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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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This paper examines core features of poor rural areas, the nature of coordination problems faced by different potential economic actors, the impacts of these problems on markets and economic development, and the ways that these have been addressed or ignored in different policies and policy...
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Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
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This report investigates how more and better jobs can be created in South Asia. It does so for two reasons. First, this region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world’s working-age (15–64) population over the next several decades. It is important to determine...
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The services sector has provided steady support to Pakistan’s economic growth. It share in GDP now stands a more than 50 percent. The paper analyses its continuation in the growth of the economy in general and the development of trade and genera tion of employment in particular. The study...
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, many of whom are caring for grandchildren without financial support. Millions of others are long-term poor subsistence …
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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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Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March, 2008.
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This paper presents a systemic framework to look at the prospects for sustainability of Indian agriculture. The … shaping the growth, efficiency and stability of agriculture. The domains are: Natural resources covering land, water, climate … prospects for agriculture are seen to depend in the final analysis not so much on nature or factors beyond control as on …
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An attempt has been made to analyse agricultural growth and the contribution of various components to the overall output growth of the Maharashtra State for the period from 1961-62 to 1997-98. It is observed that the growth in area of major crops in the state revealed mixed trend. The future...
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