Improving productivity and incomes in rainfed areas is a major challenge in India, and a key to achieving this is … pursued in India is Watershed Development (WSD) programs which have been taken up under different schemes funded by the … Government of India and the state governments. Since poverty is particularly acute in the rainfed areas, large expenditures to …

Evolutionary Journey -- Indian Official Statistical System -- A Note on Unemployment and its Measurement in India -- Addressing …-reform developments in India, including issues pertaining to growth and equity, issues which have been at the core of life-time work of … be regressive, promoting inequalities and creating a highly asymmetric federalism in India. It examines the efficacy of …

, Iran -- 10 Rural Dynamics and New Challenges in the Indian Water Sector: the Trajectory of the Krishna Basin, South India … -- 11 Pumped Out: Basin Closure and Farmer Adaptations in the Bhavani Basin in Southern India -- 12 Much Ado about the …