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Community Management is Good for Forests: Results from a Field Experiment in India
eSocialSciences; South Asian Network for Development SANDEE - 2011
The study looks at the relationship between indigenous people and their forest homes using a novel field field experiments approach. [Policy Brief No. 48-10]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/uploads/documents/publication/906_PUB_Policy_Brief_48_Rucha.pdf].
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Risk in agriculture as impediment to rural lending: the case of North-Western Kazakhstan
Petrick, Martin; Ditges, C. Markus - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2000
On the basis of portfolio selection theory, this paper finds that whole-farm risk must be regarded as a major reason for the low level of credit flow to agriculture in North-western Kazakhstan. A quadratic programming model was used in order (a) to demonstrate the comparatively high overall risk...
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Are there Benefits from the Cultivation of Bt Cotton? A Comment Based on Data from a Vidarbha Village
Swaminathan, Madhura; Rawal, Vikas - In: Journal 1 (2011) 1, pp. 101-124
Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India. While the pros and cons of GM cotton are extensively debated, there are only a few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875649
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Multiple-use water service implementation in Nepal and India: experience and lessons for scale-up. [Report of the CGIAR Challenge Program-Multiple-Use Water Systems (CP-MUS) Projec...
Mikhael, M.; Yoder, R. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010907349
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Death of a Rationalist Crusader
Sengupta, Amit - eSocialSciences - 2013
The murder of Narendra Dabholkar is emblematic of the deep fear of knowledge and its democratization.
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Anti-Superstition Legislation
MANS, Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmoolan Samiti - eSocialSciences - 2013
citizens, the Maharashtra State Government under the leadership of the new Chief Minister Hon. Sushilkumar Shinde has passed in … achieve the desired results. This will be the first law of its kind in India and may be in the world. [MANS]. …
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Internal Migration for Education and Employment among Youth in India
S, Chandrasekhar; Sharma, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2014
such as Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka are gainers whereas traditionally backward states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh … Karnataka and Maharashtra. [IGIDR WP-2014-004]. …
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Farmers’ Suicides in India: Magnitudes, Trends, and Spatial Patterns, 1997-2012
Nagaraj, K.; Sainath, P.; Rukmani, R.; Gopinath, R. - In: Journal 4 (2014) 2, pp. 53-83
The last decade has seen a high degree of agrarian distress in India, of which the large number of suicides by farmers …, farmers’ suicides in India from 1997 to 2012, and of regional patterns in these suicides. We argue that while the socio …
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Maharashtra Budget 2008-09 Part I
Government, Maharashtra - eSocialSciences - 2008
Budget presented by the finance minister for the year 2008-09.
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The Age Distribution of Missing Women in India
Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - eSocialSciences - 2012
Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in India. Estimates suggest that more than 25 … explanations. A decomposition of missing women by age across the states of India is done. The state-wise variation in the … phenomenon in India. [BREAD Working Paper No. 326]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/326.pdf]. …
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