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Debating Poverty
eSS, eSocialSciences - eSocialSciences - 2014
The first of a series of eSSays dossiers on issues of public concern. Guest editor: M.H. Suryanarayana. Contents: Poverty Line: Pursuit of an Elusive Minimum by M.H. Suryanarayana Fixing Poverty vs. Fixing the Poverty Line by Anirudh Krishna Agriculture: Is it a Destination for the Poor? by R S...
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Rural Poverty in Jharkhand, India : An Empirical Study based on Panel Data
Singh, K.M.; Meena, M.S.; Singh, R.K.P.; Kumar, Abhay; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Jharkhand state is carved out from Bihar state in 2000. The state is rich in mineral resources and poor in agricultural production. More than 75% of work force is engaged in agriculture, but generates only 20% of state’s GDP. About 45% area is under non-agricultural use and 32% is culturable...
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Does Urbanisation Affect Rural Poverty? Evidence from Indian Districts
Cali, Massimiliano; Menon, Carlo - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2009
Although the high rate of urbanization and the high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many developing countries, we still do not know the effects of the former on the latter. We address this issue by exploring the mechanisms through which urbanization may alleviate rural...
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Liberalisation of rural poverty: The Indian experience
Pillai, N. Vijayamohanan - Centre for Development Studies (CDS) - 2004
that rural poverty at the all-India level and across several States increased significantly especially during the first 18 … 1990s and find that by 1998-99, only three States in India, Kerala, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, had a sufficient real …
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ICTs and poverty reduction: user perspective study of rural Madhya Pradesh, India
Tiwari, Meera - In: The European Journal of Development Research 20 (2008) 3, pp. 448-461
technology) in rural India. The study is based on primary research conducted by the author in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh …, India. The aim of the primary research is to explore whether ICTs can be deployed to enable the improvement of rural human …
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Understanding the multifaceted attributes to rural poverty while assessing the water-poverty-climate change linkage in the Indian Eastern Himalaya
Barua, Anamika; Katyaini, Suparana; Mili, Bhupen - In: International Journal of Green Economics 6 (2012) 1, pp. 73-94
Rural livelihoods depend extensively on water resources. Continued climate change may put the lives and livelihoods of rural poor under greater risk, due to lack of water. Yet poverty is a multifaceted and complex issue, as there are numerous factors which lead to poverty. To presume that there...
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Loss in Rural Incomes, Children’s Education, and Child Labor
Homi, Katrak - In: Journal of Developing Societies 28 (2012) 4, pp. 403-417
simulation exercises using data on farming households in Punjab state, India. This research generated three main results. First …
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Inflation, Macroeconomic Policy and Hunger: A Variation on a Theme by C. Rangarajan
Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
This paper re-emphasizes the importance of price stability as a tool for macroeconomic policy and make it more specific by considering a typically (unanticipated) advantage of stabilizing the Consumer Price Index (CPI). I briefly review the recent economic growth performance of the Indian...
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Measures of Inflation in India
White, Graham - In: RBA Bulletin (2014) September, pp. 39-46
India has experienced persistently high inflation in recent years, despite a period of below-trend economic growth. As … India are the wholesale price index (WPI) and the consumer price index (CPI). Although the WPI has traditionally been the … most widely used measure for assessing inflationary pressures, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently conducted a review …
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Causes of Indian Rupee Depreciation and its Impact on Bangladesh Economy
Younus, Sayera - eSocialSciences - 2014
results obtained from OLS for the sample period from 2007:10 to 2013:10 show that Bangladesh’s export to India is sensitive …
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