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Rural Poverty in Jharkhand, India : An Empirical Study based on Panel Data

by K.M singh;  M.S Meena and R.K.P. Singh…et al MPRA Paper no.45258, August 2012 Poverty has become a general phenomenon that is perceived to mean different things to different people at different times and places. Ogwumike (2001) defined poverty as a situation where a household or an individual is unable to meet the basic necessities [...]

Analyzing Decentralization and Local Government’s Role in Development in South Africa

By Aklilu Asha This paper contributes to debate on decentralization and effectiveness of local governments. It investigates recent studies conducted on decentralization and the development role of local governments in the context of developing countries and South Africa. Overall, it deals with the significance of the decentralized approach to prop up local governments’ role in [...]

The Developing Economies,Volume 50, Issue 2,JUNE 2012

CONTENTS VULNERABILITY OF MICROFINANCE TO STRATEGIC DEFAULT AND COVARIATE SHOCKS: EVIDENCE FROM PAKISTAN (pages 81–115) TAKASHI KUROSAKI and HIDAYAT ULLAH KHAN EVALUATION OF CONTINGENT REPAYMENTS IN MICROFINANCE: EVIDENCE FROM A NATURAL DISASTER IN BANGLADESH (pages 116–140) MASAHIRO SHOJI INFORMALIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL LABOR IN INDIA: EFFECTS OF LABOR MARKET RIGIDITIES AND IMPORT COMPETITION (pages 141–169) BISHWANATH [...]

Kurukshetra,Vol.60(9),July 2012

Contents DEVELOPMENT  – DEMOGRAPHY OF RURAL INDIA by Anupam Hazra CHANGING PATTERN OF RURAL  – URBAN DEMOGRAPHY IN INDIA by Dr.H.L.Sharma 2011 CENSUS -  A REVIEW by Dr. S. Vijay Kumar POPULATION EXPLOSION IN INDIA by Maisha GENDER COMPOSITION OF THE INDIAN POPULATION by Gourmeet Singh INDIAN AGRICULTURE PREPARES ITSELF FOR A NEW PHASE FOCUSED [...]

Journal of Rural Development Vol. 31 April – June 2012 No. 2

CONTENTS 1. Factors Influencing Wage Structure of Handloom Workers in Assam 139 – Alin Borah Bortamuly, Kishor Goswami 2. Institutional Arrangements for Farmland Development : The Case of Ethiopia 151 – Abayineh Amare Woldeamanuel, Fekadu, Beyene Kenee 3. Employment of Rural Women In Sericulture – An Empirical Analysis 163 – S. Lakshmanan 4. India’s Total [...]

Technology Development and Delivery Models for Sustainable Livelihoods

Edited by Dr. Sudha Nair and Ms. Nandhini Iyengar, ed. (2008) Contents Preface  5 Inaugural Remarks 9 Technical Papers Role of the State in the Technological Development of Indian Agriculture Dr. R. Rukmani 21 Technology Delivery: The Precision Farming Experience of TNAU in selected districts of Tamil Nadu Dr. C. Ramasamy 32 Technology Delivery to Cotton [...]

JOURNAL OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT, VOL.31, ISSUE NO.1, JAN – MAR 2012

contents Drinking water collection and cost-benefit analysis of a rural water supply scheme in Uttarakhand state By Fahimuddin Water use pattern of rural community in Gangetic West Bengal – A Case study By Arijit Roy Incremental Housing and Housing Transformation of the poor in Karnataka: Problems and Prospects By M. Mahadeva Rural banking scenario in [...]

THE ROLE OF WOMEN LEADERS IN EMPOWERING RURAL WOMEN IN THE CONTEXT OF RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN AFRO-ASIAN REGION

REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP at OMDURMAN, SUDAN, 20 – 25 APRIL 2011 The workshop was organised by the Afro-Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) incollaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture,Government of the Republic of the Sudan and Ahfad University for Women (AUW), Sudan during 20 –25 April 2011. The workshop consisted of two parts,the plenary [...]

Journal of Rural Development Vol. 29 January – March 2010 No. 1

CONTENTS 1. Institutional Credit to Scheduled Tribe SHG Members : A ProcessEvaluation of SHG-Bank Linkage in Three Districts of AP – P. Purushotham, S. Laxminarayana, T. G. Ramaiah 2. Public Spending for Protecting the Poor during Economic Reforms : Myth or Reality? Evidence from Orissa – Aswini Kumar Mishra 3. Perception of Rural Youth about [...]

KURUKSHETRA (ENGLISH) – VOLUME 60, NUMBER 3, JANUARY 2012

• Role of ICTs in Rural Development Archana G. Gulati • ICT : A Catalytic Intervention for Empowering Rural India Anupam Hazra • Rural Telephony for Rural Development Dr.P.Kameswari • Harnessing Potential of Community Radio for Rural Advancement Ms. Arpita Sharma • Community Radio Mattoli ; Voice of Voiceless Sudha S. Namboothiry • Development Communication [...]

Effect of employment guarantee on access to credit: Evidence from rural India

Deepak Saraswat Date: Sep-2011 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the largest and most ambitious public works program for poverty alleviation, adopted by Government of India since independence. It was implemented in year 2006, starting with the first phase of 200 most backward districts in India. Two more consecutive phases were implemented [...]

CSR Orientation of Indian Banks and Stakeholder Relationship Marketing Orientation: An Empirical Investigation

by Ramendra Singh IIMC WPS No.683,  October 2011   We address the research questions, (1) Are business metrics of Indian banks associated with its CSR orientation? and (2) Is the CSR orientation of banks focused on areas which is driven by nature of its target markets, such that there is an alignment between CSR orientation and [...]

Free from poverty line

Author(s): Richard Mahapatra Issue: Oct 31, 2011 Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line. NUMBER of people who can benefit from government’s welfare programmes is going to swell. Currently, the Central government caps the entitlements under most welfare programmes to those below the poverty line, which is as low as Rs 12/day/person for rural [...]

Agriculture’s role in the Indian enigma: Help or hindrance to the undernutrition crisis?

Derek Headey, Alice Chiu, and Suneetha Kadiyala IFPRI Discussion Paper 01085 Date: May-2011 In recent decades India has achieved one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world, yet its progress against both child and adult undernutrition has been sluggish at best. While this Indian variant of the so-called Asian enigma presents many puzzles, one of [...]

National Food Security Bill, 2011

By National advisory Council, July, 2011 This National Food Security Bill, 2011 has been approved by Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council and sent to the government. It seeks legal food entitlements to 90 per cent rural and 50 per cent urban households. URL: http://nac.nic.in/foodsecurity/nfsb_final.pdf Courtesy: National Adivsory Council

Does Family Planning Help The Employment of Women? The Case of India

Francesca Francavilla, and Gianna Claudia Giannelli Working Paper No. 10/2011 Date: June-2011 This paper gives some insight into the existence of a positive effect of family planning programmes on women’s employment in developing countries. We study married women aged 15 to 49 living throughout India using a sample drawn from the National Health Family Survey [...]

National Rural Livelihoods Project: SOCIAL ASSESSMENT REPORT

Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India February 2011 This report is organized as follows. Chapter 1 describes the context, the social assessment and the stakeholder analysis for the project. Chapter 2 discusses, highlights the social issues that NRLP would need to address, notably exclusion, and issues related to institutions and development efforts. It also [...]

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