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Impact of infrastructure availability on level of industrial development in Jharkhand, India: a district level analysis

Roy, Bimal Chandra; Sarkar, Satyaki; Mandal, Nikhil Ranjan - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 7 (2014) 2, pp. 93-123

of Jharkhand state - one of the most resource rich states in India with a low level of industrial development. For better …

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Is energy-led economic growth causing climatic shift? A causal analysis for India

Sinha, Avik; Bhattacharya, Joysankar - In: International Journal of Green Economics 8 (2014) 2, pp. 120-133

economic growth, and the authors have analysed this situation for India. They consider the number of oceanic storms in the … Indian Ocean and the annual mean temperature of India for the 1971-2010 periods. Using vector error correction and causality … analysis, they have tried to identify the impact of India's fossil fuel-based energy consumption on climatic shift, and have …

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Can the Learnability Criterion Ensure Determinacy in New Keynesian Models?

Minford, Patrick; Srinivasan, Naveen - Madras School of Economics - 2014

Forward-looking RE models such as the popular New Keynesian (NK) model do not provide a unique prediction about how the model economy behaves. We need some mechanism that ensures determinacy. McCallum (2012) says it is not needed because models are learnable only with the determinate solution...

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Unravelling India’s Inflation Puzzle

Kumar, Pankaj; Srinivasan, Naveen - Madras School of Economics - 2014

From 2003, the Indian economy enjoyed a boom in growth coupled with moderate inflation for five years. The economy grew at a rate close to 9 percent per year, until it was punctured by the global financial crisis of 2008. Since then, the persistence of inflation in an environment of falling...

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Agriculture and Child Under-Nutrition in India: A State Level Analysis

Vepa, Swarna Sadasivam; Umashankar, Vinodhini; Bhavani, R.V. - Madras School of Economics - 2014

undernutrition in rural India. However, public policy has to promote social provisioning of sanitation and health and make sure that …

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Pesticide Use in the Rice Bowl of Kerala: Health Costs and Policy Options

Devi, P. Indira - The South Asian Network for Development and …

This study examines pesticide use in Kuttanad, India, an ecologically sensitive area often referred to as the rice bowl …

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Ensuring 'Collective Action' in 'Participatory' Forest Management

Ghate, Rucha - The South Asian Network for Development and …

The Government of India appealed a new forest policy in 1988 which resulted in Joint Forest Management. This new policy …

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Should Shrimp Farmers Pay Paddy Farmers? The Challenges of Examining Salinisation Externalities in South India

al, L. Umamaheswari et. - The South Asian Network for Development and …

external cost of shrimp-induced salinity on crop production by comparing two villages in southern India: Poovam, which is …

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Land Degradation and Migration in a Dry Land Region in India

Shah, Amita - The South Asian Network for Development and …

Migration literature has always considered environmental constraints as one of the prime movers of populations, especially from dry regions, where water rather than land is the primary limiting factor. In this study, we seek to analyze the impact of degradation of private land, as well as common...

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Awareness as an Adaptation Strategy for Reducing Mortality from Heat Waves:Evidence from a Disaster Risk Management Program in India

Das, Saudamini; Smith, Stephen C. - The South Asian Network for Development and …

Since 2002, the Indian state of Odisha has been undertaking a grassroots awareness campaign on "dos and don'ts" during heat wave conditions through the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) program. The selection criteria for DRM districts were earthquake, flood, and cyclone incidence, but subsequently...

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