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Are Caste Categories Misleading? The Relationship between Gender and Jati in Three Indian States
Joshi, Shareen - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are …
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Collective Action and Community Development : Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural India
Desai, Raj M. - 2017
32 of 80 villages in one of the poorest districts in rural India in which to establish SHGs for women. Two years of …
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Agricultural Intensification : The Status in Six African Countries
Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P. - 2017
The Boserup-Ruthenberg framework has long been used to explain and understand the determinants of agricultural growth, the nature of the intensification of farming systems, investment, and technology adoption. The literature has produced an extensive body of evidence that summarizes or tests the...
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Agricultural Factor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : An Updated View with Formal Tests for Market Failure
Dillon, Brian - 2020
This paper uses the recently collected Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative data sets from five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to provide a comprehensive overview of land and labor market participation by agrarian households and to formally test for...
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Trade Policies and Incentives in Indian Agriculture : Methodology, Background Statistics, and Protection and Incentive Indicators, 1965-95
Pursell, Garry - 2017
in India, declining an average of 0.6 percent (sugar) and 0.3 percent (cane) a year. During the same 29 years the free … market price of sugar fluctuated widely (expressed in India rupees) but in real terms increased about 1.3 percent a year … sugar prices of US 13-15 cents a pound or higher, India's domestic prices were roughly equivalent to, or below, world …
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Diet Quality, Child Health, and Food Policies in Developing Countries
Bhargava, Alok - 2017
future supply of skilled labor and economic growth. Evidence on these issues from countries such as Bangladesh, India, Kenya …
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Regional Diversity and Inclusive Growth in Indian Cities
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
This paper examines the employment growth of Indian districts from 2000 to 2010 in the manufacturing and services sectors. Specialization and diversity metrics that combine industries in both sectors are calculated and related to subsequent job growth. The analysis finds robust and consistent...
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Finance and Economic Development : Policy Choices for Developing Countries
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2016
The empirical literature on finance and development suggests that countries with better developed financial systems experience faster economic growth. Financial development - as captured by size, depth, efficiency, and reach of financial systems - varies sharply around the world, with large...
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The Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional … economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First …
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
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