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Managing droughts in the low-rainfall areas of the Middle East and North Africa:
Hazell, P. B. R.; Oram, Peter A.; Chaherli, Nabil - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
Drought is a recurrent and often devastating threat to the welfare of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where three-quarters of the arable land has less than 400 mm of annual rainfall, and the natural grazings, which support a majority of the 290 million ruminant livestock,...
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Sustainable development of rainfed agriculture in India:
Kerr, John M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1996
India's agricultural growth has been sufficient to move the country from severe food crises of the 1960s to aggregate … rainfed agricultural development in India. It examines the historical record of agricultural productivity growth in different … the Indo-Gangetic plains and peninsular India from 1956 to 1990. …
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The Economic Impact of Forest Hydrological Services on Local Communities: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India
Menon, Ajit; LELE, SHARACHCHANDRA; Patil, Ishwar; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
Building upon a larger research project at four sites in the Western Ghats of peninsular India, this study examines the …
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Secondary Education in India: Determinants of Development and Performance
P, Geetha Rani - eSocialSciences - 2007
A review of development of school education in India reflects an expansionary phase of number of institutions and …
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Labour Market in Urban Agglomerations: A case from an Indian Global City
Paul, G.D Bino; M, Krishna Krishna - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global cities. To capture the role of labour market in urban agglomeration, particularly pooling of labour and concentration of economic activities, the paper present a case study of...
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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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The Relation between Child Labour and Mothers’ Work: The Case of India
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …
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India's Increasing Skill Premium: Role of Demand and Supply
Azam, Mehtabul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in …
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Intrahousehold Health Care Financing Strategy and the Gender Gap: Empirical Evidence from India
Asfaw, Abay; Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2008
The “missing women” dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …
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Fish genetics research in member countries and institutions of the International Network on Genetics in Aquaculture: Proceedings of the Fifth Steering Committee Meeting of INGA
Gupta, M.V.; Acosta, B.O. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
A conference proceedings of the Fifth Steering Committee Meeting of the International Network on Genetics in Aquaculture (INGA), this publication incorporates information drawn from aquaculture genetics research undertaken or in progress in member countries and associate member institutions of...
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