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Extension in India by Public Sector Institutions : An Overview
Singh, Krishna M.; Meena, Mohar Singh; Swanson, Burton - 2013
Presently, Indian agricultural extension has wide mandates and despite the pluralistic extension approaches, its coverage and use of services is limited; particularly in rain-fed regions that are represented by marginal and smallholder farmers’. Hence, there is need to develop “need-based”...
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Economics of civil conflict : evidence from the Punjab insurgency
Prakarsh Singh - 2016
the economic causes and consequences of the conflict in Punjab, which has been classified as a civil war and also an …. Finally, I consider the macro and microeconomic effects of the conflict in Punjab that affected every walk of life and perhaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594128
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Do fences make good neighbours? : evidence from an insurgency in India
Kaila, Heidi; Singhal, Saurabh; Tuteja, Divya - 2017
India has employed a variety of military, political, and economic measures to combat the long running insurgency in Kashmir with little evidence on what contributes to stability in the region. This paper uses a variety of tests to detect structural breaks in the time series for violence over the...
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Hit them in the wallet! : an analysis of the indian demonetization as a counter-insurgency policy
Chiarotti, Edoardo; Monnet, Nathalie - 2019 - Preliminary Version February 2019
daily surrenders of the Maoist insurgents in India between 2006 and 2018. In order to measure the exposure of the conflict … to the policy in different districts, we use three sources of access to funding for Maoists, namely mineral resources … raise new cash through mineral resources and public works, while we find a sharper increase in districts that rely on …
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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature
Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023
We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect … conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the … empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict shows that none of the previous studies proposes a compelling …
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The question of land and infrastructure development in India : urgently required reforms for fairness and infrastructural development
Morris, Sebastian; Pandey, Ajay - 2010
Land in India is problematic largely because of archaic and perverse provisions in the practice and the law. The new Land Acquisition Amendment Bill does go some way to correct the anti-democratic and imperial provisions of the old 1894 Act. Other regulatory restraints stand in the way of fair...
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The Horror of Urban Development in India – Identifying the Real Issues
Morris, Sebastian - 2017
The horror of India's urban spaces cannot be understood without recognizing the core errors in planning and in the approach of infrastructural development. These stem mainly from the low FSI's that are used, the lack of any recognition of central place needs of different economic activities, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953118
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Costs Allocation Under the Amended Indian Arbitration Law : A Critique
Srinivasan, Badrinath - 2017
Section 31(8) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 as originally enacted dealt with costs in arbitration. The evolution of the law on the subject led to dissatisfaction. After numerous calls for reforms, the Law Commission of India in its 246th Report sought overhaul of the existing law...
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Gandhi's Prophecy : Corporate Violence and a Mindful Law for Bhopal
Patel, Nehal - 2016
Over thirty years have passed since the Bhopal chemical disaster began, and in that time scholars of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have discussed and debated several frameworks for improving corporate response to social and environmental problems. However, CSR discourse rarely delves...
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Protecting the Borrower : An Experiment in Colonial India
Chaudhary, Latika - 2016
We study the impact of the Deccan Agriculturists' Relief Act (DARA), a key legislation to protect debtors that was enacted in western colonial India. Using a panel dataset and a difference-in-difference estimation, we find a substantial decline in mortgage-backed credit after the passage of...
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