The approaches to development through participation have been undergoing change. In the '70s, the stress was on popular participation and in the '80s, it was participatory development, and subsequently in the '90s, there was further shift from participatory development to capacity building....

It is believed that the main objective of SAARC is to develop economic cooperation among member-countries through expanding intra-regional trade. India is one of the biggest partners of SAARC. This paper focuses on the magnitude of trade between India and the other member-countries of SAARC, and...

Sericulture being a labour-intensive and income-generative agro-industry, it has been instrumental in bringing about socio-economic mobility among different sections of society and assuming increasing significance in the rural development paradigm in the past few decades. The present paper,...

An attempt has been made in this paper to examine, identify and characterise the poor not only on the basis of their economic parameters but also by their social background. In this direction, specific economic features of the households have been identified first, which determine their standard...

Free market economy cannot survive without growth. Eternally expanding economies and human population deterministically deteriorate environmental problems. Man sees nature as antagonistic and now he has the capacity to appropriate and use according to his needs any area on earth, thanks to...

Estimates indicate that the elderly population (60+ years) of India will increase to 100 million by 2013 and 198 million by 2030. A majority of the elderly are in the rural areas and nearly 30 per cent of them are below the poverty line, making the provision of old age support highly justifiable...

Various policy measures have been taken by the Nigerian government since the advent of Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) to improve the external trade sector. This paper appraises the journey so far. Thus, it develops a mixed quantitative-qualitative model designed to evaluate export...

This paper traces the emergence of Participatory Forest Management (PFM) regime in Andhra Pradesh in the form of Joint Forest Management (JFM) and Community Forest Management (CFM). The paper is based on the existing literature on forest policies. It considers the role of contemporary...

This paper presents an ordered-probit approach to model the effects of ?objective? variables, such as age, education level, income, caste, household size and land endowment of farm households, on perceived (subjective) attitudes to groundwater sharing and community prosperity of the household....