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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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Agriculture: A Perspective from History, the Metrics of Comparative Advantage, and Limitations of the Market to Understand the Role of State in a Globalising World

Morris, Sebastian - eSocialSciences - 2007

Multilateral agencies and economists with much influence have been urging laissez-faire in agriculture. While success … potential in the long run have been coaxed to adopt near free trade in agriculture with disastrous results especially for the … [between economic development and agriculture, trade in agriculture, the role of state action especially in the late …

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Agricultural Growth and Rural Incomes: Rural Performance Indicators and Consumption Patterns

Balisacan, Arsenio M. - eSocialSciences - 2012

The present paper is part of a larger study on agricultural growth and rural incomes in the Philippines. This study examines the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms by which agricultural development changes the economic welfare of the various groups of population in...

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Global Warming and Agriculture: New Country Estimates Show Developing Countries Face Declines in Agricultural Productivity

Cline, William R - eSocialSciences - 2009

impact at the country level, especially in the developing world. The stakes for world agriculture, with special attention to …

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Union Budget 2006-07: Too Little Attention to Agriculture

Alagh, Yoginder - eSocialSciences - 2006

While there is much support for technology institutions in agriculture, little attention has been paid to raise …

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State-Led or Market-Led Green Revolution? Role of Private Irrigation Investment vis-a-vis Local Government Programs in West Bengalâ€™s Farm Productivity Growth

Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip; Kumar, Neha - eSocialSciences - 2009

This paper estimates respective roles of private investments in irrigation and local government programs (land reforms, extension services, and infrastructure investments) in the growth of farm productivity in West Bengal, India between 1981-95. A farm panel from a stratified random sample of...

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Maharashtra Budget Speech 2012-13: Part I

Government, Maharashtra - eSocialSciences - 2012

Budget for the year 2012-13. [Government of Maharashtra]. URL:[http://maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/english_speech_part_I.pdf].

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Agribusiness in South Asia: A Fact Sheet

Singh, Sukhpal - eSocialSciences - 2010

Agribusiness is the single largest sector of the economy in many developing countries and is growing fast. The present paper examines the situation of agribusiness in different countries of South Asia.

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New Agriculture Technology, Skill Formation, Food Security and Poverty Reduction in Rural Asia: A Comparison of Three Projects from India, China and Bangladesh

Mukherjee, Neela - eSocialSciences - 2010

The present paper compares the strategies, capacity building processes and outcomes/impacts of three projects during the period 2005-10. The project area covered by the study are located as follows: i) Jhalda-2/Barra Bazar/ blocks in Puruliya district of West Bengal (India),, (ii) Luo Yang...

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Natural Resource Conservation, Use and Sustainability in Drylands

Alagh, Yoginder - eSocialSciences - 2007

This keynote address of the conference on Natural Resource Conservation Use and Sustainability in Drylands, focuses mainly on some new concepts of resource assessments in dry areas, some recent debates on organizational ideas on communities and their institutions; larger issues to place the...

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