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Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …
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manifestation of the equity politics in India (the peri-urban households claiming their entitlement to subsidized water), or the …
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Wir geben eine Übersicht über den Stand des Wissens zu den Klimafolgen für den deutschen Pflanzenbau und generieren …
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … and demand characteristics, using a small time-series-cross-section dataset on Indian States. We suggest that the price … elasticity of demand for mainlines might be sensibly higher than the levels usually found in developed countries, while the …
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We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …
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The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and … sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections … with projections provided by other scholars has also been made in the paper. Subsequently, the future supply-demand gap has …
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We use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level. While there are significant gains (of about 0.3 years for...
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Bengal, India. The main findings indicate a lower labour market participation rate among affected household members. However …
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Compared with most other Indian states, women's reported work participation rates have historically been low in West Bengal. This trend is more prominent in rural areas. Historians have tried to explain this phenomenon in terms of culture and the ideology of domesticity. While persisting...
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