benefit incidence of health spending in the context of India. Benefit incidence analysis (hereafter BIA) is used here. This is a methodology that addresses this question. It brings together the elements of the supply of and demand for public services and can...
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World Social Protection Report 2014/15 - Building economic recovery, inclusive development and social justice
eSocialSciences; International Labour Organisation ILO - 2014
This ILO flagship report: (i) provides a global overview of the organisation of social protection systems, their coverage and benefits, as well as public expenditures on social security; (ii) following a life-cycle approach, presents social protection for children, for women and men of working...
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Reprioritisation of Public Expenditure for Human Development
Sen, Tapas K.; Karmakar, Krishanu - eSocialSciences - 2008
An important method of managing resources to finance consistent and balanced human development lies in the reprioritisation of current expenditure in accordance with the urgent needs and shortfalls in particular areas. Such reprioritisation should also lead the states to a better macroeconomic...
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Integrated Financial MIS for Local Government Public Expenditure Management - A Case Study of Khajane in Karnataka
S, Sandeep M - eSocialSciences - 2011
Expenditure Management is critical to effective public service delivery, especially at the local government level. Leveraging on information systems to aid in expenditure management is viewed as an effective method in bringing about transparency and accountability in this process. Past research...
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Aam Admi Budget Bypasses India’s Children
H, Juhi - eSocialSciences - 2009
Money for Education, Health, Child Protection not enough for 400 million children’s basic rights
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Financing Strategy for Achievement of the MDGs and Implementation of the Tenth Five Year Plan
Rao, M. Govinda; Seth, Anuradha; Rinzin, Chewang - eSocialSciences - 2009
This report presents an analysis of the strategy required to generate the required resources for investment in various services necessary to achieve the MDGs. The analysis attempts to quantify the fiscal space to finance the MDGs and identify the necessary fiscal reforms required to finance the...
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Public Expenditure on Education : A Review of Selected Issues and Evidence
Mukherjee, Anit N - eSocialSciences - 2007
The role of education in economic development has been recognised for quite some time in mainstream economic literature. Divergence between the private and social rate of return from education is the rationale for intervention by the state in ensuring equity in opportunity across the population....
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