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Budget 2014-15: The Continuing Neglect of the 'Rural'
Banerjee, Arindam - eSocialSciences - 2014
The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country, persistent since the late nineties, which also coincided with the period of a policy thrust on...
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The Impact of Climate Change on Rice Prduction in Nepal
Karn, Prakash K. - eSocialSciences - 2014
potential impacts on rice productivity in the future. The findings draw attention to the differential impacts on rice yield …
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Quantification of Yield Gaps in Different Planting Types of Sugarcane in Maharashtra
Balasaheb, Deokae Tai - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper is an attempt to estimate the magnitudes of yield gaps, causative factors and constrains for attending greater farm potential in adsali, suru, preseasonal and ratoon sugarcane production in Maharashtra. Primary data were collected from 250 sugarcane cultivators using random sampling...
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Impact of Preventive Health Care of Indian Industry and Economy
Chadha, Alka; Mehdi, Ali; Malik, Garima - eSocialSciences - 2007
The empirical evidence on the relationship between preventive health care and labour productivity and corporate …
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Trade Liberalization and Industrial Productivity: An Assessment of Developing Country Experiences
Das, Deb Kusum - eSocialSciences - 2007
The relationship between trade liberalization and industrial productivity in developing countries, drawing upon a large … trade liberalization, the paper reviews the relationship between trade liberalization and industrial productivity at …
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Productivity of Rural Credit: A Review of Issues and Some Recent Literature
Sriram, M S - eSocialSciences - 2007
It is argued that Indian agriculture is undergoing fundamental change wherein the technology and inputs are moving out of the hands of the farmers to external suppliers. This, over a period of time may have resulted in the de-skilling of farmers and without adequate public investments in support...
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Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion
Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - eSocialSciences - 2011
Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and...
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“Group Measurement†of NREGA work: The Jalore Experiment
Khera, Reetika - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper takes a closer look at an experiment of NREGA training mates (worksite supervisors) in Rajasthan to improve worksite management. It is based on a four-day field visit (11-14 February, 2008) to Jalore district where this experiment is said to have been a success. A team of three...
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Workbook on Life Skills
eSocialSciences; Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of … - 2009
RGNIYD planned to develop a workbook on Life Skills which would help adolescents to both understand the concepts of the ten core Life Skills and practice them. The workbook has been carefully designed so that adolescents learn and internalise the concepts through an interactive methodology. Each...
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Aggregate Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing: An Application of Domar Aggregation
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - eSocialSciences - 2009
An attempt is made to compute the aggregate productivity growth using the Domar aggregation technique. Building up from … the Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG) estimates for 3-digit industries, we have used Domar weights to computed total … factor productivity (TFP) growth for selected 10, 2-digit industries for the period 1980-2000. [ICRIER WP no. 239]. …
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