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Foster care in India: An exploratory survey of the community perceptions and prospects for implementation of foster care in a developing nation: A study in Udaipur, Rajasthan, Indi...

Forber-Pratt, Ian Anand; Loo, Stephanie; Price, Sara; … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 4, pp. 694-706

This study was conducted in order to assess the prospects for implementing foster care as an alternative to the dominant system of institutional care available to orphaned and abandoned children in India. 653 families in urban Udaipur participated in a mixed-methods based assessment of...

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Who has Access to Formal Credit in Rural India? Evidence from Four Villages

Swaminathan, Madhura - In: Journal 2 (2012) 1, pp. 182-195

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Impact on livelihoods: Seva Mandir's Integrated Watershed Development Initiative, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Poverty-Focused Smallholder Water Management: an IWMI research project...

Pangare, V.; Negi, N. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2003

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Women's Migration, Urban Poverty and Child Health in Rajasthan

Kumar, Maya Unnithan; MCNAY, K; CASTALDO, A - eSocialSciences - 2014

in Rajasthan, a state with one of the highest infant mortality rates in India. Urban poverty is significant in Rajasthan …

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Availability and Expenditure of Drought Relief Funds in Rajasthan: an exploratory study from 1990-91 to 2014-15

Mathur, Barkha - In: Journal of Studies in Dynamics and Change (JSDC), ISSN: … 2 (2015) 1, pp. 328-338

contribution. Rajasthan has demanded successively increased funding from centre (GoR, 2014) as it is situated at most peculiar … geographical conditions in term of drought vulnerability. The present study shows that Rajasthan Government largely depended on the … still elusive. In the period of study from 1990-91 to 2014-15, Rajasthan experienced drought two times in 2002-03 and 2009 …

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When it Rains on the Sand Dunes

Baindur, Meera - eSocialSciences - 2007

A desert journey, from a pool where both humans and camels drank, to a bavadi then to a water tap in Khaba village has some valuable lessons about the ground realities of the social forces around water.

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Can Institutions be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police

Banerjee, Abhijit; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther - eSocialSciences - 2012

be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India …

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Working of Livestock Exchange Markets in Rajasthan

eSocialSciences - 2012

Livestock sector is an integral part of Indiaâ€™s agriculture and an important part of the whole economy with reference to employment, income and earning of foreign exchange for the country. The growth of dairy industry with the milk production increasing to more than treble in the last few...

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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 million women are "missing". Sex selection at birth and the mistreatment of young girls are widely regarded as key explanations. A decomposition of missing women by age across the...

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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, GOI 2012-13

Initiative, Accountability - eSocialSciences - 2012

This brief uses Government reported data to analyse Sarva Shiksha Ahiyan performance along the following parameters: a) Overall trends in allocation and expenditures, b) Expenditure performance across key SSA activities, c) Coverage and outputs. [AI Report]....

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