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Economic Valuation of a Wetland in West Bengal, India
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In the Gangetic flood plain of West Bengal, wetlands are used for multiple purposes, and have significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these Multiple Use Systems (MUSs) are getting converted to single use systems due to economic and social pressure from dominant...
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Missing Water: Agricultural Stress and Adaptation Strategies in Response to Groundwater Depletion in India
Sekhri, Sheetal - University of Virginia, Department of Economics - 2013
Groundwater depletion is becoming a serious policy concern in many developing countries but little is known about the costs of groundwater depletion. I use annual deviations of depth to groundwater from 1999 to 2003 from the 1985-1995 decadal means for Indian districts, to investigate how...
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Inequality in carbon emissions at sub-national level in India
Arora, Rashmi Umesh - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 2, pp. 383-397
In this study using standard measures of inequality such as Gini coefficient, Kakwani Index, coefficient of variation and Theil Index we examine inequality in carbon emissions for the years 2000-09 at the sub-national level covering 17 major states of India. At the outset, in order to estimate...
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Energy consumption in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan:cointegration analysis
Chary, Swaroop R.; Bohara, Alok K. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 44 (2010) 1, pp. 41-50
Recognizing the significant role that energy plays on growth, the South Asian countries are beginning to focus on their … energy issues and formulate common energy policies. The SAARC Energy Center (SEC) was established in 2005 to address energy … relationships for energy consumption in the three largest SAARC countries: Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan and argue that …
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Political economy of suicide: financial reforms, credit crunches and farmer suicides in India
Sadanandan, Anoop - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 4, pp. 287-307
Over 250,000 farmers have committed suicide in India since the mid-1990s. Studies – both case studies of states and at the individual-level - attribute these deaths to credit crunches in the agrarian sector and increased debt burden among farmers. Most of the farm suicides have, however, taken...
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Development of Potato in Bihar:Issues and Strategies
Singh, K.M.; Kumar, Abhay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
and malnutrition. Potato produces more food, edible energy and edible protein per unit area and time as compared to any …
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The Bargaining Power of Missing Women: Evidence from a Sanitation Campaign in India
Stopnitzky, Yaniv - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Female bargaining power in rural Haryana, as in much of northern India, is constrained by widespread discrimination against women. In recent years, however, women successfully demand private sanitation facilities from potential husbands as a precondition for marriage. I study this manifestation...
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Feed and Fodder Value Chains in Bihar: Some Empirical Evidences
Singh, K.M.; Singh, R.K.P.; Jha, A.K.; Kumar, Abhay; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Livestock production, especially dairy, has long been an important activity for smallholder and resource-poor farmers in India, both for household nutrition and income. Most of the livestock are kept in mixed farming systems, where crop residues, mainly cereal straws have been an important feed...
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Partition, migration, and jute cultivation in India
Fenske, James; Bharadwaj, Prashant - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Climate change is expected to displace millions of involuntary migrants in Bangladesh. We draw on history to show that these ``environmental refugees'' can play a positive role in the regions that receive them by looking at the partition of India. We use an instrumental variables (IV) strategy...
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Right to Drinking Water in India
Ramachandraiah, C. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2004
Right to water has assumed greater significance in India in recent years. Declarations by the United Nations and other international organisations, and judicial pronouncements by the Supreme Court of India from time to time that right to water is part of right to life as per Article 21 of the...
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