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Income Inequality and Caste in Village India
Rawal, Vikas; Swaminathan, Madhura - In: Journal 1 (2011) 2, pp. 108-133
In this paper, we examine inequality in incomes between households of different castes in rural India, using a unique dataset comprising household data from a cross-section of eight villages across four States. The focus of this paper is on Dalit or Scheduled Caste households. We begin with very...
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Does the System of Rice Intensification Outperform Conventional System? A Case Study of Gujarat
Pathak, Jharna - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper examines the farm level performance of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of paddy cultivation as against the traditional method. The role of NGOs in raising awareness among farmers about the SRI technique as also of agricultural extension services in general. [Working Paper...
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Research Study on Role of Tribal Women Wage Earner in Ensuring Family Food Security in Scheduled Areas of Rajasthan in Changing Environmental and Economic Scenario
Jaipur, Maharana Pratap Adhyayan Evam Jan Kalyan Sansthan - eSocialSciences - 2011
conducted in these villages included one questionnaire for village information and another questionnaire for selected 20 women … from each village were quarried for various type of information. Thus 2500 households from 125 villages were selected and …
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Final Report on the Functioning of Anganwadi Centres in Assam and Meghalya
eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2011
village development committees. Random sampling of the AWCs was also carried out to assess the capacity of the AWW and AWH to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321510
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Objects and Accomplishments of Participatory Irrigation Management Programme in India: An Open Pair of Scissors
Parthasarathy, R - eSocialSciences - 2011
Participatory irrigation management programme as a prelude to irrigation management transfer to users is being set up by many states for over five years now. Though it is recognized that the government should no longer be in the business of retailing water to individual consumer, the PIM policy...
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An Ethnobiography of Teyyam Performance from a Practitioner’s Perspective
Vohra, Smriti - eSocialSciences - 2011
Rajesh Komath gives a description the conflicts between his socio-material position as a Teyyam performer, and persona/personality as a student of economics.
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Control of Newcastle Disease in Village Chickens
Australian Centre for International Agricultural …; … - 1998
research to find a vaccine that could provide protection from Newcastle disease in chickens and be applied in village … environments in developing countries. A further $160 000 was invested in follow up projects which ended in 1996. Village chickens … devastates unvaccinated village flocks. The ACIAR-sponsored research was highly successful in developing a heat resistant vaccine …
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State Focus Paper 2012-13: Karnataka
eSocialSciences; National Bank for Agriculture and … - 2012
The State Focus Paper (SFP) consolidates the PLPs of all the 30 districts and highlights the potential for flow of credit to various sectors in agriculture and rural development. The credit potential and the issues pertaining to various sectors, articulated in the PLPs-2012-13, are brought out...
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Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured
Mobarak, A. Mushfiq; Rosenzweig, Mark - eSocialSciences - 2012
Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing countries often receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and effects of, offering formal index-based rainfall insurance is studied through a randomized...
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Goa Musings: Mining
Souza, Hartman de - eSocialSciences - 2008
Men who will stop the water: vignettes from Goa's mining heartland
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